"Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality."

-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Sex Quotes #Stories Quotes #Neutrality Quotes

“I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.”
“Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.”
“We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.”

Source : Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.”
“I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical instrument, I use only a hint of the instrument, but the brocaded pattern is like a line of Bach because of its order and the leaves going up are like passages from Vivaldi, and the emphasis on drapery is where the sound comes...”
“I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].”
“The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.”
“We've got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gore's head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways.”

Source : "Pregame Speech Reignites NFL Bounty Scandal". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 7, 2012.

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