"Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation."

-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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“Instead of working to undo POTUS exec action, we need to workcollaboratively to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.”
“Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.”
“Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.”
“Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you , and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, "Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people.”

Source : "Radical Honesty". lesswrong.com. September 10, 2007.
“My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling â€” or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.”

Source : Clement Greenberg (1969). “Avant-garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties”
“The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.”
“The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.”

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