"Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me."

-- James Nicoll

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“Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.”
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”

Source : Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.”
“Jesus was a cross-dresser.”
“I'm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn't think about the future.”
“Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.”
“All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.”
“Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.”

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