"Donâ€™t do it. Donâ€™t love me."

-- Charles Bukowski

“A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us.”
“It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.”
“I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.”
“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

Source : Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press
“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almightyâ€”and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”
“You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.”
“But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.”
“How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.”

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