"Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly"

-- Mary Oliver

#Able Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.”
“Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”
“Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.”
“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.”
“We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.”
“I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.”
“Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.”
“It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.”

Source : Philip Kitcher (1997). “The Lives to Come”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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