"Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent."

-- Erasmus Darwin

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“I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.”

Source : "Mark Consuelos Talks Rob Kardashian’s Butt, ‘Gay Marriage Plays’" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2011.
“I can't stand the comfort zone. So many people I know, their parents give them their homes, and they get married and have children, or whatever. That's it. They don't ever go beyond that. That's not what life is.”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.
“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”
“It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.”

Source : Tig Notaro (2016). “I'm Just a Person: My year of death, cancer and epiphany”, p.184, Pan Macmillan
“The pimp has a grin, never a smile.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “The Balcony”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.”
“We have to convince people that the handouts â€“ just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, thatâ€™s not a life. Thatâ€™s not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation,”
“Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.”

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