"This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse."

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John Dos Passos

“Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.”

Source : Ludwik Fleck (1981). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.86, University of Chicago Press
“Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes needs, too, the protection of all men against this one.”
“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.”

Source : "Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 466". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 27, 1939.
“When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.”
“It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.”
“I know something you don't....and that is.... I'M NOT WEARING ANY UNDERWEAR! We're gonna get sexy for a minute!”
“If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.”
“People routinely assume that ***** is such a difficult and divisive issue because it's about sex. In fact, this culture struggles unsuccessfully with ***** because it is about men's cruelty to women, and the pleasure men sometimes take in that cruelty. And that is much more difficult for people-- men and women-- to face.”

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