"I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation."

-- David Levithan

#Kissing Quotes #Scare Quotes #Tools Quotes

“The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.”
“But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.”
“We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.”
“Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.”
“We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.”

Source : "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.
“The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.”
“My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.”
“I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.”

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