"Buying is a profound pleasure."

-- Simone de Beauvoir

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“Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.”
“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.”
“War is the Health of the State.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1965). “The world of Randolph Bourne: an anthology edited”
“The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science”
“The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and brooding, that works against fatality like fingers at a knot. The firm, attentive mind on display and the lucid unfolding of the poems are the life instinct seeking and finding its way through again and again. Love and beauty are the argument, but they don't win easily. Bloom in Reverse works through elegy toward survival with moving persistence, both driven and compelling.”
“When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.”

Source : "Mind of Mencia", www.imdb.com. (2005-).
“I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men â€” at least they can cry.”
“Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricists posits the forms of being as constant.”

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