"One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible."

-- Charles M. Blow

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“There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.”
“As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.”
“WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THATâ€™S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER.”

Source : "On Abortion, Rape, and Humor" by Amanda Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2009.
“I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.”
“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.”
“The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.”

Source : "Heaven and Earth". Book by Ian Plimer, 2009.
“It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.”
“Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.”

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