"Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins."

-- Joan Didion

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“A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.”
“Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.”

Source : "Hal Sparks, ‘Gay-Adjacent’ Star of Queer As Folk , Explains Why He Supports LGBT Equality" by Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.
“My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.”
“Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.”

Source : "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 159, 1996.
“I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.”
“I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.”
“Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.”

Source : Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.232, Simon and Schuster
“I asked myself if I was genuinely happy and realized I had to change if I wanted to be able to do things with my kids, get rid of the pains in my hips and knees, and stop being judged.”

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