"You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word."

-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Reading Quotes #Holocaust Quotes #Bombs Quotes

“For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.”
“I suppose our lives need to be more integrated. We have white communities and black communities and white country clubs and black country clubs. It's very important when we integrate ourselves, and it helps us to have a better understanding of the world, to people all over the world and this is the time in history that we have become very aware of how important that is, so I think it's just really-we have to know each other and work together and play together in order to write about each other.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.”
“I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.”
“So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.”
“It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Jun 09, 2014
“Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.”
“Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”

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