"...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts..."

-- Kathy Acker

#Hands Quotes #Mind Quotes #Causes Quotes

“In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.”
“When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.”
“There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.”
“The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.”
“The colossal mess in Vatican finances that [Pope] Francis inherited has been cleaned up, and cleaned out. Real budgeting and accounting procedures are in place; so are real professionals, not somebody's nephew.”

Source : Source: eppc.org
“We're looking for something that sounds like a member of the Republican Party. The reality is, he's playing for the Democratic vote at this point ... but he has to give something to create energy among conservatives.”
“I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.”
“Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.”

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