"SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance."

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Ambrose Bierce

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“Thousands of people marched in cities around the country to demand that Donald Trump release his taxes. He dismissed them with a tweet: "Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies. The election is over."”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.”
“Christians are made, not born.”
“Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. â€œI canâ€™t go back. Not yet. I canâ€™t leave.â€ And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. â€œYou donâ€™t have to,â€ she said, rocking me. â€œYou donâ€™t have to do anything you donâ€™t want to do, not anymore.â€ And I cried.”
“But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people”
“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.”

Source : Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)
“To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.”

Source : Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”
“In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap.”

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