"Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female."

-- John Simon

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“I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.”
“I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.”
“When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.”
“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”

Source : James D. Watson (2009). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.326, Vintage
“And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.”
“me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.â€ -Will Grayson (pg. 66)”
“Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.”

Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.17, Random House
“The greatest need of my people is my own holiness.”

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