"It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free."

-- George Lee Butler

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“She crawled,â€ Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. â€œShe crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it werenâ€™t for the two subs in the pack, Iâ€™d be on the bottom. And she wouldnâ€™t stand up in my presence for guilt.”
“Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesnt go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like to pick up on those moments.”
“I meditate and pray all the time. The faith and respect that I have in the power of God in my life is what I've used to keep myself grounded, and it has allowed me to move away from the storms that were in my life.”
“Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom”
“I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.”
“Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.”
“All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.”
“Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.”

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