"Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals."

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Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

William Winwood Reade

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“It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?”

Source : "Alan Cumming: King of off-message". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.
“I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.”
“Every single person who's drifted in and out of your life is a part of your divinely chosen experience. So, give thanks for all of these people, and take serious note of what they brought you.”
“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.”
“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”
“The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.”

Source : Marlo Morgan (2009). “Mutant Message Down Under”, p.8, Harper Collins
“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.”

Source : "The Coming Jobs War". Book by Jim Clifton, 2013.
“I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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