"Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."

-- Plato

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“I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.”
“The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.”
“A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!”
“Haste in every business brings failures.”

Source : "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 10, c. 440 BC.
“I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt each other feel. With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable..." - Scout Finch”
“The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.”
“The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.”

Source : 1961 Headlines all my Life, ch.1.
“In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.”

Source : "For the love of God... scientists in uproar at £1m religion prize". www.independent.co.uk. April 7, 2011.

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