"Such a little thing really, a kiss... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss on meeting, they kiss on parting, that simple touching of flesh is taken entirely for granted as a basic human right."

-- Sarah Kay

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“The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.”
“I'm pretty much a couch potato.”
“When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.”
“There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.”

Source : David Rakoff (2010). “Half Empty”, p.198, Anchor
“Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.”
“My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.”

Source : Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Ashes”, p.24, Carolrhoda Lab ™
“A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
“People say, ‘How is she a plus-size model?’ and I’m like, ‘Exactly, this is the point, how am I a plus-size model?”

Source : "'I'm a model - I don't think there should be "plus-size" in front of it': Size 12 Robyn Lawley reveals why she's fed up with being called 'large'". Interview with Ruth Styles, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 24, 2014.

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