"Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society."

-- Ashley Montagu

#Mutilation Quotes #Justification Quotes #Ritual Quotes

“The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.”
“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”
“It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.”
“She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.”
“The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic.”
“A food's value is based on how good it tastes.”
“I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.”

Source : "iPhone: 'If you'd shown it to Benjamin Franklin his head would have exploded'" by Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.
“I bought a tenor but I haven't dedicated the time to it, plus I haven't found a mouthpiece that I like as of yet. I've been doing a lot of mouthpiece searching for the alto in the last few years and now that that's cooled out maybe I can begin the search for a tenor mouthpiece. After doing it for the alto, I just haven't felt like looking for any more mouthpieces. You play both, right?”

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