"A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies."

-- Madame Roland

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“If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger?”
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Source : Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4945, e-artnow
“One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”
“It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.”

Source : "Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom" by E. N. da C. Andrade, (p. 111), 1964.
“The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.”

Source : "On Doing the Right Thing and Other Essays". Book by Albert J. Nock, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and Londo, 1928.
“Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.”
“The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.”

Source : "To die is very strange". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.
“Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.”

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