"Quietly scuttling Columbus Day sales doesn't mean they are opposed to 15th century Iberian seafarers; it just means They don't want protestors on the sales floor throwing blood on the Calvin Klein hosiery in the name of the anti-imperialistic cause."

-- James Lileks

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“This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.”
“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”
“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

Source : "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.
“I dont think we have any time to waste.”
“Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.”

Source : My Louisiana Sky, www.imdb.com. 2001.
“Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.”

Source : Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.44, New Directions Publishing
“I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com

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