"Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status â€” like geisha girls do"

-- Helen Fielding

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“The treasures of your life will present themselves to you only if you really are open to them.”
“Life's not about money. Look at achievements, accomplishments . It's about having fun. It's about enjoying life.”
“Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny...”

Source : "Lesbianism: an act of resistance". Book by Cheryl Clarke, 1981.
“Sometimes Iâ€™m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”
“I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the first truly American lexicography, was a kind of line in the sand. It claimed a very discrete, American form of the English language, explicitly to compare it to the English of our erstwhile colonial masters who had been operating under Dr. Johnson's dictionary rules for well over a century.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Though it were proved that there was never an Aryan race in the past, yet we desire that in the future there may be one. This is the decisive standpoint for men of action.”
“Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.”

Source : "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Preface, 1906.
“Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from nothing. It has to portray the first periods of the world's development from nothing; how the elements and heavenly bodies originated; in what method by self-evolution into higher and manifold forms, they separated into minerals, became finally organic, and in Man attained self-consciousness.”

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