"I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they?"

-- Guy de Maupassant

#Believe Quotes #Animal Quotes #Order Quotes

“The Mayor, Aldermen and Councilors of the City of Nauvoo, IL, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that they will support the Constitution of the United States, and of this State and that they will well and truly perform the duties of their offices to the best of their skill and abilities.”
“The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.”

Source : "Shulamith Firestone obituary" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2012.
“It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.”
“People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.”
“There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.”
“I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.”
“I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.”

Source : "Beach House's Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally are not a couple - so stop asking". Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.
“I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once.”

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