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Florence King

"As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the clichÃ© that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt."

-- Florence King

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“Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1930). “Debunking Science”
“Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape, a large-sized gorilla. It was in vain that I told myself I was losing my reason: I could entertain not the slightest doubt as to his species. But an encounter with a gorilla on the planet Soror was not the essential outlandishness of the situation. This for me lay in the fact that the ape was correctly dressed, like a man of our world, and above all that he wore his clothes in such an easy manner.”
“I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.”
“Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.”
“Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense.”

Source : "Axl Rose to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: I'm Not Coming and Don't Induct Me" by Erik Pedersen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2012.
“God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.”
“We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!”
“Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.”

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