"One of the definitive works on gay life. Through this collective testimony we may come to understand what it is to be 'the other'; in short, the other part of ourselves."

-- Studs Terkel

#Gay Quotes #Testimony Quotes

“Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.”
“I'm growing old, I delight in the past.”
“I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.”
“I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me.”
“Ms. Merkel is avoiding retirement issues. She simply doesn't want to do anything, although she knows that doing nothing means that real pensions will fall. That is preprogrammed old-age poverty. When it comes to wage fairness: It was Ms. Merkel herself who blocked the establishment of a right to return to a fulltime job after going part time for a period. Yet everyone keeps saying that our platform is identical to that of the conservatives. It's crazy.”
“Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.398, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
“I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.”
“You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.”

Source : Daniel C. Dennett (2006). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.56, Penguin

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