"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."

-- Angela Carter

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“Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.”
“To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it takes years to start working with it, that's first, and it looks like everybody else is moving on the instrument but you. Then when you find a cat that's really playing, you always find that he's been playing a long time, you can't get around it.”
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
“I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.”
“I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.”
“There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.”

Source : "Dustin Clare Interview SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 23, 2011.
“Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.”

Source : Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.87, UPNE
“The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.”

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