"Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question "Would you like to squeeze as many objects the size of a watermelon out of your body as it takes to kill you?" they generally answer "No, thank you." This leads to falling birthrates everywhere women are not kept enslaved and ignorant of the alternatives."

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Source : Usenet article, 2005.

James Nicoll

#Baby Quotes #Fall Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.”

Source : "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships". Interview with Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.
“Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.”
“Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.”
“The day Blink-182 announced their hiatus, I felt as if a part of me died.”
“Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.”
“It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to stifle discussion with good manners. Those who take religion, politics and sex seriously do not adhere to the general prohibition on discussing these topics. And they do not take offence when they are shown to be wrong. If you start to feel during a discussion, that you are not so much incorrect as insensitive, then you are probably dealing with a respectable bigot.”
“Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap”

Source : David Baldacci (2009). “Split Second”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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