If we were willing to evaluate things not according to the opinion of the crowd, but according to nature itself, how is it less repulsive to eat, chew, digest, evacuate, and sleep after the fashion of dumb animals, than to enjoy lawful and permitted carnal relations?
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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In a culture that has become obsessed with how our identities define us, far less time is spent considering how those identities just as often circumscribe. Just as emphasis on diversity can open minds, it can also harden preconceptions.
~ Pamela Paul via The New York Times
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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
~ William Faulkner
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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Paradigms and Positivism
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