Sexual desire encompasses desires for power, belonging, advantage and disruption that we would not typically think of as erotic.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times
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Category Archives: 0459 – Quote Unquote
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No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.
~ Mark Twain
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We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I’m not an author, I’m a writer, that’s all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
~ Mickey Spillane
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That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
~ George Santayana
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
~ Eric Hoffer
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We have confused a symptom—educational inequality—with the underlying disease: economic inequality. Schooling may boost the prospects of individual workers, but it doesn’t change the core problem, which is that the bottom 90 percent is divvying up a shrinking share of the national wealth. Fixing that problem will require wealthy people to not merely give more, but take less.
~ Nick Hanauer via The Atlantic
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Truth is stranger than fiction — to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
~ Mark Twain
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There is no evidence that risk takers in the economic domain have an unusual appetite for gambles on high stakes; they are merely less aware of risks than more timid people are.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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