#ender

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. ↗

— Dan Savage

#bullied #effeminate #expectations #expression #gender

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#assembled #camera #entirely #group #had

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#called #cringe #defiance #evil #evils

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#country #criminals #high #offenders #over

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#friend #holding #image #keep #mirror

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#diversity #into #like #looks #put

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. ↗

— Ben Stein

#defeated #enter #even #finished #human

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. ↗

— Tertullian

#enemy #engenders #hatred #soon #truth