#ex

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cults #desire #even #exotic #experiment

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

#arc #because #bland #easy #every

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#ever #expensive #extremely #how #knows

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#america #any #country #criticize #exactly

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#begins #being #conscious #educated #education

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#else #exactly #like #money #nothing

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. ↗

— John Bardeen

#ever #expanding #field #frontiers #grows

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#armed #changing #conquest #dominance #exist

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ↗

— James Baldwin

#beliefs #confronted #driven #equal #excesses

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. ↗

— James Baldwin

#him #people #produced #responsibility #who