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I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist. ↗


— Peter Jennings


#because #faith #i #i am #journalist

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. ↗


— Derrick Jensen


#because #become #deplorable #each #especially

Wisteria hangs over the eaves like clumps of ghostly grapes. Euphorbia's pale blooms billow like sea froth. Blood grass twists upward, knifing the air, while underground its roots go berserk, goosing everything in their path. A magnolia, impatient with vulvic flesh, erupts in front of the living room window. The recovering terrorist--holding a watering can filled with equal parts fish fertilizer and water, paisley gloves right up over her freckled forearms, a straw hat with its big brim shading her eyes, old tennis shoes speckled with dew--moves through her front garden. Her face, she tells herself, like a Zen koan. The look of one lip smiling. ↗


— Zsuzsi Gartner


#humor #self-image #violence #equality

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. ↗


— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen


#botany #chemistry #course #decisive #determining

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ↗


— Sarah Orne Jewett


#down #gets #great #itself #last

I am a feminist because I dislike everything that feminism implies. I desire an end to the whole business, the demands for equality, the suggestion of sex warfare, the very name feminist. I want to be about the work in which my real interests like, the writing of novels and so forth. But while inequality exists, while injustice is done and opportunity denied to the great majority of women, I shall have to be a feminist. And I shan't be happy till I get . . . a society in which there is no distinction of persons either male or female, but a supreme regard for the importance of the human being. And when that dream is a reality, I will say farewell to feminism, as to any disbanded but victorious army, with honour for its heroes, gratitude for its sacrifice, and profound relief that the hour for its necessity has passed. ↗


— Winifred Holtby


#feminism #business

PEOPLE EQUAL S**T!!! ↗


— Slipknot


#equality

Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O ↗


— Keith Olbermann


#politics #humor

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. ↗


— Henry St. John


#compass #error #immense #lies #little

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law. ↗


— Hu Jintao


#china #continue #democracy #efforts #human






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