#pear

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance. ↗

— Pam Grier

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Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#fact #had #i #important #important fact

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. ↗

— Homer

#counterfeit #friends #less #moved #than

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#because #could #hostess #hump #say

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#conclude #could #creation #creator #fondness

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#biologist #largely #problem #size #socialism

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. ↗

— Edward Hall

#desire #dominate #each #human #human nature

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#moderation #pearl #running #silken #string

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are. ↗

— Guy Hamilton

#could #disappear #dive #earth #happen