#rage

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse. ↗

— Mary Garden

#beliefs #breeding #child #child abuse #children

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#being #courage #first #greater #kisses

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#courage #deeply #enchanting #go #into

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#average #before #choosing #committee #crap

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. ↗

— Michael Storm

#banjo #folk #folk music #guitar #i

I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me; didn’t know I’d relive them every day. Death would have been more merciful. ↗

— Christine Fonseca

#romance #tragedy #ya #death

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#great #great tragedy #our #spirit #times

Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#companies #coverage #decreased #employers #former

Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#certainly #country #delaware #encouraged #encouraging

Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#capture #civil #civil rights #entourage #equal