#rip

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. ↗

— Freda Adler

#certain #cover #culture #description #each

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#bad people #because #in the past #many #meaning

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#back #body #called #comic #comic strip

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#business #deal #defeat #different #different way

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. ↗

— Tori Amos

#chinese #close #comes #description #each

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#around #defeat #going #i #i am

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. ↗

— David Antin

#common #george #gives #i #i think

As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#conditions #convinced #forces #government #homeland

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

#everyone #feel #freedom #gaza #i

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. ↗

— Howard Baker

#any #challenge #considerable #cult thing #deal