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The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship. And censorship, that by-product of fear - stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others - must surely be resisted. ~Jonathon Green, "Did You Say 'Offensive?'," as posted on wordwizard.com The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. ~Jane Austen
Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit. ~Lemony Snicket
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had.... ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. ~Doug Larson
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ~P.J. O'Rourke
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957
My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. ~Val Saintsbury
Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. ~Mark Twain
The thrift that does not make a man charitable sours into avarice. ~M.W. Harrison
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ~Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and." ~Arthur Stanley Eddington
Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal. ~Yiddish Saying
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~Thomas � Kempis
You know, I have never understood the male obsession with lesbianism - a whole area of sex with nothing for them to do. Just answered my own question, haven't I? ~Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally
Jesus saves... passes to Moses... shoots... scores! ~Author Unknown
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. ~Thomas Wolfe
I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ~Author Unknown
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