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cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today__ elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed Physics for Poets and Rocks for Jocks and have remained ignorant of science ever since, despite the obvious importance of scientific literacy to informed choices about personal health and public policy. But saying that you have never heard of James Joyce or that you tried listening to Mozart once but prefer Andrew Lloyd Webber is as shocking as blowing your nose on your sleeve or announcing that you employ children in your sweatshop, despite the obvious unimportance of your tastes in leisure-time activity to just about anything.

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.

If we are a body, then we are on that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.

If we are a body, then we are one that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.

The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.

. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives.""The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling.""Of course, women so empowered are dangerous. So we are taught to separate the erotic from most vital areas of our lives other than sex.

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.

Politics nowadays is a game unlike every other game, only for the willing hearts and strong minds

A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be.

Life could have been way easier if we can just use "Please, do not disturb" sign in our social lives!

Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable __in ear_ makes it impossible to hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of __haring_. ("Only needed a light ")

People who represent social organization in a country are a force in that country