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The greatest single reason for [the] Christian church's failure . . . is its failure to combat racism.

I had heard for years of Muslim hospitality, but one couldn't quite imagine such warmth.

If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

They used as a reason for my transfer [from one prison to another] that I refused to take some kind of shots, an innoculation or something.

As testimony to the power of redemption and the force of human personality, the autobiography of Malcolm X is a revelation.

I]t's a reaction that was produced by the society; and I think that it is the society that produced this that should be attacked, not the reaction that develops[.]

Yep. Chaps. And, you know, the SNN thing. S&M? That's what I said. I love that stuff. S&M. BDSM. HGTV. The whole deal.

Taking the I-Ops anywhere was a lot like taking a preschool on a field trip. Though Asher thought the preschoolers would probably listen better.

Do you think you might want to stop kissing the nice detective and tell him how a guy tried to nab you in the Zodiac Zone?

Ratty sleeping bag and paraphernalia of an addict in the corner, check. Oh…actually, the addict was still there, wrapped

see DPFL's video, "The Playgroup Change," which

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her".

Style," the well-known historian Peter Gay once wrote, "is not the dress of thought but part of its essence.

Ich habe noch nie einen Schriftsteller kennengelernt, der nicht eitel und nicht egozentrisch gewesen wäre – es sei denn, es war ein besonders schlechter Autor.

Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell.

To pursue the impossible is madness: but it is impossible for evil men not to do things of this sort.

Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? For if reason does its own work, what else could you wish for?

guarding your freedom each and every hour with kindness, simplicity, and self-respect.

Take pleasure in one thing and rest in it, in passing from one social act to another social act, thinking of God.

Nature willed the creation of the world. Either all that exists follows logically or even those things to which the world's intelligence most directs its will are completely random. A source of serenity in more situations than one.

But literature served only as a preparation for the real goal. This was rhetoric, the key to an active political career under the empire, as it had been under the Republic.

The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.

The rational commanding part, as it alone can stir up and turn itself; so it maketh both itself to be, and everything that happeneth, to appear unto itself, as it will itself.

to grumble at anything that happens is a rebellion against Nature, in some part of which are bound up the natures of all other things.