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I'm a very physical person. I hug people more so than shake hands.

The illusion that each person can have the body that he or she wants is especially painful for women, and especially in societies, like ours, in which the ideal body is extremely thin.

It's poor judgment to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act...

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Rereading, we find a new book

Your mind can make you sick, and your mind can heal you.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or...

Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation,...

All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural...

During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought...

Successful people breed success.

I started a new page and wrote a title at the top: "Ten Ways to Defeat Macho Dickheadism." Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I could defeat that...

As the first symptom of a cold glaucoma deceiving the world.

But Vienna was in its death phase; it lay still and let me look at it, and think about it, and look again. In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still.

I'm prepared to be a very patient man when it comes to you. I will seduce you for however long it takes – give you space if you need it or follow you tight as sunshine on your shoulder if you'll let...

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coups d'etat on the state of irrational optimism

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

Love ignites the light in the spirit

Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or...

Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.

I had a friend at college who took being poor very personally. He started showering in the sports centre next door and said he wasn't going to pay for the hot water in our flat anymore because he...

If someone wants a sheep, this is proof that there is one. {If Somebody Wants a Sheep, that is a proof that one existing.}

I wonder can I carry on with the speed of the world without you in it.

I can make some calls. There is a guy. Dagfinn Heyerdahl. He used to be with Norse Heritage Foundation. The Norse Heritage Foundation wasn't so much about heritage as it was about vikings, in the most...

You should not reduce yourself to any that runs after miracles.

Mary Daly, author of Beyond God the Father, points out that the model of the universe in which a male God rules the cosmos from outside serves to legitimize male control of social institutions.

The first time she saw Jag Silvertree she was watering the garden, and her clematis got soaked as she dreamt of melting into his face. The second time she saw Jag she knew she would never feel his...

both Russia and China are dictatorships, not democracies. Therefore, losing face for them would be much more catastrophic than it would be for an American president. Politically speaking, they may be...