I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.
That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
I don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Evolutionary psychology offers a parsimonious framework for understanding which domains are likely to yield sex differences and, if so, in which direction.
In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.
Food banks have told us of the increasing donations of, and demand for, tampons and pads which are gratefully received by women struggling to afford them.
I have been the beneficiary of donations in the form of human tissue and of a cornea which gave me sight when otherwise I would have none.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of 'So Blue'.
I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
