Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff. ~ Adlai Stevenson

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium. -- Piet Mondrian

Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance.

FEMALE VOICE: 'The truth is people are pushed around by two men who move all the bodies on earth into patterns that please them.' MALE VOICE: 'I love my mind when it is fucking the cracks of events.' MALE VOICE: 'What I give to all the people who do not want to live with me is arithmetic.' FEMALE VOICE: 'Everyday, I do nothing important because I am scared blank and lazy. But then the men come. I put my mouth on them. I spit and write with the wet.' MALE VOICE: 'I was not born live. This body grew but I did not feel cells split. -- Jenny Holzer

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle. ~ Albert Claude

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. ~ Michele de Montaigne

The myth of romantic love holds that once you've fallen in love with the perfect partner, you're home free. Unfortunately, falling out of love seems to be just as involuntary as falling into it.

Dialogue requires space, time, and a calm spirit. People need to be given a chance to tune into themselves. Dialogue is a deep process. For me, this requires some quiet and inner peace — and some time for interaction. - Bob Niederman

Is there something missing?

Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

synecdoche part used to refer to whole or vice versa

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. :-) -- Larry Wall in <199708261932.MAA05218@wall.org>

Thought is common to all. ~ Heraclitus, Fragments

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam. -- George Carlin

Lay him hir apron.

When people say that the desert is lifeless, it just makes me want to grab them by the collar and yell, "Why you stupid, stupid bastard!" Then I drive them out into the desert to where the circus is, and point out the many forms of zebra and clown life. -- Jack Handey

Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity. -- Jenny Holzer