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Stephenie Meyer quote: "Just because I’m resisting the wine doesn’t mean I can’t..."
Just because I’m resisting the wine doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the bouquet. Stephenie Meyer
As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which “sexed nature” or “a natural sex” is produced and established as “prediscursive,” prior to culture, a politically neutral surface on which culture acts Judith Butler
People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning in their lives, and to have someone to hate. Dean Koontz
I met this kid from Miles City, Montana, who read the Stars and Stripes every day, checking the casualty lists to see if by some chance anybody form his home town had been killed. He didn’t even know if there was anyone else from Miles City in Vietnam, but he checked anyway because he knew for sure that if there was someone else and they got killed, he would be all right. “I mean, can you just see *two* guys from a raggedy-ass town like Miles City getting killed in Vietnam? Michael Herr
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance."
Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you. Frederic Chopin
He's back! He's back!"Who's back?" shouted someone else. "Who is it?"What does it mean? What should we do?"Are we on fire?"Get up and run, damn it! Everybody get up and run! Joseph Heller
It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?"They're wererats, Ares," I said. He frowned at me."They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through. Laurell K. Hamilton
Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...]Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum. William Golding
Umberto Eco quote: "but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom..."
but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. Umberto Eco
Flannery O'Connor quote: "free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting..."
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. Flannery O'Connor
Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table. Elizabeth Gilbert
Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?"Yes."My dear fellow, who will let you?"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me? Ayn Rand
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life ... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless. Desmond Tutu
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy. Saul Bellow

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