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I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement. Lee Siegel

Entitlement Mediocrity Throws Badly React Tantrum Very

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. Margaret Fuller

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out. Roger Ebert

Health Happy Joy World Matter Try Problems Unhappy Crime Long Starts Enough Others Our Circumstances Ourselves Out Must Find True Know Make Always Am Contribute Where Less Lived

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate. Roger Ebert

Bullying You Hate Got Itself Child Taught Form Prejudice Teaching

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. Russell Lynes

You Top Laugh Insult Off Ignore Deserved

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. William Hazlitt

Ignorance Child Prejudice

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits. bell hooks

People World Isolation Every Spirits Terrorist Break Regime Uses

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. Aleister Crowley

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. Alexander Woollcott

Work Government Tired Democracy Supposed Course Said Hearing

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. Andrea Dworkin

Women Political Feminism Defense Hated Hating Direct Because Women Are Expression

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. Andrea Dworkin

Freedom Justice Struggle Women Men Important Crimes Our Support Cry Learn Understand Stop Want Against Us Should Who Violence

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. Henry Giroux

Education Future People Higher Education Few Young Humanities Liberal Liberal Arts Claiming Paradox Moral Finds Civic Higher Invest Supports Caught Intellectual Itself Offering Arts While Young People Them

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. Isaac Goldberg

Diplomacy Way Say Nicest Things

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. Northrop Frye

People King Stupid Sheep Back Easily Ancient Fact Particular Like Perhaps Most Metaphor Due Shepherd His Affectionate Goes Egypt Human Gregarious Being Convention Formed Use Societies

There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia. While the most sought-after are undeniably expensive (they're made in tiny quantities from ancient vines), they are huge, rich and concentrated, and represent some of planet Earth's most compelling wines. Robert M. Parker, Jr.

World Made Rich Nothing Extraordinary Earth Ancient Some Wines Like Concentrated Most Quantities South Huge Australia Represent Tiny Expensive While Planet Vines Compelling

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. Roger Ebert

Death You Nothing Boredom Impending Like Existential Rouse

I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea. S. T. Joshi

Day Tea Addict Structure Sort Am Cups

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. William Hazlitt

Art People Own Other Our Weaknesses Concealing Discovering Cunning Defects

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