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“The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.”

“Magellan's Log: Florence King”

“Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.”

“There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.”

“During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.”

Resonant Thoughts

"It bears repeating: since the EITC lowers wages and the current minimum wage is still a poverty wage for many families, it is a missed opportunity for the federal government and the more than 40 citie…"

— Teresa Ghilarducci

Economics1957

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"...they have brainwashed us into believing in the last 150 years... that quantitative change is superior to qualitative attributes. If we can turn out more... it doesn't matter if they're half as good…"

— Carroll Quigley

Education1910–1977

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"The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests."

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

Business1887–1975

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"In the late 1918 and early 1919, the primary challenge to the establishment of liberal democracy in Germany did not emanate from the right. It came from the left."

— Thomas Weber (historian)

Education1969

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