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"I've got an oscillating fan at my house. The fan goes back and forth. It looks like the fan is saying "No". So I like to ask it questions that a fan would say "no" to. "Do you keep my hair in place? D…"

"Freud was right to see the centrality of the image of the phallic mother and to connect it directly with the castration complex. But he was wrong to make the sexual side of the problem the central cor…"

"The essential rectitude of our view of children lies in the fact that we feel them and their ways to be supernatural while, for some mysterious reason, we do not feel ourselves or our own ways to be s…"

"Had John attended to his first son, Julian, the way he attended to Sean, we would never have heard of John Lennon."

"I am familiar with what goes on in the Arab countries, and I'm sad to say that most of us want to annihilate Israel. We want to kill all the Israelis... Do you know what they used to say in the mosque…"

"Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person."

"I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them."

"My father, William C. Boulding, was a working plumber in business for himself. At the back of the house was the yard, a corrugated iron shed full of pipes, wrenches, and blow torches, and other myster…"

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

"She was a blessing to us and to the nation? and a lesson to the world on how to do things right, how to be a mother, how to appreciate history, how to be courageous. No one else looked like her, spoke…"

"If you are unhappy with anything—your mother, your father, your husband, your wife, your job, your boss, your car—whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're fre…"

"The only Christian nation in the world today is the one gathered “from every tribe and language and people and nation” to be addressed by its king. In his Great Commission, Jesus gave authority to the…"

"One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled…"

"If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Amer…"

"When you poison a man in order to sell him the antidote, you don’t boast about it afterward to the victim!"

"Jarrett would be easier to take if he cared half as much about children’s bodies and minds as he pretends to care about their souls."

"Harry Harrison obituary" by Christopher Priest in The Guardian"

"4853. The Wrath of Brothers, is fierce and devilish."

"The problem is, when Oprah lost all that weight, her head didn't get any smaller. And so she looks kind of like a person carrying a balloon."

"In Victorian criminology there was an enthusiasm for spotting criminal tendencies in a person’s features."