friendship

"They have totally destabilized the Middle East. It's a disaster."

"You don’t have to always fight. Be a girl. Show him that he’s a man, and it’s a good thing energetically to do. … depends on how many blow jobs you give them."

"Englishmen are said to be very proud; certainly many are so, but in general they are more cold and reserved than really proud, and they are taciturn by nature, especially when compared to the French. …"

"It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproductio…"

"A woman ripe in years shall have her consent asked in marriage, and if she remain silent her silence is her consent, and if she refuse she shall not be married by force." ... "A widow shall not be mar…"

"Customs and immigrations officials are trained to detect the unusual. In some countries they are especially alert to CIA officers"

"One of the strangest things I have encountered on your world, dear Benita, is that many of your people have no idea who they really are but many ridiculous ideas about what they are expected to be, pl…"

"Who really made Dolly? Tale of British triumph descends into scientists' squabble" in The Guardian"

"India had entertained throughout its history a world vision. Our sages and seers had thought in terms of the happiness of the whole of humanity. And Jawaharlal Nehru had designed a foreign policy for …"

"The pages of most books were of mottled parchment, that is, dried sheepskin, which was universally available—and nowhere more abundant than in Ireland, whose bright green fields still host each April …"

"Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his masters profits. The labour of a menial servant, on the con…"

"She's so young and so impressionable. There's an innocence and a vulnerability that you almost can't really manufacture. It's like a look in the eye that a young girl has that a 23-year-old doesn't."

"That dichotomy between who she was and who she thought she should be was what really killed her."

"Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To us, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the o…"

"We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist — or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming…"

"And yet, Blaine thought, mankind showed an historic ability to avoid the extremes of doom as well as the extremes of bliss. Chaos was forever prophesized and utopia was continually predicted, and neit…"

"Ingels: If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet."

"Intuition is usually the first word, and is sometimes the last word, but should never be the only word."

"Four minutes of added time. That might lift the United States, that's time enough. Dreadfully negative, really. From the Algerians, they're looking for things on the break. I suspect they'll get a cha…"

"Who really said that?" by Peter Hughes at UU World"