GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

"All peoples are simply cultural options—different visions for life itself—making for completely different possibilities for existence"
–Wade Davis

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar" Abraham Lincoln

"Growing old is not for sissies" Betty Davis

"If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're right" Henry Ford

"I have no doubt at all the devil grins
As seas of ink I splatter.
Ye gods forgive my literary sins,
the other kind don't matter"
Robert Service

"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm terrific" Mae West

"If god is good, then he is not God, and if god is God, then he is not good." Archibald McLeish from "JB"

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will,--" William Shakespeare, from "Hamlet"

"Let's just plug it in and see what smokes" Me

Yogi Berra is in a class all by himself:
"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."
"He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."
"I don't know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads."
"I never said most of the things I said."
"Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."
"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
"You can see a lot just by observing."
"I take a two hour nap, from one o'clock to four."
"It ain't the heat; it's the humility."

"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.


Sam Shepard

Que sera, sera.

"You know what I'm gonna do? Im gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps and all leather cow interior and big brown baby seal eyes for head lights.

And Im gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour gettin' one mile per gallon, sucking down quarterpounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds in the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers.

And when I'm done sucking down those greaseball burgers I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag and then Im gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the side and there aint a goddamn thing anybody can do about it.

You know why? Because WE'VE GOT THE BOMBS, thats why. Two words, Nuclear Fucking Weapons, OK?

Russia, Germany, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want, they can have a big democracy cakewalk right through the middle of Tiananmen Square and it wont make a lick of difference.

Because WE'VE GOT THE BOMBS, OK?"

--Denis Leary / I'm an Asshole.

Too much feminine narcissism without masochism and passivity produces a self-centered woman interested only in attaining love and admiration from those around her. There is no element of giving. Too much feminine masochism without the protective narcissism produces a woman who sacrifices herself without idea of rewards. The overly passive woman is continually waiting to receive without any willingness to give of herself in a masochistic or narcissistic manner.

John Money, 1980

"Whosoever shall be guilty of rape, polygamy, or sodomy with a man or woman, shall be punished; if a man, by castration, a woman, by boring through the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch in diameter at the least." --Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Bill number 64, 18 June 1779.

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"I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed." --Mahatma Gandhi, May 1940.

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In 1996 then-UN Ambassador Madeleine Albright was asked by 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, in reference to years of U.S.-led economic sanctions against Iraq, “We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”

To which Ambassador Albright responded, “I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”

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"If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way we let them kill as many as possible." --Harry Truman, New York Times, June 24 1941.

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"Japan was already defeated, dropping the bömb was completely unnecessary. I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was no longer necessary to save American lives." --General Dwight D.Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander.

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"He is a... timely rain to nourish the land." The Dalai Lama, on his first meeting with Mao Tse Tung in 1954.

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"[Saddam Hussein] has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours." --General Colin Powell, 2001.

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"I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes, to spread a lively terror." --Winston Churchill, 1919.

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"If you were my enemy, you are now my friend. If you hated me, you cannot avoid the love that binds me to you and you to me." --Robert Mugabe, 1980.

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"A gay couple came to see me, seeking my support and blessing. I had to explain our teachings. Another lady introduced another woman as her wife - astonishing. It is the same with a husband and wife using certain sexual practices. Using the other two holes is wrong. A Western friend asked me what harm could there be between consenting adults having oral sex, if they enjoyed it; but the purpose of sex is reproduction, according to Buddhism. The other holes don't create life. I don't mind - but I can't condone this way of life." --The Dalai Lama, 2006.