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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
Confident

“Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.”

Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
Philosophical

“Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?”

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Simon Jordan Businessman
Angry

“What does Everton chairman Bill Kenwright think he will get for £6m? Andy Johnson's trainers?”

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ST Regretful

“I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around.”

Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
Thoughtful

“There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.”

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
Philosophical

“I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.”

Sinclair Lewis Novelist
Angry

“You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.”

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Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher
Philosophical

“Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so conclusively that you will never talk a person out of such a belief, even if it is something as remarkable as the notion that there is a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft ("GOD") who will spend all eternity torturing people who do not believe in his religion.”

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Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher
Philosophical

“Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.”

Slavoj Žižek Philosopher, Cultural Critic
Philosophical

“We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.”

Robert Downey, Jr. Actor, Producer
Funny

“Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don't like being limited in that way. Therefore, I'm considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around.”

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Sophie Hannah Author
Thoughtful

“I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.”

Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
Philosophical

“This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.”

Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
Philosophical

“Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.”

Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
Funny

“And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.”