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Oscar Wilde: There is no friendship possible

   “ Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ”

Oscar Wilde

Hmmm......shades of Katherine Hepburn.

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Once upon a time (1999 or so) I had a friend who was a racist. We had not been friends for long, but she knew how I felt about racism, so she never showed me her own until one evening at a local pub, as we were enjoying burgers and drinks. I don't remember precisely what she said, but it was something that was clearly racist.

Yeah, she was drinking, but that's no excuse. And, in fact, that she said it out loud wasn't the issue. What mattered, of course, was that she viewed people as "us and them", and that she considered the "them" part of the equation to be less than the "us".

The beauty of the world has two edges.....

“The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”

Virginia Woolf

 

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Recently a young mother .....

 

“Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.”

Anna Quindlen

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Where love rules, there is no will....

 

“ Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. ”

Carl Jung

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People see you as an object....

“ People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it, think beauty is a blessing;  but actually, it sets you apart. ”

Candace Bergen

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The opposite of love is not hate....

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

Elie Wiesel, October 1986

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On Memorial Day: How do we define patriotism?

A selection of famous quotes re patriotism/nationalism (or, my version of "Food for Thought")
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“Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”

James Bryce
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“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”

Calvin Coolidge
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“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”

Guy de Maupassant
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“If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.”

Hamilton Fish
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“Do not regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?”

Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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