+> He once said, "None of the other Rationals I've ever met have anything but an empty-head for an Emotional. I'm lucky." She had said, "But the other Rationals seem to like empty-heads. Why are you different from them, Odeen?" Odeen did not deny that the other Rationals liked empty-heads. He just said, "I've never figured it out and I don't think it's important that I do. I'm pleased with you and I'm pleased that I'm pleased."
+>
+> —_The Gods Themselves_ by Isaac Asimov
+
+----
+
+Less obviously fitting—
+
+> Knowing his occupation and observing him briefly and superficially were sufficient, together, for me to guess confidently about aspects of Edwin's life that he never mentioned. I know what he was like as a boy. I know what kind of person he is sexually attracted to. I know what kinds of activities interest him and what kinds do not. I am least sure what he will look like five years from now.
+>
+> —J. Michael Bailey, _The Man Who Would Be Queen: the Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism_, Preface
+
+> I cannot believe my eyes
+> How the world's filled with filth and lies
+> But it's plain to see
+> Evil inside of me
+> Is on the rise
+>
+> —"My Eyes", _Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog_
+
+> "I will destroy you and steal your fiancé, booty booty booty booty rocking everywhere!"
+>
+> —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"
+
+> And there's a fine, fine line
+> Between what you wanted
+> And what you got
+> You've got to go after the things you want
+> While you're still in your prime
+>
+> —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_
+
+> I know there's more that's out there
+> And I just haven't found it yet
+> I know there's more that's out there
+> Another me I haven't met
+>
+> —"What More Is Out There", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_
+
+> I don't give a damn about my reputation
+> You're living in the past it's a new generation
+> A girl can do what she wants to do
+> And that's what I'm gonna do
+>
+> —"Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett
+
+> "The Order of Silent Confessors exists in the hope that, so long as humanity is sane, it can make choices in accordance with its true desires. Thus there is our Order dedicated _only_ to that, and sworn not to interfere in politics. So you will spend more time discussing this scenario, my lords, my ladies, and only then generate solutions. And then ... you will decide."
+>
+> —[_Three Worlds Collide_](http://lesswrong.com/lw/y6/war_andor_peace_28/) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
+
+> The realization blasted through Harry like a vast dam breaking, releasing out all its water, bursting through his mind in an irresistible flood that swept everything away.
+>
+> There is only one reality that generates all of the observations.
+>
+> If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet.
+>
+> —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky
+
+> I don't want to sabotage you
+> But you see, I've got to try
+>
+> —"I'll Fly", _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_
+
+> Sometimes the things you want
+> Are not the things you need
+> And it was right there in front of me
+>
+> —"Right There in Front of Me", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_
+
+http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/
+
+> Here's to those who love not too wisely, no, not too wisely, but too well
+> To the girl who sighs with envy when she hears that wedding bell
+> To the guy who'd throw a party if he knew someone to call
+> Here's to the losers, bless them all
+>
+> —"Here's to the Losers"
+
+> This book is about the female primates who have evolved over the last seventy million years. It is dedicated to the liberated woman who never evolved but with imagination, intelligence, an open mind, and perserverance many of us may yet become.
+>
+> —Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, dedication to _The Woman That Never Evolved_
+
+> Given that females prefer to live with female relatives if they are going to live in groups at all, and given that the size and dispersion of these groups is determined by the interaction of food availability and predation risk, how should males map themselves onto the female distribution?
+>
+> Robin I. M. Dunbar, Primate Social Systems, Ch. 7, "Evolution of Grouping Patterns"
+
+> "LMAO", says a member of the Community Team. A colleague approaches him and asks why he is laughing. "I just heard the funniest joke in the world!" "Well, go ahead, tell me!" says the other judge. "I can't–I just gave someone a code of conduct violation for it!"
+>
+> —old Soviet joke (paraphrased)
+
+> Don't think.
+> If you think, then don't speak.
+> If you think and speak, then don't write.
+> If you think, speak, and write, then don't sign.
+> If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised.
+>
+> —Soviet proverb
+
+https://xkcd.com/1942/
+
+> A woman came up to me and said
+> "I'd like to poison your mind
+> With wrong ideas that appeal to you
+> Though I am not unkind"
+>
+> —"Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants
+
+> "The only thing standing in the way of my own progress," Sagreda said, "is that the forces that once dealt with us honestly have been buried too deep to reach. All I can touch now is the surface, which is shaped by nothing but whim."
+>
+> —["Bit Players"](https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2014/bit_players_by_greg_egan) by Greg Egan
+
+> Every asshole these days has a blog. Every asshole with a blog wants to “change the world.” But the great thing about being right is that, when the world catches on, you really can’t tell whether or not they heard it from you. The truth, being true, belongs to all.
+>
+> — https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2010/11/ur-heard-it-here-first-files/
+
+> Too long I've been afraid of
+> Losing love I guess I've lost
+> Well, if that's love
+> It comes at much too high a cost!
+
+(Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle)
+> Go, Soul, the body’s guest,
+> Upon a thankless arrant:
+> Fear not to touch the best;
+> The truth shall be thy warrant:
+> Go, since I needs must die,
+> And give the world the lie.
+>
+> Say to the court, it glows
+> And shines like rotten wood;
+> Say to the church, it shows
+> What’s good, and doth no good:
+> If church and court reply,
+> Then give them both the lie.
+>
+> —["The Lie"](https://www.bartleby.com/40/48.html) by Sir Walter Raleigh
+
+
+> Do not at the outset of your career make the all too common error of mistaking names for things. Names are only conventional signs for identifying things. Things are the reality that counts. If a thing is despised, either because of ignorance or because it is despicable, you will not alter matters by changing its name.
+>
+> —W. E. B. duBois (http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20%28spring%2001%29/articles/names/dubois.htm)
+
+
+> "Any evolutionary advantage must come from a feature affecting our behavior. Thus, there is no evolutionary advantage to simply having a belief about our identity. Self-identity can matter and could have mattered only if it affects behavior, in which case it is really a _process_ of self-identification. Moreover, it is not a matter of affirming a self-identity that we possess. For a belief that needs to be affirmed is not a belief at all."
+>
+> Joseph M. Whitmeyer, "How Evolutionary Psychology Can Contribute to Group Process Research", in <em>The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society</em>
+
+
+> Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
+> Everybody's looking for someone to blame
+> Like it's a game, like it's a game