looking for a use—
+> _There's a heart that must be free
+> To fly
+> That burns with the need to know
+> The reason why
+> Why must we all conceal
+> What we think, how we feel?
+> Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide?_
+>
+> —"Reflection", _Mulan_ (as performed by Christina Aguilera)
+
> "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known."
>
> —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
(This is Worth a Fight?)
> "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
>
-> I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it ahppens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. ANd if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer."
+> I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it happens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. And if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer."
>
> —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan
-> She's AFAB enby but I'm not quite sure what that means
->
-> —["Girl All the Bad Guys Want"](https://genius.com/Bowling-for-soup-girl-all-the-bad-guys-want-lyrics) by Bowling for Soup (paraphrased)
-
> What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
>
> —Susan Sontag
>
> —Steven Goldberg, _Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance_
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+quote that _Blindsight_ passage about an evil god setting males and females against each other
-(An Infovist's Advisory)
-> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
->
-> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape."
->
-> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan
+----
(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
> The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy.
>
> —_Portal_ end credits song
-(Review of Nevada)
-> You sound so innocent
-> All full of good intent
-> You swear you know best
-> But you expect me to
-> Jump up on board with you
-> And ride off into your delusional sunset
->
-> —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
-
(Collective Guilt, Collective Shame)
> "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
>
>
> —"The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry
+> 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
+
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Less obviously fitting—
> —"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/
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