>
> —[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 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
+
> What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
>
>
> —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
>
> —"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.
>
> 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
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> 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
>
> Robin I. M. Dunbar, Primate Social Systems, Ch. 7, "Evolution of Grouping Patterns"
-> A similar definition of intelligence was expressed by Aquinas as "the ability to combine and separate"—the ability to see the difference between things that seem similar and to see the similarities between things which seem different.
->
-> —Arthur R. Jensen, "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?"
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> STEVEN: Test? What do you mean, test?
> PEARL: Eugh, well, it wasn't really a "test", per se. Not in the traditional sense. We just wanted to see if you were ready to go on missions.
> STEVEN: That's _exactly_ what a test is!
> It's like a letter of love with no love left out
>
> —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
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+> When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
+>
+> –Emile Zola
+
+> And Durham—the software puppet, the lifeless shell animated by a being from another plane—looked him in the eye and said, "You have to let me show you what you are."
+>
+> —_Permutation City_ by Greg Egan
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