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“The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells Form Choices Belief Sex Term Failing Succeed Members Behavior Normal Capacity Human Behavior Capacity To Love Bisexuality Human Capacity

Author:Margaret Mead

“Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.”

“Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.”

Art Form Choices Interest Materials Flow Abstract

Author:Meyer Schapiro

“Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to be self-moving and to behave in unpredictable ways. And recent studies in biology seem to demonstrate that bacteria and macromolecules have elemental forms of perception, memory, choice, and self-motion.”

Source: God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology

“Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not create it. Happiness is created through countless choices made and then made again throughout a lifetime. You are its host as well as its guest. You give it form, shape, individuality, texture, tone. And what it allows you to give can change your world. Happiness can be stillness. But it isn't still. It wraps, enchants, heals, consoles, soothes, delights, calms, inspires and connects. It is on your face and in your body. It is in your life and being.”

“I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is a male-dominated society based on the oppression of women. I am merely pointing out in what ways it is better for women. [¶] Perhaps someday a choice between forms of injustice will not be necessary.”

Men Way Form Choices Female Males Injustice Oppression Someday Pointing Amazon

Author:Phyllis Chesler

“I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.”

Form Choices Poor Numbers Losing Picks Consistently Lottery Life Choices Esp Poor Life

Author:Joey Comeau

“Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.”

Kind Form Choices Games Player Possibility Narrative Gaming

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.”

Giving May Matter Government Form Choices Shapes Consistency Assured Forms Of Government

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right and wrong. Values are relative. Truth is relative. Morality is defined by individual choice. If that isn't a recipe for sexual harassment and other forms of sexual and physical abuse, I don't know what it is.”

Ifs Knows Kids Form Values Choices Girl Individual Differences Boys Morality Truth Is Abuse Defined Relative Recipes Harassment Boy And Girl Physical Abuse Relative Truth Individual Choice

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The most important thing that I can share with you is the personal knowledge that decisions are not irrevocable, that choices do come back, sometimes in different forms and in different ways, but they can be remade.”

Way I Can Important Different Sometimes Form Choices Decision Share Important Things Different Ways Irrevocable Personal Knowledge

Author:Joan Bennett Kennedy

“In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.”

World Form Lying Choices This World Expression Manners Mask Conventional Institute

Book:The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

Source: The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

“If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.”

Ifs Men Humans Reason Character Form Choices Sound History Irrational Fury Human Reason

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.”

Source: Saving Our Sons

“Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.”

Way Wells Facts Form Choices Habit Behavior Anger Angry Reactions Insane Insanity Behave Frustration Severe

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.”

Should Children Made Care Action Form Choices Policy Research Medical Payment Taxpayers Public Policy Child Care Medical Research Choices Made

Author:Tony Abbott

“I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervillain. I think I'd be a supervillain that would exercise some form of mind control. Rather than war, I'd force people to get on with each other and I'd force people to argue reasonably about things rather than be polemical. So I'd be a supervillain that makes everyone get on, but forcefully. There would be no choice about it. No free will.”

People Thinking Mind War Would Be Form Choices Force Laughing Cutting Exercise Arguing Free Will Mind Control Supervillains

Author:Jemaine Clement

“Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.”

Form Choices Chance Fantasy Decided Function

Author:David Pye

“As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.”

Giving Ideas Seems Form Mother Choices Son Grew Grew Up Slavery Salvation Feminist Compulsion Grind

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.”

Form Choices Evil Taxation

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“One thing is certain, whatever choices we make: we will not miss out on some critical purgation by seeking treatment for depression or any other form of physical suffering. If we are ripe for what the dark night brings, God will find a way to bring the process to fruition no matter how hard we try to avoid it.”

Ifs Way Trying Matter Hard Form Night Certain Suffering Choices Process Dark One Thing Missing Seeking Critical Gods Will Treatment Ripe Dark Night Fruition

Author:Tim Farrington

“Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.”

Mean Moments Action Form Choices Courses Given Wish Dangerous Materials Intention Deeds Meaningless Insignificant Ephemeral

Author:Ann Leckie

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