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Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with messages that tell us love is about mystery, about that which cannot be known. We see movies in which people are represented as being in love who never talk with one another, who fall into bed without ever discussing their bodies, their sexual needs, their likes and dislikes. Indeed, the message is received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge. These messages are brought to us by profiteering producers who have no clue about the art of loving, who substitute their mystified visions because they do not really know how to genuinely portray loving interaction. — Bell Hooks

Islam has values, following the Koran and the example of Mohammed and they form people very profoundly and for some Muslims it creates a vision of a very different society and a hope it will be established. — Mark Durie

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer. — Angela Davis

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. — Emily Dickinson

The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue. — Sam Neill

She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it. — Nalini Singh

There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances. — Stephen Kendrick

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood — Dennis Prager

[He] coluldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding. — Christopher McDougall