Marjorie Bruce Quotes & Sayings

Come to me, that I may give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field, — Malcolm Gladwell

She is my wife and I am her own and you were not invited. Leave us alone. — Catherynne M Valente

I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number. — Alister MacKenzie

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream. — Charles Baxter

A recent canvass of professional philosophers found the percentage of respondents who "accept or leans toward" various positions. On normative ethics, the results were deontology 25.9%; consequentialism 23.6%; virtue ethics 18.2%. On metaethics, results were moral realism 56.4%; moral anti-realism 27.7%. On moral judgment: cognitivism 65.7%; non-cognitivism 17.0% (Bourget and Chalmers 2009). — Nick Bostrom

Human rights, dissidence, antiracism, SOS-this, SOS-that: these are soft, easy, post coitum historicum ideologies, 'after-the-orgy' ideologies for an easy-going generation which has known neither hard ideologies nor radical philosophies. The ideology of a generation which is neo-sentimental in its politics too, which has rediscovered altruism, conviviality, international charity and the individual bleeding heart. Emotional outpourings, solidarity, cosmopolitan emotiveness, multi-media pathos: all soft values harshly condemned by the Nietzschean, Marxo-Freudian age ... A new generation, that of the spoilt children of the crisis, whereas the preceding one was that of the accursed children of history. — Jean Baudrillard

Making love is not just becoming as one, or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand. Desiring-machines or the nonhuman sex: not one or even two sexes, but n sexes. — Gilles Deleuze

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect. — Dee Snider

An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading. — James Paul Gee

Take a chance - it's the best way to test yourself, have fund and push boundaries. — Richard Branson

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old. — Jane Yolen

We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire. — Tadeusz Konwicki

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor. — George Carlin

A president is always cosseted by his staff. — Monica Crowley

Heaven is not a place far away from where you are, rather it is a state of energy in which you can live every day. — Sarina Baptista