Predeliction Quotes & Sayings

Music creates order out of chaos. — Yehudi Menuhin

DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad.
BIAS: predeliction for a particular dogma. For example, the feminist bias is that women are equal to men and the male chauvinist bias is that women are inferior. The unbiased view is that the truth lies somewhere in between.
(an early comment on backlash, from "Glossary for the Eighties") — Ellen Willis

I chop the broccoli into pieces with ZigZag Knife, sometimes I swallow some when Ma's not looking and she says, "Oh, no, where's that big bit gone?" but she's not really mad because raw things make us extra alive. — Emma Donoghue

If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect. — Haruki Murakami

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor. — Amanda Hocking

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra