My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Ellen Willis
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  3. If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

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  5. Not an impossible task, just an outrageous challenge. - Richard Roberts

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  1. DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad. B I A S: predeliction for a particular dogma. For example, the feminist bias is that women are equal to men and the male...

  2. My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

  3. Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post- Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.

  4. The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.

  5. My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or...

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