Another in our series of interesting, thought-provoking or humorous quotes recently encountered.
It’s unacceptable there’s a loophole allowing paedophile “training manuals”, that’s why I want to protect children by making them illegal.
[David Cameron]
Just think about the logic there for a minute.
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
[Abraham Maslow]
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
[Terry Pratchett]
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
[Frank Zappa]
As Americans, we live in an insane world, where you can legally carry and conceal a gun, but risk imprisonment should anyone see your genitals.
[From http://writersdisease.blogspot.co.uk/p/naturism.html]
There is nothing inherently sexual about nudity, any more than there is anything inherently literary about a bowl of alphabet soup.
[@nudeisnotrude @ Twitter]
 
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
[Sir Winston Churchill]
Beware anybody selling you food that’s supposed to be healthy, because they don’t make money from your health. They make money by making the product attractive enough that you buy it.
[From https://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/]
This manuscript needs to be encased in concrete and placed in the sea. Above the Mariana Trench.
[Peter Kenney @ Twitter]
Being offended is a choice. A person consciously chooses between feeling outraged about something and simply ignoring it. It’s the difference between trying to force your values on someone else and simply acknowledging that they have different values than you do, even if those values are something you sincerely disagree with
[Larry Darter at http://www.examiner.com/article/no-offense-but]
In a democracy the majority rules and that can produce tyranny of the majority. Tyranny is tyranny whether dispensed by kings or mob rule.
[Larry Darter at http://www.examiner.com/article/no-offense-but]
Why spend time complaining about and being upset by other people who directly affect your life in absolutely no real way whatsoever? Why not accept that people are all different, have different interests and values and move on? If more people did that and spent less time choosing to be offended they would be happier and healthier.
[Larry Darter at http://www.examiner.com/article/no-offense-but]
It’s easy to take off your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams … that is being naked.
[Unknown]
Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile & who love you no matter what.
[Unknown]

Another in our series of interesting, thought-provoking or humorous quotes recently encountered.
Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.
[Emma Watson]
Goodness knows what may have changed since then. Worlds have turned, parallel universes have made and unmade themselves. People have been born. People have died. Stars have winked in and out of existence like the breath of God, leaving a transient mist on a universal car window where the Holy Spirit has drawn a giant knob with his finger.
[Katy Wheatley at katyboo1.wordpress.com]
In order for you to insult me I would first have to value your opinion.
[Unknown]
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
[Thomas Moore]
Our lionisation of size zero, our aversion to pubic hair, even an increasing trend towards vaginaplasties are all symptomatic of a desire to take the female body back to its pre-pubescent state. The full Brazilian is a look that is borrowed from pornography — can there be a more damning style endorsement?
[Helen Walsh, So older women don’t have sex?, Observer, 13 April 2014]
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.
[Robert Reisner]
In the end only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
[Buddha’s Little Instruction Book]
What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.
[Robert Brault]
When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
[benudetoday.tumblr.com]
I will always remember what it felt like to have a little mermaid swimming in my belly.
[Leone Dawson]
Alcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
[George Bernard Shaw]
And finally …
Don’t forget: Jesus died for your sins in advance, so make sure you get your money’s worth.
[Girl on the Net; ‏@girlonthenet]

Another in our series of interesting, thought-provoking or humorous quotes recently encountered.
Look in the mirror and don’t be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
Stephen Jay Gould
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton
In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.
Bertrand Russell in a letter to the Times, 1940
Selecting your foie gras is much easier if it has already been removed from its original owner.
Elisabeth Luard, The Old World Kitchen
So, Madonna has armpits. She also has products to sell. Let’s just get this out of the way. Even if that armpit picture was timed to coincide with the release of her new advert, even if that was the case — that is besides the point. The point is, why is it, that still, in 2014, despite woman’s hour and twitter and feminist pop songs, a woman with body hair will get so much attention? Whether that attention comes in the form of a snigger on the street or axe-grinders like me writing articles about it. Why does it remain one of the unshakable truths of the universe, that if a woman makes the choice not to shave what her mama gave her, the human race, capable of designing video games, and building really tall buildings, and writing love letters, starts hyperventilating and cursing and spitting at the sight of any hair below the eyebrows of a woman. What the hell is wrong with people?
Aisha Mirza; “We should celebrate Madonna’s hairy armpit selfie”; Independent; 21 March 2014
There are quite a lot of people who don’t wear make up. Mostly they’re called men.
Aisha Mirza; “We should celebrate Madonna’s hairy armpit selfie”; Independent; 21 March 2014
Do not be afraid to speak openly and confidently about naturism. Most people, even if surprised, settle down and are surprisingly OPEN. If you are confident, and represent naturism as the healthy normal and fun activity it is, they will resonate with the same openness. If you are tentative, shy, fearful, or appear embarrassed they will not accept naturism. It’s funny, because as a farmer and horse owner, I can tell you it is the same with your livestock. If you ride your horse with fear the horse is fearful and spooky. If you ride with confidence the horse learns to trust you and is confident in response to your cues.
youngnaturistsamerica.com/naked-advertising-northeast-naturist-festival/
Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
Edgar Allan Poe
You have to define a pigeon before you can pigeon-hole it.
Prof Alice Roberts
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is a common observation that creative people are often disrespectful of authority, unconventional and politically radical. That is because they are strategic and impertinent enough to think things out for themselves. They are independent thinkers.
Geoffrey Petty
The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
Pope John Paul II
When the batteries in my vibrator die, I take the ones from our remote and put my dead ones in the remote.
From Postsecret
Remember that testicles, earlobes, labia, and eyelids are delicate. If you’re going to yank, bite, pull, or abuse any of these body parts with a fork, proceed with caution and talk about it first.
Stoya; “10 Mind Blowing Sex Tips” at thenewinquiry.com/features/10-mind-blowing-sex-tips/

Another in our series of interesting, thought-provoking or humorous quotes recently encountered.
The universe consists primarily of dark matter. We can’t see it, but it has an enormous gravitational force. The conscious mind — much like the visible aspect of the universe — is only a small fraction of the mental world. The dark matter of the mind, the unconscious, has the greatest psychic gravity. Disregard the dark matter of the universe and anomalies appear. Ignore the dark matter of the mind and our irrationality is inexplicable.
Joel Gold
To understand how something works, you must first understand how it got that way.
PZ Myers
So there’s the land — this real stuff we walk around on. Then there’s territory — the maps and lines we use to define the land. But then there are wars fought over where those map lines are drawn. The levels can keep building on one another, bringing people to further abstractions and disconnection from the real world. Land becomes territory; territory then becomes property that is owned. Property itself can be represented by a deed, and the deed can be mortgaged. The mortgage is itself an investment that can be bet against with a derivative, which can be secured with a credit default swap.
Douglas Rushkoff
[We wonder why the banking industry goes tits up, and the world is strewn with tribal warfare!]
We may perhaps date the beginning of modern thought from the night of January 7, 1610, when Galileo, by means of the instrument he developed [the telescope], thought he perceived new planets and new, expanded worlds.
Marjorie Nicolson
If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.
Cartoon cat, Garfield
So next time someone asks you whether you believe in evolution, the best answer you can give would be something like, “No, I don’t. I accept the overwhelming evidence for evolution, belief isn’t necessary.”
Found at Evolution Happens
Cuvée des Sires, usually a classic 70/30 blend of Aÿ Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, is a serious wine to be savoured; not, as Brun puts it ‘to be drunk from an actress’s shoe.’
Philippe Brun of Champagne house Roger Brun at imbibe.com
Dirt is matter out of place.
Mary Douglas
Everything is the way it is because it got that way.
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.
Kurt Vonnegut
And what is this? ‘It is a cat. It arrived. It does not appear to wish to depart.’ The cat, a feral ginger tom, flicked a serrated ear and curled up in a tighter ball. Anything that could survive in Ankh-Morpork’s alleys, with their abandoned swamp dragons, dog packs and furriers’ agents, was not about to open even one eye for a bunch of floating nightdresses.
Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time