“Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.”
Source: Follow Your Heart
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Brian J. Ford (1939) Academic, author
Patterns of Sex, the Mating Urge and our Sexual Future (St. Martin's Press, London & New York, 1980, ISBN 0-312-59811-4, p 14.
Quoted in: Germaine Greer, "Better No Sex than Bad Sex," Sunday Times Review, (1984-01-13), p. 33. See also Private Eye, no. 581 (March 1984), pp. 22. The quotation appeared as a chapter heading in Greer's <i>Sex and Destiny</i> (Olympic Marketing, Cambridge and New York, 1984, ISBN 0-06091-250-2, p. 127.
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Source: Founding Address (1876), The Religion of Duty (1905), Ch. 10
Context: Theories of what is true have their day. They come and go, leave their deposit in the common stock of knowledge, and are supplanted by other more convincing theories. The thinkers and investigators of the world are pledged to no special theory, but feel themselves free to search for the greater truth beyond the utmost limits of present knowledge. So likewise in the field of moral truth, it is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.
There are two purposes then which we have in view: To secure in the moral and religious life perfect intellectual liberty, and at the same time to secure concert in action. There shall be no shackles upon the mind, no fetters imposed in early youth which the growing man or woman may feel prevented from shaking off, no barrier set up which daring thought may not transcend. And on the other hand there shall be unity of effort, the unity that comes of an end supremely prized and loved, the unity of earnest, morally aspiring persons, engaged in the conflict with moral evil.
Michael J. Behe (1952) American biochemist, author, and intelligent design advocate
Source: Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996), p. (1996).
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4, Conquest
“There can be no safer deposit on earth than the Treasury of the United States.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1825) ME 19:281
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
“Raffi: Okay, it's time to make another deposit to my therapy fund.”
Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For
#458, "Below the Law" (2005), collected in The Essential DTWOF (2008).
Dykes to Watch Out For