If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.


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IRIS APFEL
Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveri...
IRIS MURDOCH
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re f...
IRIS MURDOCH
We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do...
IRIS APFEL
I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People...
IRIS APFEL
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH
I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip ...
IRIS APFEL
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb...
IRIS JOHANSEN
... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a ...
IRIS MURDOCH
I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all...
IRIS APFEL
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
IRIS MURDOCH
What is more tormenting than a meeting after a long time, when all the words fall to the ground like...
IRIS MURDOCH
I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I l...
IRIS APFEL
...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L...
IRIS ANTHONY
Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...
IRIS MURDOCH
I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were ...
IRIS APFEL
Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of th...
IRIS APFEL
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi...
IRIS APFEL
Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH
I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH
Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ...
IRIS JOHANSEN
People were worried; they thought we were going to go to nuclear war when there was a conflict with ...
IRIS WEINSHALL
We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousa...
IRIS WEINSHALL
In attempting to minimize congestion, perhaps we were more cautious than we should have been.
IRIS WEINSHALL
It's not like we're putting this on eBay.
IRIS WEINSHALL
It's not uncommon for New Yorkers to walk a mile a day.
IRIS WEINSHALL
Little Charlie was delivered by a C-section and not expected to live. I'm a widow with no children ....
IRIS TANNER
I don't know if someone thought they were rescuing them from a hot car or what. I'm offering a rewar...
IRIS TANNER
It's very basic -- look for a dumpster that has stuff in it, climb in, and see what you can find.
IRIS PEPPAR
It's fun, it thwarts capitalism, and it pays directly in useful stuff instead of having that useless...
IRIS PEPPAR
We want to let people shop in peace and dignity. I don't want to be standing over people telling the...
IRIS PEPPAR