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A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer… — Neil Gaiman
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market.… — Tana French
...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day,… — David Foster Wallace
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and… — Piers Anthony
All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see… — Seth Godin
I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying… — Lauren Oliver
I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator. — Rachel Cohn
And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with… — Victor Hugo
Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and… — Daniel Handler
Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name… — Jeanette Winterson
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I… — David Sedaris
i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a… — Margaret Atwood
As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dadâ€™s last voice message into Morse code, and I used… — Jonathan Safran Foer
They hadnâ€™t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in… — Suzanne Collins
I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid. — Terry Pratchett
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we… — Daniel H. Wilson
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. — Albert Camus

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