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Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself. — Mark Twain
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently… — Michael Shermer
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains,… — Richard Dawkins
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and… — Albert Camus
Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary… — Sam Harris
Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and… — Suzanne Collins
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this… — Jeanette Winterson
I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger].… — Neil Gaiman
As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the… — Elizabeth McCracken
I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago."… — Kelley Armstrong
I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. "Don't be… — Rick Riordan
People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or… — Sebastian Faulks
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. — Isaac Newton
I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't… — Jodi Picoult
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of… — Stephen King
Actually Gabrielâ€™s an archangel,â€ I corrected. â€œBut otherwise, yes.â€ â€œWell, that explains why heâ€™s so hard to impress,â€ said Xavier flippantly — Alexandra Adornetto
The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are… — Dorothy Dunnett
Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't our lives be… — David Sedaris
Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands… — Karen Marie Moning
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude… — Josef Pieper

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