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I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this… — Christopher Hitchens
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it… — Patti Smith
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that… — Neal Stephenson
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find?… — Charlotte Bronte
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much,… — Jane Austen
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a… — Thomas Paine
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who… — Temple Grandin
Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with… — Timothy Keller
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A… — Charles Dickens
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore
She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very… — Jane Austen
I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I… — Anais Nin
Being a martyr is highly overrated. — Patricia Briggs
Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your… — Ram Dass
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. — Dave Barry
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain… — Eckhart Tolle
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the… — Vera Nazarian
Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks… — Melissa de la Cruz
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the… — Baltasar Gracian
Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified. — Jon Ronson
Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This… — Gao Xingjian
Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the… — Sam Harris

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