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Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject… — Christopher Hitchens
We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with… — Daniel Quinn
OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn… — Isaac Newton
No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would… — Bill Bryson
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of… — Naomi Klein
Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life,… — Cassandra Clare
...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very… — Michelle Tea
We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the… — John Green
What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world… — John Green
Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become… — Cassandra Clare
Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump… — Nora Ephron
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. — Alfred North Whitehead
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process… — Stephen Jay Gould
In my understanding of God I start with certain firm beliefs. One is that the laws of nature are not broken. We do not, of… — Nevill Francis Mott
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it. — Amanda Palmer
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics. — Iain McGilchrist
Breath does, in fact, connect us all in a very literal way. Take a breath now. And as you breathe, think about what is in… — Jane Poynter
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the… — Michael Hayden
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories. — John Shelby Spong
Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the… — John Shelby Spong
I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of… — Aminatta Forna
The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this… — Ezra Taft Benson
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association. — Albert Murray
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people.… — Ken Ham

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