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• Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn… — Salman Rushdie
• This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so… — John Aubrey
• Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet… — Michael Dirda
• Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime… — Eugene V. Debs
• The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven. — Peggy Noonan
• The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. — William Butler Yeats
• But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other… — Christopher Paolini

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