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We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be…
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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort,…
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Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give…
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So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons…
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Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains…
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Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived…
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He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of…
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Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the…
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The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and…
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So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons…
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You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores…
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I do like having my ears pierced, because there's a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and…
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By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you…
— Christopher Walken
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With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.
— Brad Goreski
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Basically, I use hammer-ons and pull-offs.
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The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through…
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