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We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control… — Philip Yancey
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own. — Orson Welles
In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts.… — Haruki Murakami
Me and polite have never been on close terms. — Jim Butcher
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's… — Banksy
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish… — Thomas Pynchon
Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms. — Joshua Harris
How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but… — Ishmael Beah
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary… — Stephen Jay Gould
You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the… — Neil Gaiman
the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made… — Edward Said
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who… — Jodi Picoult
I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions;… — Robert E. Howard
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in… — Ann Coulter
If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know… — Arthur Miller
The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning. — C.S. Lewis
The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of… — Randy Alcorn
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we… — Fritjof Capra

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