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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT… — Jack London
More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who… — Dean Koontz
As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless,… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's… — Aleister Crowley
Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just… — Chris Rose
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity. — Terry Pratchett
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. — Murray Rothbard
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models… — Warren Buffett
Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves usâ€”even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it… — Arundhati Roy
The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own… — Jennifer Baumgardner
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be… — Theodor Adorno
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our… — Terence McKenna
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to… — Viktor E. Frankl
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician â€“ the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens… — Anne Lamott
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely… — Michael Crichton
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no… — Barbara Kingsolver
Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while… — Nick Hornby
Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt… — Jen Lancaster
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? — Douglas Adams

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