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“Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)”

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“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make it to…

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But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the…

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“One button for the rest of your life online.”

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We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will…

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I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

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“Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into…

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“Have we wasted precious space dust on you?”

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“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?”

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“The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten…

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Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

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The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

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Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force…

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In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

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Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top…

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They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each…

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The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man…

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If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are…

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“You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.”

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... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious…

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It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence,…

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Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is…

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They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.…

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