"A novel is a machine for generating interpretations." — Umberto Eco

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• The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the… — George W. Bush
• To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are… — Christopher Alexander
• Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy. — Alexis Carrel
• Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out. — Wayne LaPierre
• The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from… — Robert Mayer
• It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a… — Bernard DeVoto
• We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort… — Lester R. Brown
• I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure… — Rob Riggle
• I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head… — Sol Stein
• A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment… — Carl Jung
• Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. — Edward Abbey
• The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has… — Thomas Paine

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