Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.


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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values tha...
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inve...
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - par...
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppe...
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall ...
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a...
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - t...
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to...
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are...
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are g...
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his serv...
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Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness a...
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are...
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreci...
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The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The...
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liber...
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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of su...
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The other four houses yielded jewelry, wallets, credit cards, laptops, iPads and Kindles, even a cou...
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...
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You made them hate me." Said Ender
"So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kis...
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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the...
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I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I w...
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