Titan is so mysterious ... so hard to understand and so complex. But that's why it is such a wonderful place. It's not a world that has one newspaper headline-type feature. It's just a subtle, complex place.

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HOLLY SCHINDLER

It is a lie.
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the hu...
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The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these...
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rang you over and over again and you woul...
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GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It's very complex and we have to look at it all very carefully because it is so complex.
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TAYLOR MALI …for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;
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to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
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JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Titan is so mysterious ... so hard to understand and so complex. But that's why it is such a wonderful place. It's not a world that has one newspaper headline-type feature. It's just a subtle, complex place.

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Titan is so mysterious ... so hard to understand and so complex. But that's why it is such a wonderful place. It's not a world that has one newspaper headline-type feature. It's just a subtle, complex place.

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