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God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our...

This is what happens to those who sit still. People who did nothing ended up with nothing lives lived on nothing furniture inside a nothing space doing nothing watching nothing being nothing. They...

I really don't know why the fools are angry when they hold them there. One can climb naked on the floor, go like jackal, rage and bite. If you could do it somewhere on the promenade, people would be...

That day I had a poignant feeling, like an early mourning. What I had most dear had been crushed like a field of field flowers, razed to the ground to make room for a well -kept garden. Not even when...

In the course of the five, six years that I stayed in Russia, I was killed or declared death a few times by various organizations and individuals

Writing is defined as a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.

The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. {102}

Because the lenders sold many-though not all-of the loans they made to other investors, in the form of mortgage bonds, the industry was also fraught with moral hazard. It was a fast-buck business,...

I could feel the baby being torn from my insides. It was really painful....Three-quarters of the way through the operation I sat up....In the cylinder I saw the bits and pieces of my little child...

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen {'Grin and bear it and get...

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I felt confident that his inherited knowledge and instincts would soon assert themselves, given the chance, and in spite of his {lion} breeding. I must admit that I did not feel the same confidence...

My favored mulching method is to cover the ground between rows of plants with a year's worth of our saved newspapers; the paper and soy-based ink will decompose by autumn. Then we cover all that...

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

It is really frightening for a person to feel freedom, and to be responsible for his decisions!

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for...

But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps.

Fail hard, fail fast and fail often is the only way to get involved with real innovation in this fast changing world. Instead, most companies are trying to prevent failure at all cost, which makes...

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.'And?'Chaos theory...

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.