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

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 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...

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

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...

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.

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.

Where did you go? Around. The weather was good? Yeah. It didn't rain? Nope. That's good. Yeah. Talking like this is like throwing small, round stones __ nothing can be built from them, except perhaps...

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their...

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

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...

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

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and...

We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this was not all: Telegraphy also made public discourse essentially...

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

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...

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

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...

What does it matter, she thought, if businesses are left unattended, if people are not always as we want them to be; we need the time just to be human, to enjoy something like this: a boy chasing...

Your virtue is safe with me. Your discomfort is rather charming, actually, but I'm sure you'll get over it.

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...

Yet she was determined that when she married she would not forget who she was and who her people were. She would not affect any airs.

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

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...