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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.

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

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

There is nothing worse for working than a people like those bands, who can not read or write and only signs with three cruzinhas, which our Intendance knew very well, so that when we had money to get...

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they're not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.

There was a Lieutenant Procházka that didn't scold much. He only called his ordinance: "My graceful cow." His ordinance, such a Hibman, never heard him another improper. This hibman was so used so...

I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

All along the line,' said the volunteer, pulling the blanket over him, 'everything in the army stinks of rottenness. Up till now the wide-eyed masses haven't woken up to it. With goggling eyes they...

Free human dialogue, wandering wherever the agility of the mind allows, lies at the heart of education. If teachers do not have the time, the incentive, or the wit to produce that; if students are too...

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Pride precedes the fall. All glory is ephemeral. Icarus burned his wings. The human being liked to be a giant - but it's the fuck, comrade. There is no need to believe in chance and crack in the...

-Resuming, the Hungarians are a rabble that walks there {...} - There is also a Hungarian or another who is not to blame for being Hungarian.

Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination.

Those who boggle at strong language are cowards, because it is real life which is shocking them, and weaklings like that are the very people who cause most harm to culture and character. They would...

It sure is a pleasure not having Flume around in the mess hall any more. No more of that 'Pass the salt, Walt.'Or 'Pass the bread, Fred.'Or 'Shoot me a beet, Pete.

Life will find a way.

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few...

- {...} Once I read, I declare obediently, that there was a great battle in which a Swedish king fell along with his faithful horse. They took both carcasses to Sweden, and now the two codes are...

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

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I...

When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl...

A woman has been chosen. The gift of heaven on earth. This will become the biggest story in the world. Coldwater, Michigan. Ask a man of God. One call will confirm everything.

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

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?Yes?Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

Controlling your body is, however, only a minimal requirement. You must also have learned to pay no attention to the shapes of the letters on the page. You must see through them, so to speak, so that...

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.

I do not think this is so, because there is no difference between white men and black men; we are all the same; we are just people.

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

{...} So there we hanged him, but it was only hung for a few seconds, that the rope broke and he fell to the ground, but soon came to himself and shouted at me: «Mr. General, I go home , they have...