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All socialism involves slavery.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.
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She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.
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What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives. We are them; they are us.
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Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
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When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
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Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.
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In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
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We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
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Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.
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Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.
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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
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I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
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I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology.
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Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.
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I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
