"Wal-mart started selling â€œVampire Home Defense Kitsâ€, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of holy water being sold at wal-mart."

-- Molly Harper

#Book Quotes #Home Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“I dote on his very absence.”
“We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for us, as long as they stay out of our way. Whether itâ€™s through religiously-imposed ignorance, spectator sports, crack, pot, coke, heroinâ€”or the consumer insecurities imposed by the almighty Tubeâ€”itâ€™s fine with us as long as it keeps sheep more docile and easily contained. That doesnâ€™t mean we have to subject ourselves to it. Military generals donâ€™t step out on the missile range and volunteer as targets for the latest prototype weapons”
“What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature there has to ultimately be some rule by which nature operates. But the issue is does that rule have to correspond to something like a mathematical equation, something that we have sort of created in our human mathematics? And what I realized is that now with our understanding of computation and computer programs and so on, there is actually a much bigger universe of possible rules to describe the natural world than just the mathematical equation kinds of things.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised.”

Source : "Iraq war did more harm than good, says Douglas Alexander". Interview with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2013.
“Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.”
“Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.”
“I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.”
“A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.”

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