"The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long."

-- Peter De Vries

#Loss Quotes #Order Quotes #Law Quotes

“The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.”
“The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.”
“My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.”
“Time travel is possible. Will explain later”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 13, 2012
“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”
“Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?”

Source : Damon Knight (1986). “Man in the Tree”
“New York City is a fascinating place because it's very good at using the energy in attracting some of the best and the brightest from everywhere.”

Source : "Big Think Interview With Juan Enriquez". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 9, 2009.
“Take care of Godâ€™s creation. But above all, take care of people in need.”

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