"In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'"

-- Steven Pinker

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“The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.”
“Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.”
“War itself is the enemy of the human race.”
“My first job was an AFI short film, Chasing Daylight, when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.”
“Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.”
“i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking”
“What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for me more often, Roran Stronghammer. Only next time, I think you should prepare several deer at once. Otherwise, I won't get a proper meal.' Roran hesitated, as if unable to decide whether her request was serious and, if so, how he could politely extricate himself froim such an unlooked -for and rather onerous obligation.”
“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”

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