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No visiting angel could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
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When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.
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My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.
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I can tell you that anything that happens in the physical body will happen in the pattern of the energy fields first.
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Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
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I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.
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India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them.
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Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.
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I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
