If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, It's all in the mind.
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Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
A life without investigation is not worth living
It's as if there is infinity between our lips and we will never actually touch. Like math, where dividing by half can last for eternity.
To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.
I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.
Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.
Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.
It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.
My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is.
But bringing people together is what music has always done best.
There are two ways, he told me, and they are love and not love. I choose love.
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.
Need to let go of the need to be in control.
He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.
Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.
Cause I lit him on fire, I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.
Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'.
The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.
I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. Killing is wrong. We kill chickens, Mr. Wexler said. We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers. It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.
Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage. Scott Westerfeld, Rodrigo Corral
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