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One of the many signs of verbal virtuosity among intellectuals is the repackaging of words to mean things that are not only different from, but sometimes the direct opposite of, their original meaning...

Thomas Sowell

One of the many signs of verbal virtuosity among intellectuals is the repackaging of words to mean things that are not only different from, but sometimes the direct opposite of, their original meaning...

Thomas Sowell

Tags: big business, control, economics, freedom, government power, john kenneth galbraith, monopoly, power

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in...

John Williams

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in...

John Williams

Tags: caesar, ethics, historical fiction, john edward williams, morality, politics, roman empire, rome

J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know wh...

Ansen Dibell

J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know wh...

Ansen Dibell

Tags: character building, fiction writing, lord of the rings, motivation, plot, strider, tolkien, writing books

I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed. (My li...

Jim Butcher

I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed. (My li...

Jim Butcher

Tags: harry dresden, humor

I will leave the making of law to you, brother, Prince Baelon declared, I would sooner make sons.

George R.R. Martin

I will leave the making of law to you, brother, Prince Baelon declared, I would sooner make sons.

George R.R. Martin

Tags: crown prince, fire and blood, humor, jape, making law, making love, targaryens

I want to know what your five-dollar wish was for.Is that all? He smiled beneath her exploring fingertips. I wished you would find someone who wanted you as much as I did. But I knew it wouldn’t come...

Lisa Kleypas

I want to know what your five-dollar wish was for.Is that all? He smiled beneath her exploring fingertips. I wished you would find someone who wanted you as much as I did. But I knew it wouldn’t come...

Lisa Kleypas

Tags: lisa kleypas, matthew swift, scandal in spring, wallflowers

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

Louisa May Alcott

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

Louisa May Alcott

Tags: jo s boys, louisa may alcott, mothers

He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth. Nancy Reagan on her husband

Bill O'Reilly

He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth. Nancy Reagan on her husband

Bill O'Reilly

Tags: regeneration, resurrection

He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his...

Fred Kaplan

He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his...

Fred Kaplan

Tags: creativity, death, delirium, hallucination, imagination, language, novel writing, novelists, sentence structure, syntax

Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep, and caverns old

J.R.R. Tolkien

Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep, and caverns old

J.R.R. Tolkien

Tags: bilbo baggins, dwarfs, misty mountains, the hobbit

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Peter Kreeft

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Peter Kreeft

Tags: apple, apple computer inc, bible, catholicism, christianity, forbidden fruit, garden of eden, genesis, humor, jesus shock

Asif Ali maneuvers the gleaming Mercedes down the labyrinthine lanes of Old Kolkata with consummate skill, but his passengers do not notice how smoothly he avoids potholes, cows and beggars, how skilf...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Asif Ali maneuvers the gleaming Mercedes down the labyrinthine lanes of Old Kolkata with consummate skill, but his passengers do not notice how smoothly he avoids potholes, cows and beggars, how skilf...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Tags: family relationships, immigrant experience, india, literary fiction, suspense, usa

Apollo stepped toward Athena. Let’s break down this idea step-by-step. How would we be able to use Perses? The last time I checked, he was in Tartarus. He is still there. Athena tipped her chin up. An...

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Apollo stepped toward Athena. Let’s break down this idea step-by-step. How would we be able to use Perses? The last time I checked, he was in Tartarus. He is still there. Athena tipped her chin up. An...

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Tags: athena, funny, zeus

According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back in high school. One profile even named a few of her radical teachers a...

Mondo Frazier

According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back in high school. One profile even named a few of her radical teachers a...

Mondo Frazier

Tags: big oil, cia, communism, conspiracy theories, stanley ann dunham

A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A...

Stefan Zweig

A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A...

Stefan Zweig

Tags: burden, cease, creature, creep, cripple, die, disgust, hide, lame, loathing

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

Solange Knowles

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

Solange Knowles

Tags: aunt, tone, beyonce

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Tags: velvet, bench, throne

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

Taiye Selasi

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

Taiye Selasi

Tags: life, human life, human

There are no perfect people - except of course my wife's first husband.

Anonymous

There are no perfect people - except of course my wife's first husband.

Anonymous

Tags: humorous, thank, yous, closures

It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones.

Anthony Liccione

It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones.

Anthony Liccione

Tags: bones, secret, skeletons
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