Causing a refugee crisis rated at ten thousand katrinas. One
You’ve located intrinsic worth in the wrong place, she said to all of them, over the common band. It’s like a rainbow. Without an observer at a twenty-three-degree angle to the light reflecting off a...
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128
The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.
Some mistakes you never can make good.
So you see systems of thought and religion coming out of the kinds of societies that invented them. The means by which people feed themselves determine how they think and what they believe. Agricultur...
So sure, a leftward flurry of legislation got LBJed through Congress in 2143, but there was no guarantee of permanence to anything they did, and the pushback was ferocious as always, because people ar...
Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since
Really? Yes. Lord of the Flies is like some Christian support group compared to the mean girls’ club.
Nothing was ever normal again.Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.
It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped...
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like in...
Depressed people did not usually engage in criminal conspiracies
A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.
Not in any single system, but in the stack of all systems, the accidental megasystem. It
He was a sort of dully furious Soviet bureaucrat, a petty man used to giving orders and being obeyed.
You just don't have faith! Frank repeated.Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!
We demand justice, Jeff says. we don't have it, the world is a mess because of assholes who think they can steal everything and get away with it. So we have to overwhelm them and get back to justice.A...