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“Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.”
“Any man who outgrows the myths of childhood is ninety-nine percent aware and convinced of his own mortality. But then comes the chilly breath on the nape of the neck, a stirring of the air by the w...”
“And that, of course, is the tragic flaw in the narcotics laws — that possession of marijuana is a felony. Regardless of whether it is as harmless as some believe, or as evil and vicious as others b...”
“The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.”
“Up with life.' Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mec...”
“We're all children. We invent the adult facade and don it and try to keep the buttons and the medals polished. We're all trying to give such a good imitation of being an adult that the real adults ...”
“News has always been bad. The tiger that lives in the forest just ate your wife and kids, Joe. There are no fat grub worms under the rotten logs this year, Al. Those sickies in the village on the o...”
“Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and ver...”
“Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.”
“God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.”
“God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.”
“There is much cloudy unpredictable process throughout the whole of the physical world. It is a coherent possibility that God interacts with the history of creation by means of information input int...”
“To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.”
“Churton Collins ... was certainly not the man to grow enthusiastic over every new thing that might might loom above the literary horizon. He more often confronted novelty from the peak of Ebal th...”
