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e19531d By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too. Peter Singer
f22a69d Arguments for preservation based on the beauty of wilderness are sometimes treated as if they were of little weight because they are "merely aesthetic". That is a mistake. We go to great lengths to preserve the artistic treasures of earlier human civilisations. It is difficult to imagine any economic gain that we would be prepared to accept as adequate compensation for, for instance, the destruction of the paintings in the Louvre. How shoul.. nature Peter Singer
5db4676 A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. Natsuo Kirino
3966154 I suppose I'm the one responsible for destroying myself. Natsuo Kirino
4d424ae Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts. Martin Amis
528383d Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING possession Erich Fromm
8ae3df3 When Fascism came into power, most people were unprepared, both theoretically and practically. They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, such lust for power, such disregard for the rights of the weak, or such yearning for submission. Only a few had been aware of the rumbling of the volcano preceding the outbreak. Erich Fromm
2eeb16d the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders. G.K. Chesterton
c376b3c Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in. G K Chesterton
ddadd26 When we were alive, they told us that when we died we'd go to heaven. And they said that heaven was a place of joy and glory and we would spend eternity in the company of saints and angels praising the Almighty, in a state of bliss. That's what they said. And that's what led some of us to give our lives, and others to spend years in solitary prayer, while all the joy of life was going to waste around us and we never knew. Because the land o.. death life Philip Pullman
135edc9 Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens. Philip Pullman
63b432c I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. Philip Pullman
f3ae853 She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!" "You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!" possible true truth Philip Pullman
694cb14 I raised my foot and deliberately stomped on the bridge. "This is my foot. I put it down. Deal with it." Ilona Andrews
589c364 Damn Jeremy, you need to work on your vocabulary. So many good names to call me and the best you could come up with is bitch? Give me the salamander before you hurt yourself." "Suck my dick...whore!" Ilona Andrews
bc425d5 Doode," George said. He'd practiced all morning but still didn't get it quite right. "Nope, more , less . Duuude." "Dude." "Dude." "Okay, dude." George nodded. "How's it hanging?" Jack asked. "How am I supposed to answer that?" George looked at him. "I don't think Kaldar said anything about that. I guess 'good'? I don't get it. What's hanging anyway?" George shook his head. "Your stuff, you nimwit." His stuff... "In that case, it's ha.. fate-s-edge funny george hanging ilona-andrews jack perverted the-edge Ilona Andrews
3c752b6 He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me? Ilona Andrews
c023feb Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers. vampires Ilona Andrews
b707536 I split the omelet between the plates and stopped when Curran's arms closed about me. He pulled me against him, pressing my back against his chest. I heard him inhale my scent. His lips grazed my temple. Here we were, alone, in my kitchen, holding each other while breakfast cooled on the table. This was some sort of alternate universe, with a different Kate, who wasn't hunted like a wild animal and who could have these sorts of things. Ilona Andrews
d1539cc Don't do this to yourself," he said. "It's a cycle, Kate. We fight for the Pack, they fight for us. We bleed, they bleed. Sometimes people die. Everyone who came with me came of their own free will. The knew where we were going. They all knew there was a good chance that not everybody would make it out. This isn't the first fight or the last. People will sacrifice themselves for us again, and we'll do the same. I don't know how bad the futu.. kate-daniels Ilona Andrews
b7f5d91 Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core. Ilona Andrews
9eb295d Diplomatic," Barabas said. "Fuck diplomatic." kate-daniels Ilona Andrews
6a9ed56 It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide. Ilona Andrews
2bd190f No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate. Ilona Andrews
65a6a5a Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword. Ilona Andrews
a1b2889 I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity, black lips parted, and a long, spiderweb-thin filament of a tongue slithered from the salamander's mouth and kissed the sphere's glass in the reflection of my nose. Hi, I love you, too. Ilona Andrews
ccff4bb A rolled-up newspaper landed on my head and then on Jim's. "None of that in my house!" Oh my gods. The alpha of Clan Cat just got smacked with a rolled-up newspaper. "Mom!" She pointed at me with the newspaper. "Do not shame me." I clamped my mouth shut. When she pulled out the shame card, it was all over." humor moms Ilona Andrews
8b37ecd He said, 'Yeah, but will I get chicks? In truckloads? Ilona Andrews
b69d339 I'm going to find Julie and I'll ground her ass until she forgets what the sun looks like, and then I'll go over to that school and pull their legs out. Ilona Andrews
748e66d I love you, and you're the measure of my wrath. Declan. Ilona Andrews
64cc1e9 The stairs ended. I wished I knew the jackass who'd made the staircase so short. I'd throw him down the damn steps so he could count them with his head. Ilona Andrews
161c95b And the next time you choose to project into my dreams, do keep your clothes on." He smiled. It was a very male, self-aware smile, not just sexual but carnal. The predatory look in his eyes turned ravaging. I felt the need to grab a napkin and hold it in front of me like a shield. "I can project, but I would have to be next to you to do it." Oh crap." Ilona Andrews
993a4b6 Maybe you should make me a list of people I can kill and ways in which they're allowed to die," he said. "You are not funny." "I'm very funny." Ilona Andrews
101c72e Juke glanced into her cup before tipping it down to her mouth. "Screw you!" "Now come on, sugar, you know I don't swing that way." "Whatever!" juke kate magic-bleeds Ilona Andrews
ab6bfda You replaced me with a shaved poodle?" "He's got mad skills." Derek's eyebrows crept up. "He can vomit and urinate at the same time and he doesn't make fun of my car." Ilona Andrews
9a5cf28 I don't see what the big deal is." "It's a sword made out of your grandmother's bones, Kate." I shrugged." Ilona Andrews
d11c77e You're everything to me," he said into my ear. I wanted to tell him that he was everything to me, that I wouldn't let the darkness have him, that he never had to worry that I would give up and walk away. But the echoes of our shared pleasure stole the words, and so I said it the best I could. "I love you." Ilona Andrews
758d599 It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff yo.. Tom Stoppard
22374e1 And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future. writing-as-power Adolfo Bioy Casares
de2398f All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable. Simon Singh
dbec768 Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first." Eoin Colfer
0349696 Miss me? Bet you did ... so would I. Eoin Colfer
85b044b Now for my pains, promise me-" And she hesitated. "What?" asked Marius. "Promise me!" "I promise you." "Promise to kiss me on the forehead when I'm dead. I'll feel it." She let her head fall back on Marius's knees and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless, but just when Marius supposed her forever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes, revealing the somber depths of death, and said to him in an accent wh.. death Éponine marius Victor Hugo
d56dbaa His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. Victor Hugo