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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 612505e | a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| fbe673a | It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 6e1c895 | That's all that faith is, the knowledge that the greater thing is with you. That's all the faith you need. The knowledge that you are not the greater thing. | Luke Davies | ||
| 774ac3a | Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings. | Luke Davies | ||
| 8361d13 | She told herself that life is short. This didn't mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back. | Luke Davies | ||
| 7d9eb6f | One of the problems with religion is that it creates in-group loyalty and out-group hostility, even when members of one's own group are behaving like psychopaths. | Sam Harris | ||
| ff688bf | The doors leading out of scriptural literalism do not open from the inside. The moderation we see among nonfundamentalists is not some sign that faith itself has evolved; it is, rather, the product of the many hammer blows of modernity that have exposed certain tenets of faith to doubt. | Sam Harris | ||
| 3c5da7f | We are not self-caused little gods. | Sam Harris | ||
| 40777be | It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while alive. That so much of this suffering can be directly attributed to religion--to religious hatreds, religious wars, religious taboos, and religious diversions of scarce resources--is what makes the honest criticism of religious faith a moral and intellectual necessity. Unfortunately, expressing such criticism p.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 0a98969 | What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero. | evolution inheritance natural-selection science | Sam Harris | |
| 079d7d3 | Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: | Sam Harris | ||
| 7be300d | What is the alternative to religion as we know it? As it turns out, this is the wrong question to ask. Chemistry was not an "alternative" to alchemy; it was a wholesale exchange of ignorance at its most rococo for genuine knowledge. We will find that, as with alchemy, to speak of "alternatives" to religious faith is to miss the point." | Sam Harris | ||
| 60f3904 | As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never best found there, and it is subverted, time and again, by ancient savagery and superstition. | Sam Harris | ||
| c61f0c4 | Why didn't I decide to drink a glass of juice? The thought never occurred to me. Am I free to do that which does not occur to me to do? Of course not. | Sam Harris | ||
| 3c3936e | There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 2af53f6 | In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 70a0f46 | The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe. | lies profit scam superstition | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 8c3f884 | Reputation is what people think we are; character is what God and the holy angels know we are. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 73e329d | God does not reveal His will to those who are curious. He reveals His will to those who are obedient. God guides those who are concerned about His glory. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| e2d1651 | He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air. He had never loved anyone before. He had not known even what this feeling for his tiny slave was. Now in the crisp, clear spring sunlight, he knew. | first-love high-king impossible-love king life love lust slave-girl spring sunlight | Andrew M. Greeley | |
| ceab7ec | Are dreams perhaps the soul's memories of the body, | José Saramago | ||
| accd08e | human beings are known universally as the only animals capable of lying, and while it is true that they sometimes lie out of fear and sometimes out of self-interest, they also occasionally lie because they realize, just in time, that this is the only means available to them of defending the truth. | José Saramago | ||
| b57be02 | Morrerao milhares, Morrerao centenas de milhares, Morrerao centenas de milhares de homens e mulheres, a terra encher-se-a de gritos de dor, de uivos e roncos de agonia, o fumo dos queimados cobrira o sol, a gordura deles rechinara sobre as brasas, o cheiro agoniara, e tudo isto sera por minha culpa, Nao por tua culpa, por tua causa, Pai, afasta de mim este calice, Que tu o bebas e a condicao do meu poder e da tua gloria, Nao quero esta glor.. | José Saramago | ||
| 779c7b3 | l'Hqd lqdym@ ltzwl bshwl@ . | José Saramago | ||
| 7bfce44 | n lkhT' wlSwb bbsT@ Tryqtn mkhtlftn fy fhm `lqtn blakhryn , ltlk l`lqt lty nqymh m` 'nfsn, fhdhh yjb 'l nthq bh . | José Saramago | ||
| 511d8a3 | Estranho animal e este bicho homem, tao capaz de tremendas insonias por causa de uma insignificancia como de dormir a perna solta na vespera da batalha | José Saramago | ||
| e2f3232 | mdh 'stTy` 'n 'f`l 'n? 'n 'tSnW` HubWan lm ylms qlby? lmsh`r l slTn `lyh, fhy lyst 'shy ytm khl`h 'w wD`h Tibqan lZrwf llHZ@, khS@ lw kn qlban Gyr mHtTan wm`f~an mm nHmlh dkhl Sdwrn. | José Saramago | ||
| 17ab675 | nHn l nsrq 'y shy 'bdan fy Hytn , w lknn nsrq dy'man fy Hy@ lakhryn | José Saramago | ||
| 4cd3697 | I think we are all going to die, it's just a matter of time, Dying has always been a matter of time. | José Saramago | ||
| eed7c13 | lkhT' ykmn fy l`tqd fy 'n ldhnwb l tufhm blTryq@ nfsh mn qibl llh wmn qibl lbshr | José Saramago | ||
| 6101dcf | As criancas, disse Caim, aquelas criancas estavam inocentes, Meu deus, murmurou Abraao e a sua voz foi como um gemido, Sim, sera o teu deus, mas nao foi o delas. | José Saramago | ||
| 15ec8c8 | Would you like to hear the latest news, that colonel we mentioned earlier has gone blind, It'll be interesting to see what he thinks of that bright idea of his now, He already thought, he shot himself in the head, Now that's what I call a consistent attitude, The army is always ready to set an example. | José Saramago | ||
| 56041ad | n trykh lbshr hw trykh khlfthm m` llh , fl hw yfhmn wl nHn nfhmh | José Saramago | ||
| a11df92 | Tambem no interior do corpo a treva e profunda, e contudo o sangue chega ao coracao, o cerebro e cego e pode ver, e surdo e ouve, nao tem maos e alcanca, o homem claro esta, e o labirinto de si mesmo. | José Saramago | ||
| ca2aef9 | nkhrTt m` Hshd lns lsy'ryn fy ltjh nfsh, w k'nh tsmH lnfsh 'n tnjrf m`hm, mjhwl@ bl 'dny 'mr@ thm 'w khjl Zhryn | José Saramago | ||
| d2df12f | We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf, | José Saramago | ||
| 2a27d72 | Fear can cause blindness...we were already blind the moment we turned blind, fear struck us blind, fear will keep us blind | José Saramago | ||
| 5f9519f | All the great sadnesses, great temptations, and great mistakes are almost always the result of being alone in life, without a prudent friend to advise us when we are troubled by something more serious than our normal everyday problems. | José Saramago | ||
| 10cf96b | given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur and magnificence... | José Saramago | ||
| 4a9904d | Death went on, If I'd sent you, with your taste for expeditious methods, the matter would have been resolved, but times have changed a lot lately, and one has to update the means and the systems one uses, to keep up with the new technologies, by using e-mail, for example, I've heard tell that it's the most hygienic way, one that does away with inkblots and fingerprints, besides which it's fast, you just open up outlook express on microsoft .. | José Saramago | ||
| 908b0cb | Tb` kn khy'fyn wlkhwf lys mstshr Hkym dy'm | José Saramago | ||
| 6402cfe | Secondo me non siamo diventati ciechi, secondo me lo siamo. Ciechi che vedono. Ciechi che, pur vedendo, non vedono. | José Saramago | ||
| f6f05c6 | mn lDrwry 'n nkwn mnTqyyn. | José Saramago | ||
| d715e25 | It is well known that the human mind very often makes decisions for reasons it clearly does not know, presumably because it does so after having travelled the paths of the mind at such speed that, afterwards, it cannot recognise those paths, let alone find them again. | José Saramago |