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| cc81bf9 | When today Oskar, lying or sitting in his hospital bed but in either case drumming, revisits Arsenal Passage and the Stockturm with the scribbles on its dungeon walls and its well-oiled instruments of torture, when once again he looks down on those three windows outside the lobby of the Stadt-Theater and thereafter returns to Arsenal Passage and Sigismund Markus' store, searching for the particulars of a day in September, he cannot help loo.. | Günter Grass | ||
| 2c04a10 | Better start running, the Black Cook's coming! Ha! Ha! Ha! | Günter Grass | ||
| c0f2e2a | An entire gullible nation believed faithfully in Santa Claus. But Santa Claus was really the Gasman. | Günter Grass | ||
| c0a730d | I search on my drum for the land of the Poles and drum: lost, not yet lost, lost once more, lost to whom, lost too soon, lost by now, Poland's lost, all is lost, Poland is not yet lost. | Günter Grass | ||
| 8869ad1 | And Oskar was kneeling at the left side-altar, trying to teach the boy Jesus how to drum, but the rascal wouldn't drum, offered no miracle. Oskar had sworn back then and swore again outside the locked church door: I'll teach him to drum yet. Sooner or later. | Günter Grass | ||
| feb3ad8 | Sie halt nicht, was sie verspricht. Weder ist die ihre eingeschriebene soziale Verpflichtung des Eigentums Wirklichkeit geworden, noch ist jeder Burger vor dem Gesetz gleich. Als sich nach dem Zerfall des anderen deutschen Staates Aussicht auf Einheit bot, wurde der Schlussartikel des Grundgesetzes, der im Fall moglicher Vereinigung beider Staaten vorschrieb, der gesamtdeutschen Bevolkerung eine neue Verfassung vorzulegen, gebeugt und spate.. | Günter Grass | ||
| fd2efc0 | Vospominaniia osnovyvaiutsia na prezhnikh vospominaniiakh i rozhdaiut vospominaniia novye. Eto i delaet pamiat' pokhozhei na lukovitsu, u kotoroi kazhdaia sniataia cheshuika obnazhaet davno zabytye veshchi vplot' do molochnykh zubov samogo rannego detstva, a ostryi nozh sposobstvuet osobomu effektu: porezannaia na kusochki lukovitsa gonit iz glaz slezu, zamutniaia vzgliad. | память | Günter Grass | |
| bdb2349 | there is no Paul, the man's name was Saul and a Saul he was, and it was Saul who told the people of Corinth something about some priceless sausages that he called faith, hope, and love, which he advertised as easily digestible and which to this very day, still Saul though forever changing in form, he palms off on mankind. | Günter Grass | ||
| a657735 | Stuffed cats are able to creep more convincingly than live ones. | stuffed-cats | Günter Grass | |
| 58e81d9 | Y cuando el corredor dijo amen, alli estaba el, con la clara ventana frontal a la espalda, entre la secretaria y la direccion: el, el Gran Mahlke, pero sin raton, porque llevaba en el cuello el singular objeto, el abretesesamo, el magneto, lo contrario de una cebolla, el trebol galvanizado de cuatro hojas, el engendro del buen viejo Schinkel, la golosina, el aparato, la cosa cosa cosa, el no-quiero-hablar-de-eso. ?Y el raton? | Günter Grass | ||
| 43fb69e | Love. Passion. Belief. Duty. The lines blur sometomes. There are ove fifteen recognised mjor religions on this planet. One religion believes something different from another, and yet so often it's just the same thing with a different name, or a different form of worship, or a different headdress. But they will fight to protect what they believe in, no matter the cost. You've been here a while Jack. How many wars, how many lives squandered o.. | religion science | Gary Russell | |
| 371950b | Spoilers.-River Listen to me. At least hear me.-River You can't.-River Why didn't you talk to me?-River I thought it would be too painful. I was right.-Doctor At least say it like you're coming back.-River Until next time.-River | Gary Russell | ||
| dc3f7bd | We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to it -- so, atheism is the default position. Although some children are not indoctrinated with a specific religion before the age of reason, there are many more who are. | atheist born-atheist dad default-position indoctrination mom religion-christianity | David G. McAfee | |
| ad19ed2 | This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset; it encourages wishful thinking toward and elusive and likely non-existent afterlife while often enabling the believer to squander this life as somehow less important. | counter-productive god-test life-is-a-test responsibility test | David G. McAfee | |
| 6496f93 | Because of Jesus' supposed predestination, God would have had to choose the people who would kill and betray his son, choose the method by which he would be killed (crucifixion), and the time at which the event would occur. Those guilty of killing Jesus would therefore be simply carrying out God's wishes without the free will to have chosen a path for themselves. | free-will guilty heaven hell jesus judas romans | David G. McAfee | |
| 61ccb18 | You have two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one." --Unknown" | David G. McAfee | ||
| 1c3fb41 | Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did our ancestors, they would certainly not be 'Christian' or 'Jewish' or 'Muslim' or any other established religion. That's because, without the texts and churches and familial instruction, there are no independent evidences that any specific religion is true. Outside of the Bible, how would one hear of Jesus? The .. | bible default-position jesus muhhamad | David G. McAfee | |
| 109c187 | One of the misconceptions about atheism is that it somehow means someone denies the possibility of a deity. In all actuality, it simply means you don't believe it to be the case -- a point that should not be hard to understand with the complete lack of physical evidence that points to the existence of such a being or beings. Even if you're 51 percent sure that there is no magical man in the sky, you are an atheist; and admitting that is the.. | atheist existence god myth possible | David G. McAfee | |
| 517e6bc | Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion--but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness and express real altruism. Free from the constraints of organized religion, a human being is able to express decency from one's self--as opposed to attempting to appease whatever higher power he or she may believe in. | good-without-god morality morality-versus-worship religion | David G. McAfee | |
| 8005860 | I became suspicious as I noticed things like the time lapses in the writing, contradicting books, questionable authenticity of the authorship of certain books, and the different forms the bible had taken over the years as the church continued to disagree over which books were inspired. I also noticed things in the bible I had somehow missed before. When I chose to read the bible without the filter that it was the infallible word of God, I s.. | David G. McAfee | ||
| 7349692 | Typically, preachers in our work-oriented society teach that God rested to provide humanity with a precedent for rest, an example for our good. Seldom have I heard mention of the other meaning for rest, the one used in musical notation. This meaning refers to cessation rather than recovery from weariness. Our enjoyment of music owes much to these brief pauses. | Hugh Ross | ||
| cee443c | 20, 51; 1 Thess. 4:13-17). Sleep is an excellent analogy. The | Hugh Ross | ||
| e5ba27a | Job's account of creation tells us that after God "laid the earth's foundation" he "made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness" (38:4, 9). The pronouns "its" and "it" here refer to the vast sea that covered the entire surface of Earth at the time. Job leaves no room for ambiguity. Darkness initially pervades the surface of the deep (Gen. 1:2) not because the sun and stars hadn't yet been created, but rather because Earth's.. | Hugh Ross | ||
| 70f24ec | In one sense, the dialogue between Job and his friends serves as one of the greatest worship examples in the Bible. Though the five men differed in their understanding of God and his ways, each stayed with the conversation, wrestling with his beliefs, and meanwhile repeatedly extolling God for his greatness, majesty, justice, and mercy. Each man revered him as Creator and ultimate Authority over all creation. | Hugh Ross | ||
| 889691f | Animals at the high end of heartbeat longevity, such as mice, cats, dogs, horses, elephants, and whales, have the capacity for as many as a billion heartbeats within their life spans. Human hearts, on the other hand, can sustain nearly three billion beats in a lifetime. This significant difference in humans' capacity for longevity demands explanation. The human body's characteristics allowing for such extended activity on all levels (physic.. | Hugh Ross | ||
| 2d6344d | The book of Job offers some remarkable insights into the ways these higher animals relate to humans and shows that God endowed soulish animals with unique capacities to serve and please humanity, each creature in its own special way. Job even provides a top ten list of animals that have played essential roles both in the launch of civilization and in sustaining human well-being today. The ancient observer describes how the different kinds o.. | Hugh Ross | ||
| 9639bae | To put it another way, God is able to interact with us in ways we interpret (through our time-bound experience of cause and effect) as the result of time-like capacities in the person or essence of God or the existence of other time-like dimensions | Hugh Ross | ||
| 64d1695 | Christians can help people receive the message of reconciliation to God by modeling reconciliation among themselves. John 13:35 says, "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another." How well do we show love when we disagree? Nonbelievers look on and wonder if they can trust Christians to deal gently and respectfully with their questions and doubts if we don't treat each other that way." | Hugh Ross | ||
| 951b657 | The 2003 flu season started early in North America, with the first cases showing up in the fall. By Thanksgiving doctors were seeing the usual flu-related pneumonias. As always, the most severe cases resulted from secondary bacterial infections in flu-congested lungs. | Jessica Snyder Sachs | ||
| a2ece11 | issuing marching orders to fat cells in the mouse's abdomen.48 Specifically, they found that B. theta stopped the production of a fat-suppressing | Jessica Snyder Sachs | ||
| 6488a75 | I had deliberately let the relationship with Schulz wane until there was little left. We had been like the hot chocolate they sell at ski resorts. For your buck fifty, a machine first spews dark, thick syrup into a cup. This liquid gradually turns to a mixture of chocolate and hot water. Soon there is just a stream of hot water, and in a moment, drops. You wish the chocolate part would go on gushing forever, but it doesn't. | Diane Mott Davidson | ||
| 34d11a6 | I'd kill to get into Stanford." A you've-got-to-be-kidding laugh snorted across one of the dining tables at the headmaster's house. "Start playing football," whispered another voice. "Then they'll kill to get you." | Diane Mott Davidson | ||
| a3d6fb3 | I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 97bedca | The basic characteristics of any good investigator are a plodding nature and infinite patience. Society has inadvertently been grooming women to this end for years. | Sue Grafton | ||
| ffad263 | My best time as a writer is any day, or any moment, when the work's going well and I'm completely absorbed in the task at hand. The hardest time is when it's not, and I'm not. The latter tend to outnumber the former. But I'm a persistent little cuss. And I soldier on. | Meredith Maran | ||
| 65d2ffd | Amazing how quickly someone else's problems become yours. Trouble creates a vacuum into which the rest of us get sucked. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 8d6fba1 | There's something inherent in human nature that has us constructing narratives to explain a world that is otherwise chaotic and opaque. Life is little more than a series of overlapping stories about who we are, where we came from, and how we struggle to survive. What we call news isn't news at all: wars, murders, famines, plagues--death in all its forms. It's folly to assign meaning to every chance event, yet we do it all the time. | Sue Grafton | ||
| a66d7ff | You can't go back to something once it's dead. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 7e58b93 | I'm not saying justice is for sale, but if you have enough money, you can sometimes enjoy the benefits of a short-term lease. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 4b76e29 | It's not that gray water's boring, but the subject does have its limits. | Sue Grafton | ||
| b1cd9f0 | I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know the truth, I can't be sure. | Sue Grafton | ||
| fb173bf | You know what they say about living well as the best revenge. I did well because it was the one defense I had. Escape has been the motivating force in my life. Getting away from him, getting away from her, putting that household behind me. The funny this is, I haven't moved an inch, and the harder I run, the faster I keep slipping back to them...There are laws for everything except the harm families do. | Sue Grafton | ||
| b7a80b9 | I made a stop, ducking into the supermarket to pick up milk, Diet Pepsi, bread, eggs, and toilet paper. I was into my siege mentality, looking forward to pulling up the drawbridge and waiting out the rain. With luck, I wouldn't have to go out for days. | Sue Grafton | ||
| b31eb5c | The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible to refute since the person who could condemn them has been silenced forever. | innocence murder | Sue Grafton |