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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

Moon, moon, rise in the sky to be a reminder of comfort and the hour when I was brave.

The country is crazy with barrenness, and the sea mocks it with its terrible beauty.

Well, widow-comforter, how is she?" Olive spoke in the dark from the bed. "Struggling," he said. "Who isn't?

I am the opposite of a snob." Jack laughed a long time. "You think being a reverse snob is not being a snob? Olive, you're a snob.

It's not my job to make readers know what's a narrative voice and not the private view of the author," and that alone made me glad I had come.

thought of the ants that were still going about trying to get their sand wherever they needed it to go. They seemed almost heartbreaking to him, in their tininess and their resilience.

This is the sea! It was like a foreign country to me. Except, in truth, foreign places always frighten me. I like places that are familiar.

she'd have been throwing out clamshells, most likely.

why they were the anal, narcissistic, self-absorbed freaks that they were

should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect:

Bernie felt a physical response to this, as though a small wave had just rolled through his chest.

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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

All right, I will. But I'll make you a little pledge." She asked, "What's that?" "If ever, someplace down the road, you and I differ on a matter of judgment that's important, you have my permission to remind me of this incident, and that your judgment was right and mine wrong.

There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.

An evident principle runs through the whole program I have outlined. It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another.

there was no Russian army anymore to fight. "They have voted with their feet by running away," Lenin said sardonically.

It was Wilson and Wilson alone who was the source of the problems that haunted the Peace Conference and, afterward, the Treaty of Versailles.

With a commander in chief handing out a general license to hunt for spies, it's not surprising Americans responded.

human ingenuity will find a way to defy government rules and regulations, such as customs tariffs, when they fly in the face of self-interest.

If America didn't join the League, it would be "a death warrant" for its children, who would die in the next war.34

The work Aquinas did in the next sixteen years changed the face of Western Christianity and philosophy.