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the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

A post-psychedelia drunkenness seemed to sweep over everybody in the entertainment business during the early seventies.

Merriment seemed to be a favorite pastime in this country, where the citizenry take the concept of happiness very seriously.

documenting exclusively through code has some of the same basic problems as using comprehensive UML diagrams.

There is no need for explanatory models to be object models, and it is generally best if they are not.

an illustration of the fallacy of Platonic thinking applied to evolutionary principles.

For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralized enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.

An object literal is an instance of Object. Think

The large number of acknowledgments is because we're testing the theory that everyone mentioned in a book acknowledgment will buy at least one copy, probably more, what with relatives and everything. If you'd like to be in the acknowledgment of our next book, and you have a large family, write to us.

Web Workers have a global function named importScripts that you can use to import one or more JavaScript files into your worker. To

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The doorbell rang, and I experienced, for the first time, the miracle of pizza delivery.

the single most important surviving author from fifth-century Gaul

The Communist Manifesto as political rhetoric has an almost biblical force.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Sind sie vorbestraft? Du lieber Himmel ich wußte gar nicht, dass das immer noch nötig ist." Britischer Witz über die Einreise nach Australien

Fourteen years later, while visiting John Rummel, Miller found his saber hilt and a portion of the blade among the relics collected by Rummel after the battle.

What we do know for certain is that he made up his mind to take the 125 wagons with him into Pennsylvania. The decision triggered a controversy that has raged for more than 140 years.

As ordeals and duels gave way to confession as a proof of guilt, judicial torture was actually increasing in France.

Western definition of adolescence, as we'll soon see, does align remarkably well with the biblical definition of childhood.

You can speak on justice and race with rhetorical excellence, but if the gospel isn't presented, heart change won't happen.

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

It was therefore anti-Christ, and he knew that to expose it as such was the most important thing imaginable.

a kind of satanic Simeon warbling an inverted Nunc Dimittis.