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Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation.

Reputations are made here as in Russia, on political respectability, or by commercial acceptability. The worse the author, the more he is known.

The to-dos were sordid rather than exciting, perhaps because nearly everybody was approaching middle age.

the Bible permits women's ministry under normal circumstances and prohibits it only under exceptional circumstances. Because Paul's letters to Timothy address a specific situation

At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.

this is the last house in summer and now is the double loneliness of missing a party you don't even want to be at.

You look up from an oldish author: Is he dead? Such power we have, not knowing. Let him live.

Tailgate: Ooh! Ooh! What about Orion Pax? What happened to him? Chromedome: Orion Pax? Tailgate: He was GREAT! I really liked him. "I trust him, Roller. End of conversation." I'M gonna start saying stuff like that.

As to the strangest claim in the novel: that only 10 percent of the cells in our body are human (and the rest are bacteria and parasites). This is true! There is a wonderful book exploring this topic that is as horrific as it is humorous, Human Wildlife by Dr. Robert Buckman.

There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.

There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

Right and wrong isn't a matter of ethics, rather it's the geography in which you reside and whose control you're under. Tallinn Manual 2.0 is based largely on western international humanitarian law.

the first American Shakespeare expert, Richard Grant White

Delia Bacon never found corroborative evidence for her theory

Mark Twain's memory had become capricious and his vivid imagination did not always supply his story with details of crystal accuracy.

what led Twain to this conclusion: a conviction that great fiction, including his own, was necessarily autobiographical.

For Twain, the notion that great writing had to be drawn from life–rather than from what an author heard, read, or simply imagined–was an article of faith, at the heart of his conception of how serious writers worked.

many now saw as the play's most challenging role. But before the 1970s there was a brief moment when

I hear a sudden cry of pain!There is a rabbit in a snare.

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

And clearly, you have the skills. If you're interested, Task Force 29 is always hiring.

The spirit of the Catholic Church's modern social teachings was never rendered so forcefully as in those five minutes of On the Waterfront