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primary distortion in my dharma life has been the age-old misery of self-absorption.

So, if you're feeling fat and overweight And feeling oh so blue, Remember that little rag tag mole And what he had Catundra do.

Jefferson could write, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Every single sexual deviation is overwhelmingly dominated by white males. And most sexually related ritualistic crimes are committed by white males.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

It's not the end of the trail, the headlines will all say, it never was the end of the trail. It's the beginning.

Shakespeare snaking from the window to the door, to escape like we had.

You seem to know a lot about this particular genre we're in," he says.

Then Gabe reached over for his rifle, his fingers coming into place on the pistol grip one by delicate one, like all four at once might be too loud.

Karma theory is a spiritual philosophy used to explain and maintain the economic status of Asia.

Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

A ubiquitous phrase encountered in obituaries is "died from complications following surgery," but what is not well understood is that these "complications" are quite frequently multi-drug resistant infections. —

Frank Herbert once put it, "The mystery of life is not a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

But shooting a man takes one of two things: an overwhelming fear of one's own death, which Nick did not have in the least; or conviction. It turned out he lacked this component as well.

Additionally, he liked to make his readers smile. Still in the preface, he writes that he avoided "academic technicalia," to which he adds a footnote. The footnote reads: Semper ubi, sub ubi, which translated means, "Always where, under where." In English it sounds like, "Always wear underwear.

Robert Caro, author of the (yet) unfinished monumental biography of Lyndon Baynes Johnson, has noted, "The importance of a sense of place is commonly accepted in the world of fiction. I wish that were also true about biography and history.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.

I think (Robert E.) Howard often wrote with his heart, but not always with his head.

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.