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she thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

Literacy encourages a culture to place more value on documentation and less on subjective experience.

On the one side are the truths of fact, on the other the truth of the writer's feeling, and where the two coincide cannot be decided by any outside authority in advance.

there are more significant matters to attend to, gestalts beckoning my attention.

writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated.

Hilbert once said, "If mathematical thinking is defective, where are we to find truth and certitude?

Feminism would have us apologize for having that reaction. It wants to replace aesthetics with politics, and to the extent it's succeeded, it's impoverished us.

My message to you is this: Pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important; what's important is your belief,

Por un lado está la verdad de los hechos; por el otro, la verdad del sentimiento del autor, y donde coinciden las dos ninguna autoridad externa puede prestarse a decidirlo.

left the dig because I feared that Lawson's discovery rendered the whole enterprise meaningless.

it's easier for me to appreciate the benefits of literacy and harder to recognize everything it has cost us.

A proof that mathematics is inconsistent, and that all its wondrous beauty was just an illusion, would, it seemed to me, be one of the worst things you could ever learn.

Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

Before taking an analytical approach, you should immerse yourself in the sheer visceral intensity of these performances, which capture the ethos of

Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin,

Dogs have no favorite walks, only people do, writes Masson, adding that dogs love all walks.

The cleft in her back hooves smelled far more strongly of pronghorn—that tangy mix of herbivore and sage—than did her front hooves.

Some dogs, thankfully, can break us of our patronizing habits—as Merle did for me.

Thus, even though the opportunity to dabble exists for the alpha male, faithfulness is the norm.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.