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You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel

was working "penetration" on behalf of U.S. intelligence and was not only infiltrating, but attempting to preclude, a plot against the life of President Kennedy.

30 cents, two transfers, love Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.

It only made sense that drinking intelligent blood would make intelligent fleas.

I hated to interrupt her. I know how much a dream can be worth, but, alas... Hello.

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.

Keynes preferred memoirs as 'more agreeable and amusing, so much more touching, bringing so much more of the pattern of life, than … the daydreams of a nervous wreck, which is the average modern novel'.

He was wary of zealots who embraced good causes only to turn other people against them.61

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.

we have all been guilty of bending over backwards to be nice to an unworthy but powerful opponent

I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.

My purpose is to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism.

and we would abandon it overnight if new evidence arose to disprove it. No real fundamentalist would ever say anything like that.

When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.

our species, with its unique gift of foresight – product of the simulated virtual-reality we call the human imagination

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.

suspect that neither the Cambridge nor the Oxford astronomer really believed that theologians have any expertise that enables them to answer questions that are too deep for science.

Returning to humanity's need for comfort, it is, of course, real, but isn't there something childish in the belief that the universe owes us comfort, as of right?

We don't usually see this happening but, like detectives arriving on the scene after a crime, we can piece together what must have happened from the evidence that remains.

A passive replicator is a replicator whose nature has no influence over its probability of being copied.

Os braços eternos oferecem uma proteção contra as nossas próprias deficiências, a qual, como o placebo do médico, não é menos eficiente por ser imaginária