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Unrest leads to weakness. Weakness is an invitation to neighbors to seize land, take cattle, perhaps start a war.

My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin...the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political... Two reds sandwiching a black...

Kind-hearted observers found her full of pathos, and the less generous despised her.

Intelligent and competent, Louisa Pierson was far more than a source of information or advisor on diplomatic etiquette.

Mao's instruction to exterminate grass had led to a constant demand for manpower bc of the grass's obstinate nature.

Well, what happens with the River of Hades in the end? -Not a thing. It's an infernal punishment precisely because nothing happens.

I do not quite know how to put it, but I wonder if a mask, being universal, enhances our relations with others more than does the naked face.

It is manifestly pregnant and has a bulging white belly heavy with its load of kittens.

There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.

If it were a question of excuses and consolation, I would have preferred to melt away like smoke.

isn't the mask something required mainly by the victim and the disguise, on the contrary, by the assailant?

Should I make this girl just for this once, tonight, in revenge for the scars, for you, and for my real face?

The result was that, far from heeding my throbbing shame, by cleverly sidestepping the real problem I inevitably involved myself deeper and deeper.

You know why I've survived in this job, year after year, lousy assignment after lousy assignment, with no counseling whatsoever? Because I have a keen appreciation of the ludicrous. Also because I have no choice.

Arrows you may dodge and fever you may antibody for, but mortal grief is a misfortune you cannot escape.

He was the only one interested in me. Of course he isn't, Steve said. Practically every boy in the school would want a chance to... ow, Maisy! Sorry, my elbow slipped.

Sumeetha Manikandan is a top bestselling romance author whose novellas 'Perfect Groom' and 'These Lines of Mehendi' have been on the top of Amazon India charts

The dispassion of paedeia also informed the doctrine of the Trinity, which these three men, often known as the Cappadocian Fathers

Jefferson the deist was accused of being an atheist and even a Muslim.

This rationalized interpretation of religion has resulted in two distinctively modern phenomena: fundamentalism and atheism. The two are related.

Muslim fundamentalism, by contrast, has often-though again, not always-segued into physical aggression. This is not because Islam is constitutionally more prone to violence than Protestant Christianity but rather because Muslims had a much harsher introduction to modernity.

Logos cannot assuage our sorrow or evoke our sense of the transcendent, so it cannot convince us that, despite all the rational evidence to the contrary, our lives have meaning and value.

The great vault over our heads was gradually filled with clarity like a glass with wine.