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This book is an introduction to logic, as contemporary logicians now understand the subject. It does not attempt to be a textbook, however.

How many times I have explain? I pee over there, over there and over there. Technically make it Bigfoot territory.

I was just saying to your colleague, the referee has got me the sack, thank him ever so much for that, won't you?

What is obvious about this section of the Book of Mormon is that it was borrowed from the KJV and placed in an ancient American context.

Orientation, the big O in the OODA loop, is the schwerpunkt.

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

In AD 57 in the city of Corinth, the Apostle Paul wrote the greatest book ever penned in human history: his letter to the Roman church.

it's not a question but a lesson learned in time

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

He'd never been lectured on Darwinism in any brothel back home, but then what could he expect in a country run by godless socialists?

It was like listening to two badly written computer programs trying to convince each other that they were sentient.

If you'd managed to force it open, you would have made a direct path between the interior of the Peerless and the void, which is something we try to discourage.

The For Dummies title refers to the humility required in approaching Tolkien's complex myth, not to the level of insight herein.

Windbag Richard Brody at The New Yorker condemns the film as "obscenely regressive" and "ridiculously white." (I find The New Yorker obscenely progressive and ridiculously Jewish, but that's a topic for another day.)

For the better part of two decades, I have observed an approximate 75 percent reproduction rate through the triad model of disciple making.

You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!

That possibility suggests that we are part of a much greater system of many realities, within realities, within other realities.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

History, as Kennan had observed, was "the common refuge of those who find themselves helpless in the face of the present."17

A taped recording of a psychiatric interview played, and Allander's voice resonated through the room.

He didn't lurch awake as many people do after a nightmare. Instead, his eyes opened and he waited silently for the world to flood back to him.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.