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He sat on benches and tried to get in a spooky mood.

His only consolation was Carrington's favorite John Locke quote. The first law of nature is self-defense. It

The depressing thing is that so many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.

Her voice, hoarse, was an unmistakable echo down the corridors of memory.

Humility and self-effacement ... get a person [little] in this life.

It doesn't matter what he thinks of himself. Sure he's egotistic, so what? It takes that kind of ego to make a man attempt a thing like this. I've seen enough of men like him to know that mixed in with that pompousness and self-assertion is a goddamned good measure of uncertainty and fear.

differences in economic performance are chiefly dependent upon spiritual rather than physical characteristics.

known, was from there, a detail that moved and impressed me—and had posted photographs of the town on ShtetlLinks. I'd e-mailed her to say how much I'd enjoyed her postings, and we began a correspondence, during which

No undesirable behavior has ever been eliminated by passing a law against it.

describes how unchecked population growth is exponential while the growth of the food supply is expected to be arithmetical, thereby inevitably resulting—he reasoned—in a not-too-distant global famine

Yes. The Takers accumulate knowledge about what works well for things. The Leavers accumulate knowledge about what works well for people.

To a mind ready for mythology, he was the beginning of what is meant by godlike.

For four decades, U.S. energy policy was dominated—and its foreign policy hobbled—by the specter of shortage and vulnerability

He named his company Cheniere—a Cajun word for the raised ground in a swamp.

By 2023, she pledged, GM would have at least twenty electric models on the market.

I love my husband so much. I love our family. I love our dynamic. I'm proud to be in the relationship that I am because it's based on love. Pure love.

I don't mind men who kiss and tell. I need all the publicity I can get.

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

"'Greater good?' I am your wife! I'm the greatest good you're ever gonna get!"

I think it a glorious thing to have the hope of living with you, because I love you.

"If you want to write, keep cats."

A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking – without letting your neocortex play into the decision – you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

I related to 'A Clockwork Orange' in a personal way. I was a bit of a thug growing up. It's taken some reform for me. Thank God for artistry and creativity as an outlet.