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Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.

Sade's ultimate achievement was to make sex the choicest expression of obscene cruelty and absolute, despotic power.

In Fleeced I explained how we could use human rights legislation to scupper the plans of our corrupt wasteful leaders. The Human Rights Act (HRA) 1998 received

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.

It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfe's 'saturation reporting' was possibly at hand: the copycat murder of the journalist, with the murderer finishing the piece and filing it, complete with photographs and videos.

I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative.

Self-esteem can be defined as the state that exists when you are not arbitrarily haranguing and abusing yourself but choose to fight back against those automatic thoughts with meaningful rational responses.

When the Bible is viewed primarily as a collection of devotional thoughts, its status as the most devastating work of social criticism in history is forgotten.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

Because we are universal explainers, we are not simply obeying our genes. For

Thus, although the existence of progress in the biosphere is what the theory of evolution is there to explain, not all evolution constitutes progress, and no (genetic) evolution optimizes progress.

Beware the difference between prediction and prophecy. Prophecy purports to know things which cannot be known.

Prediction – even perfect, universal prediction – is simply no substitute for explanation.

You don't fight race hatred by creating a state based on race. That's what the Nazis are doing.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan you just hope for it.

I wish I could claim I faced my first day of apostasy with courage and certainty. Yet in truth, I had never felt more afraid.

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

It's interesting: As a god I almost always find, The more repressed the mortal, The dirtier the mind." -Poseidon

The more repressed the mortal, The dirtier the mind.

Fourth, Swensen & Co. are extraordinarily thoughtful about and engaged with their client, Yale University.

staff of U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet and submitted his narrative in 2001. With the ongoing war in Iraq, I felt it appropriate that a broader audience have access to Commander Winkler's work.

If peasants weren't so lazy they could afford proper attire.