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We're like a positively charged molecule, the rate we're attracting tragedy.

And then I fucking started coughing, right there in his office.

I almost wished he'd debated Cassidy in her ridiculous Harry Potter costume, so she could've wiped the smirk off his muggle face.

And Toby, with his thrift-store suit and stubborn insistence that we call him "O Captain My Captain.

I didn't see any secret messages last night." "I didn't want to be predictable," Cassidy retorted. "But at least now I know you're paying attention.

Other than Richard Bachman, Swithen is the only other pseudonym for King; and The Fifth Quarter is the only story for which the Swithen pseudonym was used.

Night Surf is one of King's earliest published stories and forms a prototype for his later masterpiece, The Stand.

Ideology is the enemy of joyful community life, and the most destructive ideology is the belief that creating utopia is possible.

In the Commedia, recall, sin consists not only in loving and desiring bad things but also in loving and desiring good things in the wrong way.

History gives us no clean, straight causal lines binding events and giving them clear order. History is a poem, not a syllogism.

As a perversion of religion, Progress as an ideology speaks appealingly to hungry human hearts.

Solzhenitsyn emerged from the grinding misery of the gulag as a fearless man of God whose prophetic witness to the world helped bring down an evil empire.

it is not by winning an argument but by keeping yourself grounded in reality that you carry on the human heritage.

That, and the way those who take away freedom couch it in the language of liberating victims from oppression.

Classical liberals are more concerned with individual freedom, while leftists embrace equality of outcome.

It also doesn't mean that "progress" divorced from God is progress at all. In fact, progress can become very dark in a secular context, without a biblical understanding of human fallibility and without the God of the Bible as the author of history and the judge of the earth.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

No audience likes a writer's opinion thrust down their gullet as simply a tract. It has to be dramatized and made acceptably palatable within a dramatic form.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

ceiling gang is very pog lets gooo; now I gotta go yell at some 7 year old on fortnite

There was never a political entity of that name until 1821, when Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire raised

There was never a political entity of that name until 1821

which has given Greeks their preeminent place in the modern world of shipping today

and as a result shared the fate of Syracuse.