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Because you're a highbrow and married a highbrow broad. Somewhere in every intellectual is a dumb prick. You guys can't answer your own questions—

No, it was me. I didn't want to leave, but I couldn't stay. Somebody had to take the initiative. I did. Now I'm the fall guy too.

A wide wrinkle like a comprehensive bracket sign was written upon his forehead, the point between his brows, and there were patches of brown on his dark-blond skin.

Is it faith? Or is it simply childishness, expecting to be loved for doing your bidden task? It is, if you're looking for the psychological explanation, childish and classically depressive.

One reason why violence is so popular may be that psychiatric insights have worn us out and we get satisfaction from seeing them blown away with automatic weapons

The thing I learned from her was of the utmost importance; namely, that everyone sees to it his fate is shared. Or tries to see to it.

The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep.

He goes on to say that if we don't have the gift for effecting change, we have "the solace of criticism.

Reading Sartre on the Middle East, I wonder whether he really knows what he is saying.

Perhaps the Jews have themselves created such expectations. Israel has made extraordinary efforts to be democratic, equitable, reasonable, capable of change. It has, in fact, transformed its Jews.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me.

Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.

When a decision involves lots of facts, and we have access to all the facts, we are more likely to hallucinate that we used our powers of reason to reach a decision. But when we recognize that we don't have all the facts, we hallucinate that we used our gut feeling to bridge the gap. In both cases we acted irrationally, and we tried to rationalize it to ourselves after the fact. That's how the Persuasion Filter sees it.

The start of the tweet generally contains contempt, mocking, or sarcasm. The second part of the tweet includes either an insult that seems too angry for the situation or a mischaracterization of your point as an absurd absolute.

From this emerged: Schwager, "Das Mysterium der übernatürlichen Natur-Lehre.

Mary is the only possible witness to Jesus's conception and birth. And Luke is a credible witness to Mary's "pondering.

The Bible is not merely informative, the Holy Father went on to say, but "performative." It leads us to an action: the Eucharist, which Jesus meant to be transformative.

If the end of human law is the promotion of the common good among men, the divine law has for its purpose nothing less than our friendship with God.

Inerrancy is our guarantee that the words and deeds of God found in the Bible are unified and true, declaring with one voice the wonders of his saving love.