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The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits.

also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can't understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

that they could imagine that I'd want to converse with them at 7 a.m. is an insult to whatever intelligent life is left in our dwindling universe.

are you paranoid?" he asks. "of course. what sane man is not?

Che razza di investigatore sei? fece lui. Il migliore di L.A. Ah sì? E che cosa vuol dire L.A.? Leccatori d'Ano.

?itate Celinea? upotao je ženski glas. Zvu?io je seksi. U zadnje sam vrijeme bio nešto sam. I tako desetlje?ima.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody.

except for llamas in the Andes, the Western Hemisphere had no beasts of burden.

Without any apparent volition by Cortés, the great city lost at least a third of its population to the epidemic, including Cuitlahuac.

In other words, as one mother-culture advocate put it, I am "swallowing Marcus's [nonsense] whole.

They keep it carefully tended and gaily decked, and esteem it as highly as ladies in Europa.

God's will and purpose for this earth is that it be here like it is in heaven. It has to be the will of God because Jesus told His disciples to pray that it would be that way. (Matt. 6:10.)

She sighed. Ignatius, do you know what the opposite of love is? Hate, I said. Despair, Sister said. Despair is the opposite of love.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

This prophecy has turned out entirely and miserably wrong.

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know littler, and not those who know much, who so positively assertive that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Her need to shape memory into history.

if you do not know, reader, what a Fisher Hobbs is, you know nothing about pigs, and deserve no bacon for breakfast.

Qualis Natura formatrix, si talis formata? Oh my God, how fair must be Thy real world, if even Thy phantoms are so fair!

I don't envy the mule his labyrinthine inlets, those indispensable side-intelligencers.