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knowing smile on his face: What's this mischief here?

Now remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias. Remember it. 'Do that which is good,and no harm shall come to thee.

HALE, to Parris, trying to contain himself: Is every defense an attack upon the court? Can no one—?

No man only needs a little salary.

VON BERG: No, no, I never had any interest in that direction. Slight pause. Of course, there is this resentment toward the nobility. That might explain it. LEDUC: In the Nazis? Resentment? VON BERG, surprised: Yes, certainly.

Intellectual effort for its own sake, they call eccentricity.

Thus music is as immediate an objectification and copy of the whole will as the world itself is

Love, after all, is the ingredient that separates a sacrifice from ordinary, everyday butchery.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

The connection between racism and casteism was made more than a century before the 2001 Durban conference. Empathy sometimes achieves what scholarship cannot.

It was not entirely his fault that he lived in a society where a man's death could be more profitable than his life had ever been.

Why should propaganda be the exclusive preserve of the Western media? Just because they do it better?

Oddly, neglect seemed to have resulted in an accidental release of the spirit.

proposes Nazi-style purges of Indian Muslims.

Kochu Maria, the vinegar-hearted, short-tempered, midget cook, were

Every tie a pye-dog strayed onto the road, the driver made a sincere effort to kill it. (108)

Really, there is no need for me to explain it because I think readers are as mysterious as writers, and they understand things. You don't need to cater to them.

It was a kiss that demanded no kiss-back. Not a cloudy kiss full of questions that wanted answers. Like the kisses of cheerful one-armed men in dreams.

Everybody in the U.S... should force their country... please, don't, do this. [re Iran]

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right

What bloody man is that, sir?" I tossed the paper in the grate, though there was no fire on this warm summer day. "Bartholomew, you are quoting from Macbeth, did you know? King Duncan in the first scene, which is ominous. He died rather horribly soon after.

under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success.

Why would a football fan let a few flubbed minutes at the end of the game ruin three hours of bliss? Because a football game is a story. And in stories, endings matter.

I managed to find exactly one scientific study assessing whether or not luck actually does go bad on Friday the thirteenth.