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John Rachel Biography

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Women Feminism Incarceration Cultural Relativism Womens Lib

“As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.”

Universe Intelligence Arrogance Gymnastics Computers Cerebral Orangutan

Book:12-12-12

Source: 12-12-12

“Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes.”

Feminism Detroit Incarceration Cultural Relativism

Author:John Rachel

“We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.”

Hope Dreams Ideals Future Generations

Book:A Long Night's Journey Into Daylight

Source: A Long Night's Journey Into Daylight

“Like the blind man said as he wandered into a cannibal village . . . “Alright! The country fair must be right up ahead. I smell barbecue!”

Blindness Barbecue Cannibal

Author:John Rachel

“Violence was a slippery slope, lubricated by a lot of blood, if history had any lessons to teach.”

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Book:Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

Source: Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“The spring breeze felt like the warm breath of a child on Kumiko’s face. It played delicately with her hair like tiny fingers, and made the trees whisper a breathless song.”

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Book:Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

Source: Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“Even adults who were stiffened by the starch of their miserable lives, for whom breaking the stony discipline of austere and judgmental intolerance was usually off the table, melted in the magical luminescence and energetic charm of the pre-pubescent Ruka.”

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Book:Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

Source: Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“The optimism was like the sun after a long spell of clouds and rain, a euphoric rush which produced both envy and awe in anyone who had become jaded, resigned, who had given up on their dreams.”

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Book:Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

Source: Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“The regular choreography, entrances and exits of blooms in stages such that the garden looked like an ever-evolving carousel of swirling rainbows and radiant butterflies, seemed condensed. All of the flowers still obeyed some silent urgent command to make their debut. But this year, it definitely unfolded more quickly, as if racing to meet a new compelling deadline.”

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Book:Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

Source: Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“Hungry stomachs growl the same tune.”

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Book:Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

Source: Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“It was the fundamental bifurcation of the masses of human meat into two starkly opposite classes: the haves and the have-nots. The have-nots had barely anything. The haves had it all. The haves had everything except concern and compassion for the have-nots, who they regarded as little more than cockroaches.”

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Book:Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

Source: Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”

Education Golden Rule Calculus Banana Lyme Disease Chimpanzee

Book:Blinders Keepers

Source: Blinders Keepers

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