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“And, no, perhaps I wasn't normal in their eyes, but what was normal, anyway? Who decided that?”

Book:Mirror Man: A nostalgic mystery set in 80's Yorkshire

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“How can you say one thing when your data shows something else. One doesn't know what was on the authors' minds and maybe they interpreted things differently but the sense is that the literature maintains an attitude somewhat like the approach of lawyers. If the jury buys it, it doesn't matter whether or not it's true. In scientific publishing, the jury are the reviewers and the editors. If they are already convinced of the conclusion, if there is no voir dire, you will surely win the case.”

Science Scientific Method Relative Truth Peer Review Voir Dire Voir

Book:The World Turned Upside Down: The Second Low-Carbohydrate Revolution

Source: The World Turned Upside Down: The Second Low-Carbohydrate Revolution

“God had said to listen to what five people tell you and don’t hold on to your own opinion. The person who holds on to his opinion is isolated. If you insist upon it, it will harm you as well as others. This true-false is a relative truth; it is a mundane [worldly] truth. One should not insist upon it.”

God Truth Spiritual Opinion Spiritual Quotes Harm Isolation Isolated Real Truth Relative Truth Insist Insist Upon To Insist Upon

Author:Dada Bhagwan

“For how long can you remain in an imagined (false) state? For how long can you remain as imagined father-in-law to someone? And what happens when you visit your in-laws? You have to become the son-in-law. And when you visit your maternal grandparents? You have to become a nephew. Would it be acceptable to call you a nephew in satsang?”

Relationship Relative Truth

Book:Aptavani-2

Source: Aptavani-2

“There is nothing that cannot be overcome. Unless you make it into something.”

Relative Truth Non Resistance Zen Koan Bhudda Tree

Author:Benjamin Aubrey Myers

“When demanded of those without power-- 'if you said it more nicely maybe we would listen'-- 'I can't hear you when you're so angry'-- 'the ones who are nice are the ones who will get what they want' (or, worse, the ones who are nice and pretty, which, of course, also includes white, Christian, and 'classy')-- it is yet another subjugation, yet another tool of oppression.”

White Christianity Power Tools Oppression Conditioning Pretty Is It Nice

Author:Shellen Lubin

“Every inch, every pound, you gained or lost, as targeted; celebrate it.”

Celebrate Pound Inch

Book:Rep By Rep

Source: Rep By Rep

“Kids had made fun of him in elementary school because his father wanted him to be literate, not just functionally literate, or 'iconerate,' the new term for those who went through life using only symbols and key words for written communication.”

Literacy Illiteracy Shadowrun Iconerate Sixth World

Book:Changeling

Source: Changeling

“He looked steadily in my eyes, and held my hand affectionally. “Narissa, let me take you away to a world that you have never known to exist.”

Romance Ocean Young Adult Fiction Supernatural Fish Mermaid Shark Merman Young Adult Suspense

Author:Keira D. Skye

“The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed.”

Shark

Book:The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“He put down the receiver and looked vaguely at the paper in his hand. It was a rough piece of white wrapping paper. Scrawled in pencil in ragged block letters were the words: HE DISAGREED WITH SOMETHING THAT ATE HIM And underneath in brackets: (P.S. WE HAVE PLENTY MORE JOKES AS GOOD AS THIS)”

Death Threat Bond Message Attack Shark

Author:Ian Fleming

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