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“But I think magic is just the truth that people believe. For most people, that truth is whatever helps them sleep at night, whatever makes their lives easier. It's different from objective truth.”

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Book:A Study in Drowning

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“Stalin’s teachings about gradual, concealed, unnoticeable quantitative changes leading to rapid, radical, qualitative changes permitted Soviet biologists to discover in plants the realization of such qualitative transitions that one species could be transformed into another’… The slide away from truth-directed science had disastrous results in agriculture. It was also humanly disastrous. Biologists who disagreed were shot or imprisoned.”

Truth Biology Stalinism Belief System Objective Truth

Book:Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

Source: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

“I still don't understand, said Esther. How can I make myself immortal by taking Mr. Hazard's opinions? Because then the truth is part of you! if I understand St. Paul, this is sound church doctrine, leaving out the personal part of the Trinity which Hazard insists on tacking to it.”

Religion Myth Objective Truth Abstract Truth

Book:Esther

Source: Esther

“Isabella is busy," Louisa said. "She's frantically finishing preparations for the supper ball, as you know. I ought to be helping her." She fixed Mac a look. "So should you." "I am helping her. I'm minding the children. A good husband knows when to stay out of the way of the whirling household.”

Good Husband Mac Louisa

Book:The Untamed MacKenzie

Source: The Untamed MacKenzie

“There’s nothing passive about being passive-aggressive.”

Passive Aggressive Relationship Conflict Passive Aggression Passive Aggressive Behavior

Author:Nitin Namdeo

“I hate sushi.” And I hate him. What kind of monster hates sushi? “I do a bit of mixed martial arts.” Meh. He’s not that bad. “And I like tea.” Okay, I take it back. He probably drinks with his pinky up, and I refuse to corrupt this guy if he’s a pinky-upper. I mean, the pinky could come in handy . . . No. Nope. I cannot like him.”

British Likes Tea American Sushi Dislikes Pinky

Book:Shadow Slayer

Source: Shadow Slayer

“The masses sitting using computers daily has coincided with a health crisis in the population.”

Computer Sitting Population Computers Masses Daily Sedentary Coincided Health Crisis Using Computers

Book:Pandemic Supplements

Source: Pandemic Supplements

“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would welcome the intolerable dull senseless hell you would bring me and I wish you luck in bed and out but not in mine thank you.”

Love Life Funny Death Poetry Women Hell Poem Boring Sexuality Irony Rejection Dull Girls Misogyny Bukowski

Book:You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Every wave is a memory, every breeze a story. Even when the sea is calm, the wonders hidden in its depths never cease.”

Life Quotes Sea Depth Breeze Quote Memmories

Author:Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

“Misery and death is what happens when incompetents run state utilities.”

Happens Death Misery Electric Electricity Electrical State Run Utilities Incompetents

Author:Steven Magee

“Indeed, there is a deep melding of our humanity around a shared experience, and in that melding we find profound comfort knowing that we are not alone in the experience of it.”

Humanity Support Share Encouragement Companionship Experiences Comrade Joint Cooperative Melding

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

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