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“GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.”

“What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to bring to alternate platforms, like Linux and MacOS, and in my free time, I work on various open source projects, and other freebies like that. So I guess I'm a hooker with a heart of gold, sorta.”

Trying Heart Games Energy Source Projects Gold Various Platforms Prostitution Free Time Linux Mercenary Open Source Heart Of Gold

Author:Ryan C. Gordon

“In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.”

Order Culture Energy Source Various Oppression Oppressed

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The kundalini is raised or brought down. It can be done in several different ways, and as it moves to the different chakras or energy centers in the subtle physical body, it endows one with various powers.”

Way Different Done Body Moving Energy Meditation Buddhism Raised Various Different Ways Subtle Physical Body Chakra Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.”

Bigs Dies Universe Energy Bits Various Cosmic Soup Floating Lashes Guise

Author:Bat for Lashes

“Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.”

Energy Example Accounts India Various Connected Destructive Goddess Equations Guise Shakti Kali

Book:Travels Through Sacred India

Source: Travels Through Sacred India

“The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.”

People Giving Political Faith Energy Nations Social Church Common Economic Inspire Shapes Institutions Various Adequate Time And Energy Common Life

Book:On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society

Source: On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society

“If you take a particle down, past neutrinos, you get vortexes, little whirlpools of energy. This is amazing, because what it really means, is everything is the same. Everything is one of those, in various combinations.”

Ifs Mean Littles Past Energy Various Combination Particles Really Mean Vortex Whirlpools Neutrinos

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki