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“... the supernatural, after all, is only something for which we haven't yet uncovered the natural laws ...”
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“The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday.”
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“Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.”
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“The most courageous people in the world are the people who go on after their children have died.”
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“Birdeen fainted the way other people took a nap. She wouldn't take a rest of her own free will. Nature gave her a rest by letting her lie down unconscious for a few minutes. ”
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“We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.”
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“I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.”
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“Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.”