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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be...

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchede...

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually ...

Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself that...

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar too...

and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such t...

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, ...

She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that ...

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are...

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at get...

Or he’d watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mam...

followed a step behind. My thoughts churned as my emotions seesawed

with a touch of sarcasm. “Glass is an amazing material. Versatile,

When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of it...

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out ...

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so stran...

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always...

Ah, Antonio, it IS the noblest sport that ever was. I would give a year of my life to see it. Is the...

Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil."   "A which?"   "Fossil. The first horse...

the Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thiev...

Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.

In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino sca...

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say

Though you see nothing, he is acting.

Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed o...

When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failur...

You come before the judgment seat of God full of rebellion and mistakes. Because of his justice he c...

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insu...

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and repl...

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

A Kourier has to establish space on the pavement. Predictable law-abiding behavior lulls drivers. Th...

think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew somet...

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can...

at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned

Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental funct...

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can a...

She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us he...

money I could hardly think of it. “Go on, take it.

Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Teh...

All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took...

What do you know of poetry?” Ambrose said without bothering to turn around. “I know a limping verse ...

I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insiste...

He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. “Have you been drinking?” The question was more curi...

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and deci...

over his own dark Cealdish beard. “Nothing like your marvelous facebear,

we who determine how quickly time passes.

I’m with the fool in the psalm. You thought we could get on without you; no – you didn’t care whethe...

Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you...

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which i...

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and ...

A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news h...

this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have hear...

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depr...

virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and publi...

a life without investigation is not worth living

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through h...

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precise...

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Never make a decision until you have to.

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit i...

Less abject but more shocking was the letter from the Founder of the Calvary Tabernacle Association ...

As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the...

Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Ins...

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typi...

You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surr...

Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiari...

And Wolfram knows about cellular automata?” “Oh, my goodness, yes,” said Anna. “He wrote a book you ...

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was...

He had a collection of science-fiction films on DVD and Blu-ray discs, and although he said he’d see...

Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d ...

All right,” he said. “Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on ...

Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, y...

Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, ...

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dra...

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry ma...

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show ...

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the co...

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separate...

It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get som...

The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stan...

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about “let’s see” and “try.” If there’s...

Starting isn’t like that. Starting something is not an event; it’s a series of events. You decide to...

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a proje...

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starti...

Call me Richard. That’s my real name. Call me that.

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying a...

that this is Russian-A flu, not the more dangerous Swine flu.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The secon...

Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way t...

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to oth...

Dear White Fella When I am born I’m black When I grow up I’m black When I am sick I’m black When I g...