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"I needed a book to calm me and help me feel grounded during this season. It has a very appropriate look at gift giving which was pleasantly unexpected." — Dec 03, 2020 08:38AM
"I needed a book to calm me and help me feel grounded during this season. It has a very appropriate look at gift giving which was pleasantly unexpected." — Dec 03, 2020 08:38AM
progressive movement. Scientists became “moral exhibitionists” in the lecture hall as they demonized fellow scientists and urged their students to evaluate ideas not for their truth but for their consistency with progressive ideals such as
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“ 'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped.'
'You consider that unjust, Serenity?'
'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.' ”
― The Goblin Emperor
'You consider that unjust, Serenity?'
'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.' ”
― The Goblin Emperor
“If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr.”
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“Love neighbors.
Love strangers.
Love friends.
Love enemies.
Love all; hate none.
Love in your childhood,
in your youth,
in your adulthood,
and in your old age.
Love as long as you live.”
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Love strangers.
Love friends.
Love enemies.
Love all; hate none.
Love in your childhood,
in your youth,
in your adulthood,
and in your old age.
Love as long as you live.”
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“You are very decisive in your indecision.”
― The Goblin Emperor
― The Goblin Emperor
“(About having weird dreams when passing through gates between worlds)"Able has herd them complain about this before. Zayan once dreamed he had become a lasagna--to be specific, a lasagna with opinions about politics, frustrated about its inability to share these thoughts with a galaxy not yet ready to listen to pasta.”
― Defy the Fates
― Defy the Fates
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