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“Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare? Yet these relations are of the highest importance, for they determine the present welfare, and, as I believe, the future success and modification of every inhabitant of this world.”
― On the Origin of Species
― On the Origin of Species

“Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green

“He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.”
― Peony in Love
― Peony in Love

“Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
― Black Fire
― Black Fire

“Paintings of Jesus with long hair and a full beard and of first-century Jews in Persian turbans and Bedouin robes are fantasies of later artists. The Hellenistic world created by Alexander the Great was remarkably homogenous in style. From Britain to North Africa, from Spain to India, people affected Greek manners. The earliest paintings of Jesus depict him as the Good Shepherd with short hair, no beard, and wearing a knee-length tunic. This is probably far more what Jesus looked like than the paintings we know and love. The apostle Paul admonished men not to let their hair grow long (1 Cor 11:14), which he would hardly have done if the other apostles or the Sanhedrin had worn their hair long; he certainly would not have written that if Jesus had worn his hair long.”
― Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains
― Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains
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