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“In the very core of my ignoble heart I longed to be betrayed by you and by her”
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“But for her the race of the world would have trampled him under foot, a squashed boneless snail. She had loved his weak watery blood drained from her own. Was that then real? The only true thing in life?”
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“Brandolini's law, developed in the context of twenty-first social media, is equally applicable to 1920s Klan-speak: 'The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that needed to produce it.”
― The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
― The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
“Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.”
― The Secret of the Universe
― The Secret of the Universe
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