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"I could say that I'm the most bullied person on the world"

"If there are, let's say, 20 astronauts, there may be two women among those 20 astronauts. If there are 20 FBI guys, there's one woman and the rest are men. So when somebody writes a script about life,…"

"I was not a lab rat" by Deborah Skinner Buzan, in The Guardian"

"“You could call it that,” Auberson sighed. It wouldn’t be correct, but you could call it that."

"She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted."

"With bowed head and bended knee the poor learned to receive from the rich what was only their due, had they but known it. Years of poverty had ground the spirit of independence right out of them; thes…"

"Father and son you might liken to caterpillars and locusts, for what was left by Robert, his son fed on and devoured."

"It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice — guessed and refused to believe — that everything, always, collectively, had been moving towa…"

"The evidence of religion — ah, I know where the true evidence lies, by the pleadings of my own heart against me. Why, why must it be that all these alien histories, these strange theories and doctrine…"

"The Non-Prophets homepage"

"If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons."

"Children are the keys of Paradise … They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer."

"Dad was busy earning money so that the family could purchase the new Buick, which boasted 44 pounds of chromed trim. The Russians may have had working space satellites, but they had nothing like that."

"I don't come out on film. I get the red eye. Blokes like that: "You fuckin' will in a minute, ya twat!"

"Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths."

"Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. The play that game because they have no other game. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures…"

"Hommage a Thomas Edison,"

"Tell me, Nelson, I'm just curious. How does it feel to have smoked up your parents' house in crack?"

"Magellan's Log: Florence King"

"Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community."