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“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

“We would not be able to impact future generations if family was not one of our top priorities.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“Sandy knew her plan was shit. But sometimes better ideas grew out of bad ones. Shit makes good fertilizer, her Gramps used to say, and a wrong track can lead to a new perspective, and a better path.”
― Barry Kirwan, Eden's Endgame

“You see, there are no pretty pink flowers in the woods at night.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart begin to race and I began to feel dizzy as my visual field became black. That is the last thing I recall before awakening to find myself lying on the ground in the front yard, with the handle of the rake resting on my chest.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

“US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about 鈥淥peration Vulture鈥�. He said, 鈥淲hen the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!鈥�

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

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

“In a long and fiercely argued process, against the strenuous resistance of the peers, he ordered the Sire de Coucy to stand trial. Enguerrand IV was convicted, and although the King intended a death sentence, he was persuaded by the peers to forgo it. Enguerrand was sentenced to pay a fine of 12,000 livres, to be used partly to endow masses in perpetuity for the souls of the men he had hanged, and partly to be sent to Acre to aid in the defense of the Holy Land. Legal history was made and later cited as a factor in the canonization of the King.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.”
― Lloyd C. Douglas

“I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here. And there are a lot of other white people who feel the same'
'If you and so many others feel that way,' said Uncle Hammer with a wry sneer, 'then how come them Wallaces ain't in jail.'
'Hammer,' Big Ma started.
'Because,' answered Mr. Jamison candidly. 'There aren't enough of those same white people who would admit how they feel, or even if they did, would hang a white man for killing a black one. It's as simple as that.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

“However, there is a way to know for certain that Noah鈥檚 Flood and the Creation story never happened: by looking at our mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).聽 Mitochondria are the 鈥渃ellular power plants鈥� found in all of our cells and they have their own DNA which is separate from that found in the nucleus of the cell.聽 In humans, and most other species that mitochondria are found in, the father鈥檚 mtDNA normally does not contribute to the child鈥檚 mtDNA; the child normally inherits its mtDNA exclusively from its mother.聽 This means that if no one鈥檚 genes have mutated, then we all have the same mtDNA as our brothers and sisters and the same mtDNA as the children of our mother鈥檚 sisters, etc. This pattern of inheritance makes it possible to rule out 鈥減opulation bottlenecks鈥� in our species鈥� history.聽 A bottleneck is basically a time when the population of a species dwindled to low numbers.聽 For humans, this means that every person born after a bottleneck can only have the mtDNA or a mutation of the mtDNA of the women who survived the bottleneck. This doesn鈥檛 mean that mtDNA can tell us when a bottleneck happened, but it can tell us when one didn鈥檛 happen because we know that mtDNA has a rate of approximately one mutation every 3,500 years (Gibbons 1998; Soares et al 2009). So if the human race were actually less than 6,000 years old and/or 鈥渆verything on earth that breathed died鈥� (Genesis 7:22) less than 6,000 years ago, which would be the case if the story of Adam and the story of Noah鈥檚 flood were true respectively, then every person should have the exact same mtDNA except for one or two mutations.聽 This, however, is not the case as human mtDNA is much more diverse (Endicott et al 2009), so we can know for a fact that the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Noah are fictional. 聽 There”
― Alexander Drake, The Invention of Christianity

“When you see one of these graceful crafts sailing over your head, and possibly over your home, as I expect you will in the near future, see if you don鈥檛 agree with me that the flying machine is one of God鈥檚 most gracious and precious gifts.”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“Her husband's visage captivated her from the first moment she saw him step out of the royal carriage a hundred years ago. How could it not? Flaminius was utterly gorgeous. But once she fell in love with him, she became happily enslaved.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

“Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love.”
― Lisa See , Peony in Love

“The art of war is the art of deception.”
― Sun Tzu

“Without warning a lady appeared.
She came from the direction of Friday-street, for she had just been with Mr. Newbolt. She strode capably through the snow. She wore a black silk gown and something very queer swung from a silver chain about her neck. Her smile was full of comfort and her eyes were kind and happy. She was just as Mr. Newbolt had described.
And the name of this lady was Death.”
― Susanna Clarke, The Sandman: Book of Dreams

“Esto demuestra lo necesario que es el que todo nuevo punto de vista se explique con una extensi贸n considerable, con el fin de despertar la atenci贸n del p煤blico.”
― Charles Darwin

“How could I live without dancing?”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“You've never in your life seen a horse run so fast! He's all power-all beauty.”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?”
― Philip Pullman

“The end was contained in the beginning.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us”
― Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

“Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain. Now it flowed faster, steadily staining her pale flesh a horrific red.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room