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Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect.

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Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out ...more

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All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of...more

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..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

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There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter ...more

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He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, fea...more