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Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

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ThiruvalluvarHoly Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can n...

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Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is li...

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I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks si...

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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life t...

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Yann MartelBeatrice and Virgil

Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellu...

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Yann MartelThe High Mountains of Portugal

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the cou...

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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his he...

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Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and...

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To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll...

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Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more o

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Claiming "the budget can't allow it" reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized ho...

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, ...

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He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that...

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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the dark...

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Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it o...

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If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can...

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Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too...

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...

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truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...

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Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstance...

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[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it ...

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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the cour...

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After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their w...

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I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being simi...

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Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscore...

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Steven PinkerThe Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

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Terry PratchettA Hat Full of Sky