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...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the p...

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The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to f...

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What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they...

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The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

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In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. Sh...

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In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...

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Umberto EcoPostscript to the Name of the Rose

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization tea...

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Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intel...

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Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their...

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