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A little after moonrise Stephen woke. Extreme hunger had brought on cramps in his midriff again and ...

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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...

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Richard DawkinsRiver Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and agai...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot affo...

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In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, ...

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My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Chr...

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Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hun...

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Yevgeny ZamyatinThe Dragon: Fifteen Stories

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

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All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, b...

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Trudging on foot, loaded with sacks, bundles, and babies, young mothers who had lost their milk, dri...

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No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.“It's the mark of a ver...

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…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts a...

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To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

She’s a lean vixen: I can seethe ribs, the slytrickster’s eyes, filled with longing and desperation,...

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