To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.
It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
That was interesting. " "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders. " "He was furtive. " "Sneaky, even. " "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet. " Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
Your world will follow your idea about yourself.