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When every single piece of media you consume is time-stamped, does that mean it's actually you that's time shifted?

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not sc...

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad. She discerns, it may be, such a hopeless task before her.

The Scarlet Letter

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Slavery in Massachusetts

Does it have a bed?" Liz asked doing her best to prop him up. "A couple of old army cots that probably have more mildew than a politician has bullshit.

Swamp Monster Massacre

This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

Slapstick or Lonesome No More!

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights

You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. (From )

The Singing Crow And Other Poems

She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. "You're lost!" "You're angry!" "You're in the wrong school!" "You're in the wrong country!" "You're on the wrong planet!

Speak

Sales is a hard way to make money, trying to convince people to willingly pay you for a product or service. I prefer making money the old-fashioned way, by extortion, like the government does. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system already does.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

The Sunne in Splendour

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the bastard Time.

Sweet Thursday

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

What man can be a real man...if he does not try and help make the world a better place!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at al...

Studies in Words

The reality is that doing good unto others actually does more good for you.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

A Tale for the Time Being

Am I in trouble? He chortled, "well, a bunch of not-so-friendly thugs were waiting to ambush you and blow up your apartment. If that doesn't qualify as trouble, I don't know what does.

Tempted into Danger