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without contrasts, how does one appreciate the different forms that joy can take?
This is the paradox of tolerance, the treason of free speech: we hesitate to admit that some people are just fucking evil and need to be stopped.
Who is to say plutonium is more powerful than, say, rice? One takes away a million lives, the other saves a hundred times as many.”
New Orleans stank to the heavens.
The French Quarter specifically, it smells like piss, vomit, booze and sweat.
“Natural is in the eye of the beholder, as is beauty,” she snapped.
Long ago, our ancestors looked at the sky and saw gods. Their ancestors saw only stars. In the end, only the earth knew the truth.
Stars are magnificent, and don't need superstition or religion to help them burn brighter.
Humans are full of interesting-but-useless features. Crying. Wisdom teeth.
Life appeared on hundreds of worlds—nearly every one they’d found with liquid water.
Water is quite common in space.
Just not here on earth.
“All the monsters were right here. No need to go looking for more in space.”
It will taste delicious. It will also likely knock her into oncoming bicycle traffic.
Is it a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster?
A fatal duck attack.
