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"Young people in Europe and North America in particular, but increasingly throughout the world, are being psychologically prepared for useless jobs, trained in how to pretend to work, and then by various means shepherded into jobs that almost nobody really believes serve any meaningful purpose."

"A long-dormant memory came to her of the anger that sometimes seethed when she lay awake as a teenager, her stomach roiling. There were moments when she contemplated sneaking into her mother's bedroom and plunging a knife into her sleeping heart. Did Hanna harbor such fantasies, too?"

"By every standard of decency we should have taken our leave, but we stayed for the climax."

"Can you imagine what it might feel like for someone to confess a murder to you?"

"It was a singular destiny (we may remark in passing) for the church of Notre-Dame, at that period, to be thus beloved in different degrees, and with such devotion, by two beings so dissimilar as Claude and Quasimodo..."

‘Listen!’ said a voice.

"But it is cruel to compliment children, since they mistake flattery for truth."

"LADY LAURA BETHELL, SPINSTER, had just returned to her house in Queen’s Gate, with her dearest friend, Mrs. Stapleton, for a few days of psychical orgy."

Since Anna's death Haeckel didn't worry about his own reputation any more, he told Darwin: 'long may my many enemies attack my work strongly.'

After a half millennium of wars of dynasties, wars of religion, wars of sovereignty, wars of nationalism, and wars of ideology, of the many small wars and a few horrendous ones, the data suggests that perhaps, at last, we're learning.

“The mixture was as combustible in the inner city as it had been in the cowboy saloons and mining camps of the Wild West, this time not because there were no women around but because the women lacked the bargaining power to force the men into a civilized lifestyle. “

"Cleopatra had been in Rome when Caesar was assassinated, lodging at one of the dictator's villas on the outskirts of the city. It was the best that Roman money could buy, though probably not a patch on the luxurious surroundings of her home in Alexandria."