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Petals floating by, Drift thro...

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.

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A neurosis defends itself by c...

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

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Life is not fair...Anyone who ...

Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

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One of life's joys was to have...

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

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All this talk of using tax pol...

All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

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Ideologies are too seductive a...

Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

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History and geology show what ...

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.

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Beware of assumptions that see...

Beware of assumptions that seem 'obvious' in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

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Alas, criticism has always bee...

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

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Change is the very fabric of o...

Change is the very fabric of our time.

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Many people have tried to defi...

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

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The best time to act on this w...

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

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In the book, America had alrea...

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

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Reciprocal accountability, or ...

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

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In the end, the work of diplom...

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

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Cultural contamination that is...

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as 'enlightenment.

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The three basic material right...

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

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It's how creativity works. Esp...

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

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In all of history, we have fou...

In all of history, we have found just one cure for errorЂ'a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

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Every marvel of our age arose ...

Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....