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Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (Pearls Of Eternity)
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You guys are related to Jonah Wizard?" Jake asked, his lip curled disdainfully.
"And the other guy," Dan grumbled. "Vin Diesel's stunt double.
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Peter Lerangis (The Dead of Night (The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers, #3))
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Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see that book of T. S. Eliot poems held by the hand with the long, graceful fingers, and you never stop to think that it shouldn't take half a semester to read one book of poems... that maybe he is not so much reading as getting really high every morning and sleeping it off on the library steps, forcing the people who actually go to class to step or trip over him.
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Maureen Johnson (Zombies Vs. Unicorns)
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When it comes to justice - the indigent get the noose while the affluent get pardoned.
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Stewart Stafford
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Living with this kind of cognitive dissonance is simply part of being alive at this jarring moment in history, when a crisis we have been studiously ignoring is hitting us in the face– and yet we are doubling down on the stuff that is causing the crisis in the first place.
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Naomi Klein (This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate)
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This is exactly what I meant by unfair, Abe. If I woulda brought a guy home and announced, ‘He’s staying with me in my room,’ both you and Hank would’ve trussed him up and dragged him off Lawson land.”
“Not the same thing, Celia.”
Her gray eyes narrowed. “Why? Because you both have dicks? Or because you both are dicks?
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Lorelei James (Corralled (Blacktop Cowboys, #1))
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You say that your scientific peers “have no just right to expect” the “imperfect” geological record to refute your theory, yet you maintain the “just right” to manipulate, as “required”, that very same “imperfect” record to “prove” your theory. This is Orwellian double-think.
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M.S. King (God vs. Darwin: The Logical Supremacy of Intelligent Design Creationism Over Evolution)
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After being maligned for his lack of offense for much of his career, [César] Gerónimo batted .280 with two home runs, a triple, three runs, and three RBIs vs. Boston during the 1975 World Series, and then he batted .308 with two doubles, two steals, and three runs vs. New York during the 1976 World Series. The man who’s defense Sparky Anderson called 'ungodly' became an offensive star on baseball’s biggest stage.
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Tucker Elliot
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Then she will marry the man whom she is currently trying to find both online and in real life, the man with the smile lines and the dog and/or cat, the man with an interesting surname that she can double-barrel with Jones, the man who earns the same as or more than her, the man who likes hugs more than sex and has nice shoes and beautiful skin and no tattoos and a lovely mum and attractive feet. The man who is at least five feet ten, but preferably five feet eleven or over. The man who has no baggage and a good car and a suggestion of abdominal definition although a flat stomach would suffice.
This man has yet to materialize and Libby is aware that she is possibly a little over-proscriptive.
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Lisa Jewell (The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1))
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The fact that our most heroic social justice movements won on the legal front but suffered big losses on the economic front is precisely why our world is as fundamentally unequal and unfair as it remains. Those losses have left a legacy of continued discrimination, double standards, and entrenched poverty—poverty that deepens with each new crisis. But, at the same time, the economic battles the movements did win are the reason we still have a few institutions left—from libraries to mass transit to public hospitals—based on the wild idea that real equality means equal access to the basic services that create a dignified life.
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Naomi Klein (This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate)
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The businessman bought at ten and was happy to get out at twelve; the mathematician saw his ten rise to eighteen, but didn’t sell because he wanted to double his ten to twenty.
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V.S. Naipaul (A Bend in the River)
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For my number-one favorite kill, I almost went with Johnny Depp being eaten alive and then regurgitated by his own bed in A Nightmare on Elm Street, but the winner, by a finger blade’s width, has to be the death of that feisty Tina (Amanda Wyss), who put up such a fight while I thrashed her about on the ceiling of her bedroom. Freddy loves a worthy adversary, especially if it’s a nubile teenaged girl.
A close second goes to my hearing-impaired victim Carlos (Ricky Dean Logan) in Nightmare 6. In these uber-politically-correct times, it’s refreshing to remember what an equal opportunity killer Freddy always was. Not only does he pump up the volume on the hearing aid from hell, but he also adds a nice Latino kid to his body count. Today they probably wouldn’t even let Freddy force-feed a fat kid junk food.
Dream death number three is found in a sequence from Nightmare 3. Freddy plays puppet master with victim Phillip (Bradley Gregg), converting his arm and leg tendons into marionette strings, then cutting them in a Freddy meets Verigo moment.
The kiss of death Profressor Freddy gives Sheila (Toy Newkirk) is great, but not as good as Al Pacino’s in The Godfather, so my fourth pick is Freddy turning Debbie (Brooke Theiss) into her worst nightmare, a cockroach, and crushing her in a Roach Motel. A classic Kafka/Krueger kill.
For my final fave, you will have to check out Freddy vs. Jason playing at a Hell’s Octoplex near you. Here’s a hint: the hockey-puck guy and I double team a member of Destiny’s Child. Yummy! Now where’s that Beyonce…
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Robert Englund (Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams)
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The sooner you people find that you can't depend on David and the Lord," Darrow said, "but get busy yourselves, the better off you will be. If the Lord was going to do anything for you, he would've done it already." (Clarence Darrow)
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A.J. Baime (White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret)
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CHAPTER 17 – THE DOUBLE CHAPTER 18 – THE REAL DEAL CHAPTER 19 – LIFE AS A GALÁCTICO CHAPTER 20 – RONALDO VS MESSI CHAPTER 21 – LA DÉCIMA CHAPTER 22 – LA UNDÉCIMA CHAPTER 23 – PROUD TO BE PORTUGUESE EXTRACT FROM ‘GARETH BALE’ CRISTIANO RONALDO HONOURS GREATEST MOMENTS PLAY LIKE YOUR HEROES TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Matt Oldfield (Ronaldo (Ultimate Football Heroes - the No. 1 football series): Collect them all!)
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The story is especially stark in the United States: From 1935 to 1960, the living standard of the median American household doubled. From 1960 to 1985, it doubled again. Since 1985, it has essentially been flat: the average American household is no richer now than it was thirty years ago.
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Yascha Mounk (The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It)
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At the core of this nostalgia stands a double desire for control: Citizens want their nation to be able to make its own decisions, unencumbered by the constraints of the global economy.
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Yascha Mounk (The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It)
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For each year, our analysts looked at assets comprising about 90 percent of the total asset value that Trump had referenced in his financial statements. The overvaluations cut across virtually all his assets, and meant that he had reported asset values that, on average, were about double what they were actually worth.
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Mark Pomerantz (People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account)
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British vs American Crochet Terms British English US-American English dc double crochet sc single crochet htr half treble crochet hdc half double crochet tr treble dc double crochet dtr double treble tr treble trtr triple treble dtr double treble miss skip tension gauge yoh yarn over hook yo yarn over *All pattern instructions use US-American English terms*
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Vicki Becker (Easy To Crochet 2 Hour Slippers)
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That’s what I told him,” Russ said. “Look—” I started to explain, but Nate cut me off. “No, you look, Owen. It doesn’t matter who was
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W.C. Mack (Double Dribble (Athlete vs. Mathlete #2))
W.C. Mack (Double Dribble (Athlete vs. Mathlete #2))
W.C. Mack (Double Dribble (Athlete vs. Mathlete #2))
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Pizza vs. Internet Porn
I'm still debating whether
pizza or internet porn
is the best thing ever invented.
I've already jack-off three times
while eating a double-cheese pepperoni pie
making my careful deliberations.
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Beryl Dov
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And so we pandered to people who set off our gaydar. We got them served first and doubled their measures and let them keep buying way after last orders. No matter how much it dismayed me, somehow his homophobia had made the world a better place.
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Niels Saunders (Mervyn vs. Dennis)
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I’m going to stay here and see if he comes back,” Wrath said as the double doors opened and V strode in. “I want the rest of you out searching for him in the city, but before you go, first let’s get an update from our very own Katie Couric.” He nodded at Vishous. “Katie?”
V’s glare was the ocular version of a fully extended middle finger, but he got on with it.
-Wrath & V
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J.R. Ward (Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7))
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There comes a time in every BLACK household when BLACK parents should have “the talk” with their children, especially the males. This “talk” isn’t about sex (that’s the other conversation lol) instead, it’s a race-realist, survivalist conversation addressing the NIGGER-created quagmire facing BLACKS. “The talk” teaches life skills that prepare the BLACK kid for the reality of paying the NIGGER-tax, which includes (but is not limited to) profiling, the proper reaction to any police encounter, and double diligence in all endeavors (academic, career, etc.). Double diligence is required because NIGGERS are doubly lazy. Moreover, “the talk” emphasizes that the only commonality between BLACKS and NIGGERS is melanin content, but society (via cultural conditioning) may still lump BLACKS with the worst elements of the African-American community.
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Taleeb Starkes (The Un-Civil War: BLACKS vs NIGGERS: Confronting the Subculture Within the African-American Community)
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Look. Is The Rock a perfect movie? No. But is it a perfect movie? Maybe! Just describing the plot of The Rock is a lush, lip-smacking thrill, like a piece of bacon that is all fatty rind, like a bowl of Lucky Charms that is all marshmallows—so many elements that could each, alone, be too much, here combined into one film that somehow works, one great, baroque cinnamon roll that is all the middle of the cinnamon roll, The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, a duck-billed platypus, a place beyond decadence, foie gras on your burger, everything you want and nothing you don’t and then some more. Nicolas Cage, an unchained freak; Sean Connery, virtuosically hammy; Ed Harris, a haunted prince going down with his ship; antihero vs. antihero vs. antihero vs. the president; and gruesome chemical weapons and a heist and a mutiny and a double mutiny and family drama and Alcatraz and mine carts and fighter jets and flames and a rock, stalwart against the sea. All that, but with none of the septic irony, the relentless self-conscious hedging, that infects so much of our lives these days. The Rock does not take one single moment to look you in the eye and say, yes, we know this is a little silly, we are sorry, please know we are cool—there’s no need! The Rock believes in itself, it commits, it is happy to be fun. Coolness is a deadly neurotoxin. Inject The Rock into your heart.
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Lindy West (Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema)
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When writing a novel, the only real constraint is how far you want to go with your ideas. With movie scripts, you have time and budgetary constraints. For example, if your screenplay is set entirely at night, you've just doubled the cost of the movie. Novels can indulge all five senses, but Film is a visual medium that usurps the novelist's tool of narration through voice-over to add depth and perspective.
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Stewart Stafford
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Double Down Decisions on Hard-Total Hands • Double down on all hard totals of 11 vs. dealer upcard of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T; otherwise hit. • Double down on all hard totals of 10 vs. dealer upcard of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; otherwise hit. • Double down on all hard totals of 9 vs. dealer upcard of 3, 4, 5, 6; otherwise hit.
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Rick Blaine (Blackjack Blueprint: How to Play Like a Pro...Part-Time)
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When I talked about World War II, I only really knew about the Holocaust, Japanese internment, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and was certain that they were all equally bad. I could interrogate someone else’s privilege like a Spanish Inquisitor, but wash my hands of my own like Pontius Pilate. I knew exactly which side of the classroom I belonged in when the teacher of my social justice class (yes, this is a thing) divided us into “privileged” vs. “underprivileged” categories in twelfth grade. And perhaps most revealingly, I’d never had to read George Orwell’s 1984. He’d been shelved to make room for a local writer’s story of a poor Indian boy by the time I showed up. I realize now how poisonously deliberate this last omission was. Because in retrospect, what I was really being taught, more than this junk diet of useless knowledge, was a classic instance of what Orwell himself famously described as doublethink. That is, the act of believing two mutually exclusive things at once. In my case, I was being taught to believe that, first, I was special, unique, important, and great beyond words; second, that I was completely equal to everyone, which is to say average and mediocre. I was taught that diversity is unity. That to regress is to progress. That bullying was Hitler. That George W. Bush was doubleHitler. That British colonizers of Canada were doubleplusHitler. That we have always been at war with Hitler, however defined.
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Lauren Southern (Barbarians: How The Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed my Generation)
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Of course, only Americans can name a shop In-n-Out Burger without collapsing into a heap of dirty sniggers. You know the difference between them and us? To us, a double entendre means only one thing; to them, it means absolutely nothing.
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A.A. Gill (Table Talk)
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In French, “decroissance” has the double meaning of challenging both growth, croissance, and croire, to believe—invoking the idea of choosing not to believe in the fiction of perpetual growth on a finite planet.
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Naomi Klein (This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate)
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Richie Norton
December 31, 2019
MY PREDICTIONS FOR THIS NEW DECADE
20 years ago tonight I was in Brazil waiting to see if the world would end at midnight. #y2k I’m glad the computers figured out how to write the year 2000.
Would’ve been hard to imagine 20 years ago all that has happened in my personal life, family life and the world at large.
1. For example, people could still walk onto airplanes — TSA didn’t even exist, Facebook wasn’t even a thought on Zucky’s mind. No Twitter. No youtube. No ig. No li.
2. 20 years ago was a different time. I predict the next 10 years will bring as much change or more than the last 10 years brought.
3. I mean - TikTok taking over the world...a straight up Chinese company dominating American socials? Amazing. We will see more of this. It will happen in pockets where kids want to buck the boomers, the x men and the millennials. Then it will spread.
4. Universities will try to become relevant again by not focusing on the diploma as much because companies don’t require them anymore (unless doctor or lawyer type). You’ll see people focusing back on skills, results and a mega double down on personal brand.
5. Digital entrepreneurs will start making more money with physical products because people want “real.” YouTubers in large will leave because monetizing will become complicated with more adpocalypse.
6. Basics will come into play with direct selling, conglomerates will break themselves down intentionally into micro-enterprises to stay nimble.
7. Managers will be forced to become entrepreneurs and directly responsible for above the line branding and below the line profits... or they will be fired.
8. Solopreneurs will rise because freelancers will become commodities to utilize.
9. AI will take over every job that could be done by a robot. Making work more human.
10. Humans will stop acting like robots (cashiers) vs self-checkout and work will be strategic and anything arhat doesn’t require repetition. Ironically, humans will become less robotic (industrial revolution turned us into robots) and we will become more artful, thoughtful and creative...because we have to...bots will do all else.
11. To stay ahead, you must constantly learn and apply. It’s the dream. My new community and podcast will help you thrive! Comment if you would like access. Love you!
Happy new year!
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Richie Norton