::" And Be Merry " ( Eat Drink and Be Merry for Tomorrow We Die ) A lab biologist, female, takes advantage of her husband going off on an archeology trip, to use the privacy to experiment on herself for rejuvenation by a severe and dangerous method.

::" And the Spirit of Darkness moved upon the land.

::" And therefore fear not,

::" Vor Lydlinch bells be good vor sound, And liked by all the neighbours round.

::" And if by chance any whale or sperm whale or mermaid or coca or dolphin or Musaranha or other large fish that resembles some of these die in Sesimbra or Silves or elsewhere ...

::" It would be thought a Piece of Hypocrisy and pharisaical Ostentation in me, if I should say, that I print these Distichs more with a view to the Good of others than my own private Advantage: And indeed I cannot say it ; for I confess, I have so great Confidence in the common Virtue and Good Sense of the People of this and the neighoring Provinces, that I expect to sell a very good impression.

::" And I proceeded and saw a place ... where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones ....

::" And as for those towards the east ( one ) was of coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth,

::" And my pride in my Pacific origins takes nothing away from the appreciation I feel for my European heritage.

::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.

::" O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we

::" Most of you in here are of my vintage: we're ignored by the media.

::" South Granville " redirects here.

::" If anyone imagines that we are stating the case too strongly, let him try an experiment with the first bright boy he meets by asking,

::" Where, oh where, are you tonight?

::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

::" The principle of utility does not mean that any given pleasure, as music, for instance, or any given exemption from pain, as for example health, are to be looked upon as means to a collective something termed happiness, and to be desired on that account.

::" In a classical philosophical opposition we are not dealing with the peaceful coexistence of a vis-à-vis, but rather with a violent hierarchy.

::" Nice old, soft bits of good Turkish towelling, properly washed, will make the softest of diaper coverings, inside which specially absorbent napkins ( diapers ), see below at 1A, soft, light, and easily washed, are contained.

::" There are many who have achieved in the world of politics, business or academia who can trace their success to the years they spent at LSE.

::" There are men in the village of Erith that nobody seeth or heareth,

::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

::" Buechner's theological efforts are never systematic treatises but instead short, highly literary productions in most of which he draws explicit links with fiction-writing generally and his own fiction in particular ... Buechner's 1969 Noble Lectures at Harvard, published in 1970 as The Alphabet of Grace, comprise a slender volume which is one of his most important and revealing works.

::" If they are not there,

::" Reading is like eating ; the benefits are not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.

::" Team Obama ’ s anti-anti-missile initiatives are not simply acts of unilateral disarmament of the sort to be expected from an Alinsky acolyte.

::" Positive feedback loops are sources of growth, explosion, erosion, and collapse in systems.

::" Sacred for lovers of art, you are the glory of faith,

::" The Flowers of the Forest are a ' wede away ".

::" The orders I propose to make are of special significance as they constitute the first recognition and protection of native title resulting in the ongoing enjoyment of native title in the State of Victoria and, it would appear, on the South-Eastern seaboard of Australia.

::" Just as we deem the legislative intent manifest to tax the stockholder with respect to such accumulations only if and when, and to the extent that, his interest in them comes to fruition as income, that is, in dividends declared, so we can perceive no constitutional obstacle that stands in the way of carrying out this intent when dividends are declared out of a pre-existing surplus.

::" Permission to fight is given to those who are fought against because they have been wronged-truly Allah has the power to come to their support-those who were expelled from their homes without any right, merely for saying, ' Our Lord is Allah '..." ( Quran, 22: 39-40 )"

::" You should be thankful you are not in the Old Testament times, because there are some of us who would gladly execute you.

::" All things are from Him, through Him and in Him.

::" Aquinas, Augustine, St. Bernard, Bhagavad-Gita, Buddha, Jean Pierre Camus, St. Catherine, Christ, Chuang Tzu, “ Cloud of Unknowing ,” Contemplation, Deliverance, Desire, Eckhart ( five lines, the most quoted person ), Eternity, Fénelon, François de Sales, Godhead, Humility, Idolatry, St. John of the Cross, Knowledge, Lankavatara Sutra, William Law ( another four lines ), Logos, Love, Mahayana, Mind, Mortification, Nirvana, Perennial Philosophy ( six lines, a total of 40 entries in all ), Prayer, Rumi, Ruysbroeck, Self, Shankara, Soul, Spirit, “ Theologia Germanica ,” Truth, Upanishads ( six different ones are quoted ), Will, Words.

::" What are you reading now?

::" An operational definition is a procedure agreed upon for translation of a concept into measurement of some kind.

::" I was reading a magazine as I waited my turn at a barber shop one day when, triggered by a particular article and the photographs that went with it, there floated up out of some hitherto unexplored subcellar of me a character who was to dominate my life as a writer for the next six years and more.

::" Phlegon of Tralles, freedman of Augustus Caesar, but some say of Hadrian: historian.

::" Time for some updates.

::" As some of you may know, Lifetime got back together to play HellFest this past August, after being given the opportunity ( by the Fest ’ s organizers ) to raise a large amount of money for the charities of our choice.

::" The use of the enemy flag, insignia, and uniform is permitted under some circumstances.

::" I knew if I ever recorded any kind of tribute to Chris, it would have to be up-tempo, happy ... a song like him ... not some slow, mournful song.

::" I just had to believe that at some point in time, something was going to happen -- and of course several years ago China passed a law against exporting raw material tungsten.