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"What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down"
"The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself."
"The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives."
"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."
"[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place."
"Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife."
"Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest."
"To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife."
"Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer)."
"God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him."
"And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"
"A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator."
"Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd."
"I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life."
"The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy."
"A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife."
"You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress."
"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife."
"It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife."
"Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife."
