yank out a new pt. 7?!?

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 > —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
 
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 > What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
 >
 > —Susan Sontag
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 > Well, if that's love
 > It comes at much too high a cost!
 
-(Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle)
-> Go, Soul, the body's guest,  
-> Upon a thankless arrant:  
-> Fear not to touch the best;  
-> The truth shall be thy warrant:  
-> Go, since I needs must die,
-> And give the world the lie.  
->
-> Say to the court, it glows  
-> And shines like rotten wood;  
-> Say to the church, it shows  
-> What's good, and doth no good:  
-> If church and court reply,  
-> Then give them both the lie.  
->
-> —["The Lie"](https://www.bartleby.com/40/48.html) by Sir Walter Raleigh
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 > Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
 > Everybody's looking for someone to blame
 > Like it's a game, like it's a game
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 > —_The Gods Themselves_ by Isaac Asimov
 
-> In desperation he quoted André Gide's remark: "It has all been said before, but you must say it again, since nobody listens." Unfortunately, judging by the quotations given here, Gide's remark is still relevant even today.
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-> —_Making Sense of Heritability_
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 > In some cases, there is a reason for one gender to adopt certain tasks—males have stronger muscles, and females give birth, and thus big game hunting tends to be done by men (who, in most cultures, are typically male).
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 > —Cailin O'Connor, "Measuring Conventionality"
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 > —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
 
-> "The only thing standing in the way of my own progress," Sagreda said, "is that the forces that once dealt with us honestly have been buried too deep to reach. All I can touch now is the surface, which is shaped by nothing but whim."
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-> —["Bit Players"](https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2014/bit_players_by_greg_egan) by Greg Egan
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 > When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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 > –Emile Zola
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 > And Durham—the software puppet, the lifeless shell animated by a being from another plane—looked him in the eye and said, "You have to let me show you what you are."
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 > —_Permutation City_ by Greg Egan
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+> I have had the strength to live through it, I shall have the strength to write it down.
+>
+> —"The Husband I Bought" by Ayn Rand
+
+> _Can we all start over  
+> After the final chapter's end?  
+> When it all starts over  
+> How do these scars begin to mend?_
+>
+> —_Centaurworld_
+
+
+> Because life is a gradual series of revelations
+> that occur over a period of time
+> It's not some carefully crafted story
+> It's a mess and we're all gonna die
+>
+> If you saw a movie that was like real life
+> You'd be like "What the hell was that movie about?"
+> It was really all over the place.
+> Life doesn't make narrative sense.
+>
+> —"The End of the Movie", _Crazy Ex Girlfriend_