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Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break.

Mind is everything. There's nothing that it's not.

When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

Nought may endure but Mutability.

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.