Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. – Hesiod
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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. – E. M. Forster
When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. – Arundhati Roy
Never concentrating so hard than when manoeuvring a full cup of tea whilst lying down. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? – J. G. Ballard
