All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.


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KARL PILKINGTON
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
KARL PILKINGTON
They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just...
KARL PILKINGTON
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
KARL PILKINGTON
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...
KARL MARX
Statistics is the grammar of science.
KARL PEARSON
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come...
KARL LAGERFELD
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and ...
KARL ROVE
You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy ha...
KARL ROVE
Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
KARL ROVE
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflatio...
KARL ROVE
Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'def...
KARL ROVE
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Na...
KARL ROVE
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiven...
KARL ROVE
Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
KARL ROVE
Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the presi...
KARL ROVE
I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York ...
KARL ROVE
I believe in traditional marriage.
KARL ROVE
Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10...
KARL ROVE
And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my M...
KARL ROVE
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He...
KARL ROVE
The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elemen...
KARL ROVE
Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama qu...
KARL ROVE
Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
KARL ROVE
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager...
KARL ROVE
I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been o...
KARL ROVE
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vo...
KARL ROVE
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
KARL ROVE
Grace can and does have a history.
KARL RAHNER
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic m...
KARL RAHNER
Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
KARL RAHNER
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
KARL RAHNER
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we shou...
KARL RAHNER
Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
KARL RADEK
The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
KARL RADEK
If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new moveme...
KARL RADEK
Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions...
KARL RADEK
Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of whic...
KARL RADEK
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced agai...
KARL RADEK
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
KARL RADEK
In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of ...
KARL RADEK
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the prov...
KARL POPPER
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c...
KARL POPPER
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
KARL POPPER
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life....
KARL POPPER
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
KARL POPPER
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal trut...
KARL PEARSON
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr...
KARL MARLANTES
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel i...
KARL MARLANTES
'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig int...
KARL MARLANTES
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especia...
KARL MARLANTES
I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a mi...
KARL MARLANTES
I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I ...
KARL MARLANTES
In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on...
KARL MARLANTES
And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering p...
KARL MARLANTES
I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well the...
KARL MARLANTES
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thin...
KARL MARLANTES
The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
KARL MARLANTES