The difference between the way a person looks really is and what he is can be devastating.
Maybe vampires live forever, because you can't see yourself in mirrors or photos.
So it was and always will be, says Mr. Whittier. For the same reason, the children of our children's children will always have to fight with each other. Disease and hunger, they will not go away. Because we like pain, our pain. We love when things are bad. But we never admit it.
If there is a way to put up with a job you hate... Mrs. Clark says that for this we need to find a job that you like even less.
When you have a problem that really threatens us, everything else will seem a mere trifle. By the way, here's another reason why the Devil should have on hand. In comparison with the neighborhood all the little devils seem to be quite... tolerable. Another example of how Mrs. Clark develops the theory of Mr. Whittier.
We love tragedy. We love conflicts. We need the Devil and if the Devil is not, we create it.
Even today, if you can predict the future or read the past the signs that are inaccessible to most...
In the end, you'll end up in jail or in a madhouse.
People will always punish the few who has a special gift, which is not all that, and so they never recognize its real.
- What are you doing today? - asks the Missing Link. - What will you do to justify its existence?
To justify this mountain of dead animals and ancestors, on top of which you.
If we suppress in himself the need to hurt and be hurt if we deny it and allow all this unrealized pain accumulate in themselves, and that's when wars start. The serial killings. Shooting in the classroom.
- You mean, we are fighting, says the Holy No-Guts - due to the fact that we have low resistance to boredom?
And the Missing Link says:
- We are at war due to the fact that you deny this low resistance.
- Humanity is defined not by how we treat other people, says the Missing Link. Rubbing a finger on the layer of cat hair on my sleeve, he says: - Humanity is defined by how we treat animals.
He looks at Sister vigilante, who looks at the watch on your hand.
In a world where human rights are valued as never before in history... In a world where the General standard of living has reached its highest level... in cultural traditions, where everyone is responsible for his life here, says the Missing Link, the animals are fast becoming the last real victims. The only slaves and prey.
Animals, says the Missing Link is our standard for determining person.
If you do not become animals, there will be no humanity.
In a world where there are only people, people will not mean anything at all...
Agent Talker says:
Americans know how to work like no other in the world.
And also to learn and compete.
But when it comes to relaxing - we got trouble.
What with holiday profits?! With him, nothing will.
At the Olympics no medals for the unhurried.
For the first place in the world championship of laziness will not give positive recommendations.
The agent says, under the buzzing of the autofocus:
We well know how to win and lose - they can't take away.
To work hard until you drop - that we can.
But we are not able to calm down.
To hammer on all and to enjoy a well-deserved rest.
Instead, he says to himself, - we have marijuana and television.
Beer and valium.
And medical insurance.
Which we replenish as needed.
In Ancient Rome, says Sister vigilante, the Coliseum, was the position of editor, host of the gladiatorial games. To ensure that people remained peaceful and didn't kill each other, they were bloody spectacles in which organization was doing editory. From this word came the modern "editor", editor. Today our editors come up with a menu of murder, rape, arson and armed robberies on the front pages of daily Newspapers.
