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1 " I am flagrantly nuts. I can say this because I am a doctor and I know about these things. "
― Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker , The Fugitive's Doctor
2 " The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover. "
― Peter S. Beagle , A Fine and Private Place
3 " I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.Don't make enemies, I told myself.Swallow your pride.Hold your tongue.But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues. "
― Jen Crane , Rare Form (Descended of Dragons, #1)
4 " The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power. "
― Howard Zinn , You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
5 " Sex is flagrantly separated from reproduction in a few species, including bonobos and dolphins. "
― Jared Diamond , Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
6 " Lying here, during all this time after my own small fall, it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what we want them to mean. We’ll pluck significance from the least consequential happenstance if it suits us and happily ignore the most flagrantly obvious symmetry between separate aspects of our lives if it threatens some cherished prejudice or cosily comforting belief; we are blindest to precisely whatever might be most illuminating. "
― Iain M. Banks , Transition
7 " Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He holds back for our sakes. Re-creation involves us; we are, in fact, at the center of his plan...the motive behind all human history, is to develop us, not God. Our very existence announces to the powers in the universe that restoration is under way. Every act of faith by every one of the people of God is like the tolling of a bell, and a faith like Job's reverberates throughout the universe. "
― Philip Yancey , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
