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3e54ae9
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What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.
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artists
sportsmen
seeing
inspirational
farmer
botanists
fossils
perspective
geologists
sight
flowers
game
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John Lubbock |
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0d1e0a5
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"Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding," Joseph exclaimed. "If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?" The master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said: "There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun."
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philosophy
truth
glass
dogma
game
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Hermann Hesse |
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2c4fabb
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[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.
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loss
friendship
ender
walls
separation
game
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Orson Scott Card |
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b34b7e6
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Stages As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every stage, So every virtue, so our grasp of truth, Blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor, Be ready bravely and without remorse To find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force For guarding us and helping us to live. Serenely let us move to distant places And let no sentiments of home detain us. The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces. If we accept a home of our own making, Familiar habit makes for indolence. We must prepare for parting and leave-taking Or else remain the slaves of permanence. Even the hour of our death may send Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces, And life may summon us to newer races. So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
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herman
stages
hesse
the
glass
game
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Hermann Hesse |
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a5372af
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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god
life
hands
game
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Jeannette Walls |
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dcb2cac
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And the game begins anew.
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game-of-life
rebirth
game
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Neil Gaiman |
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a9abc8d
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and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. 'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is!
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game
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Lewis Carroll |
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3fdac30
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The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
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cricket
description
play
game
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Douglas Adams |
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eef3cb2
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"You said that you thought Queen Orlagh was waiting for an advantage to declare war. Instead, I think she is trying a new ruler--one she hopes she can trick or replace with another indebted to her. She thinks me young and feckless and means to take my measure." "So what?" I ask. "Our choice is to endure her games, no matter how deadly, or engage in a war we cannot win?" Cardan shakes his head and drinks another cup of tea. "We show her that I am no feckless High King." "And how do we do that?" I ask. "With great difficulty," he says. "Since I fear she is right."
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war
game
right
replace
trick
young
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Holly Black |
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930afe5
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It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn't it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn't playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.
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reality
fantasy
playing-games
playing
pretending
pretend
fantastic
games
fantasies
game
children
childhood
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Francesca Lia Block |
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1b72393
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A relationship is a game of chess.
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relationship
game
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Sophie Kinsella |
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1b5937c
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Exploration is a dirty game.
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exploration
game
fairness
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Tahir Shah |
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d95835d
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"What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: "One hand, one million dollars, no tears."
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john-gutfreund
john-meriwether
liars-poker
salomon-brothers
wall-street
game
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Michael Lewis |
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6889189
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The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
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war
live
world
life
truth
genius
game
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Orson Scott Card |
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b4dbfa8
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"Kipster is a perfectly valid word," Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. "Okay, so what does it mean?" Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it... it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her. "Well Sarah's on drugs again and that's why she did it in Mario's backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid's been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there's a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won't go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and...." Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she'd learned it from Jud's death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days."
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suicide
words
funny
80-s
argue
kipster
cape-breton
nova-scotia
boring
eighties
drama-queen
scrabble
maturity
coming-of-age
canada
pollution
growing-up
baby
teenage
fighting
eating
gossip
bullying
scary
game
drama
self-harm
nostalgia
rumors
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Rebecca McNutt |
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89f67a0
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That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier...
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nature
beauty
life
prison
pretty
game
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Hermann Hesse |
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5ad3b2b
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The hunter does not seek dead game.
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hunter
seek
game
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Frank Herbert |
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79ab00b
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The best example I know, of this astonishingly stupid attitude towards sport, is that of Franz Ferdinand. His, however, was an achievement with the gun. He used to shoot at Konopist with no less than seven weapons and four loaders, and he once killed more than 4,000 birds, himself, in one day. [ of statistics and quite beside the point: a Yorkshireman once drank 52 1/2 pints of beer in one hour.] Now why did Franz Ferdinand do this? Even if he shot for twelve hours at a stretch, without pause for luncheon, it means that he killed six birds in each minute of the day. The mere manual labour, a pheasant every ten seconds for twelve successive hours, is enough to make a road-mender stagger; and there is little wonder that, by the time the unhappy archduke had accumulated his collection of 300,000 head of game, he was shooting with rubber pads on his coat and a bandage round his ears. The unfortunate man had practically stunned himself with gunpowder, long before they bagged him also at Sarajevo.
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pheasant
gunpowder
sarajevo
gun
shooting
game
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T.H. White |
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c19de35
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Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.
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fun
locked
locked-up
island
think
girl
games
mystery
mysterious
game
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John Fowles |
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6c799fb
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"Once the game is over,' " he says, " 'the king and the pawn go back in the same box.' " "In life and death we are equal."
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italian-proverb
life-and-death
game
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Lisa Renee Jones |
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d7c019a
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Se protivrechi edno na drugo, se protrchuva edno kraj drugo, nikade nema sigurnost. Se mozhe da se tolkuva vaka, i se mozhe da se tolkuva obratno. Seta chovechka istorija mozhe da se protolkuva kako razvoj i napredok, a istovremeno bez da se vidi neshto povekje od propast i glupost. Zar nema vistina? Zar ne postoi vistinska i validna nauka?
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truth
glass
dogma
game
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Hermann Hesse |
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4d75ac6
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"I brush a strand of hair from her face, then move beside her. When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life. I ease her jacket open and lean away. A pink lace bra stares back at me. Nothing else. I whisper. "Is our game over?" she asks nervously. "It's definitely over, 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game." --
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spanish
brittany-ellis
intimate
game
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Simone Elkeles |
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0a1f8bf
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"You call that a kiss?" "Yep." Okay, so I'm in shock the girl put my hand on her creamy cheek. Damn, you'd think I was on drugs by the way my body reacted. She had me totally under her spell a minute ago. Then the pretty witch turned my game around so she was the one with the upper hand."
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kiss
upper-hand
brittany-ellis
spell
game
trick
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Simone Elkeles |
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3312fd7
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"You have games on there?" he asks. "Yeah," I answer for her. "She's become a checkers fanatic. Shelley, show him how it works." While Shelley slowly taps the screen with her knuckles, Alex watches, seemingly fascinated. When the checkers screen comes up, Shelley nudges Alex's hand. "You go first," he says. She shakes her head. "She wants you to go first," I tell him. "Cool." He taps the screen. I watch, getting all mushy inside, as this tough guy plays quietly with my big sister. "Do you mind if I make a snack for her?" I say, desperate to leave the room. "Nah, go ahead," he says, his concentration on the game. "You don't have to let her win," I say before leaving. "She can hold her own in checkers." "Uh, thanks for the vote of confidence, but I am tryin' to win," Alex says. He has a genuine grin on his face, without trying to act cocky or cool."
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checkers
brittany-ellis
shelley-ellis
smile
win
game
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Simone Elkeles |