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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 64d18b5 | You hide a Sun-powered device in darkness--only if you want to know when it is brought out into the light. In other words, the monolith may be some kind of alarm. And we have triggered it. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| ef74bb9 | They will say that the Universe has no purpose and no plan, that since a hundred suns explode every year in our Galaxy, at this very moment some race is dying in the depths of space. Whether that race has done good or evil during its lifetime will make no difference in the end: there is no divine justice, for there is no God. | evil galaxy god good justice race space sun universe | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 455df4c | I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 9f1ff65 | can't change what you don't acknowledge. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 95b08d7 | Governor Bradford is said to have attributed the plague to "the good hand of God," which "favored our beginnings" by "sweeping away great multitudes of the natives ... that he might make room for us." | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 26d07ee | As it does today, malaria played a huge role in the past--a role unlike that of other diseases, and arguably larger. When Europeans brought smallpox and influenza to the Americas, they set off epidemics: sudden outbursts that shot through Indian towns and villages, then faded. Malaria, by contrast, became endemic, an ever-present, debilitating presence in the landscape. Socially speaking, malaria--along with another mosquito-borne disease, .. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 463d027 | all states can be parceled into four types: pluralist, in which the state is seen by its people as having moral legitimacy; populist, in which government is viewed as an expression of the people's will; "great beast," in which the rulers' power depends on using force to keep the populace cowed; and "great fraud," in which the elite uses smoke and mirrors to convince the people of its inherent authority." | Charles C. Mann | ||
| d13739d | The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying. | heroes illiad patroclus sidekicks | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 573254d | The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge. | literature quest writing | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 0d53659 | Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers. | humor | Thomas C. Foster | |
| d84791e | In a sense, every story or poem is a vacation. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 54b2934 | Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It's all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself. | grammar language literature | Thomas C. Foster | |
| d8bada3 | Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| ddf0130 | We have to bring our imaginations to bear on a story if we are to see all it's possibilitiess; otherwise it's just about somebody who did something. Whatever we take away from stories in the way of significance, symbolism, theme, meaning, pretty much anything except character and plot, we discover because our imagination engages with that of the author. Pretty amazing when you consider that the author may have been dead for thousands of yea.. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| dd61e35 | History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another. | stories | Thomas C. Foster | |
| 06340a7 | Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| a8fddcb | Don't read with your eyes. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 93f5088 | But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I call it this because Jack Vance is the first author successfully and adroitly to have applied this rule in his The Dying Earth. The Jack Vance Rule is: (1) The wizard has to be able to do something unusual, or else he is not a wizard, (2) he cannot do everything, or else there is no drama; therefore (3) the story teller has to communic.. | literature wizards | John C. Wright | |
| 931e13d | the first tear drops falling from a depressed sky, | Ryan C. Thomas | ||
| 9ad72f0 | Remember, code is your house, and you have to live in it. | Michael C. Feathers | ||
| 332ac3b | To me, legacy code is simply code without tests. | Michael C. Feathers | ||
| 3be4c5e | Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted. | paranormal-thriller | C. Robert Cales | |
| 134e504 | You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| a18db9b | Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2eee3a4 | ACCIDENTAL GROWTH INTENTIONAL GROWTH Plans to Start Tomorrow Insists on Starting Today Waits for Growth to Come Takes Complete Responsibility to Grow Learns Only from Mistakes Often Learns Before Mistakes Depends on Good Luck Relies on Hard Work Quits Early and Often Perseveres Long and Hard Falls into Bad Habits Fights for Good Habits Talks Big Follows Through Plays It Safe Takes Risks Thinks Like a Victim Thinks Like a Learner Relies on T.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| f804899 | As a leader, you don't earn any points for failing in a noble cause. You don't get credit for being "right" as you bring the organization to a halt. Your success is measured by your ability to actually take the people where they need to go. But you can do that only if the people first buy into you as a leader." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2e2d6e4 | A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem. It's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4a06926 | I have to live with myself, and so I want to be fit for myself to know, I want to be able, as days go by, Always to look myself straight in the eye; I don't want to stand, with the setting sun, And hate myself for things I have done. I don't want to keep on a closet shelf A lot of secrets about myself, And fool myself, as I come and go, Into thinking that nobody else will know The kind of man I really am; I don't want to dress up myself in .. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 43d93e4 | Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| f90f019 | The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That's good because if you're young you're still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you've wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 12ebfb7 | Some people want to put restrictions on themselves according to their talent, intelligence, or experience. Others worry about their age. But with God, one person can always make a difference, regardless of circumstances or situation. And age means nothing to Him. When Jesus fed the five thousand, a boy provided the loaves and fishes (John 6:1-13). And in the case of Noah, when it began to rain and he entered the ark, he was six hundred year.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| b94643e | When you like people and treat them like individuals who have value, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 6145f24 | If you don't like the crop you are reaping, check the seed you are sowing. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 8e2ab79 | Good leaders know when to display emotions and when to delay them. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2bbc474 | Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| bfb9cf7 | you should not be led by popular opinion; | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 6cb1511 | An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 9dc9a33 | If you want to create capacity and margin in your life, I suggest that you do the following: * Delegate so you're working smarter, not just harder. * Do what you do best and drop the rest. * Get control of your calendar; otherwise other people will. * Do what you love because it will give you energy. * Work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted. If you do those things while doing the right work with purpose in the right place w.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 05f2c9b | Henry Ford, who said, "Don't find a fault; find a remedy." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| e54aaf6 | One day when the Raiders were in Oakland, a reporter visited their locker room to talk to Ken Stabler. Stabler really wasn't known as an intellectual, but he was a good quarterback. This newspaperman read him some English prose: "I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than that it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glo.. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 6d9ec84 | The most important personal-growth phrase you will ever hear a good leader say to you is "follow me." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 07c950a | To lead any way other than by example, we send a fuzzy picture of leadership to others. If we work on improving ourselves first and make that our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| ebdd2ff | Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. To become someone who can mine a lot of gold, you need to keep repeating the process of good thinking. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 63c1dbb | Everything looks like a failure in the middle. | John C. Maxwell |