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| 0fae399 | The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled organisms. While the ripple moved through space in all directions, Earth would, after another 800 million years, evolve complex life, including flowers and dinosaurs and flying creatures, as well as a branch of vertebrates called mammals. Among t.. | connection einstein evolution gravity interconnection science the-universe | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 30dbafc | In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| edff35f | The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is. They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world. | happiness media reality simulation wants | Jean Baudrillard | |
| d9c34e9 | The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears. | rationality reason stubbornness | Ellis Peters | |
| 8b0760c | We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| c7436b3 | In the night, when the wind dies and silence rules the place of glittering stone, I remember. And they all live again. | post-book-depression | Glen Cook | |
| 2e1cfdc | Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 64bca71 | One guy, seeing that I was hungry, insisted on buying me a huge lunch and when I thanked him for his kindness, he simply said, 'Pass it on.' I liked this selfless concept - repay me by rewarding someone else entirely with a generous dollop of goodwill. | spiritual | Tony Hawks | |
| 3cddf8c | Pronounce a lover 'perfect' can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 0af07f6 | For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations.... Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a littl.. | failure flaws promise success | Alain de Botton | |
| 10d202f | The start receives such disproportionate attention because it isn't deemed to be just one phase among many; for the Romantic, it contains in a concentrated form everything significant about love as a whole. Which is why, in so many love stories, there is simply nothing else for the narrator to do with a couple after they have triumphed over a range of initial obstacles other than to consign them to an ill-defined contented future--or kill t.. | love-at-first-sight love-stories romance | Alain de Botton | |
| a998224 | None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught. | good wicked | Edith Hamilton | |
| 1f23955 | The look the Shepherd turned on her was very beautiful. "Nothing my Father and I have made is ever wasted," he said quietly, "and the little wild flowers have a wonderful lesson to teach. They offer themselves so sweetly and confidently and willingly, even if it seems that there is no one to appreciate them. Just as though they sang a joyous little song to themselves, that it is so happy to love, even though one is not loved in return." | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| a216f33 | Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| b58466c | Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon. | history hitler third-reich war weapons | William L. Shirer | |
| 57a5111 | I don't know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don't know why I didn't love her. It's something you can't really control. | Emily Giffin | ||
| fa74dae | In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance. | rachel | Emily Giffin | |
| eaf212f | The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. | thankfulness | William Blake | |
| 67f6559 | The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others t.. | heresy iconoclasm intuitive-ethics religion sophistry | William Blake | |
| ab8354e | Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. Can I see a falling tear. And not feel my sorrows share, Can a father see his child, Weep, nor be with sorrow fill'd. Can a mother sit and hear, An infant groan, an infant fear- No no never can it be, Never, never can it be. - | empathy | William Blake | |
| 4d3250e | Renton asks the cop: 'But what did ye say tae get him tae come back inside?' The officer replies: 'I just told him that no matter how bad it all seemed right now, it's just part and parcel of being young. That it gets easier.' 'Does it?' Renton asks, and the policeman shakes his head: 'Does it fuck; it gets bleeding worse. All that happens is that the expectations you have of life fall. You just get used to all the shit.' But what if you ca.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 6520243 | All I can think about is that boy's skull, bashed in, the way his head was caved in and how it wasn't like a heid at all, just like a broken silly puppet face, about how when you destroy something, when you brutalise it, it always looks warped and disfigured and slightly unreal and unhuman and that's what makes it easier for you to go on brutalising it, go on fucking it and hurting it and mashing until you've destroyed it completely, provin.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| edba7d3 | It's all okay, it's all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 059a67f | They mean well, and they mean well tae me, but there's nae way under the sun that they can appreciate what ah feel, what ah need. Protect me from those who wish tae help us. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f1e6673 | Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 29d282a | Since he was sixteen, he had been continuously sexually active, either with a girlfriend or through a series of casual flings. From the point of someone like Kibby, he considered, he would be regarded as highly succesful with women. But the real problem is relationships, which fucking social retards like Kibby can't grasp, because they're just so obsessed with getting their hole. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 1b11542 | It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know... | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 871ec39 | So make remembrance of Me, and I will make remembrance of you. And show thanks to Me, and do not be ungrateful. | remembrance-god thankfulness | Anonymous | |
| 90444d3 | With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets. | anonymous free-speech identity internet trolling | Orson Scott Card | |
| d511302 | Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. | 63 bible god jesus psalm | Anonymous | |
| d7e31fd | You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever. | addiction addiction-cure addiction-disease addiction-treatment-center alcohol-addiction alcohol-addiction-treatment alcohol-disease alcohol-rehab alcoholic alcoholics-anonymous alcoholism alcoholism-addiction-recovery chris-prentiss dependency depression disease drug-addiction healing-addiction inspiration inspire passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss rehab rehab-centers self-help | Chris Prentiss | |
| 7da8b67 | Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. 7 All .. | meaning-of-life philosophy religion under-the-sun | Anonymous | |
| 1aaa47f | Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? | Anonymous | ||
| e066fb5 | Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men, You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself. | buddhist self-awareness v-103 | Anonymous | |
| 05fd970 | But when perfections comes, the imperfect disappears 1st Corinthians | Anonymous | ||
| d617314 | People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate "deeper" truths, such as "1 and 1 make 1" (for lovers), or "1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1" (the Trinity). You can easily pick holes in those slogans, showing why, for instance, using the plus-sign is inappropriate in both cases. But such cases proliferate. Two raindrops running down a window-pane merge; does one plus one make one? A cloud breaks up into two clouds.. | mathematics truth | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| dd92139 | If we're going to die there's no harm in telling me pretty lies, In the end it won't matter, and I'll die happy." "I have no intention of letting either of us die. And then where would the lies get us?" "If you manage to keep us alive then I promise I'll forget. Just tell me you care about me. If we're going to die then how important is the truth?" "It's because we might die that the truth is particularly important,And telling you that I ca.. | Anne Stuart | ||
| 760fa5e | Please go away, Monsieur le Comte," she said in a polite voice. "You must have tired of your absurd, inconsequential games by now." "My games are never inconsequential, as long as they entertain me." She closed her eyes in frustration for a brief moment. "This house is filled with beautiful women..." "Oh, not quite filled," he said frankly, leaning back. "The Revels won't start for another day. At this point there are no more than half a do.. | Anne Stuart | ||
| e4eaf0b | She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me." | Anne Stuart | ||
| a8b7be1 | Despereaux," she whispered. And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!" Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing." | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 9b3e37d | Longing is not always a reciprocal thing. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 3c0f323 | The werewolf Senate hadn't been happy with the idea of a human alpha, and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about the fact that I had something most male Weres wanted very, very badly...Maddy. Lake. Lily, Katie, Sloane, Avie, Sophie... | ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-urban-fantasy | Jennifer Lynn Barnes | |
| eb75b14 | You were her friend?" he asked. "You liked her?" I told him Ella was the best friend I ever had. He paused again, and I feared he would say she died. But he finally answered that he believed her to be well and married to a rich gentleman. He added, " She is happy, I think, She is rich, so she is happy." Without thinking, I blurted, "Ella doesn't care about riches." Then I realized I'd contradicted a prince! " How do you know?" he said. I an.. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| fdfa449 | You don't need wings to fly. | Amy Harmon |