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| 2a38857 | I replied that England (the dear place of my nativity) was computed to produce three times the quantity of food, more than its inhabitants are able to consume, ... But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, from whence in return we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves. Hence i.. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 3ae4d06 | By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress. | dishonesty evil gender inequality men storytelling wickedness women | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| a4a8262 | You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ff29676 | And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe--its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 09f1d20 | Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. | development formative-years maturity memory | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| c71d7fd | We were outside the world, we didn't even own things -- some clothes. . . . This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way to live, and it therefore feels right to us, because our brains recognize it from 3 millions of years practicing it. In essence our brains grew to their current configuration in response to the realities of that life. So as a result people grow powerfully attached to that kind of life, when they get the chance to live i.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 641af4e | History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth. | government history knoweldge proof questions | Howard Zinn | |
| 57309fd | Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive of the ends for which government has been established. This principle, in the Declaration of Independence, suggests that true patriotism lies in supporting the values the country is supposed to cherish: equality, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. When our government compromises, undermines, .. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 86f7721 | I hate loneliness, but it loves me. | Tite Kubo | ||
| 999e4cb | There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. | insight | R. Scott Bakker | |
| 37b13c7 | If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| c8d1a03 | I'm a lost soul. We wail. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 7bb5dbc | Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine.. | baiting bickering crazy family-relationship granddaughter grandmother humor single-women | Tamora Pierce | |
| aaf901b | What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. ." | Edward R. Tufte | ||
| 5b66fa2 | 'ry 'nh l yjwz lrjl 'n ytHdth `n mr'@ ly shkhS akhr. dhlk r'yy 'krrh w'Sr `lyh. 'n mn ttkhdhh njyan wtfDy lyh b'srrk ln yfhm 'bdan. lmlk nfsh ln yfhm. Hyn tHtrm mr'@ fl ttkhdh lk njyan tbwH lh b'mwrk. wdh knt tHtrm nfsk fl tf`l dhlk 'yDan. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7c121fb | I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them. | growing-up kids nostalgia teach teachers teaching youth | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 3bad0d5 | And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted -- you will find out at once how to arrange it all. | love mankind society | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 43a3cd4 | You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. Remember my words, for although I shall talk with you again, not only my days but my hours are numbered. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3a7bf02 | yukhyWalu lyWa 'nWa lnsn, Hyna ydhmhu hlkun l sbyla l~ tHshyh, knhyri mnzlin fwqh mthlan, nm ysh`ru `ndy'dhin brGb@in l tqwmu fy 'n yq`da mGmDan `ynyh, wlyHdth m yHdth! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 97b7990 | and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you! | happiness love | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| f95ec7e | nny l 'r~ fy 'y mkn shyy'an swk , w kl m `dk fhw `ndy sw . lmdh 'Hbk ? w kyf 'Hbk ? l 'dry . qd l tkwnyn mn ljml `l~ shy lbt@ . hl ttSwryn 'nny l '`rf ''nt jmyl@ 'm l , Ht~ mn nHy@ jml lwjh ? 'm qlbk fsyy' wl shk , w 'm fkrk fmn ljy'z jdan 'n ykwn mjrdan mn kl rf`@ w nbl . | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 442e8ce | love equates people | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cf3ccd9 | If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent. | creative-process determination devotion empowerment energy talent writing | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 349891e | Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| f1faba3 | Curing the negatives does not produce the positives. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| cfb23e5 | Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| e3f060f | Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort | emotional-quotient | Daniel Goleman | |
| b95f568 | He was so handsome I felt like filing a civil lawsuit against his parents, claiming punitive damages, pain and suffering to my psyche. | Penny Reid | ||
| 53f67eb | Alex the waiter was on my Spank Naughty list in third place, right after Henry Calvill the actor, then Henry Calvill as Superman. He was proof that God existed, and that God loved straight women. | Penny Reid | ||
| 33f56eb | My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs' turn to roll the dice. | dice | Penny Reid | |
| 8c19a98 | Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 47408f0 | Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| e1e12f7 | I don't have a body, I am a body. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 79c64a6 | The fragility of love is what is most at stake here--humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed--but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one. | humanity isolation love | Christopher Hitchens | |
| d1de8b0 | If America is a melting-pot, then to me India is a thali, a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not necessarily mix with the next, but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 35c9523 | Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified. | observation satire | Evelyn Waugh | |
| a963893 | She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true. | b-a-s-s greenleaf o-henry-memorial | Flannery O'Connor | |
| cc8d8aa | Alright then, let's explain it this way. There are four basic kinds of Daimons or vampires; bloodsuckers, soulsuckers, energy/dreamsuckers, and slayers. (Talon) You guys are the slayers. (Amanda) (Hunter snorted) What? Were you born with a remote in your hand? (Kyrian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 34d0fbb | Athena came to stand by her side. She reached out and ran a light touch over the read wrap. 'Nice dress." Grace frowned in disbelief. 'They're fighting to the death and you're admiring my clothes?' Athena laughed. 'Trust me, I pick my generals well. Priapus doesn't stand a chance." | fantasy-lover grace sherrilyn-kenyon | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 0ebfb8e | Beware the viper in your closet. Isn't that another thing you're always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f971531 | No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary) But it doesn't feel temporary. (Arik) It never does at its onset. It's only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b65f7df | Glad to see you're still breathing." - Caleb "Glad to be breathing." - Nick" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 09ed4d5 | All right, two dozen house specials. Any chance one of you might want to live dangerously and try a vegetable? (Aimee) Do we look like rabbits to you? (Fury) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4167663 | But then, his revenge had been more direct. He'd hunted down the ones who'd killed his sister and nephew - those who'd survived his mother's attack - and he'd made them wish they'd never been born with nerve endings.' (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon |