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| 9d4fb20 | Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy. | democracy government justice law-school legal-system subversion | Howard Zinn | |
| 3426993 | Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. | moral-conflict | Howard Zinn | |
| 2647621 | The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed that if a 'liberal' state is at war with a 'totalitarian' state, then the war is justified. The beneficent nature of a government was assumed to give rightness to the wars it wages. ...Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt were liberals, which gave credence to their words exalting the two world wars, just as the liberalism o.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 88cbfc7 | Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself. | human-nature insight | Richard Kadrey | |
| 99131ba | You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 1a0814d | I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking -- by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| d474850 | Call themselves?" asked Yama. "You are wrong, Sam, Godhood is more than a name. It is a condition of being. One does not achieve it merely by being immortal, for even the lowliest laborer in the fields may achieve continuity of existence. Is it then the conditioning of an Aspect? No. Any competent hypnotist can play games with the self-image. Is it the raising up of an Attribute? Of course not. I can design machines more powerful and more a.. | godhood yama | Roger Zelazny | |
| 6eb2e75 | Such times are rare, such times are fleeting, but always bright when caught, measured, hung, and later regarded in times of adversity, there in the kinder halls of memory, against the flapping of the flames. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 46e0a4b | Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 216c962 | rosto cupped laddybuck in one hand and grabed the back of my neck with the other pulling me in and kissing me right on the mouth. i should have punched him but his lips were soft and sweet. i will punch him next time. -beka after she realizes that rosto the piper is the new rouge | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 77a9353 | The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the.. | fast-food hamburgers meat | Michael Pollan | |
| 7e6a5e9 | That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealth.. | food food-science nutrition social-sciences | Michael Pollan | |
| 05d6d63 | Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, so singularly free of the horrors to be found in Grimm and Andersen, contain many scenes of decapitation. As far as I know, there have been no empirical studies of how children react to such scenes an.. | children death literature media reading | Martin Gardner | |
| b1bff67 | a man is no example for a woman. It's a different thing. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b06bda3 | It is precisely that requirement of worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!" | fanaticism freedom-of-religion war worship | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e1878fe | Listen," Kirillov stopped, gazing before him with fixed, ecstatic eyes. "Listen to a big idea: There was one day on earth, and in the middle of the earth stood three crosses. One on a cross believed so much that he said to another: 'This day you will be with me in paradise.' They day ended, they both died, went, and did not find either paradise or resurrection. What had been said would not prove true. Listen: this man was the highest on all.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e1d3ba1 | You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache. | love mystery pain painful sadness suffer | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| c32ab46 | I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, on.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3c6e841 | My brother asked the birds to forgive him: that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but birds would be happier at your side -a little happier, anyway- and children and all animals, if you yourself were nobler than you are now. It's all like an ocean, I tell you. Then .. | forgiveness interconnectedness | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 858e1be | n lHqyq@ lSdq@ dy'm tkwn Gyr qbl@ 'n tSdq, fn shy't 'n tj`l lHqyq@ qbl@ 'n tSdq `lyk 'n tDyf lyh shyy' mn lkdhb | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3e8280c | Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundre.. | god redemption | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| ad7d5db | It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1bcba8b | jmy` lns y`ybwn lkhl`@, wlknhm jmy` yt`Twnh. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1e07df3 | Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| aeabccb | This is a Lucent PBX with Audix voice mail, right? I used this kind at all of my old jobs, so I'm pretty familiar with them." Completely ignoring me, Pat continues to demonstrate every single one of the phone's features, half of which she describes incorrectly. I don't bother taking notes because I've used this system a thousand times. I have no need to transcribe an erroneous refresher course. "Hey, you should be writing this down." Like I.. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| ca4abf6 | How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 29a9cc0 | And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand. | replies stubbornness trolls understanding | Augustine of Hippo | |
| 6d35202 | The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it. | will | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 016c6bf | Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back by my own weight? ...A brotherly mind will love in me what you teach to be lovable, and will regret in me what you teach to be regrettable. This is a mark of a Christian brother's mind, not an outsider's--not that of 'the sons of aliens whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand.. | discipleship friendship intercession | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| aed97df | Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| a1b205e | Think of how much better the world would be if people craved compliments about the beauty of their heart rather than the beauty of their face. | Penny Reid | ||
| ab7285e | With enough use, practice, and honing of skill, words were the weapons of choice used by exceptional writers and poets. Minds can be changed, hearts can be lost and broken, souls can be surrendered given the right words. | Penny Reid | ||
| ee79fab | Reading for me, was like breathing. It was probably akin to masturbation for my brain. Getting off on the fantasy within the pages of a good novel felt necessary to my survival. If I wasn't asleep, knitting, or working, I was reading. This was for several reasons, all of them focused around the infititely superior and enviable lives of fictional heroines to real-life people. Take romans for instance. Fictional women in romance novels never.. | Penny Reid | ||
| c9d3fb6 | My type has a romantic soul. He'll make my brain and my heart fight over who gets him first. He does what's right, even when it's not easy--actually, especially when it's not easy. He knows the value of discipline, education, honor, and restraint. And his strength of character is the only thing that outweighs the strength of his love for me. | Penny Reid | ||
| b35cd8e | Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 3ba96ad | When you are starting your life over, with a new sense of self, who you once were is going to challenge you. Who you once were is going to dangle old carrots, old wounds and issues, in front of your face. When that happens, you will be tempted to revert to old feelings, old patterns of thought, and old patterns of behavior. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 871a127 | God is love. Love is always present, surrounding us; guiding, growing, and teaching us. Even in the midst of total chaos, pain, and dysfunction, love is calling us to a higher experience and expression. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| fc6edc9 | In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. | drugs liberty privacy urinalysis war-on-drugs | Christopher Hitchens | |
| bc0802b | The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war criminal and lawbreaker, or they can become seized by the exalted standards to which they continually hold everyone else. The current state of suspended animation, however, cannot last. If the courts an.. | henry-kissinger human-rights international-human-rights-law international-law law united-states war-crimes | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 6fcfdc8 | As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only. | iran prison-rape rape sexual-repression sodomy women-s-rights | Christopher Hitchens | |
| e804f42 | It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind. | christianity jerry-falwell jesse-jackson pluralism religion religious-right separation-of-church-and-state united-states united-states-constitution | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 5b4ac10 | I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait." | Alan Garner | ||
| 47318d7 | Hunger also changes the world--when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| e242a5d | My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. Like the pigeons of St. Mark's, theywere everywhere, under my feet, singly, in pairs, in little honey-voiced congregations, nodding, strutting, winking, rolling the tender feathers of their necks, perching sometimes, if I stood still, on my shoulder .. | Evelyn Waugh |