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| 9b88deb | In the United States especially, politics and economics don't mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 747b544 | If it takes a lot of courage to admit you don't know all the answers, just imagine how hard it is to admit you don't even know the right question. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 2076bf8 | But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs. | James Frey | ||
| bfa0fd3 | Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world. | James Frey | ||
| a6cb01d | We have so much difficulty imagining nothingness. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 116723f | Clark had always been fond of beautiful objects, and in his present state of mind, all objects were beautiful. He stood by the case and found himself moved by every object he saw there, by the human enterprise each object had required. Consider the snow globe. Consider the mind that invented those miniature storms, the factory worker who turned sheets of plastic into white flakes of snow, the hand that drew the plan for the miniature Severn.. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 0c6bab8 | paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ... | blue gray night poet poetry-quotes yellow | John Geddes | |
| 2ba12bb | You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me. | destiny fate jondalar love | Jean M. Auel | |
| f744147 | Fear conquers fear. This is how we Spartans do it, counterpoising to fear of death a greater fear: that of dishonor. Of exclusion from the pack. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 7c67306 | Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 403a065 | Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. | compass navigate resistance true-north | Steven Pressfield | |
| dd3e87f | Never forget, Alexandros, that this flesh, this body, does not belong to us. Thank God it doesn't. If I thought this stuff was mine, I could not advance a pace into the face of the enemy. But it is not ours, my friend. It belongs to the gods and to our children, our fathers and mothers and those of Lakedaemon a hundred, a thousand years yet unborn. It belongs to the city which gives us all we have and demands no less in requital. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 36cb3bf | We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance. | conquer-fear fear resistance | Steven Pressfield | |
| 4cb72fa | The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. | trouble | Steven Pressfield | |
| 307b543 | you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes | humor smoking zifnab | Margaret Weis | |
| 1505630 | ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship. apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken. millennium falcon. trademarked. all rights reserved. no! wait, i have it! dragin star! thats it! dragon star! | starship zifnab | Margaret Weis | |
| 981084f | Remove your hands, brother!" Raistlin said in a flat, soft whisper. "I'll see you in the Abyss!" "I said remove your hands!" There was a flash of blue light, a crackle and sizzling sound, Caramon screamed in pain, loosening his hold as jarring, paralyzing shock surged through his body. "I warned you," Raistlin straightened his robes and resumed his seat. | Margaret Weis | ||
| 588afaa | Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling | essay love poetry shopping | Anne Carson | |
| 433b772 | The God knows when to smile. | Euripides | ||
| ec85006 | No one who goes against her can win. | medea | Euripides | |
| 4e73f73 | courage is the gift of character | Euripides | ||
| 5d84dc7 | In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein" -- | humorous | John W. Campbell Jr. | |
| 305acab | Talk lives in a man's head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips. | discourse thought | Beryl Markham | |
| 91c2998 | Existe una opinion generalizada segun la cual la matematica es la ciencia mas dificil cuando en realidad es la mas simple de todas. La causa de esta paradoja reside en el hecho de que, precisamente por su simplicidad, los razonamientos matematicos equivocados quedan a la vista. En una compleja cuestion de politica o arte, hay tantos factores en juego y tantos desconocidos e inaparentes, que es muy dificil distinguir lo verdadero de lo falso.. | matemáticas mathematics science | Ernesto Sabato | |
| f48afcc | Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn't know me. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 7dd0b3b | Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis. | panic | Nelson DeMille | |
| a3cb98d | They were his environment, these men, and they were moulding the clay of him into a more ferocious thing than had been intended by Nature. Nevertheless, Nature had given him plasticity. Where many another animal would have died or had its spirit broken, he adjusted himself and lived, and at no expense of the spirit. | Jack London | ||
| 6eedbb2 | Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can't; | beauty | Jack London | |
| a9cc3d4 | You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. | Jack London | ||
| 01fc588 | Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time. | Jack London | ||
| e2577f0 | Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery. | Jack London | ||
| 7b3b8a9 | The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the 'kick'. | Jack London | ||
| 289a1f6 | Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a "gift," was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before--one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate." | cancer | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| 96a782a | What these [personality] tests tell employers about potential employees is hard to imagine since the 'right' answer should be obvious to anyone who has ever encountered the principle of hierarchy and subordination. You bet, but never to the point where I would hesitate to inform on them for the slightest infraction. Oh yes, but I know better than to let this capacity interfere with a slavish obedience to orders . . . The real function o.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 31a37e9 | Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understandi.. | enlightenment | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| dcfd500 | I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. | louisa-may-alcott love praise | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 9dd9585 | F]or in this queer world of ours, fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles and maiden aunts; and it is my private opinion that these worthy creatures are a beautiful provision of nature for the cherishing of other people's children. They certainly get great comfort out of it, and receive much innocent affection that otherwise would be lost. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 6bc078b | So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 21a0ba4 | But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 2e05fbe | I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, - something heroic or wonderful, that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 92a2940 | MY BETH. Sitting patient in the shadow Till the blessed light shall come, A serene and saintly presence Sanctifies our troubled home. Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. O my sister, passing from me, Out of human care and strife, Leave me, as a gift, those virtues Which have beautified your life. Dear, bequeath me that great patience Which has pow.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 46470da | Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost. | louisa-may-alcott prosperity | Louisa May Alcott | |
| aab00f4 | Alors c'est ca l'enfer. Je ne l'aurais jamais cru... Vous vous rappelez : le souffre, le bucher, le gril.. Ah quelle plaisanterie. Pas besoin de gril, l'enfer c'est les autres. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 4b239d3 | Reflection poisons desire. | Jean-Paul Sartre |