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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3342218 | El problema es que todo el mundo siempre compara a todos con todos y que eso le quita merito a la gente | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 82edcb9 | And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| d4942d2 | You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it? | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 160571e | Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 4b7d913 | They agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 12d1beb | English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy). | bill-o-reilly blue-collar-snobbery egalitarianism elitism narcissism pride pride-and-prejudice proud-ignorance racism tea-party-movement | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 7815a1d | The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| f273b8b | I use the example as computed by the mathematician Michael Berry. If you know a set of basic parameters concerning the ball at rest, can compute the resistance of the table (quite elementary), and can gauge the strength of the impact, then it is rather easy to predict what would happen at the first hit. The second impact becomes more complicated, but possible; you need to be more careful about your knowledge of the initial states, and more .. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 1d95c6c | An idea stats to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 781f451 | Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of the earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don't be like the ingrate who got a castle as a present and worried about the mildew in the bathroom. Stop looking the gift horse in the mouth--remember that you are a Black Swan. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| df8d118 | Scars signal skin in the game. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| cb1b5e1 | No person in a transaction should have certainty about the outcome while the other one has uncertainty. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| a3df1dd | Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 7156422 | My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 5122105 | Don't tell me what you think, tell me what you have in your portfolio. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 4d9a741 | We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 5790a0f | Still in Bed?" Thomas had asked with amusement, as Lissianna had blinked at them. "I am so glad you got at least a little rest today. I feared you'd work Greg to death while the rest of us tried to sleep." | lissianna sex thomas | Lynsay Sands | |
| 939a987 | Merry was worrying about the hurt-a-lot bit when the door suddenly burst open and a group of men began to crowd into the room, carrying Alexander d'Aumesbery before them. It seemed either the men had grown weary of waiting, or the women had informed the men that she was ready and in bed when they'd gone below. She wasn't too pleased about that. Merry would have liked to ask more about this pain and blood. That didn't sound at all appetizing.. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 945b767 | Have you talked to her?" "What would you have had me say Bastien? Oh, I'm sorry Inez. I didn't mean to bite you, my fangs slipped." | thomas | Lynsay Sands | |
| c128d72 | Me mataron los murmullos | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 79f482a | You've been dreaming lies again, Susana. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 514c29e | Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead | fans | Henry Jenkins | |
| de106b2 | Please forgive me for fighting against us, Gavin. Please forgive me for not fighting for us when I knew we were supposed to be together. Forgive me for being the weak mess I am. But more than anything... thank you for loving me. Thank you for your dimpled smile and your bottle caps. I'll never be able to look at one without thinking of you. Thank you for your stupid Yankees and your wiseass remarks. Thank you for wanting late night drives a.. | gavin-blake pulse | Gail McHugh | |
| 26f087e | When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know. | Allison Pearson | ||
| dffafab | Linger now with me, thou Beauty, On the sharp archaic shore. Surely 'tis a wastrel's duty And the gods could ask no more. If thou lingerest when I linger, If thou tread'st the stones I tread, Thou wilt stay my spirit's hunger And dispel the dreams I dread. Come thou, love, my own, my only, Through the battlements of Groan; Lingering becomes so lonely When one lingers on one's own. I have lingered in the cloisters Of the Norther.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| b722bb8 | She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different. | independence revolution | Mervyn Peake | |
| 01ca5b9 | The Key to Success is Action | Brian Tracy | ||
| f31e178 | Rule: Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field. | Brian Tracy | ||
| d7fe678 | the quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work | Brian Tracy | ||
| 4aeb74d | If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do. | Nikki Giovanni | ||
| eab8e00 | If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you'd be straining to hear the rest. | mentions-to-movies sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| f03462d | No blame, no hate - why no communication? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e34565e | Sometimes you just have to roll in it. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 5d81714 | It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7702875 | Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 11841f1 | Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I'd ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why. It was one of the few times I'd ever seen Hoyt alone. | hoyt loneliness true-blood | Charlaine Harris | |
| 88c389d | Should we do this now? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 26ae3ec | The sweetest part of being a couple was sharing your life with someone else. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| f392cb6 | I never set out to be a one-night-stand kinda woman. I want to be sure, if I have sex with you, that it's because you want to be around for a while and because you like me for who I am, not what I am. Maybe a million women had made approximately the same speech. I meant it as sincerely as any one of those million. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 731bfb2 | I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense. | real-murders | Charlaine Harris | |
| e3fee23 | Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most ..." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4143101 | Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 09700a3 | You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7205459 | Our way was to share a fire until it burned down, To speak to each other until every person was satisfied. Younger men listened to older men. Now the tell us the vote of a young, careless man counts the same as the vote of an elder.' In the hazy heat Tata Ndu paused to take off his hat, turn it carefully in his hands, then replace it above the high dome of his forehead. No one breathed. 'White men tell us: They tell us: You do not all.. | voting | Barbara Kingsolver |