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| d04195d | I've always been rather very one-sided about the science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. I didn't have time to learn, and I didn't have much patience for what's called the humanities; even though in the university there were humanities that you had to take, I tried my best to avoid somehow to learn anything and to work on it. It's only afterwards, when I've gotten older and more relaxed that I've spread o.. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| b878978 | Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts, | David Weber | ||
| a44c5f3 | We maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington) | David Weber | ||
| 2b0b756 | I try so hard, and it is still not working. I wear the same clothes as the others. I say the same words at the same times: good morning, hi, how are you, I'm fine, good night, please, thank you, you're welcome, no thank you, not right now. I obey the traffic laws; I obey the rules. I have ordinary furniture in my apartment, and I play my unusual music very softly or use headphones. But it is not enough. Even as hard as I try, the real peopl.. | Elizabeth Moon | ||
| c035ff2 | And it seemed to me, too, that I've always been afraid when I was in the company of people...afraid of saying something stupid...afraid of being laughed at. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1d26696 | Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world! | words ridiculous | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 106c695 | If a kiss could be seen it would look like a violet. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5198136 | I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 04ddcb5 | Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ebdf718 | You do love me, Gilbert? You haven't said you loved me in so long." "My dear, I didn't think you needed words to know that. I can't live without you." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c9f95c8 | If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne ... He had made up his mind, also, that his future must be worthy of its goddess. ... But he meant to keep himself worthy of Anne's friendship and perhaps some distant day her love; and he watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass in judgment on it. | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| a4a729d | It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1c5672b | I've had a splendid time and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home. | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| 7c27768 | Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams. And when it tips on a cloud some of them spill out and fall into your sleep. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2da4531 | Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing not love nor comradeship nor any human emotion to round out her felicity. Such moments come rarely in any life, but when they do come they are inexpressibly wonderful - as if the finite were for a second infinity - as if humanity were for a space uplifted into divinity - as if all ugliness had vanished, lea.. | solitude introversion quiet | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 406df9e | Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2fa3d88 | We'll never say good-bye to each other. We'll just smile and go. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a3c0b3b | All the romantic lore of our culture has told us when we find true love with a partner it will continue. Yet this partnership lasts only if both parties remain committed to being loving. Not everyone can bear the weight of true love. Wounded hearts turn away from love because they do not want to do the work of healing necessary to sustain and nurture love. Many men, especially, often turn away from true love and choose relationships in whic.. | love-quotes true-love romantic wounded-heart romantic-partner partnership vulnerability power | bell hooks | |
| 578b4ce | Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static. | bell hooks | ||
| 5af6f79 | Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and findin.. | love | bell hooks | |
| 10c2bce | Cultures of domination attack self-esteem, replacing it with a notion that we derive our sense of being from dominion over another. Patriarchal masculinity teaches men that their sense of self and identity, their reason for being, resides in their capacity to dominate others. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 5040118 | Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to their freedom of will, it is difficult for any man of any class to rebel against patriarchy, to be disloyal to the patriarchal parent, be that parent female or male. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 3d18734 | Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, Amiri Baraka and other black male leaders have righteously supported patriarchy. They have all argued that it is absolutely necessary for black men to relegate black women to a subordinate position both in the political sphere and in home life. | Bell Hooks | ||
| f842eb9 | Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one way to begin again on love's journey. In relationships, whether heterosexual or homosexual, the partner who is hurting often finds that their mate is unwilling to 'hear' the pain. Women often tell me that they feel emotionally beaten down when their partners refuse to listen or talk. When women communicate from a place of pain, it is often char.. | pain love-quotes relationships love listening-to-others vulnerability-quotes listening-skills emotional-abuse communication listening vulnerable vulnerability | bell hooks | |
| 37665f2 | To be loving we willingly hear each other's truth and, most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 3cd1c73 | The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy. | politics love lovelessness liberalism justice | Naomi Klein | |
| 5db77e1 | To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. | Cornel West | ||
| 3a6eca7 | the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway. | Rachel Klein | ||
| 5cacf30 | She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. | spy-vs-spy short-story | Maile Meloy | |
| 50f34b0 | I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour. | Ellen Meloy | ||
| 5de6975 | PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation. | Edward R. Tufte | ||
| 4cf3faf | So, what counts is that you think this is the best choice. Once you've decided that, you should chase it down with everything you've got. | Maki Murakami | ||
| 4cf9f55 | lHb ldh~ ykhlTh lHqd, `ndm yzwl hdh lHb l ytbq~ sw~ l`dhb lshdyd. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4345f4a | But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions. | lies systemization logic | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b7c6684 | Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained--something bound to happen. Whether by this ther.. | reality impossible desire expectations thought insane | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 81ea7b5 | The righteous man departs, but his light remains. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 11a38a6 | n m qd ybdw lk fy Tby`tk shr nm ySfyh wynqyh wyThrh mjrd sh`wrk bh | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4e3b021 | You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most. | happiness life misfortune | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 9d3147d | Because I'll tell everything to you alone, because it's necessary, because you're necessary, because tomorrow I'll fall from the clouds, because tomorrow life will end and begin. Have you ever felt, have you ever dreamed that you were falling off a mountain into a deep pit? Well, I'm falling now, and not in a dream. And I'm not afraid, and don't you be afraid either. That is, I am afraid, but I'm delighted! That is, not delighted, but ecsta.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d239cd8 | I love her with all my soul. Why, she is a child! She's a child now -- a real child. Oh! you know nothing about it at all, I see." "And are you assured, at the same time, that you love Aglaya too?" "Yes -- yes -- oh; yes!" "How so? Do you want to make out that you love them BOTH?" "Yes -- yes -- both! I do!" "Excuse me, prince, but think what you are saying! Recollect yourself!" "Without Aglaya -- I -- I MUST see Aglaya! -- I shall die in m.. | love innocence | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b962371 | When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept repeating to himself, again and again. 'It's like a dream, I've sometimes dreamed of being in such degrading positions.' It was a misery to him to take off his socks. They were very dirty, and so were his underclothes, and now everyone could see it. And what was worse, he disliked his feet. All his lif.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 38d98b2 | One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy -- is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rati.. | existentialism | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b6ea0d6 | The impudence of Ignorance | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1549e17 | Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them. | sacrifice inspirational russian | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |