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| a2c145e | By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday... | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f98da32 | It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| def36e7 | Using people to leverage a refined process multiplies production; using people as a solution to a poor process multiplies problems. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fc43448 | Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue--but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e426c60 | The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3dd41e2 | To "fix" someone's problem, you very often just need to empathically listen to them. Even" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5fea10d | A society that puts equality--in the sense of equality of outcome--ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equa.. | Milton Friedman | ||
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| f8980a9 | Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would be a deadly ultimatum to the world. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 514d498 | But, as a matter of fact, another part of my trade, too, made me sure you weren't a priest." "What?" asked the thief, almost gaping. "You attacked reason," said Father Brown. "It's bad theology." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| c820fb3 | Nine times out of ten a man's broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable. His vision of his own village may really be full of varieties; and even his vision of his own nation may have a rough resemblance to the reality. But his vision of the world is probably smaller than the world...hence he is never so inadequate as when he is un.. | multiculturalism nonsectarianism open-mindedness | G.K. Chesterton | |
| d8e988e | The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 6836f53 | Modern art has to be what is called 'intense.' it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong. | modern-art modernity | G.K. Chesterton | |
| af23d24 | We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| a5f5cb8 | He is a man, I think," he said, "who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man." Lambert laughed in the act of lifting some macaroni to his mouth. "Dangerous!" he said. "You don't know little Quin, sir!" "Every man is dangerous," said the old man, without moving, "Who cares only for one thing. I was once dangerous myself." | humor potential | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f41473c | You don't expect me," he said, "to revolutionize society on this lawn?" Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly. "No, I don't," he said; "but I suppose that if you were serious about your anarchism, that is exactly what you would do." | revolutionize society | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 94fa171 | There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought what you said well worth saying, that you thought a paradox might wake men up to a neglected truth." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 27cd777 | Some stupid people started the idea that because women obviously back up their own people through everything, therefore women are blind and do not see anything. They can hardly have known any women. The same women who are ready to defend their men through thick and thin are (in their personal intercourse with the man) almost morbidly lucid about the thinness of his excuses or the thickness of his head. A man's friend likes him but leaves hi.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| cbf1683 | The truth is that exploration and enlargement make the world smaller. The telegraph and the steamboat make the world smaller. The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world. It is inspiriting with.. | wonder | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 0f526ed | Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that m.. | civilization culture europe history renaissance thirteenth-century | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8debfc2 | It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. We announce on flaring posters that a man has fallen off a scaffolding. We do not announce on flaring posters that a man has not fallen off a scaffolding. Yet this latter fact is fundamentally more exciting, as indicating that that moving tower of terror and mystery, a man, is still abroad upon the earth.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 33d1edb | If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is that the trumpet of true Christianity, the challenge of the charities and simplicities of Bethlehem or Christmas Day never rang out more arrestingly and unmistakably than in the defiance of Athanasius to the cold compromise of the Arians. It was emphatically he who really was fighting for a God of Love against a God of colourles.. | christianity god god-is-love heretics love pagans the-trinity | G.K. Chesterton | |
| cbb5ed5 | We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 12b4056 | No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. Soon people forget what the man really wanted first; and after a successful and vigorous political life, he forgets it himself. The whole is an extravagant riot of second bests, a pandemonium of pis-aller. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| fdba0fa | Always be comic in a tragedy | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 1610b65 | It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money. | hypocrisy irony philanthropy | G.K. Chesterton | |
| a1822cc | Why is it," he asked vaguely, "that I think you are quite a decent fellow? Why do I positively like you, Gregory?" He paused a moment, and then added with a sort of fresh curiosity, "Is it because you are such an ass?" | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| c205961 | Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. | praise | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 3ed94e8 | The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed. | freedom-of-speech political-correctness | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4fef06a | He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four. | truth | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f94c810 | Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape. We who are Liberals once held Liberalism lightly as a truism. Now it has been disputed, and we hold it fiercely as a faith. We who believe in patriotism once thought patriotism to.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d2751ec | The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my last dogma defiantly) it is not native to man to be so. Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best .. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 06799c5 | I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. | Philip Pullman | ||
| a0c625a | It might have been a new way for her heart to beat. | cute first-love love lovers romantic | Philip Pullman | |
| 1f12c01 | Lyra has never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing. | Philip Pullman | ||
| cfc13b6 | The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky. | description sky sunset | Philip Pullman | |
| 4e78919 | Who are you?" the woman said at last. "Lyra Silver--" "No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this?" Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand." | scholars truth | Philip Pullman | |
| 8423919 | A woman is a funny animal. | James M. Cain | ||
| 04287eb | let's get stinko. | James M. Cain | ||
| 411f666 | O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I w.. | James M. Cain | ||
| d55786a | Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 6da4748 | No. Not my circus, not my undead monkeys. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0c5e6f5 | Obnoxious smart-ass. Never been anywhere, never done anything, huh. Arrested development, huh. Considering that it was coming from a man who spent his nights peeing on his neighbors' fences, that was rich. Shoot, I should've told him that. | sean-evans | Ilona Andrews | |
| fa8a32d | That's all right," she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine." Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism." | fate-s-edge funny gaston george ilona-andrews jack kaldar male-skepticism the-edge | Ilona Andrews |