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| 785ebdc | Adults and pups alike, they surrounded her in the greeting ceremony, licking her face and wagging their tails. Brokefang let the girl hug him fiercely about the neck and nuzzled her in reply. | tamora-pierce wolf-speaker | Tamora Pierce | |
| 7220560 | Does she ever get sick from eating human food?" Kaddar watched as the dragon managed to dump half the water down her throat and half all over herself. Daine smiled. "She never gets sick from anything, Once she ate a box of myrrh. She was only three months old. I thought every little accident she had would harm her for life." "She didn't get sick?" "She burped smoke for a week, that's all." | kaddar kittne | Tamora Pierce | |
| 2adbdc0 | Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do. | Tamora Pierce (Author) | ||
| 51bb396 | Ask you to keep an eye on her, keep her safe, and you allow my child to be used in that!" "Flatten your fur, Weiryn," replied the badger. "What makes you think I had a choice?" "The Great Ones can find another instrument! Why didn't you tell them so?" "I did tell them, you horn-headed idiot. They didn't listen. She didn't listen. If you have a complaint, you take it up with the Graveyard Hag." | daine graveyard-hag weiryn | Tamora Pierce | |
| dfb2ecf | I knew it!" he cried, jubilant. "I thought 'twas you, but there's more of you now. You should've seen the likes of her, boys," he said, turning towards the other convicts as he pointed at Kel. "We was all outlaws, livin' on the edges, and this bunch of pages stumbled into our camp. We chased 'em back in a canyon, and her -" he jabbed his finger at Kel - "she gutted ol' Breakbone Dell, and him the meanest dog-skinner you'd ever hope to meet... | kickass-heroine respect | Tamora Pierce | |
| ae7aa5c | How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And what might our ancient attraction for flowers have to teach us about the deeper mysteries of beauty - what one poet has called "this grace wholly gratuitous"? Is that what it is? Or does beauty have a purpose? (64)" | flowers plants | Michael Pollan | |
| f093cc3 | Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup | plant-based-foods whole-food | Michael Pollan | |
| b014674 | Psilocybes gave our hominid ancestors "access to realms of supernatural power," "catalyzed the emergence of human self-reflection," and "brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination." This last hypothesis about the invention of language turns on the concept of synesthesia, the conflation of the senses that psychedelics are known to induce: under the influence of psilocybin, numbers can take on c.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 6e24e16 | Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, | Michael Pollan | ||
| ae33bce | People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost. We kill to eat, we cut down trees to build our homes, we exploit other people and the earth. Sacrifice - of nature, of the interests of others, even of our earlier selves - appears to be .. | humanity nature ritual sacrifice | Michael Pollan | |
| 95a1c53 | Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much I sort of knew. But the very best cooking, I discovered, is also a form of intimacy. | cooking food | Michael Pollan | |
| f585f80 | That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat." | nutrition | Michael Pollan | |
| 115396c | When chopping onions, just chop onions. | onions | Michael Pollan | |
| a3c460e | I asked the feedlot manager why they didn't just spray the liquefied manure on neighboring farms. The farmers don't want it, he explained. The nitrogen and phosphorus levels are so high that spraying the crops would kill them. He didn't say that feedlot wastes also contain heavy metals and hormone residues, persistent chemicals that end up in waterways downstream, where scientists have found fish and amphibians exhibiting abnormal sex chara.. | factory-farming feedlots manure pollution | Michael Pollan | |
| f31ef58 | What is most troubling, and sad, about industrial eating is how thoroughly it obscures all these relationships and connections. To go from the chicken ( ) to the Chicken McNugget is to leave this world in a journey of forgetting that could hardly be more costly, not only in terms of the animal's pain but in our pleasure, too. But forgetting, or not knowing in the first place, is what the industrial food chain is all about, the principal rea.. | food industry | Michael Pollan | |
| 2dd63fb | Let us go, then, exploring, this summer morning, when all are adoring the plum blossom and the bee. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 8f6c0b8 | Breathing, it seemed to me, was a proper attribute for the mountains... mountains that quietly functioned as a single thing with a rhythmic inhale-exhale I could feel... | Ellen Meloy | ||
| b022182 | Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light. | Ellen Meloy | ||
| 3634dbf | Perception of a state is not the state. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 5de0b9f | Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things scavenged on the way from gutters, interglacial littorals, sacked settlements and broken relationships, the Earth-human has no use for thinking except in the service of acquisition. He stands at every gate with one hand held out and the other behind his back, inventing reasons why he should be let in. From the firs.. | greed human-nature thought | M. John Harrison | |
| d74a680 | There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as | destructive education ignorance prejudice pseudo-science race voltaire | Martin Gardner | |
| 20f6865 | Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that's just what they relish! Not to be themselves, to be as unlike themselves as they can. That's what they regard as the highest point of progress. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 07eb9d9 | I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better? | notes-from-the-underground philosophy | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 828d3ba | one must first learn to live oneself before one blames others | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2f94315 | ln yshj`k rfqk latwn, wln ywswk. ln ydlwk `l~ m fyk mn `nSr lkhyr wlSdq. bl`ks.. syHSwn `lyk kl GlT@, wln yrw Gyr `ywbk, wln ybynw lk l m 'nt fyh mkhTy', syf`lwn dhlk wfy nfwshm frH khbyth. wdh tZhrw lk b'nhm l yHflwn b'mrk bl yzdrwn sh'nk, knw fy lHqyq@ yfrHwn lkl m tq` fyh mn 'khT (k'n lnsn m`Swm mn lkhT'!). | solitude | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 39f35a8 | He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f014d32 | All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most... . | crime-and-punishment dostoevsky dostoyevski dostoyevsky life life-philosophy life-quotes russian-literature | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 86efe1d | fZl y`tqd- Ht~ lfZ 'nfsh l'khyr- n s`th lm tHn b`d w'n mjdh at l ryb | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c52af01 | and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometimes be the means of saving us. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 81e50ea | Hm...yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most...But I am talking too much. | fear fear-of-change | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| f649299 | We all have chance meetings with people, even with complete strangers, who interest us at first glance, suddenly, before a word is spoken. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ca2c0d5 | m lkhwf `l~ kl Hl l thmr@ mn thmrt lkdhb | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6a504fb | No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could firgive? But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything. You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, "Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8dde869 | Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such questions? No, they cannot, and we will not impose on them an impossible restriction. The sight of an unworthy father involuntarily suggests tormenting questions to a young creature, especially when he compares him with the excellent fathers of his companions. The conventional answer to this question is: 'He begot you, and you are his flesh and b.. | nature | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 4f0d97b | n m ykhfwh lbshr 'kthr m ykhfwn hw 'n ytqdmw khTw@ l~ l'mm, hw 'n yqwlw klm@ shkhSy@. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ceea97e | I am sure that deep down Ikhmenev was in a state of turmoil and pain as he witnessed the tears and torment of his poor wife; I am sure it was more agonizing for him than for her - but he could not control himself. This is what happens sometimes even with the most kind-hearted of people, who are nevertheless weak-willed, and who, despite their kind-heartedness, are apt to get carried off into a state of ecstasy when unburdening themselves of.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| add7f1e | l ykfy 'n ykwn lmr dhkyan Ht~ ytSrf bdhk. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 29b5682 | Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy. | criminals humane rehabilitation religion | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 9114d47 | There is a crack in my soul, and I can hear it trembling, quivering, stirring deep inside me. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 09e2151 | Raskolnikov was not used to crowds, and, as we said before, he avoided society of every sort, more especially of late. But now all at once he felt a desire to be with other people. Something new seemed to be taking place within him, and with it he felt a sort of thirst for company. He was so weary after a whole month of concentrated wretchedness and gloomy excitement that he longed to rest, if only for a moment, in some other world, whateve.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| dd29c71 | My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is no reason to be troubled because we are absurd, is there? For we really are: we are absurd, frivolous, we have bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look around ourselves, we don't know how to understand, we are all like this, all of us, you, and I, and everyone! And you aren't offended by my telling you straight to your faces that .. | absurdity meaning-of-life ridiculousness understanding-life | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b01e462 | No, it was not the money that I valued--what I wanted was to make all this mob of Heintzes, hotel proprietors, and fine ladies of Baden talk about me, recount my story, wonder at me, extol my doings, and worship my winnings. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 53ea2ff | It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky. That is a youthful question too, dear reader, very youthful, but may the Lord put it more frequently into your heart!... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 13b3b32 | She has known all the time that I cared for her--though I never said a word of my love to her-- | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |