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| b4cc515 | Another kind of transcendence myth has been dramatization of human life in terms of conflict and vindication. This focuses upon the situation of oppression and the struggle for liberation. It is a short-circuited transcendence when the struggle against oppression becomes an end in itself, the focal point of all meaning. There is an inherent contradiction in the idea that those devoted to a cause have found their whole meaning in the struggl.. | bigotry feminism mary-daly misogyny sexism | Mary Daly | |
| fc646a2 | Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British government, built on debt, corruption, and influence. Hamilton's goal, Jefferson charged, was to ally the rich and well born with the government at the people's expense, creating a corrupt aristocracy leagued with the government ag.. | government hamilton history jefferson | R.B. Bernstein | |
| a5402eb | As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: "party". Most Americans feared the idea of party; believing that a society should unite to achieve the public good, they denounced parties as groups of ambitious men selfishly competing for power. Worse, parties were danger signals for a republic; if parties dominated a republic's politics, its days were numbered." | parties politics republic | R.B. Bernstein | |
| fe29f69 | If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 2135ea1 | Isn't the analogy with good manners perfect? Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word 'punctilious' ('attentive to formality or etiquette') comes from the same original root word as punctuation. As we shall see, the practice of 'pointing' our writing has always been offered in a spirit of helpfulness, to underline meaning and prevent awkward misu.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| a602c78 | It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody. | Lynne Truss | ||
| d96a6bd | I was talking about children that have not been properly house-trained. Left to their own impulses and indulged by doting or careless parents almost all children are yahoos. Loud, selfish, cruel, unaffectionate, jealous, perpetually striving for attention, empty-headed, for ever prating or if words fail them simply bawling, their voices grown huge from daily practice: the very worst company in the world. But what I dislike even more than th.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 66d3a19 | And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl - a great sense of duty: I think it rather stupid, but there it is - but still she finds the way her mother has been arranging and pushing and managing and angling in all this perfectly odious. You two must have had hogsheads of that grocer's claret forced down your throats. Perfectly odious: and she is obstinate -.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 3efd53d | Rested, shaved, coffee'd, steaked, you will be a different man. | rest | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 4413f77 | They made him [Stephen] a little canvas boat, and it was thought that if he were obliged to wear two sea-elephant's bladders, blown up and attached to his person, he could not come to harm in such a placid sea; but after an unfortunate experience in which he became involved in his umbrella and it was found that the bladders buoyed up his meagre hams alone, so that only the presence of Babbington's Newfoundland preserved him, he was forbidde.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 352fbd0 | Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me And never leave your happy homes to sail the raging sea. | aubreyad master-and-commander sea-shanty the-far-side-of-the-world | Patrick O'Brian | |
| c6f3336 | For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even less of this valuable substance scenting him and the very air about him there can be no doubt of the matter; and such is the nature of the human mind that he experiences a far greater real benefit than the drug itself would provide, were it deprived of its stench. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 2901e50 | Perhaps the truth was there was no perfect marriage, just some really good ones. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 63004a3 | hmmm. Didn't they say a man's feet echoed the size of his manhood? Of its own accord, her gaze darted up Gregor's leg to where his deliciously tight breeches caressed his- "Knife." She blinked, her gaze jerking up to his face, her skin flushing. "Knife." he said again. "Knife?" she repeated dumbly. "Good god, Oglivie. I will need a knife if I'm to cut these vegetables." -- | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 8d65f48 | Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference." | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 5e82f76 | There is nothing shameful in wanting, Venetia. There's only shame in not getting. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| e5390ec | We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet. | Mary Lawson | ||
| 41e2859 | There are, then, three sorts of religious experiences. The ancient rites, which are essentially propitiatory. The mysteries, which purge the soul and allow us to glimpse eternity. And philosophy, which attempts to define not only the material world but to suggest practical ways to the good life, as well as attempting to synthesize (as Iamblichos does so beautifully) all true religion in a single comprehensive system. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 4037743 | The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 48d7299 | The planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me and in the stillness the regular sound of my footsteps striking the pavement was like a the rhythmic beating of a giant stone heart. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 644fe9a | Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 13eb06e | No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves. | self-loving | Gore Vidal | |
| b9cb214 | and he smiled when he saw me, as if just the sight of me had improved his day. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| f195cd2 | Sometimes, the only things that make you feel good are the same ones that worked when you were five. Yes, I slammed the door | Val McDermid | ||
| 051e391 | When all else fails, go for the ego. | Val McDermid | ||
| da90793 | You know it's a bad case when the only way you can catch up on your sleep is to get unconscious. | Val McDermid | ||
| 841f690 | If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down in front of the television set and ate it. I felt very brave and plucky as I ate my perfect dinner. Okay, I didn't have a date, but at least I wasn't one of those lonely women who sat home with a pathetic container of yogurt. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 5d6adda | Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 5fb4512 | I loathed being sixty-four, and I will hate being sixty-five. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyannaish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over sixty. The long shadows are everywhere--friends dying and battling illness. A miasma of melancholy hangs there, forcing you to deal with the fact that your life, however happy and successful, has been full of disappointments and mistakes, little .. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 695bf4e | My religion is Get Over It. | strength | Nora Ephron | |
| bf76344 | The truth is that men don't want to be friends with women. Men know they don't understand women, and they don't much care. They want women as lovers, as wives, as mothers, but they're not really interested in them as friends. They have friends. Men are their friends. And they talk to their male friends about sports, and I have no idea what else. Women, on the other hand, are dying to be friends with men. Women know they don't understand men.. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 4512954 | When I first met him, he had a recurrent nightmare that Henry Kissinger was chasing him with a knife, and I said it was really his father, and he said it was really Henry Kissinger, and I said it was his father and he said it was Henry Kissinger, and this went on for months until he started going to the Central American shrinkette, who said Henry Kissinger was really his younger sister. | Nora Ephron | ||
| ca07ae5 | You'd be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 85db272 | Because I'm too drunk to feel the pain if you hit me, and if you kill me I'll be glad to be dead. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 6fb1acf | The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed: that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction. | sin | Anthony Burgess | |
| abb2775 | Unfortunately there is so much original sin in us all that we find evil rather attractive. To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| ea8e07e | Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| f79c0ef | Las cosas seran siempre peores, nunca mejores. Que nuevo mundo estan preparandose ustedes. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| c00ac6d | Hapisteki sairin dedigi gibi, her insan sevdigi seyi oldurur. Ceza ogesi budur belki de. (syf. 100) | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 4c4a904 | Why are we fighting? We're fighting because we're soldiers. That's simple enough, isn't it? For what cause are we fighting? Simple again. We're fighting to protect our country, and, in a wider sense, the whole of the English-Speaking Union. From whom? No concern of ours. Where? Wherever we're sent. Now, Foxe, I trust all this is perfectly clear. | war | Anthony Burgess | |
| 40af550 | If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange--meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 4bb69af | Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre - I go to seek a great perhaps. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 01dc981 | Iyi bir insan olmak cok da hos olmayabilir. Iyi bir insan olmak korkunc olabilir. Bunu sana soylerken, kulaga ne kadar celiskili geldigini biliyorum...Tanri ne ister? Tanri iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma secenegini mi? Kotulugu secen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayatilmis bir insandan bazi acilardan daha ustun olabilir mi? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 1fc11e8 | Chelovek, vybravshii Zlo, v opredelennoi stepeni luchshe togo, kogo prinudili k Dobru. | Anthony Burgess |