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| 41ee539 | The most common myth about money is that having more will make me more secure. It won't. Wealth can be lost instantly through a variety of uncontrollable factors. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you -- your relationship with God. | Rick Warren | ||
| 307cab0 | To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart. | fulfillment life | Rick Warren | |
| c07330d | Authenticity is the exact opposite of what you find in some churches. | Rick Warren | ||
| 435e2dc | Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating a hamburger can now make you seriously ill: There is shit in the meat. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 5cfa4ad | The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth. | fast-food ray-kroc successful-franchising walt-disney | Eric Schlosser | |
| df10567 | Lowe has broken from the Christianity of his parents, a faith that now seems hopelessly out of date. The meek shall no longer inherit the earth; the go-getters will get it and everything that goes with it. The Christ who went among the poor, the sick, the downtrodden, among lepers and prostitutes, really had no marketing savvy. He has been transfigured into a latter-day entrepreneur, the greatest superstar sales person of all time, who buil.. | entrepreneur jesus | Eric Schlosser | |
| c40e422 | Music can change the mood in a drumbeat. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| e0c3649 | What's your favorite movie?...that should be our question. When we don't know what to say. Movies are a safe topic. What's wrong with the standard 'how's it going?' because all you get is 'Okay' or 'Fine', and then what? You're back where you started. It's a useless question. Like anyone is going to tell you how it's really going. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 30290a5 | You're in my blood like poison. And I'd die because of you. | pete | Caitlin Kittredge | |
| 84ca554 | Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County. | thriller | John Grisham | |
| ebe3ea3 | God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed..." -Judge Frank Howell Seay" | John Grisham | ||
| 64b4c5e | My dad's filthy rich, and even though we're Irish Catholic I'm an only child. I've got more money than you do so I'll work for free. No charge. A free law clerk for three weeks. I'll do all the research, typing, answering the phone. I'll even carry your briefcase and make the coffee. I was afraid you'd want to be a a law partner. No I'm a woman, and I'm in the South. I know my place. | John Grisham | ||
| 38cc901 | The Senator did not know who owned the jet, nor had he ever met Mr. Trudeau, which in most cultures would seem odd since Rudd had taken so much money from the man. But in Washington, money arrives through a myriad of strange and nebulous conduits. Often those taking it have only a vague idea of where it's coming from; often they have no clue. In most democracies, the transference of so much cash would be considered outright corruption, but .. | John Grisham | ||
| ec59e25 | He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast. | popularity | John Grisham | |
| 6bca4f8 | I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down. | revengeful | John Grisham | |
| d5bc593 | I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you. | promise | John Grisham | |
| bfa595c | He's busy taking the fifth | John Grisham | ||
| 2cf19c8 | I'm here to tell you, separate was never equal. | John Grisham | ||
| dac0575 | if one characteristic of Lyndon Johnson was a boundless ambition, another was a willingness, on behalf of that ambition, to make efforts that were also without bounds. | perseverance work-ethic | Robert A. Caro | |
| a11dbdb | Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it's not okay for those people to do it themselves? | social-pressure suicide | Michael Thomas Ford | |
| 2538bde | Have fun, think small, don't fear the obvious. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 4ed123a | Colleges and universities, meanwhile, have no such qualms about torturing their applicants. Think about how much work a high-school student must do to even be considered for a spot at a decent college. The difference in college and job applications is especially striking when you consider that a job applicant will be getting paid upon acceptance while a college applicant will be paying for the privilege to attend. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| a5a4687 | The ECLS data do show, for instance, that a child with a lot of books in his home tends to test higher than a child with no books. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 1d9f0cc | The more social science we learn, the more we realize that people, while treasuring their independence, are in fact drawn to herd behavior in almost every aspect of daily life. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 7f7fc66 | Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve the problem of how unrelated individuals are to live together without killing each other--by providing them with a bond not based on kinship. Second, it gives people a motive, other than genetic self-interest, for sacrificing their lives on behalf of.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| a3d5c36 | Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding. | failure history learning past problems solutions struggle success | Jared Diamond | |
| e095c08 | The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s. | anasazi buildings construction skyscrapers | Jared Diamond | |
| 91d09aa | The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 503b54e | I thought of an old poker players' expression: If you look around the table and can't spot the sucker, the sucker is you. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 4e4ad66 | Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep. But there's a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn't predation. It's protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock. | philosophy police predation protect sheep sheepdog wolves | Barry Eisler | |
| 464c266 | It's a strange thing, having a child," he said. It completely alters your most fundamental priorities. When my eldest daughter was born, I realized that I would do anything - anything - to protect her. If I had to set myself on fire to save her from something, I would do it with the utmost relief and gratitude. It's quite a thing, quite a privilege, to care about someone so much that the measure of worth of your own life is changed so much... | parenthood parents-and-children sacrifice-for-others value-of-life | Barry Eisler | |
| 974d049 | The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love. | James Frey | ||
| fc1f536 | When I see you the world stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The world just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you. Just you, and my eyes staring at you. When you're gone, the world starts again, and I don't like it as much. I can live in it, but I don't like it. I just walk around .. | James Frey (Author) | ||
| 3667a8c | The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves .. | James Frey | ||
| 50be090 | The future is unwritten. What will be will be. | James Frey | ||
| f43ed30 | My secret is that I choose to be the person that I want to be. That I don't believe in destiny or predetermination, but in choice, and that each of us chooses to be the person we are. Whatever you want to be you can be, whatever you want to do you can do, wherever you want to go you can go. The world, and the life ahead, is ours for the taking. The future is unwritten, and you can make it whatever you want it to be | James Frey | ||
| a6b31a5 | Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity. | Donald T. Phillips | ||
| d6dbc76 | Phaethon asked: "Do you think there is something wrong with the Sophotechs? We are Manorials, father! We let Rhadamanthus control our finances and property, umpire our disputes, teach our children, design our thoughtscapes, and even play matchmaker to find us wives and husbands!" "Son, the Sophotechs may be sufficient to advise the Parliament on laws and rules. Laws are a matter of logic and common sense. Specially designed human-thinking v.. | John C. Wright | ||
| 1f7156d | It is very difficult for a man to differentiate between empathy and sympathy. He hates to be pitied. | John Gray | ||
| 299de82 | You are strong, self-reliant, entirely able to take care of yourself and of me... You are fearless, courageous; you saved my life, nursed me back to health, hunted for my food, provided for my comfort. You don't need me. Yet you make me want to protect you, watch over you, make sure no harm comes to you. I could live with you all my life and never really know you; you have depths it would take many lifetimes to explore. You are wise and anc.. | fearless feminism love women | Jean M. Auel | |
| fedce3c | A victim act is a form of passive aggression. It seeks to achieve gratification not by honest work or a contribution made out of one's experience or insight or love, but by the manipulation of others through silent (and not-so-silent) threat. The victim compels others to come to his rescue or to behave as he wishes by holding them hostage to the prospect of his own further illness/meltdown/mental dissolution, or simply by threatening to mak.. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| dee0f9f | Good. Then we will fight in the shade | Steven Pressfield | ||
| f287e0f | He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 0b2988d | The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. | Steven Pressfield |