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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7011746 | And slowly the snow began to melt. First, doing a number on children's constructions; Then retreating to the foundations of barns and other buildings. Mangy grass poked through the receding snow. Patches of white were swallowed up in the till of the fields. New shapes emerged. Areas of the forest became INACCESSIBLE now that the snow no longer weighed down the weeds and brier. ...Nothing fits together anymore. | Craig Thompson | ||
| ef01da1 | I promise-ted I'd care up for him downwise 'til the tailend of time. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 3d778b5 | They gave the impression of unnaturally halted motion, like film caught in a projector. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| ae47fbc | I thought about death and was gripped by feelings which choked my chest and made my throat dry, a sudden pushing and shoving in my guts. It was a sort of chronic ailment I had. Once that feeling and that agitation of my whole body had begun, I wouldn't be able to shake it off until I got to asleep. And I couldn't recall it with the same impact in the daytime. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 8451a6b | You're right about this being limited to me, it's entirely a personal matter. But with some personal experiences that lead you way into a cave all by yourself, you must eventually come to a side tunnel or something opens on a truth that concerns not just yourself but everyone. And with that kind of experience at least the individual is rewarded for his suffering. Like Tom Sawyer! He had to suffer in a pitch-black cave, but at the same time .. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| cb06db7 | Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 2a632dd | If we did not believe that truth is universal, why should so many missionaries endure these hardships? It is precisely because truth is common to all countries and all times that we call it truth. If a true doctrine were not true alike in Portugal and Japan we could not call it true. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| f1d78d0 | Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams. | facts | Natalie Babbitt | |
| 5301b2f | What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 2721abb | Here, child, said Mae hastily Hide your eyes. Boys? Are you decent? What'd you put on to swim in? I got Winnie Foster in the house? For goodness sake ma said Jesse emerging from the stairwell . You think were going to march around in our altogether with Winnie Foster in the house? | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 1896602 | Outside, the night seemed poised on tiptoe, waiting, waiting, holding its breath for the storm. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| aa4d466 | That doesn't sound like civil war to me," said Gaylen, turning back to his book with a smile. "It only sounds silly." "Of course it's silly," said the Prime Minister impatiently. "But a lot of serious things start silly." | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 278bdde | The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process. | philosophy reason | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| 53b9dd7 | Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 40b4ad3 | T]he vanity of the contents" of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests "...since it is at the same time the vanity of the self that knows itself to be vain" | Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich | ||
| 96d0ca7 | The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter; similarly, when the fruit appears, the blossom is shown up in its turn as a false manifestation of the plant, and the fruit now emerges as the truth of it instead. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| b5ed79e | The unchallenged assumption is that humans may use animals for their own purposes, and they may raise and kill them to satisfy their preference for a diet containing animal flesh. | Peter Singer | ||
| aac0038 | We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and reared dogs for food, we would probably reverse our order of preference. Are we turning persons into bacon? | ethics personhood vegetarianism | Peter Singer | |
| 81a689d | In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and Stalin. How much would we give to prevent those horrors? Yet how little are we doing to prevent today's even larger toll and all the misery that it involves? I believe that if you read this book to the end, and look honestly and carefully at our sit.. | Peter Singer | ||
| bba291f | Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrigal singers in the world can't make that other one real again. It's like dinosaurs. We can put them back together perfectly, bone for bone, but we don't know what they smelled like, what kind of sounds they made, or how big they really looked standing in the grass under all those fossil fern trees. Even the sunlight must have been different, a.. | perspective peter-beagle | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 9d0dddb | Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about. | ethics moral-philosophy | Peter Singer | |
| bbe1cdb | If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us. | fulfillment happiness | Peter Singer | |
| fa3521a | You possess the power of thought and the power of will. Utilize to the uttermost these divine gifts! | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 3352654 | The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 936b10c | Astrology is the study of man's response to planetary stimuli. The stars have no conscious benevolence or animosity; they merely send forth positive and negative radiations. Of themselves, these do not help or harm humanity, but offer a lawful channel for the outward operation of cause-effect equilibriums which each man has set into motion in the past. "A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical.. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| bd3f4b5 | Practice loving those who do not love you. Feel for those who do not feel for you. Be generous to those who are generous only to themselves. If you heap hatred on your enemy, neither he nor you are able to perceive the inherent beauty of your soul. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 8dae6c9 | I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition - or else the booze was beginning to work - to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year. I was a check-er myself, having the height and leg for it, but Rudi thought they looked bumpkinish, which only shows what damned queer taste they had in Austria in those days. Of course, if you'll put up w.. | fashion metternich stripes trousers | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 4cc2ea2 | As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| e8d6da7 | Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off. "Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I'd never seen him with his breeches down, chasing after some big Afghan bint." | mannners | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| b0ed38a | This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went o to Egypt and told you that they weren't a commitment kind of guy after six years. That was real life. Not a guy like Marc. Or the marquis. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 38a699e | She wasn't on heroin then, but she was a mess. I thought I was going to put Humpty Dumpty back together and turn her into a princess. Instead, she turned into scrambled eggs, and always was | Danielle Steel | ||
| e088eb2 | I'd love to be a writer one day | Danielle Steel | ||
| aaa1c95 | Was it my lot in life to stand forever on heaven's shores watching the glittering swirl of celestial bodies on the other side? | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| f26fcfa | Walk around Tokyo and all you see are people trying to sell you something. Tell them okay and before you know you have bought something. Make the mistake of telling your address and now you're on a mailing list. Some old guy pats you on the shoulder and before you know what hit you you're in a hotel room. Stalkers' victims, the ones they kill, are always women. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 6645df5 | The soul must stretch over the cosmogonic abysses, while the body performs its daily duties. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
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| 42bd551 | pointed out that the corporation enjoys the same rights as a living person under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This concept was upheld in 1886 by the Supreme Court in 'Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company' and has been a fact of law ever since. I emphasized to those executives that the corporation should also be required to accept the same responsibilities as those expected of a person; it too should be a .. | corporations responsibilities supreme-court | John Perkins | |
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| dbe9eb4 | Stop being so greedy," she said, "and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion magazines for the latest styles. Nations like ours are drowning in poverty, but your people don't even hear our cries for help. You shut your ears to the voices of those who try to tell you these things.. | John Perkins | ||
| d238018 | Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound Seems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught; Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thought As Hermes with his lyre in sleep profound The hundred wakeful eyes of Argus bound; For I am weary, and am overwrought With too much toil, with too much care distraught, And with the iron crown of anguish crowned. Lay thy soft hand upon my brow and cheek, O peaceful Sleep! until from pain released I bre.. | peace sleep weariness | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| 937b3f4 | Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling--something | O. Henry | ||
| e1ca5d4 | At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will. | Alison Weir |