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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6782dfd | You yourself told us that in the final analysis we are our own betrayers, playing Judas to our own Christ | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 51784a1 | You don't understand their mentality. They won't accept your resignation because they don't think you have the right to quit. They are the ones who decide how long you should stay and when you should be dispensed with. More than anything else, it was this arbitrariness that had become unbearable. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 5f9cf4a | fklW mn yDmur fy dkhlh yhwdh lmsyHh lkhS | Azar Nafisi | ||
| b876aa6 | We envy people like you, and we want to be you; we can't, so we destroy you. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| b76c031 | The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other. | totalitarianism women-writers | Azar Nafisi | |
| 6bf5fc8 | I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville. | culture epistemology ideology philosophy public-discourse television | Neil Postman | |
| 8e972dd | The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change." | narrative past physics truth | Neil Postman | |
| e259b27 | There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution. | inquiry learning teaching thinking | Neil Postman | |
| ad6ba8e | Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our modes of transportation. Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you .. | culture ideology progress technology television utopia | Neil Postman | |
| 6393028 | our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them. | Neil Postman | ||
| 0608fc8 | You can't get decent Mexican food in DC. | Michael Crichton | ||
| cd57b15 | Opleteniiat v zhitsi sviat e sm'rt. Vseki biolog znae, che malkite izolirani grupi se razvivat nai-b'rzo. Ako ostavite khiliada ptitsi na ostrov sred okeana, teshch e se razviiat mnogo b'rzo. Ako gi ostavite na goliam kontinent, evoliutsiiata im shche se zabavi. Pri nashiia vid, pri khorata, evoliutsiiata se os'shchestviava predimno chrez povedenieto. Za da se prisposobim, pribiagvame k'm nov tip povedenie. A vseki znae, che novoto se poiav.. | lost-world malcolm | Michael Crichton | |
| 7500d12 | Herger said to me, "Be thankful, for you are fortunate." I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, "If you have the fear of high places, than this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero." | Michael Crichton | ||
| 1ac273c | The truth was, the more he got portrayed as an unprincipled, ruthless prick, the more clients flocked to him. Because when it came to divorce, people wanted a ruthless prick. They lined up for one. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 65e82ee | They're engineers," she said. She was thinking, What did he expect? He must have dealt with engineers at GM. "Emotionally, they're all thirteen years old, stuck at the age just before boys stop playing with toys, because they've discovered girls. They're all still playing with toys. They have poor social skills, dress badly--but they're extremely intelligent and well trained, and they are very arrogant in their way. Outsiders are definitely.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| d260cd8 | There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology of the person, but rather the interdependency of persons, involving reproducible and sustaining social relations, and relations to the environment and to non-human forms of life, broadly considered. This mode of social ontology (for which no absolute distinction between social and ec.. | butler individualism life personhood social social-ontology | Judith Butler | |
| 5884f5f | Irigaray remarks in such a vein that "the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own"." | Judith Butler | ||
| 31092e9 | What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition. | philosophy psychology | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| 12680c5 | If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody? | life nonviolence violence | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| 5dc42fd | This is one of the hallmarks of Vegas hospitality. The only bedrock rule is Don't Burn the Locals. Beyond that, nobody cares. They would rather not know. If Charlie Manson checked into the Sahara tomorrow morning, nobody would hassle him as long as he tipped big. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 61656ee | Hey, honkies!" my attorney screamed. "Goddamnit, I'm serious! I want to sell you some pure fuckin' smack!" | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 7ca34e2 | Consciousness Expansion" went out with LBJ ... and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon." | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 955789e | When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it in heavy. Don't waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| fd8a0ff | I wondered if maybe this kind of thing happened all the time in Vegas -- cars full of late-arriving passengers screeching desperately across the runway, dropping off wild eyed Samoans clutching mysterious canvas bags who would sprint onto planes at the last possible second and then roar off into the sunrise. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| cbdb8b3 | As for LSD, I highly recommend it. We had a fine, wild weekend and no trouble at all. The feeling it produces is hard to describe. 'Intensity' is a fair word for it. Try half a cube at first, just sit in the living room and turn on the music - after the kids have gone to bed. But never take it in uncomfortable or socially tense situations. And don't have anybody around whom you don't like. | lsd | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 5019371 | The line between madness and masochism was already hazy; | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 65865b4 | I suspect we could have done the whole thing on acid ... except for some of the people; there were faces and bodies in that group who would have been absolutely unendurable on acid. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 7edbf7f | I'm bound to go to heaven because I've already served my time in hell. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| dd347ea | If the thing bites down much harder I might wig out and demand beer... stay away from the phone, watch the red arrow... this typewriter is keeping me on my rails, without it I'd be completely adrift and weird. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 2ebeca0 | Is This Happiness" High up in the Hollywood Hills taking violet pills Writing all of my songs about my cheap thrills You're a hard man to love and I'm A hard woman to keep track of You like to rage, don't do that You want your way, you make me so mad Got your gun, I've got my dad Is this happiness? Is this happiness? Is this happiness? Is this happiness? High up in the Hollywood Hills crushing violet pills You've been trying to write a nove.. | Lana Del Rey | ||
| 7ae2b95 | I was not happy. I was knee deep in freak out mode. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 40c5d92 | Dogbert to Dilbert "My invention can detect human stupidity. It has a very simple interface. All I do is point it at people." | Scott Adams | ||
| 65f9c0e | Recapping my skill set: I have poor art skills, mediocre business skills, good but not great writing talent, and an early knowledge of the Internet. And I have a good but not great sense of humor. I'm like one big mediocre soup. None of my skills are world-class, but when my mediocre skills are combined, they become a powerful market force. | Scott Adams | ||
| d27df57 | There is more information in one thimble of reality than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is beyond the human brain to understand the world and its environment, so the brain compensates by creating simplified illusions that act as a replacement for understanding. | Scott Adams | ||
| e6d90a4 | If you don't drink coffee, you should think about two to four cups a day. It can make you more alert, happier, and more productive. It might even make you live longer. Coffee can also make you more likely to exercise, and it contains beneficial antioxidants and other substances associated with decreased risk of stroke (especially in women), Parkinson's disease, and dementia. Coffee is also associated with decreased risk of abnormal heart rh.. | coffee-benefits coffee-lifestyle coffee-lovers | Scott Adams | |
| ef3a29e | If you think your odds of solving your problem are bad, don't rule out the possibility that what is really happening is that you are bad at estimating odds. | Scott Adams | ||
| ef3b109 | You can't accommodate a hundred different opinions, and you can't ignore them. All you can do is provide people with the illusion that they participated in the decision. For some reason, that's enough to make people happy." This is the basis for all democracies." | Scott Adams | ||
| 3917f99 | The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world's oceans and brought back tales filled with bravery, perseverance, endurance, and survival. They mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, sang, spun yarns, scrimshawed, and recorded their musings and observations in journals and letters. They survived boredom, backbreaking work, tempestuous seas, floggings, pirates, putrid food, and unimaginabl.. | harpoon history melville moby-dick ocean whale whales whaling | Eric Jay Dolin | |
| 24112e8 | Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition. | Melville Herman | ||
| 5eb0dcf | It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. | race racism | Herman Melville | |
| 03fde30 | What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare? | obsessed obsession | Herman Melville | |
| f2fd91b | Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore. | life soul struggle truth | Herman Melville | |
| 17c3aa3 | An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea. | nature sunset | Herman Melville | |
| d4937e6 | His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters. | Herman Melville |