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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9ec699d | When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging. | politics | William Easterly | |
| a1d51ec | Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act of condescension, on Good Friday, God climbed down to us, became one with us. The story of divine condescension begins on Christmas and ends on Good Friday. We thought, if there is to be business between us and God, we must somehow get up to God. Then God came down, down to the level of the cross, all the way down to the depths of hel.. | cross crucifixion divine-condescension easter good-friday incarnation jesus-christ love salvation violence | William H. Willimon | |
| 472ee8e | Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that. | development economics poverty | William Easterly | |
| 4cc68fe | simplicity piled upon simplicity creates complexity. | Matt Ridley | ||
| ade973a | The Sun King had dinner each night alone. He chose from forty dishes, served on gold and silver plate. It took a staggering 498 people to prepare each meal. He was rich because he consumed the work of other people, mainly in the form of their services. He was rich because other people did things for him. At that time, the average French family would have prepared and consumed its own meals as well as paid tax to support his servants in the .. | specialization | Matt Ridley | |
| a44d7a9 | There was never a better illustration of the validity of the Enlightenment dream - that order can emerge where nobody is in charge. The genome, now sequenced, stands as emphatic evidence that there can be order and complexity without any management. | Matt Ridley | ||
| b171d57 | How did your parents come to be "lost at sea", Moriarty?' The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran." | lost-at-sea moriarty | Kim Newman | |
| 2307044 | I used a light hand with my makeup because I wanted to look good without looking like a good time. | Marta Acosta | ||
| 0d78993 | I'm an open Minded Man. How about a threesom? You, me and the machine? | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 93342c1 | Gabe turned his head to look up at her. The moon came through the skylight and backlit Chloe's short blonde curls, making her look angelically lovely. Too bad she was insane. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| ef83dac | She was setting out china cups in their saucers, her long pale hands almost the same color as the cream china. "How do you take yours?" "Four creams, two sugars," Riley said, still mesmerized by her. She stopped with a small waxed carton in her hand. "Really?" "He's very young," Gabe said. "I take mine black." "He's very boring," Riley said. "Is that real cream?" | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 4301b22 | Exciting wasn't turning out obe as easy as she'd thought it would be, but it was definitely worth pursuing. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 93b0dda | A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 0b82682 | Everything outside of here is vulnerable, but this tower, this room, is where we can make a stand if we have to. This is our Alamo." "Everybody died at the Alamo. What's the midway, the Little Big Horn?" Ethan looked at her, exasperated. She shrugged. "I'm just saying that ifyou want to rally the troops, avoid the A word." | demon | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 5be5645 | We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed. | Anna Maxted | ||
| d064bed | It's funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, 'I want to go home.' But then you come home, and of course it's not the same. You can't live with it, you can't live away from it. And it seems like from then on there's always this yearning for some place that doesn't exist. I felt that. Still do. I'm never completely at home anywhere. But it's a good place to be, I think. It's like floating. From up above, you c.. | Danzy Senna | ||
| 7369da8 | When there is a gap--between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself--you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap. | identity multiracial race | Danzy Senna | |
| f8ec6a5 | An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 976ec05 | I avoided situations that might otherwise trip or jangle my hypersensitive wiring, and I learned to pretend I was paying attention or following a logical point when my mind qas off chasing rabbits in a thousand directions. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| ee27e9d | When I first thought about writing this book, I conceived of it as a book about moods, and an illness of moods, in the context of an individual life. As I have written it, however, it has somehow turned out to be very much a book about love as well: love as sustainer, as renewer, and as protector. After each seeming death within my mind or heart, love has returned to recreate hope and restore life. It has, at its best, made the inherent sad.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
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| d33e42d | How odd to smile during Richard's funeral. He was dead and I was smiling to myself. Grief does that. Laughter lies close in with despair, numbness near by acuity and memory with forgetfulness. I would have got used to it, but I didn't know this at the time. All I knew, was that memory had given pleasure first, then cracking pain. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 187b8c8 | Composure and self-restraint were not only desirable characteristics in a woman, they were essental. As my mother put it later, it was bad enough having to worry yourself sick every time your husband went up in an airplane; now, she was being told, she was also supposed to feel responsible if his plane crashed. Anger and discontent, lest they kill, were to be kept to oneself. The military, even more so than the rest of society, clearly put .. | military | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
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| 7f3b1d4 | Depression affects not only mood but the nature and content of thought as well. Thinking processes almost always slow down, and decisiveness is replaced by indecision and rumination. The ability to concentrate is usually greatly impaired and willful action and thought become difficult if not impossible. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| bb429fe | I read it as if it had been written by someone else, although it was my own experience being recounted. The endless questioning finally ended. My psychiatrist looked at me, there was no uncertainty in his voice. "Maniac-depressive illness." I admired his bluntness. I wished him locusts in his land and a pox upon his house. Silent, unbelievable rage. I smiled pleasantly. He smiled back. The war had just begun," | manic-depression | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 2597b52 | The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison." | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 37fe371 | Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the equivalent of a medium-sized medical school class from suicide alone. Most physician suicides are due to depression or manic-depressive illness, both of which are eminently treatable. Physicians, unfortunately, not only suffer from a higher rate of mood disorders than the.. | mortality-rate physicians suicide | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 6777b95 | anger of any kind is a dangerous emotion, it eats at the nerves and eventually makes you careless | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 4480cc3 | If you're going to build a strong culture, it's paramount to make diversity one of your core values. This is what separates Bridgewater's strong culture from a cult: The commitment is to promoting dissent. In hiring, instead of using similarity to gauge cultural fit, Bridgewater assesses cultural contribution.* Dalio wants people who will think independently and enrich the culture. By holding them accountable for dissenting, Dalio has funda.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 5b0bf06 | When we're determined to reach an objective, it's the gap between where we are and where we aspire to be that lights a fire under us. | motivation | Adam M. Grant | |
| 24d660b | Americans see independence as a symbol of strength, viewing interdependence as a sign of weakness | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 5156d23 | There's no hurry. I'm not a pint of half-and-half about to expire. I can wait until I meet the right person. | Michael Grant | ||
| a7e20e7 | Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it. | lies lying writers writing | Aljean Harmetz | |
| 0380aec | And that's what I wanted: obliteration. Decimation. Just an instant smear of me right out of all this rising and falling and nothing changing that feels like living. | Andre Dubus III | ||
| f64ff34 | This is the last time, the girl thought, that she would remember these things. If they floated back to her again, she would paddle away. When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. | Sara Zarr | ||
| a407f20 | Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous. | jeans sexy teenagers | Sara Zarr | |
| 8268b2c | I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox, and imagine him down the hall in bed, propped on pillows, emailing me. "Hon, Enjoyed our gelato date the other night. I just want to say I'm proud of you for a lot of reasons. Also, I've attached a picture of my foot." He's such a weirdo goofball. I love him." | funny-and-random lauren | Sara Zarr | |
| 2b0352a | Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because that's what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not. | Donna Freitas | ||
| b0fee0a | Errors of reductionism and biodeterminism take over in such silly statements as "Intelligence is 60 percent genetic and 40 percent environmental." A 60 percent (or whatever) "heritability" for intelligence means no such thing. We shall not get this issue straight until we realize that the "interactionism" we all accept does not permit such statements as "Trait x is 29 percent environmental and 71 percent genetic." When causative factors (mo.. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 292e65a | Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. | science | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| 1d79afa | Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives. | biology id intelligent-design optimisation optimization perfection science stephen-jay-gould | William A. Dembski | |
| 8b3beaa | Each day say to yourself that you are the best, the strongest, and the most deadly. Eventually you will start to believe it. Finally it will come true. It came true for me. I am Grimalkin. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 8186b5d | We are the strong ones. We squash anything that we don't like. Anything that threatens us gets smeared! (Grimalkin to Alice) | Joseph Delaney |