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| e1ec15e | Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word "newspaper," of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.) The text was updated automaticall.. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| a0168c0 | I agree with you, Captain," he whispered. "The human race has to live with its conscience. Whatever the Hermians argue, survival is not everything." | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 518bcaa | Faith in one's own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man, | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 65ffe31 | However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yet always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 0bee396 | Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 11e1901 | He did not wander aimlessly, though he never knew which village would be his next port of call. He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence--indeed, a way of life. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| ae506b1 | Being friends is different from being lovers. It's a sea change. | friendship love love-story lovequotes lovers relationships romance women women-s-fiction women-writers | Barbara Delinsky | |
| d6a4d43 | Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door. | noir urban winter | David Goodis | |
| 92e711d | There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy, and civilization throughout the world--one thing which, if removed, will destroy the most powerful government, the most successful business, the most thriving economy, the most influential leadership, the greatest friendship, the strongest character, the deepest love. On the other hand, if developed and leveraged, that one thing.. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 69c5869 | Yes," Shannon said calmly. "I could have died. But so what? The stars would have come out tonight and the sun would have risen tomorrow morning. The only difference would be that I wouldn't see it." Shannon to Whip." | Elizabeth Lowell | ||
| 4e459c3 | Asian children can perform basic functions, such as addition, far more easily. Ask an English-speaking seven-year-old to add thirty-seven plus twenty-two in her head, and she has to convert the words to numbers (37 + 22). Only then can she do the math: 2 plus 7 is 9 and 30 and 20 is 50, which makes 59. Ask an Asian child to add three-tens-seven and two-tens-two, and then the necessary equation is right there, embedded in the sentence. No nu.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 5ccf4eb | all progress depends on the unreasonable man. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| d0698c2 | People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 529776d | Greenberg] knew that cultural legacies matter--that they are powerful and pervasive and that they persist, long after their original usefulness has passed. But he didn't assume that legacies are an indelible part of who we are. He believed that if the Koreans were honest about where they came from and were willing to confront those aspects of their heritage that did not suit the aviation world, they could change. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 3ff91a8 | A Connector might tell ten friends where to stay in Los Angeles, and half of them might take his advice. A Maven might tell five people where to stay in Los Angeles but make the case for the hotel so emphatically that all of them would take his advice. These are different personalities at work, acting for different reasons. But they both have the power to spark word-of-mouth epidemics. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a2bf81d | he waits for the kid to decide whether to pull the gun up or simply to drop it - and all the while, even as he tracks the progress of the gun, he is also watching the kid's face, to see whether he is dangerous or simply frightened. is there a more beautiful example of a snap judgment? this is the gift of training and expertise - the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f0a6454 | it is not possible to staff a large company without short people. There simply aren't enough tall people to go around. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 8928dba | Two people may arrive at a conversation with very different conversational patterns. But almost instantly they reach a common ground. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| ac23350 | Words belong to the person who wrote them | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 830fb58 | We normally think of the expressions on our face as the reflection of an inner state. I feel happy, so I smile. I feel sad, so I frown. Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad. Emotion, in this sense, goes outside-in. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| adc08eb | In the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal. | social-networks | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 29b1e42 | Why is the fact that each of us comes from a culture with its own distinctive mix of strengths and weaknesses, tendencies and predispositions, so difficult to acknowledge? Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from -- and when we ignore that fact, planes crash. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a295842 | All of us, when it comes to personality, naturally think in terms of absolutes: that a person is a certain way or is not a certain way. But what Zimbardo and Hartshorne and May are suggesting is that this is a mistake, that when we think only in terms of inherent traits and forget the role of situations, we're deceiving ourselves about the real causes of human behavior. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c6576fd | I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| eaabfb8 | To play by David's rules you have to be desperate. You have to be so bad that you have no choice. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 14a8650 | The three rules of the Tipping Point--the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context--offer a way of making sense of epidemics. They provide us with direction for how to go about reaching a Tipping Point. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 0d346ca | We are trained to think that what goes into any transaction or relationship or system must be directly related, in intensity and dimension, to what comes out. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| e4241d6 | Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether our work fulfills us. If I offered you a choice between being an architect for $75,000 a year and working in a tollbooth every day for the rest of your life for $1.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 78214f5 | Working really hard is what successful people do, | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f59a157 | It was necessary to keep our religious masters at St. Michael's unacquainted with the fact, that, instead of spending the Sabbath in wrestling, boxing, and drinking whisky, we were trying to learn how to read the will of God; for they had much rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and accountable beings. | Frederick Douglass | ||
| 6a0046d | What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference--so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one,.. | pharisaism slavery | Frederick Douglass | |
| de6476b | it was worth half-cent to kill a "nigger", and a half-cent to bury one." | Frederick Douglass | ||
| 0cb0460 | They love the heathen on the other side of the globe. They can pray for him, pay money to have the Bible put into his hand, and missionaries to instruct him; while they despise and totally neglect the heathen at their own doors. Such is, very briefly, my view of the religion of this land; | Frederick Douglass | ||
| af8f1ec | We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who, in their noisy and impulsive pursuit of knowledge, never get beyond the outer bark of an idea, from a lack of patience and perseverance to dig to the core; men who begin everything and complete nothing; who see, but do not perceive; who read, but forget what they read, and are as if they had not read; who travel but go n.. | Frederick Douglass | ||
| f931c2f | Parliament would abolish slavery in the British Empire in 1833, thirty years before President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. A return to the British fold in 1778 might have freed American slaves three decades sooner, which is what, an entire generation and a half? Was independence for some of us more valuable than freedom for all of us? As the former slave Frederick Douglass put it in an Independence Day speech in 1852, 'This is your .. | frederick-douglass | Sarah Vowell | |
| 5e8daa9 | The use of reading, Gibbon says somewhere, is to aid us in thinking. I have always disagreed with Gibbon over that; he may have used literature to help him think, but for me, often, and for most of the human race I reckon (since I have no reason to think myself unique) books can be a mind-stupefying drug, employed to banish thought, not to invoke it. When I am unhappy I can sink into a novel as into unconsciousness. Blessed War and Peace, t.. | Joan Aiken | ||
| e45fb70 | Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room. ("Hair")" | Joan Aiken | ||
| 2561381 | The following spring was a time of calving. Great icebergs calved from the vast glaciers which stretched down to our fjords from distant mountains. The heifers and cows of Kaupangen gave birth to over one hundred calves that spring. Most survived. Gudrod, the master shepherd, had seventy-five new lambkins skipping after their mothers. Ten sets of lamb twins were born in the city that year. Bitches had pups suckling at their breasts. The mou.. | Jason Born | ||
| 3d01391 | That's a comforting response, Oliver. Of course I can trust you implicitly when all you care about is using me for your own designs. | Susan Dennard | ||
| 568dedd | She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~ | life-lessons motherhood mothering | Susan Wiggs | |
| 5fa0643 | When the waiter brought the cheese-board, there was a large carrot carved in the shape of a mermaid sitting between the Dolcelatte and the Pecorino. Teo could have sworn that the carrot-mermaid flexed her tail and plunged her little hand inside a smelly Gorgonzola. 'Tyromancy, ye know,' remarked the mermaid. 'The Ancient Art of Divination by Cheese.' Then she pulled her tiny hand out and inspected the green cheese-mold on her tiny fingers. .. | divination foretelling humour mermaid | Michelle Lovric | |
| 3182cd0 | For a long time, I did not move from the dark, wood-panelled hall. I wanted company, and I had none, lights and warmth and a strong drink inside me, I needed reassurance. But, more than anything else, I needed an . It is remarkable how powerful a force simple curiosity can be. I had never realized that before now. In spite of my intense fear and sense of shock, I was consumed with the desire to find out exactly who it was that I had seen, .. | Susan Hill | ||
| 08a860b | You shouldn't let it bother you," Drew said earnestly. "That's just babble. It doesn't mean anything. None of you are going to die and you're obviously not dead. For Pete's sake." | Holly Black | ||
| 8151a7b | Who called the idiot brigade? | Natsuki Takaya |