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| c5a1700 | The thinking or figurate conception which has before it only a specific, determinate being must be referred back to the [...] beginning of the science made by Parmenides who purified and elevated his own figurate conception, and so, too, that of posterity, to pure thought, to being as such and thereby created the element of the science. What is the first in the science had of necessity to show itself historically as the first. And we must r.. | Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich | ||
| 7b60235 | Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species? | applied-ethics euthanasia speciesism | Peter Singer | |
| bf3295c | it is in the rightness of our cause, and not the fear of our bombs, that our prospects of victory lie. | Peter Singer | ||
| 8d93509 | Until we boycott meat, and all other products of animal factories, we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food. | Peter Singer | ||
| d6afc38 | It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality. | Peter Singer | ||
| ff2eecd | One little chore to do, one little commission to fulfil, one message to carry, would spoil heaven itself. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1e80ec5 | V zakliuchenie ostavalo oshche samo da se reshi koi s'shchestvitelni triabva da b'dat ot m'zhki, koi ot zhenski i koi ot sreden rod. Anglichanite se spravili mnogo lesno: - Nie, anglichanite - obiasnil edin kl'oshchav lord s d'lga konska glava, - nie, anglichanite, prosto shche kazvame pred vsiaka duma "the". Tova oznachava ednovremenno i toi, i tia, i to. Taka nie niama zashcho da umuvame dali triabva da se kazva Nie prosto kazvame "d' s.. | James Krüss | ||
| 7bb980e | And all of a sudden I saw that if life seems awfully petty most of the time, every now and then there is something noble and beautiful and almost pure that lifts us suddenly out of the pettiness and lets us share in it a little. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 96aba60 | no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful. | Reza Aslan | ||
| d52926f | Both gospels employ the term "Son of God" exactly as it is used throughout the Hebrew Scriptures: as a royal title, not a description." | Reza Aslan | ||
| 9cbaa62 | It was not unusual to be called Son of God in ancient Judaism. God calls David his son: "today I have begotten you" (Psalms 2:7). He even calls Israel his "first-born son" (Exodus 4:22). But in every case, Son of God is meant as a title, not a description. Paul's view of Jesus as the literal son of God is without precedence in second Temple Judaism." | Reza Aslan | ||
| 421769a | Thus began the long process of transforming Jesus from a revolutionary Jewish nationalist into a peaceful spiritual leader with no interest in any earthly matter. That was a Jesus the Romans could accept, and in fact did accept three centuries later when the Roman emperor Flavius Theodosius (d. 395) made the itinerant Jewish preacher's movement the official religion of the state, and what we now recognize as orthodox Christianity was born. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 047e6de | But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. "Fight in the way of God those who fight you," the Quran says, "but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor" (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: "Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| e080573 | Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| ed23624 | Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he'd cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got the better of him when he strode into the saloon later, threw The Origin of Species on the table and announced: "It's very original, no doubt, but not for a hot evening. What I need is some trollop." I couldn't believe my ears, and him a church-goer, too. "Well, my lord, I dunno," says I. "Tientsin ain't much of a place, but I'll see what I .. | literature misunderstanding trollope | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 28484c9 | I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else. | george-macdonald-fraser self-righteousness | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 956e415 | they did not fight for a Britain where to hold by truths and values which have been thought good and worthy for a thousand years would be to run the risk of being called "fascist" | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 581f89c | A man who really likes you and cares about you won't care about your weight one way or another. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 51506eb | Actually, being married to me probably would be something of a joke . . . but yeah, I mean it. What do you think? | Danielle Steel | ||
| dc049c6 | Five minutes ...five days ...and a lifetime forever changed in a single moment. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 9551c41 | But even a nice mom and dad like this can't really sense how their child's been assaulted by commercialism ever since she was little, how she's lived in fear of being eaten alive by the morons around her. They just don't get it. Mom always lectures me about not being afraid of getting hurt, but all she can imagine is the kind of hurt she's experienced herself. She has no idea of the threats that surround kids these days, how much we're bull.. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 42db37e | When high school girls like us freak out, people are always able to overpower us before we do something stupid, like hijacking a bus or running around with a knife. Which is why girls arm themselves beforehand so they don't get caught up in something like that. Boys probably aren't so good at protecting themselves. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 104d01d | My lascivious blood leaves me no choice but to lust for men. No matter how common I become, how ugly, how old, as long as there is life in my body I will go on wanting men. That's just my fate. Even if men are no longer amazed when they see me, even if they no longer desire me, even if they belittle me, I have to sleep with them. No, I want to sleep with them. It's the retribution for a divinity that no one can sustain forever. I suppose yo.. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 24e9260 | I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences. | men-and-women pain quiet sorrow women | Esmeralda Santiago | |
| 724b85c | It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. | love | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | |
| 24a0eed | You have to be a bit of a dreamer to imagine a world where love trumps hate--but I don't think being a dreamer is all that bad. Joel prophesied that God would "pour out [His] Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions" (Joel 2:28). I'm an old man, and this is one of my dreams: that my descendants will one day live in a land where people are quick to confess th.. | John M. Perkins | ||
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| 0c51d25 | It is driven not by a small band of men but by a concept that has become accepted as gospel: the idea that all economic growth benefits humankind and that the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits. This belief also has a corollary: that those people who excel at stoking the fires of economic growth should be exalted and rewarded, while those born at the fringes are available for exploitation. | John Perkins | ||
| 49d1ff1 | Quinn spoke their language--all mystery and inside jokes, scarred souls and statement shirts. It was a beautiful moment for him--in his element and completely happy. When they started playing, he leaned over and whispered in my ear. "See that guitar?" I nodded. "That's a 1969 Martin D28. Hear me when I say if I had to choose between a beautiful girl and that guitar, I'd choose the guitar. Natch." He took a huge gulp of water, clearly affect.. | glass-girl guitar henry-whitmire indie-band laura-anderson-kurk long-distance-relationship love martin-guitar meg-kavanagh music perfect-glass quinn-o-neill rock-band romance teen-fiction teen-literature ya young-adult-fiction | Laura Anderson Kurk | |
| e309996 | Oh, come off your perch!" said the other man, who wore glasses. "Your premises won't come out in the wash. You wind-jammers who apply bandy-legged theories to concrete categorical syllogisms send logical conclusions skallybootin' into the infinitesimal ragbag. You can't pull my leg with an old sophism with whiskers on it." | O. Henry | ||
| 0e66ff6 | V edin zapustial kvartal, k'deto ulitsite nosiat imena na filosofi, az brodekh v tolkova pl'tna i s'shchevremenno tolkova kadifena tishina, ta mi se struvashe, che v'zdukh't e izp'lnen s's striti na prakh zvezdi, chiiato svetlina izdava nedolovim zvuk. | Henry Miller | ||
| 05f3fe9 | as Sylvester says, a man who has never been afflicted with a neurosis does not know the meaning of suffering. | Henry Miller | ||
| c4b0265 | Devote your entire will power to mastering one thing at a time; do not scatter your energies, nor leave something half done to begin a new venture. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 0c9e421 | Crime begins with God. It will end with man, when he finds God again. Crime is everywhere, in all the fibres and roots of our being. Every minute of the day adds fresh crimes to the calendar, both those which are detected and punished, and those which are not. The criminal hunts down the criminal. The judge condemns the judger. The innocent torture the innocent. Everywhere, in every family, every tribe, every great community, crimes, crimes.. | god self | Henry Miller | |
| eff5dd7 | All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you. | Henry Miller | ||
| 65ca75b | ja znam da sloboda znaci odgovornost.isto tako znam kako se lako zelja moze pretvoriti u cin. cak i kad sklopim oci, moram paziti kako sanjam i o cemu, jer samo najtanji veo deli tada san od jave. | Henry Miller | ||
| 530be32 | Well, fuck a duck. | Henry Miller | ||
| 931d241 | No more peeping through keyholes! No more mas turbating in the dark! No more public confessions! Unscrew the doors from their jambs! I want a world where the vagina is represented by a crude, honest slit, a world that has feeling for bone and contour, for raw, primary colors, a world that has fear and respect for its animal origins. I'm sick of looking at cunts all tickled up, disguised, deformed, idealized. Cunts with nerve ends exposed. I.. | Henry Miller | ||
| c3d3b86 | When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon. | Henry Miller | ||
| 9b1f341 | That's why I like you, he would say. You're unpredictable. You have no code. Really, Henry--and he would give a hearty guffaw--you're essentially treacherous. If we ever make a new world you'll have no place in it. You don't seem to understand what it means to give and take. You're an intellectual hobo... At times I don't understand you at all. You're always gay and affable, almost sociable, and yet ... well, you have no loyalties. I try to.. | Henry Miller | ||
| a683f5c | The earth is parched and cracked. Men and women come together like broods of vultures over a stinking carcass, to mate and fly apart again. Vultures who drop from the clouds like heavy stones. Talons and beak, that's what we are! A huge intestinal apparatus with a nose for dead meat. Forward! Forward without pity, without compassion, without love, without forgiveness. Ask no quarter and give none! More battleships, more poison gas, more hig.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 42a2160 | It was just the human fatality of things, a cancer worse than blame, or hate or love. | Henry Miller | ||
| 110d819 | Deep in the blood the pull of paradise. The beyond. It must have all started with the navel. They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap in the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift. You look at the stars and then you look at your navel. You grow eyes everywhere -in the armpits, between the lips, in the roots of your hair, on the soles of your feet. What is distant becomes near, what is near becomes distant. Inner-outer, a const.. | Henry Miller |