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| 3519b2a | I incline my agreement with Toirdealbhach,' said Gareth. 'After all, what is the good of killing poor kerns who do not know anything? It would be much better for the people who are angry to fight each other themselves, knight against knight.' 'But you could not have any wars at all, like that,' exclaimed Gaheris. 'It would be absurd,' said Gawaine. 'You must have people, galore of people, in a war.' 'Otherwise you could not kill them,' e.. | T.H. White | ||
| 93b831f | The blessing of forgetfulness: that was the first essential. If everything one did, or which one's fathers had done, was an endless sequence of Doings doomed to break forth bloodily, then the past must be obliterated and a new start made. Man must be ready to say: Yes, since Cain there has been injustice, but we can only set the misery right if we accept a status quo. Lands have been robbed, men slain, nations humiliated. Let us now start f.. | T.H. White | ||
| e5d0483 | As for you, Man, you will be a naked tool all your life, though a user of tools. You will look like an embryo till they bury you, but all the others will be embryos before your might. Eternally undeveloped, you will always remain potential in Our image, able to see some of Our sorrows and to feel some of Our joys. We are partly sorry for you, Man, but partly hopeful. Run along then, and do your best. | T. H. White | ||
| ccabc25 | You have become the king of a domain in which the popular agitators hate each other for racial reasons, while the nobility fight each other for fun, and neither the racial maniac nor the overlord stops to consider the lot of the common soldier, who is the one person that gets hurt. | T.H. White | ||
| daf6f7c | Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. | maturity youth | T.H. White | |
| ae81caa | Leave well alone. | T.H. White | ||
| af5d329 | If I were to be made a knight," said the Wart, staring dreamily into the fire, "I should insist on doing my vigil by myself, as Hob does with his hawks, and I should pray to God to let me encounter all the evil in the world in my own person, so that if I conquered there would be none left, and, if I were defeated, I would be the one to suffer for it." | T.H. White | ||
| d340e03 | Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel , where a society of ants declares, 'Everything not forbidden is compulsory.' In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. .. | heisenberg-uncertainty-principle physics science t-h-white terence-hanbury-white the-once-and-future-king time-travel uncertainty-principle werner-heisenberg | Michio Kaku | |
| 12dae8e | Was it the wicked leaders who led innocent populations to slaughter, or was it wicked populations who chose leaders after their own hearts? | T.H. White | ||
| d73db23 | Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain. | addiction-cure addiction-treatment alcohol-abuse alcohol-addiction chris-prentiss drug-abuse drug-addiction pax-prentiss | Chris Prentiss | |
| 897bf6f | What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person. | inspiration life philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness | Chris Prentiss | |
| 6cd9a00 | We have the best chance of communicating our thoughts if we are sincere and speak from the heart, without hidden intent. | communication truth truthful wu-wei | Wu Wei | |
| bf3f574 | Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society. | 12-steps alcohol-abuse alcohol-addiction alcoholism change chris-prentiss drug-abuse drug-addiction non-12-step-program passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss philosophy recovery society substance-addiction treatment | Chris Prentiss | |
| f2be30c | We are meaning-making creatures who read other people's subtle clues just as they read ours. | Ed Catmull | ||
| f925cdf | Rather than trying to prevent all errors, we should assume, as is almost always the case, that our people's intentions are good and that they want to solve problems. Give them responsibility, let the mistakes happen, and let people fix them. If there is fear, there is a reason--our job is to find the reason and to remedy it. Management's job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 13097ca | isn't enough to pick a path--you must go down it. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 44aa26b | His method for taking the measure of a room was saying something definitive and outrageous--"These charts are bullshit!" or "This deal is crap!"--and watching people react. If you were brave enough to come back at him, he often respected it--poking at you, then registering your response, was his way of deducing what you thought and whether you had the guts to champion it." | Ed Catmull | ||
| a939035 | When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless. | hierarchy inspiration | Ed Catmull | |
| e12c018 | If you're sailing across the ocean and your goal is to avoid weather and waves, then why the hell are you sailing?" he says. "You have to embrace that sailing means that you can't control the elements and that there will be good days and bad days and that, whatever comes, you will deal with it" | Ed Catmull | ||
| 6e4b671 | For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn't matter if you are getting the story right. | Ed Catmull | ||
| ee657ad | The desire for everything to run smoothly is a false goal--it leads to measuring people by the mistakes they make rather than by their ability to solve problems. | Ed Catmull | ||
| b9b71b0 | Don't confuse the process with the goal. Working on our processes to make them better, easier, and more efficient is an indispensable activity and something we should continually work on--but it is not the goal. Making the product great is the goal. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 19d8005 | I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 9b218d6 | Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| dd3cfc1 | It was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b9343b1 | Sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 3b09786 | It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| bb3d7db | Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| fb816a7 | The one thing I did ask my dad was about the boys problems at home. Whether or not he thought the parents hit their son. He told me to mind my own business. Because he didn't know and would never ask and didn't think it mattered. "Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, its no excuse." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| e3e1a41 | I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don't like, I'll tell them. | relationships | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 8d9fb57 | she hated everything her parents loved | hate life parents parents-and-children | Stephen Chbosky | |
| f8ca324 | You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things...like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 9a6d136 | I would tell you about the rest of the night, but i honestly dont remember much about it. It's all a very sad daze. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b5d7310 | Things get worse before they get better. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 694d291 | Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground. Nobody can be as big as the Beatles because the Beatles already gave it a "context." The reason they were so big is that they had no one to compare themselves with, so the sky was the limit." | compare new-ground sky-is-the-limit | Stephen Chbosky | |
| a5853d3 | It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from falling apart. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| ed6d611 | It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes, I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 17b6498 | Por lo tanto, creo que somos lo que somos por muchas razones. Y tal vez nunca lo sabremos mas que ellos. Pero incluso si no tenemos el poder de elegir de donde venimos, todavia podemos elegir a donde ir desde alli. Todavia podemos hacer cosas. Y podemos tratar de sentirnos bien acerca de ellas. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| e54c39f | Love always, Charlie | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 249fcb7 | She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the.. | gifts histrionic-people kindness love obnoxious-people self-centered-people selfishness selflessness snobs | Stephen Chbosky | |
| b3ce5bf | Her whisper smelled like cranberry juice and vodka. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 8cf48d5 | I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 1d99ca5 | He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark. | english-teacher political-correct-crap political-correctness smoking | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 8808f51 | I am looking at her and she is so beautiful. | Stephen Chbosky |