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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2f84997 | People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 7bc94c1 | cultural change occurs whenever a new meme is introduced and catches on. It might be romanticism or double-entry book-keeping, chaos theory or Pokemon. So where in the world do new memes come from? sometimes they spring full-blown from the brains of artists or scientists, advertising copywriters or teenagers. often a process of mutation is involved in the creation of a new meme, in much the same way that mutations in natural environment can.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 0db5d02 | Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener. | Michael Pollan | ||
| ab7da52 | There's nothing really quite like that first soft spring breeze of intoxication. Keep drinking all you want, but you will never get it back. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 1156d37 | Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo. | taboos drugs rules | Michael Pollan | |
| 018f30d | Witches the Church simply burned at the stake, but something more interesting happened to the witches' magic plants. The plants were too precious to banish from human society, so in the decades after Pope Innocent's fiat against witchcraft, cannabis, opium, belladonna, and the rest were simply transferred from the realm of sorcery to medicine, thanks largely to the work of a sixteenth-century Swiss alchemist and physician named Paracelsus. .. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 8cc9c4c | I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 85a765d | Eating in our time has gotten complicated -- needlessly so, in my opinion. I will get to the "needlessly" part in a moment, but consider first the complexity that now attends this most basic of creaturely activities. Most of us have come to rely on experts of one kind or another to tell us how to eat -- doctors and diet books, media accounts of the latest findings in nutritional science, government advisories and food pyramids, the prolifer.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| a866511 | But don't take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health. | Michael Pollan | ||
| f5146f8 | The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own. | Michael Pollan | ||
| c3fca49 | It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction. | eating food | Michael Pollan | |
| 54c7a4a | Compared with other drugs, psychedelics seldom affect people the same way twice, because they tend to magnify whatever's already going on both inside and outside one's head. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 2e4eb0e | One good way to understand a complex system is to disturb it and then see what happens. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 3ead683 | Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life--the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids--is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simpl.. | science carbon corn plants photosynthesis biology food | Michael Pollan | |
| ca583a7 | A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef. | health-problems food | Michael Pollan | |
| d515b96 | To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes - against the homogenization of flavors and food experiences now rolling like a great, undifferentiated lawn across the globe. It is also a declaration of independence from an economy that would much prefer we remain passive consumers of its standardized commodities, rather than creators of idiosyncratic products expressive of oursel.. | fermentation cooking | Michael Pollan | |
| 53e7153 | Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism). | Michael Pollan | ||
| bddd61e | I think of childhood as the R&D stage of the species, concerned exclusively with learning and exploring. We adults are production and marketing. | Michael Pollan | ||
| e9bcb54 | S policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets--except on days that begin with the letter S." | Michael Pollan | ||
| d877ec8 | the character of the person would outweigh the color of his skin and the reputation of his heritage. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| d3455dd | only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 05a762d | Another week of emptiness, of solitude, though the schooner was fully crewed and there were few places where someone could be out of sight of everyone else. That was the thing about the open ocean, you were never physically alone, yet all the world seemed removed. Catti-brie and Drizzt had spent hours together, just standing and watching, each lost, drifting on the rolls of the azure blanket, together and yet so alone. | friendship | R.A. Salvatore | |
| cc2512e | I live my life with hope, always hope, that the future will be better than the present, but only as long as I work to make it so. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| a257d3a | All my life, I have been searching for a home," the drow said quietly. "All my life, I have been wanting more than that which was offered to me, more than Menzoberranzan, more than friends who stood beside me out of personal gain. I always thought home would be a place, and indeed it is, but not in any physical sense. It is a place in here," Drizzt said, putting a hand to his heart and turning back to look upon his companions. "It is a feel.. | friends home | R.A. Salvatore | |
| d01f0c4 | if we have fallen so far as to need an avatar, an undeniable manifestation of a god, to show us our way, then we are pitiful creatures indeed. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 1e95c05 | They are a lie, as our-no, your peole are a lie!" "Your skin is as dark as mine"' Malice reminded him. "You are a drow, though you have never learned what that means!" "Oh, I do know what it menas." "Then act by the rules!" Matron Malcius demanded. "Your rules? Drizzt growled back. "But your rules are a damned lie as well, as great as lie as that filthy spider you claim as a deity!" "A ture god damn you all!" "And damn that Spider Qyeen as .. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| e3fe5d9 | We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 8fc0f50 | For life is experience, and longevity is, in the end, measured by memory, and those with a thousand tales to tell have indeed lived longer than any who embrace the mundane." -Drizzt Do'Urden" | phylosiphical | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 7d88103 | Time to hunt?" Cattie-brie cried, satisfied that she had gotten her point across. She rose beside Wulfgar and headed for the door, but she turned her head over her shoulder to face Drizzt one final time, giving him a look that told him that perhaps he should have asked for more from Cattie-brie back in Icewind Dale, before Wulfgar had entered her life." | love missed-opportunities | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 06c36a2 | Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities of the present. For some, it brings a measure of comfort, a sense of self and of source, but others, I fear, take these altered memories too far, and because of that, paralyze themselves to the realities about them. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| f771119 | It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64) | perception logic | Edward De Bono | |
| 61af3d2 | It may be that Japanese culture is not ego-based like Western culture: argument has often a strong ego base. The most likely explanation is that Japanese culture was not influenced by those Greek thinking idioms which were refined and developed by medieval monks as a means of proving heretics to be wrong. (p36) | Edward De Bono | ||
| 89fbe1b | Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that. | real-life | Edward De Bono | |
| f50e372 | When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive. | kindness empathy positive-thinking women-s-values support | Edward De Bono | |
| ab4c026 | In real-life situations apparently logical lines of argument are often (not always) based on an inability to see alternative possibilities. In a similar way the ability to think of an alternative explanation is by far the best way of destroying the arrogance of an apparently logical line of argument. | Edward De Bono | ||
| 3aaaafd | I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body. | kiss love sweet | Juliet Marillier | |
| 3c31589 | I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness. | son-of-the-shadows | Juliet Marillier | |
| bc7232e | We're all trapped in a net of consequences, condemned to paths outside our control. It's the way of things. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 4c4b3d2 | Letters tell the truths a person will not speak. They contain the deepest of feelings, the wisest of stories. Letters are powerful. They contain messages of hope, love, change. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 5550ba2 | There were those whose love spilled over into their every gesture, and so was shared by all who knew them. But they were rare folk indeed. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 2d51e42 | if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution. | respect | Juliet Marillier | |
| 8a03d40 | But then, if you forget what's bad, cruel, unjust, you might not care anymore about setting things to rights. You might stop standing up against the folk who do evil deeds. And someone's got to. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| bebcd58 | Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn." | regrets | Juliet Marillier | |
| d99ff76 | I am a child of Alban's earth Her ancient bones brought me to birth Her crags and islands built me strong My heart beats to her deep wild song. I am the wife with bairn on knee I am the fisherman at sea I am the piper on the strand I am the warrior, sword in hand. White Lady shield me with your fire Lord of the North my heart inspire Hag of the Isles my secrets keep Master of Shadows guard my sleep. I am the mountain, I am the sky I am the .. | Juliet Marillier |