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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9435563 | Sus ojos brillaron antes de cerrarlos y bajo la cabeza. --No. No te merezco tampoco. Necesitas a alguien que te aprecie, te proteja y te cuide. Una persona que se de cuenta de que nunca seria capaz de encontrar a otra como tu en el mundo, no importa lo mucho que busque. --Me miro de nuevo a los ojos y nos miramos el uno al otro. | Molly McAdams | ||
| cf82ddb | Harper, i love you more than I could ever explain. Meeting you changed my world. Even when I thought you would never be mine, I couldn't continue to live a life I knew you hated. The night you told me you loved me was the best night of my life, up until tonight. I never want to let you go again, I want to be with you for the rest of my life. I want to marry you someday, Harper. - Chase Austin Grayson | Molly McAdams | ||
| f7896fe | Oh I'm sorry, but I don't have any STDs, I'm not your type. | Molly McAdams | ||
| a5b6de8 | No one was ever worth the chase. But you? You will be worth it every time. I will always chase you, Kennedy. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 263c602 | Nothing is ever guaranteed, but you can't write us off before you even give me a chance to prove that I can be good for you. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 8fdf7ab | This ring belongs to you, and the only place I want it is on your left hand . . . and hopefully someday if you'll still have me, I want it accompanied by another ring. Like before, I won't push you, but this is yours. If you decide to put it on again, Rachel, you better understand what I'm saying this time. I don't want you taking that ring off. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 7d8eb35 | If you think acting like you don't exist isn't the hardest thing I've ever done, you're wrong. I hate not talking to you, I hate not bickering like we're an old married couple, and I hate not spending every day right next to you. But this is how it has to be. Brandon hates me, and, Princess, trust me when I say he has every reason to. So if after everything I've done to you, you'll still even consider being my friend, then it has to be Sund.. | Molly McAdams | ||
| f116970 | The trade-off seems like a no-brainer. Would you rather be bribed during your hospital stay with made-to-order omelets or would you rather be, for example, not dead? | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| 3c7d3d6 | Some of the more industrious ones were washing the windshields of cars that had been trapped by the red light. I used to see them from inside cars and think they brought it on themselves, and they probably did but now it didn't make a difference. I went over to the fire and warmed my hands with the group. I looked at their faces: idiots, criminals, retards, schizophrenics, paranoids, rejects, fuck-ups, broken-down failures. Alone, once chil.. | Arthur Nersesian | ||
| 946cc9d | Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance. | leadership popularity | Alexandra Robbins | |
| 5a19311 | Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin. | talent | Alexandra Robbins | |
| 94fbf48 | If schools celebrated student scientists the same way they celebrate student athletes, more students would be encouraged to pursue the subject. Instead, science is considered nerdy because schools help students to paint it that way. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| f2de0e2 | If there is a single factor that spells out the difference between the cafeteria fringe headed for greatness and those doomed for low self-worth, even more than a caring teacher or a group of friends, it is supportive, accepting parents who not only love their children unconditionally, but also don't make them feel as if their idiosyncrasies qualify as "conditions" in the first place." | mentoring parenting | Alexandra Robbins | |
| 593c93e | Polarization is just one of many ways group membership can change an individual. Perhaps the most striking effect of group membership is that it can modify individuals' perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psychologists call an "imaginary audience," meaning they believe that other people are just as attuned to their appearanc.. | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| fc31e85 | What made Einstein special was his impertinence, his nonconformity, and his distaste for dogma. Einstein's genius reminds us that a society's competitive advantage comes not from teaching the multiplication or periodic tables but from nurturing rebels. Grinds have their place, but unruly geeks change the world. (Walter Issacson, Wired) | Alexandra Robbins | ||
| cb36239 | Anyway, I wasn't asleep; if I nap during the day I can never get to sleep at night. I was thinking about the pluralistic universe. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 755f268 | The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 4454453 | What do I want to say? I myself do not quite understand. Only that today, when for the glory of God Mokichi and Ichizo moaned, suffered and died, I cannot bear the monotonous sound of the dark sea gnawing at the shore. Behind the depressing silence of this sea, the silence of God....the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 5354c59 | People are linked together by enmity than by love. | enmity love | Shūsaku Endō | |
| e2b2cce | Winnie did not believe in fairy tales. She had never longed for a magic wand, did not expect to marry a prince, and was scornful--most of the time--of her grandmother's elves. So now she sat, mouth open, wide-eyed, not knowing what to make of this extraordinary story. It couldn't--not a bit of it--be true. And yet: | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 727560b | No," said Tuck calmly. "Not now. Your time's not now. But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing. But it's passing us by, us Tucks. Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have li.. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| a9f38ba | But if they realize that their true freedom consists in the acceptance of principles, of laws which are the own, a synthesis of universal and particular interests becomes possible. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| a7bbb02 | When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there must be some truth to his system; I was cured, however, by discovering that everything he said on the philosophy of mathematics was plain nonsense. | nonsense philosophy-of-mathematics | Bertrand Russell | |
| 40c5889 | By means of the simple folk remedy of ascribing to feeling what is the millennia-long labor of reason and of its understanding, all are spared the bother of rational insight and knowledge. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 99b2425 | It is when subjective consciousness maintains its independence of everything, that it says, 'It is I who through my educated thoughts can annul all determinations of right, morality, good, &c., because I am clearly master of them, and I know that if anything seems good to me I can easily subvert it, because things are only true to me in so far as they please me now.' This irony is thus only a trifling with everything, and it can transform a.. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 46b4e5f | is--it is necessary to come first to an understanding concerning knowledge, which is looked upon as the instrument by which to take possession of the Absolute, or as the means through which to get a sight of it. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 8274848 | It is not a very pleasing spectacle to observe uncultivated ignorance and crudity of mind, with neither form nor taste, without the capacity to concentrate its thoughts on an abstract proposition, still less on a connected statement of such propositions, confidently proclaiming itself to be intellectual freedom and | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 7ccb4d0 | Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject. | substance true | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| 791dea5 | Words do have consequences, and what one generation says but does not really believe, the next generation may believe, and even act upon. | Peter Singer | ||
| bc7d986 | Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good we can. | Peter Singer | ||
| cae8193 | Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings. | evolution evolutionary-psychology morality | Peter Singer | |
| b1ec470 | But pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being | Peter Singer | ||
| 48d690e | We think of lions and wolves as savage because they kill; but they must kill, or starve. Humans kill other animals for sport, to satisfy their curiosity, to beautify their bodies, and to please their palates. | Peter Singer | ||
| 3cca65e | It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them. | self-awareness | Peter Singer | |
| 6bec364 | But suppose my daughters had approached me as we often approach God. "Hey, Dad, glad you're home. Here is what I want. More toys. More candy. And can we go to Disneyland this summer?" "Whoa," I would have wanted to say. "I'm not a waiter, and this isn't a restaurant. I'm your father, and this is our house. Why don't you just climb up on Daddy's lap and let me tell you how much I love you?" Ever thought God might want to do the same with you.. | Max Lucado | ||
| 0649573 | Cutting out meat would do more to help combat climate change than any other action we could feasibly take in the next 20 years. | Peter Singer | ||
| e8d61e5 | say that people are "humane" is to say that they are kind; to say that they are "beastly," "brutal," or simply that they behave "like animals" is to suggest that they are cruel and nasty. We rarely stop to consider that the animal who kills with the least reason to do so is the human animal. We think of lions and wolves as savage because they kill; but they must kill, or starve. Humans kill other animals for sport, to satisfy their curiosit.. | Peter Singer | ||
| 8b8b1f8 | If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the problems we face, whether they are what to do about climate change, the world's poor, the problems of Australia's Indigenous people, or the prospect of a future in which we can genetically modify our offspring. An education in the humanities is as valuable today as it was in Plato's time. | education humanities | Peter singer | |
| d223224 | There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f419cb9 | I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 0b5a608 | Jesus was crucified by Rome because his messianic aspirations threatened the occupation of Palestine, and his zealotry endangered the Temple authorities. | Reza Aslan | ||
| a58b723 | The reason crucifixion was so common is because it was so cheap. It could be carried out almost anywhere; all one needed was a tree. The torture could last for days without the need for an actual torturer. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 3ba3b4f | No one speaks for God--not even the prophets (who speak about God). | Reza Aslan | ||
| 17f6556 | That, more than anything else, explains why, throughout human history, religion has been a force both for boundless good and for unspeakable evil; why the same faith in the same God inspires love and compassion in one believer, hatred and violence in another; why two people can approach the same scripture at the same time and come away with two radically opposing interpretations of it. Indeed, most of the religious conflicts that continue t.. | Reza Aslan |