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| 81a869a | I know now that all people hunger for a noble, unsullied past, that as sure as the black nationalist dreams of a sublime Africa before the white man's corruption, so did Thomas Jefferson dream of an idyllic Britain before the Normans, so do all of us dream of some other time when things were so simple. I know now that that hunger is a retreat from the knotty present into myth and that what ultimately awaits those who retreat into fairy tale.. | cultural-myths fairy-tales maga make-america-great-again myths pound-cake-speech revisionist-history | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 79757d5 | the people who could author the mechanized death of our ghettos, the mass rape of private prisons, then engineer their own forgetting, must inevitably plunder much more. This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline. Once, the Dream's parameters were caged by technology and by the limits of horsepower and wind. But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coa.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 8f676b8 | I don't ever want to lose sight of how short my time is here. And I don't ever want to forget that resistance must be its own reward, since resistance, at least within the life span of the resistors, almost always fails. I don't ever want to forget, even with whatever personal victories I achieve, even in the victories we achieve as a people or a nation, that the larger story of America and the world probably does not end well. Our story is.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 7cbabba | But there is always one last chance--right? | R.L. Stine | ||
| 77031eb | La misma dinamica del capitalismo nubla la frontera entre inversion 'legitima' y especulacion 'salvaje' porque la inversion capitalista es, en su misma esencia, una apuesta de riesgo(...), un acto consistente en tomar prestado del futuro"." | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| cc7c480 | En el mercado actual, encontramos toda una serie de productos libres de sus propiedades perjudiciales: cafe sin cafeina, nata sin grasa, cerveza sin alcohol... Y la lista es larga: ?no podriamos considerar el sexo virtual como sexo sin sexo, la teoria de Colin Powell de la guerra sin bajas (en nuestro bando, por supuesto) como guerra sin guerra, la redefinicion contemporanea de la politica como el arte de la administracion experta como poli.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| dcbf13f | 'wl drs yjb t`lmh hw `dm lwm l'frd wmwqfhm, lmshkl@ lyst fsd lfrd wjsh`h, wlkn lnZm ldhy yshj`h `l~ lfsd. lHl lys sh`r "fy lshwr` lry'ysy@ wlys wwl stryt", wlkn fy tGyyr lnZm ldhy yj`l lshwr` lry'ysy@ m`tmd@ `l~ wwl stryt." | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| b2adec7 | This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclu.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 780dcae | as in Heinrich Heine's (a contemporary of Kierkegaard's) well-known saying that one should value above everything else 'freedom, equality and crab soup'. 'Crab soup' stands here for all the small pleasures in the absence of which we become (mental, if not real) terrorists, | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| c24fd3b | Democracy in contemporary society is a fake, predicated on an illusion that we are together making choices about how best to manage ourselves, an illusion that functions to obscure the fact that we vote for different individuals to exercise power in a state apparatus that is still dedicated to the efficient management of the capitalist economy. The imperatives of capitalism must always undermine democratic decision-making, and the term 'dic.. | Ian Parker | ||
| 11f3c26 | As every close observer of the deadlocks arising from the political correctness knows, the separation of legal justice from moral Goodness -which should be relativized and historicized- ends up in an oppressive moralism brimming with resentment. Without any "organic" social substance grounding the standards of what Orwell approvingly called "common decency" (all such standards having been dismissed as subordinating individual freedoms to pr.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 4a2fc23 | ndm ykwn lmr DHy@ l'y nw` mn lt`sf, ymknh 'n yf`l 'Hd 'mryn. ymknh t`lm kyfy@ tHwyl l'lm l~ Gy@ wHdth frq fy l`lm 'w ymknh lsmH lh bkhmd lnwr fy dkhlh. n khtr l'mr l'khyr, ykwn qd DHW~ b'kthr mn Tfwlth lalh@ lsh`by@ lqs@. | Jodee Blanco | ||
| f87b6d9 | Education is as much about learning what you don't know as it is about adding to what you do. | David McRaney | ||
| 427b144 | Failing often is the only way to ever get the things you want out of life. | David McRaney | ||
| cfc8106 | THE MISCONCEPTION: Your fight-or-flight instincts kick in and you panic when disaster strikes. THE TRUTH: You often become abnormally calm and pretend everything is normal in a crisis. | David McRaney | ||
| d759570 | You are a story you tell yourself. | David McRaney | ||
| 50c4e95 | Self-esteem is mostly self-delusion, but it serves a purpose. You are biologically driven to think highly of yourself in order to avoid stagnation. If you were to stop and truly examine your faults and failures, you would become paralyzed by fear and doubt. | David McRaney | ||
| 19fb06a | THE MISCONCEPTION: When you can't explain something, you focus on what you can prove. THE TRUTH: When you are unsure of something, you are more likely to accept strange explanations. | David McRaney | ||
| 603781f | It is the result of thinking, not the process if thinking, that occurs spontaneously in consciousness. | David McRaney | ||
| fbaa18f | If you neglect your personal space and allow chaos and clutter to creep in, it will affect you, and perhaps encourage further neglect. Positive feedback loops should improve your life, not detract from it. You can't prime yourself directly, but you can create environments conducive to the mental states you wish to achieve. | David McRaney | ||
| c5e83cb | In 2008, Lawrence Williams and John Bargh conducted a study where they had people meet strangers. One group held a cup of warm coffee, and the other group held iced coffee. Later, when asked to rate the stranger's personality, the people who held the warm coffee said they found the stranger to be nice, generous, and caring. The other group said the same person was difficult, standoffish, hard to talk to. In another round of research subject.. | David McRaney | ||
| 8f40649 | THE MISCONCEPTION: The larger the consensus, the more likely it is correct. THE TRUTH: A belief is not more likely to be accurate just because many people share it. | David McRaney | ||
| 9394d84 | A terrorist for Karen is someone who has a bomb but no aeroplane. Ch. 4 | John le Carré | ||
| 7bfefd1 | Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old. | film hayao-miyazaki japan | Helen McCarthy | |
| 44b9082 | It was the skinny boy's stillness, he decided later. Those lines of age in a face as young as mine. His look of winter on a lovely spring day. | John le Carré | ||
| c09d14e | Never confess, my friend," he advised drowsily, clasping Melik's hand. "If you confess, they will keep you there forever." | John le Carré | ||
| 2c9e851 | The driver was holding open the rear door. He was young and blond, a boy in his prime. | John le Carré | ||
| 84d1a1a | Todd and Larry were Quinn's people. They were clean-limbed and pretty and, for a man of my age, ludicrously youthful. | John le Carré | ||
| ea8a612 | There was a pause. Mendel said: 'It's the devil you don't know that gets you. | John le Carré | ||
| 901fd53 | Her instinct was to defend, to hoard the treasures of her life, to build about herself the symbols of normal existence. | John le Carré | ||
| 766dd00 | Information is not knowledge, mind you. | John le Carré | ||
| e855c6d | It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey. | conventionalism status-quo | John le Carré | |
| a3b86c3 | Forgive me. Sometimes an answer can vary with a context, if you follow me | John le Carré | ||
| fb8df90 | We pretend a lot of things aren't there. Or we pretend that other things are more important. That's how we survive. | John le Carré | ||
| 9768206 | Outside the school's walls the Swinging Sixties are in full cry, but inside them the band of Empire plays on. Twice-daily chapel services praise the school's war dead to the detriment of its living, value the white man above lesser breeds, and preach chastity to boys who can find sexual stimulation in a Times editorial. | John le Carré | ||
| 54b7c56 | Did I fuck her? No, I bloody well didn't. I made mute, frenzied love to her in pitch darkness for six life-altering hours, in an explosion of tension and lust between two bodies that had desired each other from birth and had only the night to live. | John le Carré | ||
| 4c80738 | And what's life if it isn't invention? Starting with inventing yourself. | John le Carré | ||
| ba2ebb8 | Ashe was typical of that strata of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response. Where there was softness, he would advance; where he found resistance, retreat. Having himself no particular opinions or tastes he relied upon whatever conformed with those of his companion. He was as ready to drink tea at Fortnum's as beer at the Prospect of Whitby; he would listen to military music in St. J.. | intrigue spying | John le Carré | |
| e20d740 | Dash it all, she's an actress! Don't take her so seriously. Actors don't have opinions, my dear chap, still less do actresses. They have moods. Fads. Poses. Twenty-four-hour passions. There's a lot wrong with the world, dammit. Actors are absolute suckers for dramatic solutions. For all I know, by the time you get her out there, she'll be Born Again! | John le Carré | ||
| 6653990 | Lo racconto in maniera semplice ma precisa, come un buon soldato rievoca una battaglia, non piu col sapore della vittoria o della sconfitta ma unicamente con l'emozione del ricordo. | John le Carré | ||
| 7e478ba | He has a saying: he'll only believe what can be written on a postcard. | John le Carré | ||
| 127cfe3 | CIA Interrogator: Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists? Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair: Hmmm... ah, there was a trombone player, Wilfred Baker. Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair: He's the only jazz musician I can think of who is completely devoid of anarchist tendencies. | John le Carré | ||
| 814bda2 | Steam was rising weirdly from his clothes. His hangover was visible. It heaved itself to his shoulders and sat there like a bag of wet cement. | Markus Zusak | ||
| b3d6634 | In the written words of the book thief herself, the journey continued like everything had happened. | Markus Zusak |