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| a5c4d21 | Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren't necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning. | ethics morality philosophy veganism | Robert M. Sapolsky | |
| db6feea | And I always feel this with straight people--that whenever they're being nice to me, pleasant to me, all the time really, underneath they're only assessing me as a criminal and nothing else. It's too late for me to be any different now to what I am, but I still feel this keenly, that that's their only approach, and they're quite incapable of accepting me as anything else.27 | Erving Goffman | ||
| 93a8686 | Lord Chatham, the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great, never gained more in one campaign than the noble lord has lost-he has lost a whole continent. | David McCullough | ||
| a3c3270 | She was talking too loud now, shouting almost, and a long silence followed. Why was she being like this? He was only trying to help. In what way did he benefit from this friendship? He should get up and walk away, that's what he should do. They turned to look at each other at the same time. "Sorry," he said. "No, I'm sorry." "What are you sorry for?" "Rattling on like a....mad cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired, bad day, and I'm sorry for being...so.. | David Nicholls | ||
| 5659867 | CHAPTER XXVI.--A new Prince in a City or Province of which he has taken Possession, ought to make Everything new. Whosoever becomes prince of a city or State, more especially if his position be so insecure that he cannot resort to constitutional government either in the form of a republic or a monarchy, will find that the best way to preserve his princedom is to renew the whole institutions of that State; that is to say, to create new magis.. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| d49068d | Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it. | heritage legacy literature worship | Harold Bloom | |
| fd16481 | Gertrude Stein remarked that one writes for oneself and for strangers, which I translate as speaking both to myself (which is what great poetry teaches us how to do) and to those dissident readers around the world who in solitude instinctually reach out for quality in literature, disdaining the lemmings who devour J. K. Rowling and Stephen King as they race down the cliffs to intellectual suicide in the gray ocean of the Internet. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 975545e | Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks. | conformity conventional-wisdom innovation word-choice | Harold Bloom | |
| b94bc82 | To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude. | reading thought-life | Harold Bloom | |
| ef38d42 | We read, I think, to repair our solitude, though pragmatically the better we read, the more solitary we become. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 8102d8e | Karl Marx is irrelevant to many millions of them because, in America, religion is the poetry of the people and not their opiate. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 9df0af8 | seeking comfort through continuity, as grand voices somehow hold off the permanent darkness that gathers though it does not fall. | Harold Bloom | ||
| d51a3f6 | All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home." | communication continuity familiarity innovation variety | Harold Bloom | |
| ed86e2d | We are lived by drives we cannot command, and we are read by works we cannot resist. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 35f6c04 | Urging the need for community upon American religionists is a vain enterprise; the experiential encounter with Jesus or God is too overwhelming for memories of community to abide, and the believer returns from the abyss of ecstasy with the self enhanced and otherness devalued. | Harold Bloom | ||
| b941a28 | Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God. | poetry religion wallace-stevens weather | Harold Bloom | |
| 91ef39d | Reading well is one of the great pleasures | experience great healing pleasures solitude | Harold Bloom | |
| 89d95ee | Alleging that the Mormons had committed a long list of treasonous acts, in May 1857 Buchanan dispatched a contingent of federal officials to restore the rule of law in Utah, including a new territorial governor to replace Brigham Young. More ominously, the new president ordered twenty-five hundred heavily armed soldiers to escort these officials into Salt Lake City and subdue the Saints if necessary. For all intents and purposes, the United.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 9327e94 | My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 194bf48 | The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich; Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman; As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout; My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir; The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin; The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader by Rees Hughes and Corey Lewis; Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls; A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson; Eat, Pray, Love by Eliz.. | Cheryl Strayed | ||
| 7af3209 | It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0a0d6ae | Lisak and Miller examined a random sample of 1,882 men, all of whom were students at the University of Massachusetts Boston between 1991 and 1998. Their average age was twenty-four. Of these 1,882 students, 120 individuals--6.4 percent of the sample--were identified as rapists, which wasn't a surprising proportion. But 76 of the 120--63 percent of the undetected student rapists, amounting to 4 percent of the overall sample--turned out to be.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 995ce4e | I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 7da880c | He'd just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted, | Jon Krakauer | ||
| b3e54e6 | pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy . . . , indicated by five (or more) of the following: 1. An exaggerated sense of self-importance . . . 2. Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love 3. Believes that he or she is "special" and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people . . . 4. Requ.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 13c0cd7 | The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith--still the religion's focal personage-- married at least thirty-three women and probably as many as forty-eight. Nor does it mention that the youngest of these wives was just fourteen years old when Joseph explained to her that God had commanded that she marry him or face eternal damnation. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 1be339f | Everett was strange,' Sleight concedes. 'Kind of different. But him and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.' (pg. 96) | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f0ce109 | In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f78f3f5 | One man's faith is another man's delusion. . . . | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5ff0ea4 | I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion." | polygamy rape religion | Jon Krakauer | |
| f2ccca6 | Asked to elaborate, Lisak explained, "One of the things that is difficult for most of us, frankly, to understand about a rape, is that there doesn't have to be a gun to the head, there doesn't have to be a knife present, there doesn't have to be a verbalized threat for the act itself to be enormously terrifying and threatening....There is a difference between sexual violence and other forms of assault. Sexual violence is so intimate." When .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 82f49ca | When cops and prosecutors fail to aggressively pursue sexual-assault cases, Kevin argued, it sends a message to sexual predators that women are fair game and can be raped with impunity. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 8b682ac | buffeted by the passions and longings of youth. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| d15574a | La mia opinione e che non hai bisogno ne di me ne di nessun altro per portare questa gioia nella tua vita. E semplicemente li che ti aspetta, che aspetta di essere afferrata, e tutto quello che devi fare e tendere la mano per prenderla. L'unica persona con cui combatti e te stesso e la tua testardaggine a non lanciarti in nuove esperienze. | esperienze gioia libertà vita | Jon Krakauer | |
| 1f51588 | Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together. I hope that you will not be too depressed by our parting. It may be a very long time before we see each other again. But providing that I get through the Alaskan Deal in one piece you will be hearing form me again in the future. I'd like to repeat the advice I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your .. | changes courage inspirational into-the-wild joy life nature new-experiences | Jon Krakauer | |
| 68fe119 | My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 06270b5 | At such moments something resembling happiness actually stirs in your chest, but it isn't the sort of emotion you want to lean on very hard. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 99cfc0c | When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath.... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| ced7810 | I have some good friends here, but no one really understands why I am here or what I do. I don't know of anyone, though, who would have more than a partial understanding; I have gone too far alone. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5b496ae | But then I'm not easily shocked. I've had several friends who drowned or got murdered or died in weird accidents. In Alaska you get used to strange stuff happening. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 42cbcf5 | Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long , grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion! | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f28fd70 | But it also demonstrates how difficult it is to correct a false belief after people have made an emotional investment in that belief being true. When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a8a2e99 | Having been exposed to a variety of religious experiences in the foster homes I lived in, being Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or anything else means absolutely nothing to me. I have already formed an opinion that the so-called religious teachings that I've been exposed to simply make no sense. So, I've just ignored the Sunday-school message of fear and judgment and paid no attention to any of it. I see no need for all of this craziness in m.. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| e9f211f | Affirm: I place no limits and no restrictions on all that I intend to accomplish and become from here on in. | Wayne W. Dyer |