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| 3f9a706 | It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 2d7deed | I've spent enough time in jackrabbit country to know that most of them lead pretty dull lives . . . No wonder some of them drift over the line into cheap thrills once in a while; there has to be a powerful adrenaline rush in crouching by the side of a road, waiting for the next set of headlights to come along, then streaking out of the bushes with split-second timing and making it across to the other side just inches in front of the speedin.. | fear-and-loathing freak-power george-mcgovern gonzo-writing hunter-s-thompson richard-nixon us-presidential-politics | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| b484428 | If we start electing presidents on the basis of their sexual purity, some real monsters will get into the White House. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 46ab894 | Playboy: Why are you smiling? Thompson: Am I smiling? Yeah, I guess I am...well, it's fun to lose it sometimes. | Alex Haley | ||
| 3edc23e | Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity. | business business-advice executive facebook management marketing social-media twitter | Brian E Boyd | |
| 8fe1e1d | Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners. | Scott Adams | ||
| dc1755f | When politicians tell lies, they know the press will call them out. They also know it doesn't matter. Politicians understand that reason will never have much of a role in voting decisions. A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments. That's even true when the voter knows the lie is a lie. | Scott Adams | ||
| 8d3e65d | Pessimism is often a failure of imagination. | Scott Adams | ||
| 083548e | Passion feels very democratic. It is the people's talent, available to all. It's also mostly bullshit. | Scott Adams | ||
| b0be68c | The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge. | Scott Adams | ||
| 5b662eb | Unhappiness that is caused by too much success is a high-class problem. That's the sort of unhappiness people work all of their lives to get. If you find yourself there, and I hope you do, you'll find your attention naturally turning outward. You'll seek happiness through service to others. I promise it will feel wonderful. | Scott Adams | ||
| f3db8f5 | For our purposes, let's say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it's a system. If you're waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal. | Scott Adams | ||
| 391c7ab | the simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far more convincing than any complicated explanation could hope to be. | Scott Adams | ||
| f093577 | Our arrogance causes us to imagine special value in this temporary collection of molecules. Why do we perceive more spiritual value in the sum of our body parts than on any individual cell in our body? Why don't we hold funerals when skin cells die? | Scott Adams | ||
| 40ecdd8 | If you are proven to be right a hundred times in a row, no amount of evidence will convince you that you are mistaken in the hundred-and-first case. You will be seduced by your own apparent infallibility. Remember that all scientific experiments are performed by human beings and the results are subject to human interpretation. The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth. Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusion.. | Scott Adams | ||
| a0708b2 | But never being wrong is no proof that the method of testing is sound for all cases | Scott Adams | ||
| 876c39a | Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic. | Herman Melville | ||
| 1246a28 | for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool... | Herman Melville | ||
| 171829d | wklm zddtu t'ml fy hdh ldhnab ljbr zd 'sfy l`jzy `n wSfh. flh fy b`D l'Hyn Hrkt wymt Swfy@ l tufsWanr, wn lHwt Hq ytHdth bhdhh lwsy'l l~ lkwn fy dhk wfTn@. wHrkt lHwt klh Hfl@ blGrb@, fkyfm 'khdhtuh bltHlyl wltshryH lm 'tjwz fy l`mq sumk bshrth! f'n 'jhlh ws'Zl 'jhlh 'bd. wdh lm '`rf Ht~ dhnabh fkyf 'fhm r'sh? thm - whdh 'blG - kyf 'drk wjhh Hyn l ykwn lh wjh? wybdw ly 'nh yqwl: str~ 'jzy'y lkhlfy@, str~ dhnaby, 'm wjhy fln trh! wlkny l 'st.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 7c21a20 | m 'mt` l`Sf@ dh kn lbyt qwy | Herman Melville | ||
| fe93480 | dh 'n dhrw@ lsrwr fy ldh@ ldf hy 'n l yfSl bynk 'nt wm thwWm fyh mn jmm wbyn brd lhw fy lkhrj shy sw~ lbTny@. `ndy'dh tstlqy k'nk qbs dfy fy jwf blwr@ qTby@. | Herman Melville | ||
| 660db82 | Hast seen the white whale? | Herman Melville | ||
| a5f0285 | For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error. | Herman Melville | ||
| 10bd7d8 | The pale Usher--threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. | Herman Melville | ||
| 4e8269f | Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any. | the-great-lakes | Herman Melville | |
| 2452ba3 | With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship | Herman Melville | ||
| dc400fa | But if I know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much more, how comprehend this face, when face he has none? Thou shalt see my back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen. But I cannot completely make out his back parts; and hint what he will about his face, I say again he has no face. | Herman Melville | ||
| 061556b | Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on. | Herman Melville | ||
| 8e88d89 | Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.--Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it" | friedrich-wilhelm-herschel philosophy wilhelm-herschel william-herschel | Herman Melville | |
| 2e0bae3 | Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntaril.. | sailor sea-stories | Herman Melville | |
| 7463a81 | How dost thou know that some entire, living, thinking thing may not be invisibly and uninterpenetratingly standing precisely where thou now standest; aye, and standing there in thy spite? In thy most solitary hours, then, dost thou not fear eavesdroppers? Hold, don't speak! And if I still feel the smart of my crushed leg, though it be now so long dissolved; then, why mayst not thou, carpenter, feel the fiery pains of hell for ever, and with.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 1467b5a | He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea. | Herman Melville | ||
| 0f7e7c8 | What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him. | Herman Melville | ||
| 177661f | Instinct and study, love and hate; Audacity-reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's heart, To wrestle with the angel -- Art. | Herman Melville | ||
| 0595619 | Born in throes, 't is fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be it, then! | Herman Melville | ||
| 8ba904b | but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade | herman-melville moby-dick spade | Herman Melville | |
| eba2dfa | then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul. | darkness fire madness | Herman Melville | |
| ca14718 | At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom - the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow. | old-age young-at-heart | Herman Melville | |
| f432683 | I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward." | Herman Melville | ||
| 77fe054 | Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point wit.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 9e020bc | But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort. She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not. | Herman Melville | ||
| 77582e7 | Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the million miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon. The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true -- not true, or undeveloped. | Herman Melville | ||
| 160aea9 | For in their interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh-water seas of ours,--Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan,--possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of races and climes. They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian water do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnis.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 6d19efc | She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets. | Sinclair Lewis |