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| d2fe625 | Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence. | management business-management-training executive youtube facebook social-media marketing business-advice twitter | Brian E Boyd | |
| 7793b61 | Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the insatiability of the present, and the unforeseeability of the future. | Brian Boyd | ||
| 6eaf0b1 | It was then that my gaze happened to fall on the bookcase, on the gap there, where the old paperback of "Nine Stories" had fallen flat. "Where's the thing?" I said. "What thing?" "The mesh. My ." She shrugged. "I tossed it." "Tossed it? Where? What do you mean?" In the next moment I was in the kitchen, flipping open the lid of the trash can, only to find it empty. "You mean outside?" I shouted. "In the dumpster?" When I came thunderi.. | dysfunctional-relationships passive-aggression shaming | T.C. Boyle | |
| 0c2bf4d | Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death. | Herman Melville | ||
| ad1e45a | I try all things; I achieve what I can. | Herman Melville | ||
| 04b5bbf | Entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit. If you're risk averse and have some doubts about the feasibility of your ideas, it's likely that your business will be built to last. If you're a freewheeling gambler, your startup is far more fragile. Like the Warby Parker crew, the entrepreneurs whose companies topped Fast Company's recent most innovative lists typically stayed in their day job.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| b6843c4 | Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why. | Scott Adams | ||
| adea90d | If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise. | Scott Adams | ||
| a8f1c8a | Gunun birinde Locke Lamora," dedi adam, "gunun birinde oyle ihtisamli, oyle hirsli, oyle muazzam bir hata yapacaksin ki gokyuzu isiga bogulacak, aylar firil firil donecek ve tanrilar neseyle kuyrukluyildizlar sicacak. Umarim o gunu gorebilecek kadar yasarim." "Avucunu yalarsin," dedi Locke. "Oyle bir sey asla olmayacak." | gentlemen-bastards locke-lamora locke-lamora-nın-yalanları | Scott Lynch | |
| c58f467 | Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time. | reassurance humour technology | Scott Adams | |
| 320f742 | Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things. | success | Scott Adams | |
| f48e21a | I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me. | Scott Adams | ||
| fbfdc23 | shyness is caused by an internal feeling that you are not worthy to be in the conversation. | Scott Adams | ||
| 5c42e05 | simplicity is not proof of truth. But since we can never understand true reality, if two models both explain the same facts, it is more rational to use the simpler one. It is a matter of convenience. | Scott Adams | ||
| a02fbb6 | If, as you say, our minds are delusion generators, then we're all like blind and deaf sea captains shouting orders into the universe and hoping it makes a difference. We have no way of knowing what really works and what merely seems to work. So doesn't it make sense to try all the things that appear to work even if we can't be sure? | Scott Adams | ||
| 5ad1bb7 | My definition of happiness is that it's a feeling you get when your body chemistry is producing pleasant sensations in your mind. | Scott Adams | ||
| 61430e7 | Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise. | Scott Adams | ||
| 81e2c95 | With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. | Herman Melville | ||
| 70fada0 | I had the whole road to myself, for no one was yet stirring, and I walked on, with a slouching, dogged gait. The gray shooting-jacket was on my back, and from the end of my brother's rifle hung a small bundle of my clothes. My fingers worked moodily at the stock and trigger, and I thought that this indeed was the way to begin life, with a gun in your hand! | Herman Melville | ||
| 9b76ac9 | But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands .. | the-ocean sea | Herman Melville | |
| a76791a | hb 'nn 'khT'n khT' fdH fy fhm ms'l@ lHy@ wlmwt. hb 'n m ysmwnh `l~ hdhh l'rD "Zly" nm hw jwhry lSHyH. hb 'nn Hyn nnZr l~ l'mwr lrwHy@ nshbh lsrTn ldhy yr~ lshms mn khll lm fyZn 'n lm lkthyf hw 'shd 'nw` lhw shffy@! hb 'n jsdy lys l lHm~ ldhy y'wy lyh wjwdy l'fDl. fly'khdh jsdy mn sh fnh lys 'n!" | Herman Melville | ||
| 2020c79 | Heaven have mercy on us all--Presbyterians and Pagans alike-- for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. | Herman Melville | ||
| 63d061f | and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another. | Herman Melville | ||
| 5bc94dc | if some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. events, not books, should be forbid. | Herman Melville | ||
| 512fe92 | It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with abhorrence; that appears to result, in some way, from the consideration before mentioned: i.e. that a man should eat a newly murdered thing of the sea, and eat it too by its own light. But no doubt the first man that ever murdered an ox was regarded as murderer; perhaps he was hung; and if he had been put on his tria.. | Herman Melville | ||
| a57e4f7 | And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. | Herman Melville | ||
| 15659e0 | And even as this old guide-book boasts of the, to us, insignificant Liverpool of fifty years ago, the New York guidebooks are now vaunting of the magnitude of a town, whose future inhabitants, multitudinous as the pebbles on the beach, and girdled in with high walls and towers, flanking endless avenues of opulence and taste, will regard all our Broadways and Bowerys as but the paltry nucleus to their Nineveh. From far up the Hudson, beyond .. | Herman Melville | ||
| 924e775 | wlkn hdh lkhawar l`rD sm@ tkd t`m kl lky'nt lty t`ysh fy lqTy`, fljwmys lbry@ fy lGrb l'mryky - dht l'`rf k'lbd l'swd - tHtshd fy '`dd tblG `shrt l'lwf, wtfr hrb@ 'mm khyWl wHd wt'ml 'yD jmy` bny lbshr: kyf ykwnwn mHtshdyn fy HZyr@ ysmwnh q`@ lmsrH, fdh 'undhrw mHD ndhr Tfyf bsht`l lnr ndf`w fy hyT wmyT nHw lmnfdh, mtjmhryn mtkdsyn yT' b`Dhm b`D, wydf` 'Hdhm lakhr l~ lmwt dwn shfq! | Herman Melville | ||
| 45ffb19 | The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung. | moby-dick | Herman Melville | |
| 5b6d621 | What business have I with this pipe? This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapors among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine. I'll smoke no more. | the-pipe | Herman Melville | |
| 5b80a97 | That over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies, and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like some slumberers in their beds; the ever rolling waves but made so by the restlessness. | seascape | Herman Melville | |
| 74d827f | In fact, tell him I've diddled him, and perhaps somebody else. | Herman Melville | ||
| 219ecbc | They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business. | chinese-society justinian mind-your-own-business pandects funny moby-dick melville laws lol | Herman Melville | |
| 537574b | m 'shd m 'Htqr l'rD dht lHwjz wltwt wljwzt! tlk lTryq l`m@ lty khdWdth n`l l`bwdy@ wHwfrh! wtHwWltu l~ l`jb b`Zm@ lbHr ldhy l tnTb` fyh athr. | Herman Melville | ||
| 7774c30 | From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. | Herman Melville | ||
| c3b8c8f | A high degree of refinement, however, does not seem to subdue our wicked propensities so much after all; and were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. | Herman Melville | ||
| 7021e79 | Oh, grassy glades! oh ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,--though long parched by the dead drought of the earthly life,-- in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them. Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every .. | Herman Melville | ||
| 52b2bdd | And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. | Herman Melville | ||
| 6d716ff | Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?--Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks glasses! of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if stri.. | Herman Melville | ||
| f92b31f | fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon--so like a corkscrew now--was flung | Herman Melville | ||
| 57bef12 | So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others. The continual sight of the fiend shapes before me, capering half in smoke and half in fire, these at last begat kindred visions in my soul, so soon as I began to yield to that unaccountable drowsiness whic.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 7f72aea | Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth. Is Envy then such a monster? Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty to horrible actions, did anybody ever seriously confess to envy? Something there is in it universally felt to be more shameful than even felonious crime. And not only does everybody disown it, b.. | rene-girard | herman melville | |
| 3030a0c | Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled--the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and sweetly perished there? | plato ohio | Herman Melville | |
| 122d95d | To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil. | Herman Melville |