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| febdf4f | In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand biscuits, and twenty-nine sides of beef, he goes through the Bible and writes down a bunch of verses commanding him to be willing to cheerfully give all that stuff away. My firkin is your firkin being one of Christianity's primary creeds. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| d508f12 | it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 42a1761 | We all grew up, those of us who took to heart. We came to cringe a little at our old favorite poet, concluding that God was likely never Pooh Bear, that sometimes New York and California could be just as isolated as our provincial hometown, and that grown men didn't run back and forth all the time bleeding soup and sympathy out of sucker women. But those are just details, really. We got what we needed, namely a passion for unlikely words,.. | kerouac modernism on-the-road | Sarah Vowell | |
| 9afaea5 | Then Cotton quotes Luke 12:48. "To whom much is given, of him God will require the more." Of course there's a catch, Spider-Man. When God is the landlord, Cotton says, "defraud him not of his rent." The price? Obedience." | Sarah Vowell | ||
| ef19eba | That story is proof of the theorem that then as today in Chicago, the mysterious equation of whiskey plus music equals what can only be called happiness. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| e268bcc | Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| d956b21 | I ask about the Quakers' silent services. She describes them as "not so much the absence of talking as the presence of god." Interesting. Hers is a more poetic, more profound description than what I call it: room tone. But a synonym for "room tone" is in fact "presence," the sound of a room that audio engineers record for editing purposes. Every place on earth at any given moment has unique acoustics based on who and what is there. So actor.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 0c5bb9b | Vergennes proposed clandestine aid to the rebels to avoid stirring up an overt war with Britain and to shore up the enemy of France's enemy, advising, "The courage of the Americans might be kept up by secret favors and vague hopes." He specifically suggested sending them covert "military stores and money" for the time being but warned against going public and making an official treaty with the insurgents until "the liberty of English Americ.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| bd2f80f | I]deas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 46f0d03 | Wainwright prayed to the graven image of Lafayette, since neither the president nor Congress seemed to be listening. "We, the women of the United States," she told the bronze Lafayette, "denied the liberty which you helped to gain, and for which we have asked in vain for sixty years, turn to you to plead for us. Speak, Lafayette, dead these hundred years but still living in the hearts of the American people." | history | Sarah Vowell | |
| c219d06 | I am pro-plaque. | plaque | Sarah Vowell | |
| 5383192 | With temperatures dropping, how could men without shirts expect to fend off opponents so blatantly well equipped with outerwear that they were nicknamed the redcoats? | Sarah Vowell | ||
| f7a1489 | Lafayette, on the other hand, was more of a make-your-own-destiny type of fellow, disobeying orders from the king and abandoning a pregnant girl for an entirely optional adventure. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 5ef4ff5 | The last line of Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is addressed to the American people and their congressmen. "As they deal with me and my people, kindly, generously, and justly, so may the Great Ruler of all nations deal with the grand and glorious nation of the United States of America." It's clever to imply that if the U.S. swallows up her little country, God will smite it. As I reread the last sentance of a book written by a Hawaiian que.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 63e9015 | In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 719f8bc | One night, he left Stephen and me in the arcade and rushed off to a - this hurt my feelings - "real" game. That night, he missed a foul shot by two feet and made the mistake of admitting to the other players that his arms were tired from throwing miniature balls at a shortened hoop all afternoon. They laughed and laughed. 'In the second overtime,' Joel told me, 'when the opposing team fouled me with four seconds left and gave me the opportu.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 6337130 | Standing there at Powell's grave, telling my nephew about a buried skull, I realize how much of our relationship revolves around body parts and severed heads. Once Owen learned to walk, we started playing a game I call Frankenstein, in which I am Frankenstein's monster and I chase him around trying to harvest his organs and appendages because my master is building another boy. "Frankenstein needs your spleen," I yell, aping the voice of an .. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| abe17ee | Hypothesis: Intentional or not, movement to a beat = dancing. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 9f80fa3 | It doesn't matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice. --KRUG'S SECOND LAW OF USABILITY | Steve Krug | ||
| 3bcd540 | During construction, when a worker died, his body was built right into the Wall itself. No one knew how many corpses lay within the stone and mortar, but some estimates ran as high as three million souls. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 86d79bd | You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 4d5cc3a | the knoll | Gordon Korman | ||
| 894c4ed | They don't have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and you're supposed to drop what you're doing and rush off to a different room with a different teacher to do something completely different! How can anybody learn like that? | school | Gordon Korman | |
| a792536 | Schultz. | Gordon Korman | ||
| bf1dbb5 | Maybe they were. Very little was beyond Noah's capabilities when he wasn't mounting a concerted effort to flunk. | Gordon Korman | ||
| f403c70 | Kod unutarnjih borba koje covek vodi sa samim sobom i sa nepoznatim silama u sebi, vazi vise nego igde pravilo: ne predaj se nikad! - Ni predaje, ni ustupanja! A pre svega, sto kazu u Bosni: ne vezi tugu za srce! | život | Ivo Andrić | |
| c3f991d | Poucen svojim dugim iskustvom, ja znam da ona spava u mojoj senci kao u cudesnom logu iz kog ustaje i javlja mi se neredovno i neocekivano, po zakonima kojima je tesko uhvatiti kraj. Cudljivo i nepredvidljivo, kako se samo moze ocekivati od stvorenja koje je i zena i avet. I potpuno isto kao sa zenom od krvi i mesa, i sa njom dolaze na mahove u moj zivot sumnja i nemir i tuga, bez leka i objasnjenja. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| f378b04 | Preda mnom je noc bez sna, nedogledna, jarosna, ubilacka pustinja. Cini mi se da je zivo bice nece prezivetini videti joj kraja. A meni valja ziveti i cekati. Ziveti sa nadom, u cekanju. Pa i bez nade. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 6dba7f7 | The streets were empty, the courtyards and gardens as if dead. In the Turkish houses depression and confusion reigned, in the Christian houses caution and distrust. But everywhere and for everyone there was fear. The entering Austrians feared an ambush. The Turks feared the Austrians. The Serbs feared both Austrians and Turks. The Jews feared everything and everyone since, especially in times of war, everyone was stronger than they. | fear invasion jews turks war | Ivo Andrić | |
| 689a214 | Moreto disha. Dvizhenieto se predava na golite kamenni bregove i obrasnalite planini, na oblatsite i na sin'oto platno na nebeto. Vsichko se dvizhi i se gotvi za polet. I kolkoto stranno i nev'zmozhno da zvuchi, shche potegli i terasata. Ako tia ne se pomesti, shche tr'gne toi i shche ia napusne, zashchoto prinadlezhi na vsichko, koeto se dvizhi. Neobiknoveno e, dori opasno i malko strashno, no inache ne bi moglo da b'de. I e prekrasno. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 73f6956 | Noc i rakija i plitka pamet nemaju mjere. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 3d6f70c | Ono sto bi se za njih narocito moglo kazati, to je: da nije bilo odavno pokolenja koje je vise i smelije mastalo i govorilo o zivotu, uzivanju i slobodi, a koje je manje imalo od zivota, gore stradalo, teze robovalo i vise ginulo nego sto ce stradati, robovati i ginuti ovo. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 5960b5c | Svak zeli vise, trazi bolje ili strepi od goreg. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 50585a5 | Tesko je ploviti bez krivudanja sa tolikim svetom na brodu i za spas svih treba ponekad nesto od tereta i u more baciti. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 427fa0a | Ponekad covek prezivljuje takve stvari, da sama cinjenica da ih je preziveo znaci ne samo pobedu i izbavljenje nego i cudo; jedno ponovno, radosno rodenje po narocitoj milosti visih sila. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| cb0f81a | Sva od stvarnosti, a sama nestvarna, koja nije ni ono sto je bilo juce ni ono sto ce biti sutra; nesto kao prolazno ostrvo u poplavi vremena. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 2e62861 | The sky above Belgrade is expansive and high, shifting yet always beautiful; clear with its chill splendour during the winter; turning into a single downcast cloud during summer storms, driven by the crazy winds and bearing rain mixed with the dust of the Pannonian plain; seeming to flower along with the ground during spring; and growing heavy with roils of autumnal stars during fall. Always beautiful and bountiful, it is a reward to this o.. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 0acc5cb | Jer radost zbog njenog sve osetnijeg prisustva, zbog toga sto ona postoji takva kakva jest, i sto je meni dano da je gledam i imam pored sebe, tolika je i tako strahovito brzo raste, da plavi i brise nase likove, predele i daljine oko nas, preliva se preko ostre crte na kraju vidika i dazdi negde po svima svetovima. A veliko cudo te radosti i jeste u tome sto svakog trena mogu da zaustavim tu plimu srece i da je vratim i ogranicim na nasa d.. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 95f6d0c | Ali, prolece je. Opet prolece. Bogat sam, miran, i mogu da cekam. Da, niceg nije bilo i niceg nema, jasnog i sigurnog, ali nista nije izgubljeno ili iskljuceno, nepovratno i potpuno. Znam da u svetu ima mnogo napola otvorenih prozora u koje kuca prolecni vetric, suncevih odblesaka na metalu i u vodi, praznih sedista u kupeima, ustalasanih povorki i obasjanih lica u prolazu. Slutim i hiljade drugih i nepoznatih mogucnosti i prilika. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| de04150 | Suvise je ovaj narod patio od nereda, nasilja i nepravde, i suvise navikao da ih podnosi sa podmuklim roptanjem ili da se buni protiv njih, vec prema vremenima i okolnostima. Izmedu zlokovarnih, osvetnickih misli i povremenih pobuna prolazi im gorak i pust vek. Za sve drugo oni su neosetljivi i nepristupni. Ponekad se covek pita da nije duh vecine balkanskih naroda zauvek otrovan i da, mozda, nikad vise nece ni moci nista drugo do jedno: da.. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 64d39bf | Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears. | live meaning | Ivo Andrić | |
| bb331f6 | Nothing brings men closer than a common misfortune happily overcome. | men unity | Ivo Andrić | |
| 56ef703 | With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago. | Alan Brennert | ||
| 6a63e5a | When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps. | Alan Brennert |