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| 0bd4c83 | He then said something in Arabic to Ali, who made a sign of obedience and withdrew, but not to any distance. As to Franz a strange transformation had taken place in him. All the bodily fatigue of the day, all the preoccupation of mind which the events of the evening had brought on, disappeared as they do at the first approach of sleep, when we are still sufficiently conscious to be aware of the coming of slumber. His body seemed to acquire .. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| b923fc1 | We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 5910c71 | Dragostea, vedeti, asa cum o inteleg eu, e un sacrificiu necontenit, absolut, intreg; dar nu numai sacrificiul unuia dintre cei doi implicati in relatia de prietenie. Ea inseamna abnegatia desavarsita a doua suflete care vor sa se contopeasca intr-unul singur. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 80bcd9b | Daca e vorba de spectacol, imi place mai mult sa privesc aceasta ingramadire de copaci negri, printre care scanteie ici-colo cate-o luminita care trece ca un ochi inrosit, cand deschis, cand inchis. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| d676f88 | Il y avait autour de la table cette hilarite bruyante et cette liberte individuelle qui accompagnent, chez les gens de condition inferieure, la fin des repas. Ceux qui etaient mecontents de leur place s'etaient leves de table et avaient ete chercher d'autres voisins. Tout le monde commencait a parler a la fois, et personne ne s'occupait de repondre a ce que son interlocuteur lui disait, mais seulement a ses propres pensees. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 931babf | No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer. | brave dreamer | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 639313c | Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| a07a5c6 | She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, 'she is my betrothed.' 'Sometimes one and the same thing,' said Morrel, with a smile. 'Not with us, sir,' replied Dantes. | edmond-dantes engagment mercedes virture engaged mistress purity honor | Alexandre Dumas | |
| d92bd47 | There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 9e9776c | What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 36f6aaa | Flying through an army, sire," said Athos, "in all countries in the world is called charging." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| c6f52b6 | So far, then," said Danglars, mentally, "all has gone as I would have it. I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue. My only fear is the chance of Dantes being released. But, there, he is in the hands of Justice; and," added he with a smile, "she will take her own." So saying, he leaped into a boat, desiring to be rowed on board t.. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 88c043b | La vita e un rosario di piccole miserie, che il filosofo sgrana ridendo. Siate filosofi come me signori: mettevi a tavola e beviamo: l'avvenire non sembra mai cosi roseo, come quando lo si guarda attraverso un bicchiere di chambertin | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 20ac89a | Rien n'est plus courageux qu'un coeur patient. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 7ee193d | You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words and allusions and quotations carefully and hardly anyone will even notice or get it anyway. | Frank Portman | ||
| 5b441e8 | There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions, .... | science fine-structure-constant mystery physics | Roger Penrose | |
| b7fb4a6 | PART OF THE DOWNSIDE of abundant choice is that each new option adds to the list of trade-offs, and trade-offs have psychological consequences. The necessity of making trade-offs alters how we feel about the decisions we face; more important, it affects the level of satisfaction we experience from the decisions we ultimately make. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| d1f5ae7 | ECONOMISTS POINT OUT THAT THE QUALITY OF ANY GIVEN OPTION can not be assessed in isolation from its alternatives. One of the "costs" of any option involves passing up the opportunities that a different option would have afforded. This is referred to as an opportunity cost." | Barry Schwartz | ||
| d0738de | Pay attention to what you're giving up in the next-best alternative, but don't waste energy feeling bad about having passed up an option further down the list that you wouldn't have gotten to anyway. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 64ce408 | There is no more effective way to destroy the leadership potential of young officers and noncommissioned officers than to deny them opportunities to make decisions appropriate for their assignments. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| eb5e8fd | Thus, from cradle to grave, having control over one's life matters. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 7d3a4dc | What we don't realize is that the very option of being allowed to change our minds seems to increase the chances that we will change our minds. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 6433530 | Knowing that you've made a choice that you will not reverse allows you to pour your energy into improving the relationship that you have rather than constantly second-guessing it. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| f7c85ed | Barry Schwartz says we have to become "choosers" instead of "pickers." A picker selects from the options available, leading us into false dichotomies created by the options we see in front of us. But a chooser "is thoughtful enough to conclude that perhaps none of the available alternatives are satisfactory, and that if he or she wants the right alternative, he or she may have to create it." | Eric Barker | ||
| 4fee05b | According to a survey conducted by Yankelovich Partners, a majority of people want more control over the details of their lives, but a majority of people also want to simplify their lives. There you have it--the paradox of our times. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| b244f2f | The train passed through a series of tunnels. Because the overhead light fixtures had no bulbs in them, some people lit candles inside the tunnels, which dramatically illuminated their black, liquid eyes. There was a solemn, almost devotional cynicism to these eyes, reflecting, as though by a genetic process, all of the horrors witnessed by generation upon generation of forebears. | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| b641893 | Macedonia, the inspiration for the French word for "mixed salad" (macedoine), defines the principle illness of the Balkans: conflicting dreams of lost imperial glory. Each nation demands that is borders revert to where they were at the exact time when its own empire had reached its zenith of ancient medieval expansion." | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| e8c8920 | As Morgenthau points out, small- and medium-sized states like Israel, Great Britain, France, and Iran cannot absorb the same level of punishment as continental-sized states such as the United States, Russia, and China, so that they lack the requisite credibility in their nuclear threats. | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| bc296cb | democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can. | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| 418d2ff | The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. | Roger Lowenstein | ||
| 8b671df | Is all niceness then or is all buggery? How can a man be forty-five years old and still not know whether all is niceness or buggery? How does one know for sure? | Walker Percy | ||
| 443eca2 | Looking at oneself in a mirror is a self-canceling phenomenon. Eyes looking into eyes make a hole which spreads out and renders one invisible. I had seen more of myself in that single glimpse of a ghostly image in the pier mirror, not knowing it was I. | Walker Percy | ||
| 2f72990 | We've spoken of the Knights of the Holy Grail, Percival. Do you know what I was? The Knight of the Unholy Grail. In times like these when everyone is wonderful, what is needed is a quest for evil. You should be interested! Such a quest serves God's cause! How? Because the Good proves nothing. When everyone is wonderful, nobody bothers with God. If you had ten thousand Albert Schweitzers giving their lives for their fellow men, do you think .. | Walker Percy | ||
| c43c1e0 | I'll make you a little confession. I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. We do not whine. We do not organize a minority group and blackmail the government. We do not prize mediocrity for medi.. | Walker Percy | ||
| cfb7cac | My own conviction is that semiotics provides an escape from the solipsist prison by its stress on the social origins of language--you have to point to an apple and name it for me before I know there is such a thing--and the existence of a world of apples outside ourselves. | Walker Percy | ||
| d194f81 | The fateful law of human semiotics is this: that of all the objects in the entire Cosmos which the sign-user can apprehend through the conjoining of signifier and signified (word uttered and thing beheld), there is one which forever escapes his comprehension--and that is the sign-user himself...The self of the sign-user can never be grasped, because, once the self locates itself at the dead center of its world, there is no signified to whic.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 3542751 | An organism exists in its environment in only one mode, that of an open system responding to those segments of its environment to which it is genetically programmed to respond or to which it has learned to respond. But a self must be in a world. It cannot be placed. If it chooses by default not to be placed, then its placement is that of not choosing to be placed. | Walker Percy | ||
| 108426b | The Great Problematic): Will the ultimate liberation of the erotic from its dialectical relationship with Christianity result in (a) The freeing of the erotic spirit so that man- and womankind will make love and not war? or (b) The trivialization of the erotic by its demotion to yet another technique and need-satisfaction of the organism, toward the end that the demoniac spirit of the autonomous self, disappointed in all other sectors of li.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 699b0a7 | He registered a dizzy 7.6 mmv over Brodmann 32, the area of abstractive activity. Since that time I have learned that a reading over 6 generally means that a person has so abstracted himself from himself and from the world around him, seeing things as theories and himself as a shadow, that he cannot, so to speak, reenter the lovely ordinary world. Such a person, and there are millions, is destined to haunt the human condition like the Flyin.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 4538a9f | As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. | hobbies | Walker Percy | |
| c251e03 | This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground. | loneliness | Walker Percy | |
| 2c377fc | What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits. | Walker Percy | ||
| 4899155 | I have observed that it is no longer possible for one young man to speak unwarily to another not known to him, except in certain sections of the South and West, and certainly not with a book in his hand. | Walker Percy | ||
| d433886 | He's quite a guy. Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out? He said: Queenie, I think I'm going to pass out and before I do, I'm going to give you a piece of advice-God, I thought he was going to die an dknew and was telling me what to do with his book-and he said quite solemnly: Queenie, always stick to Bach and the early Italians-and passed out cold as a mackerel... | Walker Percy |