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| 0dba872 | The issue between the atheist and the believer is not whether it makes sense to question ultimate fact, it is rather the question: what fact is ultimate? The atheist's ultimate fact is the universe; the theist's ultimate fact is God."68" | John C. Lennox | ||
| 8de0437 | Evrim bir biyolojik mekanizma anlamina gelir ama Tanri'ya inananlar Tanri'yi, diger seylerin yaninda, mekanizmalari tasarlayan ve yaratan bir Zat olarak kabul ederler. Daha once, Ford arabanin calisma mekanizmasini anlamanin Bay Ford'u yok kabul etmeye bir kanit olusturmadigini gormustuk. Dolayisiyla bir mekanizmanin varligi o mekanizmayi tasarlayan bir oznenin olmadigini gostermez. | god john-lennox tanrı | John C. Lennox | |
| 782869e | It is rather ironical that in the sixteenth century some people resisted advances in science because they seemed to threaten belief in God; whereas in the twentieth century scientific ideas of a beginning have been resisted because they threatened to increase the plausibility of belief in God. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 75e73dd | To postulate a trillion-trillion other universes, rather than one God, in order to explain the orderliness of our universe, seems the height of irrationality. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 763043e | In any compromise between food and poison," Ayn Rand writes, "it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| ec63a9b | There is] a widespread approach to ideas which Objectivism repudiates altogether: agnosticism. I mean this term in a sense which applies to the question of God, but to many other issues also, such as extra-sensory perception or the claim that the stars influence man's destiny. In regard to all such claims, the agnostic is the type who says, "I can't prove these claims are true, but you can't prove they are false, so the only proper conclusi.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 32b58d5 | This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right? | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 3f72361 | Here's the sting of livingness. He's back after his nightly voyage of sleep, all clarity and purpose; he's renewed his citizenship in the world of people who strive and connect, people who mean business, people who burn and want, who remember everything, who walk lucid and unafraid. | living-life | Michael Cunningham | |
| fa36450 | The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 3d1b0ba | Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| e34bf83 | Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 8b7d001 | I have to keep reminding myself that almost everybody is always lying. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 58e5071 | There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 6b86492 | It seems that she can survive, she can prosper, if she has London around her. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 78f0782 | Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular? | mystery | Michael Cunningham | |
| 127c05c | Outside the house is a world where the shelves are stocked, where radio waves are full of music, where young men walk the streets again, men who have deprievation and a fear worse than death, who have willingly given up their early twenties and now, thinking of thirty and beyond, haven't any time to spare. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| aa2546f | Tova, koeto poniakoga me trevozheshe, be prostata druzheliubnost na vsichko tova. Zhiveekhme v sviat na dobrota i domashen red. Poniakoga se vizhdakh kato Snezhanka, koiato zhivee pri dzhudzhetata. Dzhudzhetata se grizheli dobre za neia. No kolko d'lgo bi otseliala tia, bez nadezhdata da sreshchne niakoi s neiniia r'st? Kolko li d'lgo e mela i k'rpila, predi da zapochne da razbira, che zhivot't i se s'stoi ot bezopasen rai i ot nevidimi, no.. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 19e7b46 | who refuses to distinguish between setback and catastrophe; who worships accomplishment above all else and makes himself unbearable to others because he genuinely believes he can root out and reform every incidence of human fecklessness and mediocrity. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| b83d428 | It's stores, it's the whole thing, all that shit everywhere, 'scuse me, that merchandise, all those goods, and ads screaming at you from all over the place, buy buy buy buy buy, and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, `Can I help you?`, it's all I can do not to scream, `Bitch, you can't even help yourself. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 1915204 | Men may congratulate themselves for writing truly and passionately about the movements of nations; they may consider war and the search for God to be great literature's only subjects; but if men's standing in the world could be toppled by an ill-advised choice of hat, English literature would be dramatically changed. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| fd4ec13 | Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he had staked out and combed into rows at the top of his family's land. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| f8f0122 | We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, .. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| d1e19b2 | I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 00cdab5 | There's the appeal of the young thief who robs you, and climbs back down off your cloud. It's possible to love that boy, in a wistful and hopeless way. It's possible to love his greed and narcissism, to grant him that which is beyond your own capacities: heedlessness, cockiness, a self-devotion so pure it borders on the divine. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 4d34358 | One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| bfefdb7 | It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form. | solitude | Michael Cunningham | |
| ed86706 | Lincoln was "the most truly progressive man of the age, because he always moves in conjunction with propitious circumstances, not waiting to be dragged by the force of events or wasting strength in premature struggles with them." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| edd9f13 | I HAVE NO DOUBT that Lincoln will be the conspicuous figure of the war," predicted Ulysses S. Grant. "He was incontestably the greatest man I ever knew." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0ca3c4a | I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| ebdd7c6 | To find the best authors," he boasted, "is like being able to tell good wine without the labels." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4414cc8 | For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed intimates of the Kennedy family and many who knew Franklin Roosevelt, a leader perhaps as indispensable in his way as was Lincoln to the social and political direction of the country. After living with the subject | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4e2046d | I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 284a4c6 | We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife. | parenthood | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| fce78f0 | It is surprising," Roosevelt explained, "how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f74d614 | My reading was always a kind of living," he explained later, "a longing to know some man or men stronger, braver, wiser, wittier, more amusing, or more desperately wicked, than I was, whom I could come to know well and sometimes be friends with." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 071fe81 | all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9f0a8b4 | In 1908, in a wild and remote area of the North Caucasus, Leo Tolstoy, the greatest writer of the age, was the guest of a tribal chief "living far away from civilized life in the mountains." Gathering his family and neighbors, the chief asked Tolstoy to tell stories about the famous men of history. Tolstoy told how he entertained the eager crowd for hours with tales of Alexander, Caesar, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. When he was windin.. | heroism legend lincoln tolstoy | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 44f656c | Modernizing the postal service was particularly important for the soldiers, who relied on letters, newspapers, and magazines from home to sustain morale. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 710422d | One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day." | confidence empathy leadership personal-growth | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| c6712e1 | Before his marriage Lincoln enjoyed close relations with young women and almost certainly found outlets for his sexual urges among the prostitutes who were readily available on the frontier. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 336b52c | For recreation, Lincoln took up bowling with his fellow boarders. Though a clumsy bowler, according to Dr. Busey, Lincoln "played the game with great zest and spirit" and "accepted success and defeat with like good nature and humor." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| acfbb1f | When resentment and contention threatened to destroy his administration, he refused to be provoked by petty grievances, to submit to jealousy, or to brood over perceived slights. Through the appalling pressures he faced day after day, he retained an unflagging faith in his country's cause. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| feb13c2 | Elizabeth Blair of brother Frank: he could "not let even a great man set his small dogs on him without kicking the dog & giving his master some share of the resentment." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 6fc9076 | Discipline and keen insight had once again served Lincoln most effectively. By regulating his emotions and resisting the impulse to strike back at Chase when the circular first became known, he gained time for his friends to mobilize the massive latent support for his candidacy. Chase's aspirations were crushed without Lincoln's direct intrusion. He had known all along that his treasury secretary was no innocent, but by seeming to accept Ch.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin |