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| 4c35b67 | Caleb came to his mother's side and helped her to her feet. "Besides, if you rest, then I am free to make love to Jacqueline." "Caleb!" Jacqueline had been worried she would say the wrong thing. Instead, Caleb had put his foot in it. But obviously all the cliches she'd ever heard about Italian sons were true. He really could do no wrong, for Mrs. D'Angelo shook her finger at him--but she said indulgently, "You are incorrigible." "Ma, I'm ju.. | jacqueline-vargha meeting-mom | Christina Dodd | |
| 7199a87 | Archaeologist, adventurer -- I saw the Indiana Jones movies. They are the same. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 897e052 | Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet. | rake | Christina Dodd | |
| 41a2c0d | Elizabeth understood as she never had before. Everyone, all of them had lived secure in the belief that the earth was stable, unchanging, eternal. Now no one could trust the ground beneath their feet. Yes, the earthquake was the story of destruction, but not just of things. An earthquake destroyed security. It destroyed complacency. It changed the people who lived through it. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 06b589d | No matter how they fought they had always been like this: balanced between anger and passion, between hurt and glory. | couples passion | Christina Dodd | |
| bfb3c68 | The more I know you, the more I wonder who you are." He counted off her qualities on his fingers. "You have the accent of a lady. You dress like a peasant. You shoot like a marksman. You view the world cynically, yet you venerate Miss Victorine. Your face and body would be the envy of a young goddess, yet you sport an air of innocence. And that innocence hides a criminal mind and the cheek to pull off the most outrageous of felonies." "So I.. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 7ea3306 | He who lies down with dogs shall rise with fleas | funny scottish | Christina Dodd | |
| 596e0bd | The lexicon of language, then, is a finite set of terms that by metaphor is able to stretch out over an infinite set of circumstances, even to creating new circumstances thereby. | Julian Jaynes | ||
| 8f144d1 | What Christians see, or claim to see, in Genesis 1-3 changed as the church itself changed from a dissident Jewish sect to a popular movement persecuted by the Roman government, and changed further as this movement increasingly gained members throughout Roman society, until finally even the Roman emperor himself converted to the new faith and Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire. | religion | Elaine Pagels | |
| 3e6e138 | Dolphins may even be able to name each other with signature whistles. But their society may nevertheless be one of an overlapping network of minds, wandering linked through a transparent ocean. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| bc3508b | From Lankaster to Lorenz, scientists have gotten it wrong. Parasites are complex, highly adapted creatures that are at the heart of the story of life. If there hadn't been such high walls dividing scientists who study life - the zoologists, the immunologists, the mathematical biologists, the ecologists - parasites might have been recognized sooner as not disgusting, or at least not merely disgusting. If parasites were so feeble, so lazy, ho.. | parasites vaccines | carl zimmer | |
| b563124 | parasites make up the majority of species on Earth. According to one estimate, parasites may outnumber free-living species four to one. In other words, the study of life is, for the most part, parasitology. The book in your | Carl Zimmer | ||
| f335552 | I've been thinking a lot and it's not that anyone did anything wrong. We just didn't know what we wanted. We weren't the people we were supposed to be yet, | Joe Meno | ||
| fd683ff | The last four days where everything has finally made some sense. And why is she so ready to throw this away? Because. Because eventually every relationship she's been in has turned to shit. Eventually she ends up screwing everything up. So maybe it's better to leave now before people's feelings get hurt. | Joe Meno | ||
| 783a838 | The more you like a girl, the less she likes you. It's like fucking scientific." "What about you and Kim?" "That's what I'm talking about, little dude. If I start being nice and acting cool and saying things and being on time, she starts acting, you know, fucking uninterested. But if I act like a total dick, then she calls me all the fucking time. It's fucking crazy, because I really like her and all, but when I say nice shit to her, she ge.. | Joe Meno | ||
| 3bbcafd | Madeline decides Jonathan is an immature, selfish asshole and that she is never talking to him again. | Joe Meno | ||
| 9ff8d05 | People are just greedy animals, after all. | Joe Meno | ||
| 2f7a2fa | An apple could make you laugh: You are so charming. On our lunch, we find our way along the crowded boulevard. You stop abruptly and pluck two green apples from someone selling them on the street. You look at them and decide they are in love, these two apples. You make them whisper to one another. You make them dance: The kinds of dances they do are dainty. spontaneous. At the end of the dancing, the apples get marries in a little ceremony... | Joe Meno | ||
| d6f201b | Il paradiso e chiuso?" disse Joe incredulo. "E fallito da un po'," disse l'aeronauta disinteressata. "Ho visto io stessa gli ultimi dei suoi cittadini andare via. Uscivano dalle porte del paradiso come bambini curiosi che si avventurano in un luogo pensando di poter finire nei guai." "Dove sono andati?" chiese Joe. "Chi lo sa," rispose lei. "Sono tornati sulla Terra, in qualche altra esistenza, o forse hanno visto come il resto di noi andav.. | italiano | Eric Arvin | |
| 98ea467 | The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted aurora near the poles of both Saturn and Jupiter. And on Earth, the aurora borealis and australis (the northern and southern lights) serve as intermittent reminders of how nice it is to have a protective atmosphere. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 8d1ddbd | I meet Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at a book signing and ask him how he doesn't have an existential crisis every day; he knows exactly how insignificant he is, but he seems pretty happy. "Your name's Mara?" he says, and I nod. "Mara, let me ask you something. Have you taken a philosophy class?" "Yeah, I took ethics and logic and some other ones," I say. "How did you know?" "Because only people who have taken philosophy classes use the word 'exi.. | Mara Wilson | ||
| 0fdcd8e | We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular. | spiritual-gifts worship | Watchman Nee | |
| f8c7e73 | The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel. | distraction obedience sanctification surrender | Watchman Nee | |
| 55cc0dc | Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot. The failure of many is to seek from man what can be found only in God. All human affection is empty; the love of God alone is able to fully satisfy one's desire. The moment a Christian seeks a love outside God his spiritual life immediately falls. | Watchman Nee | ||
| f973be7 | There is nothing stereotyped about God's dealings with His children. Therefore, we must not by our prejudices and preconceptions make watertight compartments for the working out His Spirit, either in our own lives or in the lives of others. We must leave God free to work as He wills and to leave what evidence He pleases of the work He does. | holy-spirit individuality spiritual-gifts unity | Watchman Nee | |
| 2fbdbcf | The Law requires much, but offers no help in the carrying out of its requirements. The Lord Jesus requires just as much, yea more (Matt. 5:21-48). But what He requires from us, He Himself carries out in us. The Law makes demands and leaves us helpless to fulfill them; Christ makes demands, but He Himself fulfills in us the very demands He makes. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 49285be | shut up", it means be quiet and listen!" | Ali Vali | ||
| 194881e | Sometimes I like to compare people who don't like women to vegetarians." "Interesting analogy, and I do like the way your mind works, so lay it on me." He opened the door and waved her in. "If God had meant for people to be vegetarians, a good steak wouldn't taste so divine. Following that line of thinking, neither would a woman." | inspirational lesbian love religion | Ali Vali | |
| 2a9942a | no one can be strong all the time, no matter how broad their shoulders! | Ali Vali | ||
| fce0765 | All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event. | information meaning media | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 4f6b816 | For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 1445cf5 | Bir katliami unutmak da katliam turunden bir seydir. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| c2f4552 | Ciddi olmamak ve ciddi gorunmek gerekiyor. Ya da ciddi gibi gorunmeden ciddi olmak. Ciddi gibi gorunmekle ciddi olmayi birlestirenler degersiz kisilerdir. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 2d8679b | Something escapes us, and we are escaping from ourselves, or losing ourselves, as part of an irreversible process; we have now passed some point of no return, the point where the contradictoriness of things ended, and we find ourselves, still alive, in a universe of non-contradiction, of enthusiasm, of ecstasy - of stupor in the face of a process which, for all its irreversibility, is bereft of meaning. | nothingness | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 476b428 | As soon as you enter the system to denounce it, you are automatically made a part of it. There is no ideal omega point today from which hard and fast judgments can be made. You can see that those who make accusations against the political class are the same ones who replenish it. The class is fed by the accusations made against it. Even the bluntest critic is caught up in this circularity. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 55ac730 | What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of events without consequences (and of theories without consequences). | nihilism responsibility | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 5652f80 | Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them for nothing, and it is on this basis that we are "human" with them." | humanity | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 90e66fb | Desert is simply that: an ecstatic critique of culture, an ecstatic form of disappearance. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 091d03a | Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| d6206b4 | Pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the "true" and the "false," the "real" and the "imaginary." | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 54a7321 | In the past, we had objects to believe in--objects of belief. These have disappeared. But we also had objects not to believe in, which is just as vital a function. Transitional objects, ironic ones, so to speak, objects of our indifference, ...Ideologies played this role reasonably well. These, too, have disappeared. And we survive only by a reflex action of collective credulity, which consists not only in absorbing everything put about und.. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| dcacfa8 | Matt is a tortured soul,' Amanda insisted. 'He's Heathcliff and you're Cathy. He's Rochester and you're Jane Eyre. He's-' 'Darcy and I'm Elizabeth. I get it. And you're wrong. | reference romance romance-novels victorian | Robin Brande | |
| 22a33ff | It was a matter of principle, or perhaps of honour, with Brother Cadfael, when a door opened before him suddenly and unexpectedly, to accept the offer and walk through it. He did so with even more alacrity if the door opened on a prospect of Wales; it might even be said that he broke into a trot, in case the door slammed again on that enchanting view. | Ellis Peters | ||
| 0e5f79f | When a dutiful brother came to relieve him, he went to his bed, and slept as soon as he lay down. He had the gift. There was no profit in laying awake fretting for what would, in any case, have to be faced on awaking, and he had long ago sloughed off the unprofitable. It took too much out of a man, of what would be needed hereafter. | Ellis Peters |