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| 9449089 | Our hero's unreasoning rage was fed by a not unreasonable jealousy. It was clear to him that Zuleika had forgotten his existence. To-day, as soon as he had killed her love, she had shown him how much less to her was his love than the crowd's. And now again it was only the crowd she cared for. He followed with his eyes her long slender figure as she threaded her way in and out of the crowd, sinuously, confidingly, producing a penny from one .. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| d5fd844 | Does the stag in his hour of victory need a diploma from the hind? | Max Beerbohm | ||
| c6a019b | Materialism--an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value--was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 8d3c946 | A trip to nostalgia now and then is good for the spirit, as long as you don't set up housekeeping. --DAN BARTOLOVIC KPUG-KNWR, Bellingham, Wasington. | Reader's Digest Association | ||
| 5fba35b | My grandfather's short employ at the Ford Motor Company marked the only time any Stephanides has ever worked in the automotive industry. Instead of cars, we could become manufacturers of hamburger platters and Greek salads, industrialists of spanakopita and grilled cheese sandwiches, technocrats of rice pudding and banana cream pie. Our assembly line was the grill; our heavy machinery, the soda fountain. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| c086a59 | As Schell had taught me, "a con starts when there is something you want and you are blocked from attaining it by certain obstacles. The good con artist elicits the assistance of those who mean to stand in the way of one's attainment by appealing to their vanity, pride, jealousy, ignorance, or fear. One must first throw into a pile the expected rules of engagement, morality, society, and thought, set them on fire, and then proceed. Think big.. | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| 07f5e97 | Simplicity and subtlety make for the best con. A distraction should lead the mark's attention upward, either toward the sky or to some better vision of himself. Color signals danger. Try to appear to have as many eyes as possible. | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| f5bc7f3 | Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of assembly line. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 66c630d | Como uma nuvem que atravessa o sol, o silencio caiu sobre Londres, e caiu sobre o espirito. Todo esforco e findo. Pende o tempo, do mastro. Rigido, somente o esqueleto do habito sustenta a forma humana. E onde nao ha nada, disse Peter Walsh a si mesmo; o sentimento escava-se, oco, completamente oco. Clarissa recusou-me, pensou. E ali ficou parado, a pensar: Clarissa recusou-me. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 14e95f4 | The memory from Sundance that I hold dearest is a snowball fight. One night I went outside with Lorri, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh. It was the first time I'd touched snow in almost twenty years. It was perfect. It was pure and unblemished, and as white as the moon. And then we went into a frenzy, running wild and throwing snowballs at each other. Peter was laughing like a child, and Fran squealed in delight as she was pelted. I'll see it .. | Damien Echols | ||
| 2a5d3fc | Experts have called behaviorial economists have noted an issue they call the endowment effect, Dr.Tolin says. Merely owning an item causes you to exaggerate its value, or "endow" it with more worth..... But the endowment effect can make even insignificant items feel more important to you.--pg17 Even when people don't talk about feeling responsible for an item and they don't fell like the item is too important to get rid of because it's THEI.. | ownership stuff | Peter Walsh | |
| bb6dce4 | Maligant items don't have to be reminders of bad times, like a breakup or a health crisis. They can bring back memories of loved ones or high points in your life. But if these memories leave you feeling sad or feeling that your life isn't as good now, then the objects are causing you mental and emotional harm and have no place in your home. ...The key to enjoying happiness and good health in a warm, welcoming home is to live IN THE PRESENT .. | happiness homelessness malignant-clutter | Peter Walsh | |
| a683024 | I think of us as a people who inoculate ourselves against a plague of insanity with a powerful anti-idiotic called science fiction. I think sf is a literature which by its very nature requires that you be at least a little sane, that you know at least a little something. You must abdicate the right to be ignorant in order to enjoy science fiction, which most people are unwilling to do; and you must learn, if not actually how to think things.. | sanity science-fiction | Spider Robinson | |
| c5cecca | Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and got control of herself with an visible effort. She took three deep breaths, each longer than the last, and her features became serene. All at once it seemed totally clear to Mike that she was right and he was nuts - that his ingenius theory was nonsense, childish, fantasty bullshit. His conviction evaporated, and he was ashamed. He felt his c.. | explanation facts listening logic rational | Spider Robinson | |
| a20ef13 | Worse, Lee felt isolated. In Texas he skipped meals with others to avoid "uninteresting men," wishing he was back by his campfire on the plains eating his meals alone.211 He avoided sharing quarters and found that he "would infinitely prefer my tent to my-self."212 In a group he felt more alone than out on the prairie, and that "my pleasure is derived from my own thoughts." -- | american-civil-war-biography confederate-army robert-e-lee union-army | William C. Davis | |
| 297969f | Both men lost speech in their last days and hours. Both died at age sixty-three, Lee long since weary of life, and Grant ready to live it again. Their war made them national icons, and their war reputations dictated the balance of their lives, careers, and posterity. | american-civil-war-biography confederate-army robert-e-lee union-army | William C. Davis | |
| 954aa17 | The power of a volcano is no match for the power of a soul mate. The love of soul mates is not always romantic. It is eternal and unconditional, it transcends time and space, yet it can be the love of parent and child, of best friends, of siblings, of grandparents or cousins, or many other platonic forms. Perhaps your soul mate is a college professor with whom you take a course, whose passion and knowledge for the subject he is teaching inf.. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 2ee6c54 | I even found myself overlooking my own flaws, | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| d9441c6 | Si se lo permitimos, los ninos pueden ensenarnos la salida. Hay una historia muy conocida de una madre que entra en la habitacion de su hijo recien nacido y se encuentra a su otro hijo, un nino de cuatro anos, asomado a la cuna. -Tienes que contarme como es el cielo y como es Dios -le implora el nino a su hermanito-. !Estoy empezando a olvidarme! | philosophy spanish wisdom | Brian L. Weiss | |
| 692c5ff | According to most writers, groups of souls tend to reincarnate together again and again, working out their karma (debts owed to others and to the self, lessons to be learned) over the span of many lifetimes. In | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| fc25ef2 | Unconditional love does not ask for anything in return. This pure love never creates dependencies or debts. It simply exists. An absolute energy, it never ends. It instantly connects lifetimes centuries apart and promises that all loved ones will be entwined throughout eternity. Witness | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 0df9e81 | When I was at the University I knew a law student named Yamada Uruu. Later he worked for the Osaka Municipal Office; he's been dead for years. This man's father was an old-time lawyer, or "advocate," who in early Meiji defended the notorious murderess Takahashi Oden. It seems he often talked to his son about Oden's beauty. Apparently he would corner him and go on and on about her, as if deeply moved. "You might call her alluring, or bewitch.. | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| ef7ad84 | The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty's ends. | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| 82c2697 | most of us can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's, but few of us can build a better business system than McDonald's. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| deb67af | dh 'rdt tjnb lmkhTrh wtlfy lkhsrh, bd' mbkr. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 751e1db | n ldhhb fy kl mkn lkn lns hm ldhyn lm ytdrbw `l~ l`thwr `lyh. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 74dcbcf | lshkhS ldhky yrHb bl'fkr ljdydh l'nh tDyf lzkhm fkrh l'khr~. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| eb7efe3 | qr b'nny s`yt wr 'ns l'nhm ymlkwn lmlyyn, wlm 'kn s`~ fy dhlk wr 'mwlhm, bl khbrthm. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 6c977cb | Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. | life-lessons winning-and-losing | Robert T. Kiyosaki | |
| c997776 | He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else's asset. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| f60566b | 'n lm tkn Slb mn ldkhl, fsytHkm bk l`lm mn Hwlk. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 7defe7c | One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not in school. Most of us learn about money from our parents. So what can a poor parent tell their child about money? They simply say "Stay in school and study hard." The child may graduate with excellent grades but with a poor person's financial programming and mind-set. It was learned while.. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| e339d0e | dwr l'bTl lyqtSr `l~ lhmn, dh 'nhm yhwnwn mn Tby`@ l'mwr, whdh lthwyn hw m ymlw'n blrGb@ fy 'n nSyr mthlhm. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| c119fd1 | kl m`lyk hw tHdyd mdh tryd, thm ls`y b`d dhlk lnylh. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| ca593c1 | Chances are you have a job. Chances are your job sucks. But you've learned a few things from this job, mainly, YOU DON'T LIKE BEING AN EMPLOYEE! | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 2eade70 | I think I have made my message clear. It's what is in your head that determines what is in your hands. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| f085ac7 | Does teaching mean talking or a lecture?" rich dad asked. "Well, yes," I replied. "That's how they teach you in school," he said, smiling. "But that is not how life teaches you, and I would say that life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up. There's something I want you to learn." | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 7cf3676 | Rich people acquire assets. The poor and the middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 50f5655 | Th e three most important management skills necessary to start your own business are management of: 1. Cash flow 2. People 3. Personal time | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 9ec73c8 | Vseki p't kogato usetite, che neshcho ne vi dostiga, che se nuzhdaete ot neshcho, p'rvo daite i to shche vi se v'rne desetokratno. Tova se otnasia kakto za pari, taka i za usmivki, liubov, priiatelstvo. | KIYOSAKI ROBERT T. | ||
| 6ea24f0 | Or if you're the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you're that kind of person, you'll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for some event that never happens. Then you die a boring old man. You'll have lots of friends who really like you because you were such a nice hardworking guy. But the truth is that you let life push you into submission. Deep down you w.. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| fe92634 | If you are considering building your own business, you need to be acutely aware of who you're spending your time with and who your teachers are. It's a crucial consideration. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| be9add4 | fisherman had to be a combination biologist, meteorologist, mechanic and mariner. Their livelihood, their very lives, depended on their store of practical knowledge. | Clive Cussler | ||
| 4271e40 | At this time, about the only thing that was still regarded as perverted was a public display of affection toward one's wife. | John Maddox Roberts |