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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc2c49f | Oberon perked up, "Awesome! I've never seen a base model elf before! But they come with bonus dudes?" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ca542e3 | Oberon "one day Atticus was amazed to discover that when Jupiter said "As you wish," what he really meant was "I love you." | princess-bride-jokes | Kevin Hearne | |
| 36b18c3 | The grin on his face wasn't the affable, friendly sort; it was more like the sociopathic rictus of the irretrievably, bugfuckeringly insane. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b6a0497 | You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what that means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes have glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 665a3f5 | Gods blast it, I was asking ye where you shite in the city, not where I should do it! | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a39a745 | Americans say all men created equal. These words very good. Make men feel special. They know is not true, not really, but they always say is true, and they point to these words and say, Ideas like this make us strong. They turn mouse into bear. They turn dog into bear. Everything can become strong like bear if you think with American brains. But if everything is bear, what do bears eat? Americans | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 09d6a1a | rooted is to say, here am I nourished and here will I grow, for I have found a place where every sunrise shows me how to be more than what I was yesterday, and I need not wander to feel the wonder of my blessing. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 8f1cca2 | A morbid thought wandered into my consciousness and said hello: If Basasael ate my dumb Druid ass, would the Morrigan be able to bring me back fully functional, resurrected from--what? Angel poop? That raised another question, at once metaphysical and profane: Do angels, fallen or otherwise, have assholes? | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 076d305 | Ragnarok will begin in the next few days, and it won't end well for anyone, because apocalypses tend not to include happy endings. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e7c91bc | we are on the payrolls of two dozen different companies as consultants, but we do absolutely nothing for our paychecks, just like normal consultants. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| cc9a923 | Your gift for euphemism continues to thrive. But I think I have heard of such modern relationships. There is a colloquialism for them, yes? They are boogie calls." "Boogie? Oh! Nice try. You were very close. They're known as booty calls." "That's what I said. Booty calls." "You said boogie--" The Morrigan's eyes flashed red for the briefest moment, and I cleared my throat. "Pardon me. I must have misheard you. Quite right." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 8125647 | When a fight comes at ye, it's not going to ask if you're in shape for it! Ye have to be ready whenever it comes, and the day I'm not ready for a fight is the day I'm dead! | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a730af7 | When in doubt, know your way out, I always say." "I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.'" "Well, yeah, that too." "I don't think those are very practical solutions to doubt," Oberon said. "They don't leave you feeling satisfied. 'When in doubt, eat your neighbor's lunch' is better, because then you would at least be full." | druid elves funny lunch | Kevin Hearne | |
| 6e94ddf | Like the honey badger, the werewolf takes what it wants. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0c191ab | I have salted my hatred and cured it, stored it in a dark cellar of my mind against the day when I could let it be my only nourishment. The day is finally come, and I will tear into this meat and savor its taste. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 8cf84b0 | A son of a Jedi Knight? I thought the Jedi weren't allowed such relationships." That wrung an half ironic grin out of me. "Guess I'm not allowed, then." | star-wars | Kevin Hearne | |
| 4760bb4 | Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4877a45 | v robstvoto si viarvakh, che tazi liubov shche me osvobodi | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 92b8bc5 | I didn't understand her being gone, either. I had seen her fall. Now her part of any conversation would always be unsaid, and the direction she would have gone walking would always be empty. Her absence extended in lines of numbers made of smoke, backward in memory and forward in futures never to occur. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 0b12d29 | There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b708762 | Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 1e8b974 | And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B. | thought-provoking writing | Lawrence Lessig | |
| 97ce695 | On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that a heavier-than-air, self-propelled vehicle could fly. The moment was electric and its importance widely understood. Almost immediately, there was an explosion of interest in this newfound technology of manned flight, and a gaggle of innovators began to build upon it. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| b1220d9 | The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been prove.. | ideas internet open-government writing | Lawrence Lessig | |
| d31fae4 | But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a people or a society, even if they are wars of survival for certain businesses or, more accurately, business models. Thus we must keep i mind the other values or objectives that might also be affected by this war. We must make sure this war doesn't cost more than it is worth. We must be sure it is winn.. | war | Lawrence Lessig | |
| aaf3106 | In the 1970s, 3 percent of retiring members became lobbyists. Thirty years later, that number has increased by an order of magnitude. Between 1998 and 2004, more than 50 percent of senators and 42 percent of House members made that career transition. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 175a311 | If "piracy" means using value from someone else's creative property without permission from that creator-as it is increasingly described today - then every industry affected by copyright today is the product and beneficiary of a certain kind of piracy. Film, records, radio, cable TV... Extremists in this debate love to say "You wouldn't go into Barnes & Noble and take a book off of the shelf without paying; why should it be any different wi.. | piracy | Lawrence Lessig | |
| 6712648 | Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally. | Lawrence lessig | ||
| 6258b59 | Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the "Innovator's Dilemma": the fact that large traditional firms find it rational to ignore new, breakthrough technologies that compete with their core business. The same analysis could help explain why large, traditional media companies will undermine our tradition of free culture. The property right that is copyrigh.. | creativity culture | Lawrence Lessig | |
| fd74500 | Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too much control in the market is to produce an over-regulated-regulated market. | regulation | Lawrence Lessig | |
| 2f37d52 | They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod. | head knowledge | Russell Shorto | |
| 5a03cff | The US empire rests on a grisly foundation: the massacre of millions of indigenous people, the stealing of their lands and, following this, the kidnapping and enslavement of millions of black people from Africa to work that land. Thousands died on the seas while they were being shipped like caged cattle between continents. 'Stolen from Africa, brought to America' - Bob Marley's 'Buffalo Soldier' contains a whole universe of unspeakable sadn.. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 9415161 | GIVE THANKS AND PRAISE THE LORD, AND WE'LL FEEL ALRIGHT LET'S GET TOGETHER AND FEEL ALRIGHT | Bob Marley | ||
| 5422edb | There, she identified a recurring cycle that kept women in a downward spiral: families that were already poor and struggling to stay alive kept having more babies, dragging them down still further. In the 1870s she became the country's first advocate for contraception, and one of the first anywhere. In the midst of a society and a medical profession that were rigorously Victorian in their attitudes about sex, she had patients conduct trials.. | Russell Shorto | ||
| f9ddfa2 | For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life. | Russell Shorto | ||
| e5fa456 | You could look at the work of any Dutch master for an idea of the morning light we cycle through. There is a white cleanness to it, a rinsed quality. It's a sober light, without, for example, any of the orange particulate glow you get from the Mediterranean sun. | Russell Shorto | ||
| e654147 | a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property. | Russell Shorto | ||
| 2d64201 | Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools. | Russell Shorto | ||
| b2d8d87 | The Dutch were among the earliest adopters of a new technology--the printed book--and | Russell Shorto | ||
| 83c1821 | One glance he gave, one little smile at parting--it was but for a moment;but therein I read, a meaning that kindled in my heart a brighter flame of hope than had ever yet arisen. | Anne Brontë | ||
| b51cba9 | Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day; When kindly thoughts that would have way, Flow back discouraged to my breast; I know there is, though far away, A home where heart and soul may rest. Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine, The warmer heart will not belie; While mirth, and truth, and friendship shine In smiling lip and earnest eye. T.. | poetry solitude | Anne Brontë | |
| 1853b55 | If you would but consider your own unattractive exterior, your unamiable reserve, your foolish diffidence, which must make you appear cold, dull, awkward, and perhaps ill-tempered too;... if you had but rightly considered these from the beginning, you would never have harboured such presumptuous thoughts; and now that you have been so foolish, pray repent and amend, and let us have no more of it! | Anne Brontë | ||
| fbe52fd | Habitual associates are known to exercise a great influence over each other's minds and manners. Those whose actions are for ever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do. | Anne Brontë | ||
| ce7ca3c | Those whose actions are forever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do. | Anne Brontë |