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| ca09ac4 | It is simply not true that "religion" is always aggressive. Sometimes it has actually put a brake on violence. In the ninth century BCE, Indian ritualists extracted all violence from the liturgy and created the ideal of ahimsa, "nonviolence." The medieval Peace and Truce of God forced knights to stop terrorizing the poor and outlawed violence from Wednesday to Sunday each week. Most dramatically, after the Bar Kokhba war, the rabbis reinter.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 516f152 | We have a duty to get to know one another, and to cultivate a concern and responsibility for all our neighbors in the global village. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 0bdd353 | Mythology is usually inseparable from ritual. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 97947be | in the pre-modern world, when people wrote about the past they were more concerned with what an event had meant. A myth was an event which, in some sense, had happened once, but which also happened all the time. Because of our strictly chronological view of history, we have no word for such an occurrence, but mythology is an art form that points beyond history to what is timeless in human existence, helping us to get beyond the chaotic flux.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| daac1a6 | Mythology was not about theology, in the modern sense, but about human experience. People thought that gods, humans, animals and nature were inextricably bound up together, subject to the same laws, and composed of the same divine substance. There | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 0e306c0 | Compassion does not, of course, mean to feel pity or condescend, but to feel with | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 469c030 | takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9a7d8a1 | Endurance was the Chinese secret weapon. The Japanese should have understood that, and everybody else had better remember it. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| a22b9d5 | What was new to our ears these days, and thrilling to hear, was the steadiness and justice of those who spoke, the abscence of panic and exaggeration the quiet insistence on legal processes as opposed to trial by suspicion. McCarthyism so repelled the English that they take special care not to be infected by it. | parliament-of-the-united-kingdom | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 7a76f0a | Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job. | morals politicians | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 1dd965f | I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility of man, which is what would be required for world peace; I only believe in the human race. I believe the human race must continue. | war | Martha Gellhorn | |
| d066c26 | You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that? Why don't you let that be the entire plan for now? | Laura Dave | ||
| 98babda | quoting Steinbeck-Peter said,"'A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." | Laura Dave | ||
| eaa979e | It's weird to live somewhere where you can't see the stars. | Laura Dave | ||
| 0a750c7 | People don't break up because someone's family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married. | family marriage | Laura Dave | |
| 6dd18dc | Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that's what they're willing to fight for" -Dan" | Laura Dave | ||
| 438b026 | Dan: Finn and Bobby are fighting over the wrong thing. But at least they're fighting. Georgia: And how is that good? Dan: Because that's the only way to get somewhere better. If you fight, you work it out. If you don't fight, you move into your own corners, and nothing gets decided there | Laura Dave | ||
| 15a6d0a | Fate suggests no agency. Synchronization is all about agency. It involves all systems running in a state where different parts of the system are almost, if not precisely, ready. | Laura Dave | ||
| c46f708 | Move well, study well, play well, eat well, rest well - That is the turtle master way! | Akira Toriyama | ||
| 4f10ffa | Sol, listen," came the Voice, modulated now so it did not boom from far above but almost whispered in his ear, "the future of humankind depends upon your choice. Can you offer Rachel out of love, if not obedience?" Sol heard the answer in his mind even as he groped for the words. There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many ce.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9f54562 | Can God play a significant game with his own creature? Can any creator, even a limited one, play a significant game with his own creature? | Dan Simmons | ||
| 4dea2f1 | Asshole cunt peepee fuck." "Ah," grinned Old Sludge, showing his one tooth, "going to the company store to get some algae chewies, huh?" "Goddamn poopoo," I would grin back at him." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 2b649ac | The strongest beings are those who sing themselves into existence. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 24b43f0 | I think one begins to feel when things aren't important. I'm not sure how to put it. When you've spent thirty years entering rooms filled with strangers you feel less pressure than when you've had only half that number of years of experience. You know what the room and the people in it probably hold for you and you go looking for it. If it's not there, you sense it earlier and leave to go about your business. You just know more about what i.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| b9c77ee | I am tired of this city. I am tired of its pagan pretensions and false histories. Hyperion is a poet's world devoid of poetry. Keats itself is a mixture of tawdry, false classicism and mindless, boomtown energy. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 00820bb | I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis," he said in low, tight tones. "To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell." | Dan Simmons | ||
| c4d6ceb | God did not choose Herod or Pontius Pilate or Caesar Augustus as His instrument. He chose the unknown son of an unknown carpenter in one of the least important stretches of the Roman Empire. | Dan Simmons | ||
| be768c1 | the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unselfconscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synerg.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| b41e2b3 | She almost smiled at the justice of it, at her ultimate foolishness in thinking that she could uncage chaos and then control it. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 80d4ede | Finding a woman like that amidst the herd of half-feeling, half-caring, half-responding, females in our society of 1860's England was not so much like finding a diamond in the rough as it was finding a warm responsive body amidst the cold dead forms on slabs in the Paris morgue that Dickens had so enjoyed taking me to. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 7d6fac3 | This is where the Iliad begins, and it should be the focus of all my energies and professional skills, but the truth is that I don't really give a shit. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 0ad17b4 | primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as in the dark knights of the ovens which pocked old earth history - and that current generations had to deny any command for sacrifice. Sol had written that whatever God now took in human consciousness - whether as a mere manifestation of the subconscious in all its revanchist needs or as a more cons.. | god obedience philosophy | Dan Simmons | |
| bcc7cc6 | The silence stretched. Finally Al added one more sentence that I have been thinking about ever since. 'And if you did it again,' he said, 'we would have to kill you again.' We stared at each other for some time after that; each convinced, I am sure, that the other was a total idiot. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 8222778 | Johnny sighed in the darkness. "I don't understand the exact purpose of the Keats Project or the other Old Earth analogs, but I suspect that it is part of a TechnoCore project going back at least seven standard centuries to realize the Ultimate Intelligence." "The Ultimate Intelligence," I said, exhaling smoke. "Uh-huh. So the TechnoCore is trying to... what?... to build God." "Yes." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9c66fe5 | I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the early theories of evolution or gravitation or somesuch, and how--although raised a devout Christian even before the reward of the cruciform--he had become an atheist while studying a terrestrial wasp that paralyzed some large species of spider, planted its embryo, and let the spider recover and go about its business until .. | Dan Simmons | ||
| cb06f43 | Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen. | religion truth | Dan Simmons | |
| 16934bf | Nothing had ever been so welcome by its absence. | Dan Simmons | ||
| ed1b153 | And then Kassad was being helped out of his simulation creche at the Olympus Command School and the other cadets and instructors were rising, talking, laughing with one another--all seemingly unaware that the world had changed forever. | Dan Simmons | ||
| e36e05a | The Hegemony had known how to treat cancer, but most of the gene-tailoring knowledge and technology had been lost after the Fall. | Dan Simmons | ||
| bc21b57 | Why . . ." she begins. "Why do you want to climb it?" "Because it's there." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 7db288e | It is true that we Russians have sent only four doctors into space in forty years of flight, but still I might have had chance to fly to Mir or International Space Station except for one fact. This is that I cannot urinate--is this the right word, Mr. Roth?--I cannot urinate on wheel of bus. | Dan Simmons | ||
| a2225e8 | Commander Lebedev wrote--'After a communication session we invited Flight Engineer Savitskaya to the heavily laden table. We gave Sveta a blue floral print apron and told her, " 'Look, Sveta, even though you are a pilot and cosmonaut, you are still a woman first. Would you please do us the honor of being our hostess tonight?' " "Ouch," says Roth" | Dan Simmons | ||
| a70734d | I'm hungry, Raul," she said from the head of the stairs. "Want to go down and see what this old ship's galley can whomp up for lunch?" | Dan Simmons | ||
| 53a4387 | Sol! Take your daughter, your only daughter Rachel, Whom you love, and go to the world called Hyperion and offer her there as a burnt offering at one of the places of which I shall tell you." Sol hesitated and looked back to Rachel. The baby's eyes were deep and luminous as she looked up at her father. Sol felt the unspoken yes. Holding her tightly, he stepped forward into the darkness and raised his voice against the silence: "Listen! Ther.. | Dan Simmons |