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| 35bc5b5 | El logico (al Senor anciano): Aqui tiene un silogismo ejemplar. El gato tiene cuatro patas. Isidoro y Fricot tienen cada uno cuatro patas. Por lo tanto Isidoro y Fricot son gatos. El senor anciano (al Logico): Mi perro tambien tiene cuatro patas. El logico (al Senor anciano): Entonces es un gato. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| ff81631 | If prayers could make a man into a Christian then I would be a saint ten times over by now. Destiny is all. And now, looking back, I see the pattern of my life's journey. It began in Bebbanburg and took me south, ever southward, until I reached the farthest coast of England and could go no farther and still hear my own language. That was my childhood's journey. As a man I have gone the other way, ever northward, carrying sword and spear and.. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 20e8eb4 | Violence may not be good, my friend, but it has a certain efficiency in the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 48e4280 | Operate your household like a productive business. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 907fb07 | Most millionaires measure their success by their net worth, not by their realized income. For the purposes of wealth building, income doesn't matter that much. Once you're in a high-income bracket, say $100,000 or $200,000 or more, it matters less how much more you make than what you do with what you already have. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 3347e63 | For every millionaire who owns a $1,000 suit, there are at least six owners who have annual incomes in the $50,000 to $200,000 range but who are not millionaires. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 8416df3 | Your test scores are inferior, therefore you're inferior," and the result is yet one more economic dropout. Instead, tell a youngster there are many ways to win. Tell him that creativity and even common sense, social skills, and integrity count in the economic arena. If we convey that message, we will have many more people becoming productive citizens." | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| e9c9ee2 | There is an inverse relationship between the time spent purchasing luxury items such as cars and clothes and the time spent planning one's financial future. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| b4dfba3 | if you're not financially independent, you will spend an increasing amount of your time and energy worrying about your socioeconomic future. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 3c80463 | Mas o que e que voce faria com o Graal? -- Eu iria usa-lo. -- Para que? -- Para livrar o mundo do pecado. -- Seria um trabalho notavel, mas nem Cristo conseguiu realiza-lo. -- Voce para de eliminar ervas daninhas entre os vinhedos so porque elas sempre voltam a nascer? | sin | Bernard Cornwell | |
| 03b7bf9 | Objects are characterized by three essential properties: state, identity, and behavior. | Robert Sedgewick | ||
| c9238a4 | Tell me what you know of my kinfolk. "Fee, fi, fo, fum?" Oxton muttered under his breath. Vanora raised her hand. "I've heard something about a beanstalk and a cow." The giant gave a great nod. "We've well established you know absolutely nothing of my kind." | Angela J. Townsend | ||
| 7c690c5 | A vida e uma brincadeira dos deuses e nao existe justica. Voce precisa aprender a rir ou entao vai simplesmente chorar ate morrer. | ptbr the-winter-king | Bernard Cornwell | |
| b40a35c | Though he may dally with loose women, he's been raised a gentleman. He would never touch me unless I gave him permission." He might use incredibly powerful seduction tactics, but that was her problem, not Angus's. "Aye," Mary said. "Don't ye remember how the miss took care o' the squire's son when he tried to kiss her in the garden?" She beamed at Sophia. "That was well done." Sophia grinned. "He limped for a week" Angus grunted. "The squir.. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| d0c5267 | As we've practiced it, Angus! Let him in, fetch him a glass of that horrid port we purchased in the village. When you're done, send Mary upstairs right away with a bucket of water. I need to wash." Angus paused, one large hand on the doorknob. "Now? But MacLean's already here." She lifted her chin. "I waited for MacLean; now can wait for ." Angus grinned, "Very well, miss." | Karen Hawkins | ||
| f6c494a | Gabe leafed through the report in disbelief. It went on for pages. She'd given not only the names, breeds, and ages of every misbegotten creature, but she'd appended a chart of temperaments, sleeping schedules, preferred bedding, and a list of dietary requirements that would beggar a moderately successful tradesman. Along with the expected hay, alfalfa, corn, and seed, the animals required several pounds of mince weekly, daily pints of fres.. | animals inventory list penelope-campion | Tessa Dare | |
| 54dea43 | Gor," she breathed when she picked up the nearly empty tureen. "Someone done eat the soup!" "Never!" Angus said, his eyes as wide as saucers. "All of it," she said, holding the tureen toward Angus. He peered into it as if expecting to see a hole in the bottom. "Well, I'll be." "It was excellent," Dougal said. Angus sent Dougal a look of respect. "Ye must have an iron stomach." "Indeed," Mary said, a worried look on her face. "I beg yer pard.. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 6ea9b8d | Then I spoke with proven shapers I knew--Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Reed Hastings, Muhammad Yunus, Geoffrey Canada, Jack Dorsey (of Twitter), David Kelley (of IDEO), and more. They had all visualized remarkable concepts and built organizations to actualize them, and done that repeatedly and over long periods of time. I asked them to take an hour's worth of personality assessments to discover their values, abilities, and approaches. While not pe.. | Ray Dalio | ||
| 7621bf8 | Seven kings will die, she had said, seven kings and the women you love. And Alfred's son will not rule and Wessex will die and the Saxon will kill what he loves and the Danes will gain everything, and all will change and all will be the same. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| d97c339 | Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves," said a Tibetan sage six hundred years ago, and the book where I found this edict followed it with an explanation of the word "track" in Tibetan: shul, "a mark that remains after that which made it has passed by - a footprint for example. In other contexts, shul is used to describe the scarred hollow in the ground where a house once stood, the channel worn through rock where a river.. | travel | Rebecca Solnit | |
| bbd8c84 | A battle in the shield wall. It's smelling your enemy's breath while he tries to disembowel you with an axe, it's blood and shit and screams and pain and terror. It's trampling in your friends' guts as enemies butcher them. It's men clenching their teeth so hard they shatter them. Have you ever been in a battle? | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 13961ee | Moths and other nocturnal insects navigate by the moon and stars. Those heavenly bodies are useful for them to find their way, even though they never get far from the surface of the earth. But lightbulbs and candles send them astray; they fly into the heat or the flame and die. For these creatures, to arrive is a calamity. When activists mistake heaven for some goal at which they must arrive, rather than an idea to navigate Earth by, they b.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 2a346dc | What escapes categorization can escape detection altogether | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 6982376 | Women are afraid of being raped and murdered all the time and sometimes that's more important to talk about than protecting male comfort levels. Or | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 7f1dea2 | I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe it was the only way she could break away from her mother, maybe Demeter was a bad parent the way that Lear was a bad parent, denying nature, including the nature of children to leave their parents. Maybe Persephone thought Hades was the infinitely cool older man who held the knowledge she sought, maybe she l.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| fc47d38 | Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to exist. About | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| d8cb67e | It was a place as blank as a sheet of paper. It was the place I had always been looking for... Flat expanses would call to me... These are the places where the desert is most itself: stark, open, free, an invitation to wander, a laboratory of perception, scale, light, a place where loneliness has a luxurious flavor... | nature travevl wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 6a0c958 | In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; / But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.--WALLACE STEVENS, "OF THE SURFACE OF THINGS" | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 17a0c98 | If the boundaries of the self are defined by what we feel, then those who cannot feel even for themselves shrink within their own boundaries, while those who feel for others are enlarged, and those who feel compassion for all beings must be boundless. They are not separate, not alone, not lonely, not vulnerable in the same way as those of us who are stranded in the islands of ourselves, but they are vulnerable in others ways. Still, that se.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 81198f5 | To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient. | writing | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 927bf3a | We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and indifference...the relief will be very political, in who gives how much (Bush offering 15 million, then 35 million under pressure, the cost of his inauguration and then 350 million under strong international pressure)...but the event itself transcends politics, the realm of things we cause and can work to .. | disaster politics | Rebecca Solnit | |
| bc05b5a | A woman is beaten every nine seconds in this country. Just to be clear: not nine minutes, but nine seconds. It's the number-one cause of injury to American women; of the two million injured annually, more than half a million of those injuries require medical attention while about 145,000 require overnight hospitalizations, according to the Center for Disease Control, and you don't want to know about the dentistry needed afterwards. Spouses .. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| caece93 | We are all the heroes of our own stories, and one of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another's story, to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and to see your power, to make your life, to make others, or break them, to tell stories rather than be told by them. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 6fb5d0d | I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival... | travel | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 539652e | There's more that we need to be liberated from: maybe a system that prizes competition and ruthlessness and short-term thinking and rugged individualism, a system that serves environmental destruction and limitless consumption so well--that arrangement you can call capitalism. It embodies the worst of machismo while it destroys what's best on Earth. More men fit into it better, but it doesn't really serve any of us. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| a0f64ef | I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that's eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| da8a310 | Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. Some men. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| d30afb6 | Many events plant seeds, imperceptible at the time, that bear fruit long afterward. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| c23bb41 | One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, a bend reveals a sudden vision of San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live in that place of blue hills and blue buildings, though I do live there, I had just left there after breakfast. | golden-gate-bridge longing mount-tamalpais san-francisco travel wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 7d3e341 | To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don't know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 1709e17 | The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that flux, but the waves come in in a roar and then ebb, almost silent but for the faint suck of sand and snap of bubbles, over and over, a heartbeat rhythm, the sea always this body turned inside out and opened to the sky, the body always a sea folded in on itself, a nautical chart folded into a paper cup. | pacific-ocean sea | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 8e8017a | If you walk a city, if you love a city, if you put in your miles and years with open heart and mind, the city will reveal itself to you. Maybe it won't become yours, but you will become its - its chronicler, its pilgrim, its ardent lover, its nonnative son or native daughter or defender. | community maps travel walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| a5cac05 | world until very recently, married women were addressed by their husbands' names, prefaced by Mrs. You stopped, for example, being Charlotte Bronte and became Mrs. Arthur Nicholls. Names erased a woman's genealogy and even her existence. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 12c0ba1 | confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man. It is easy to name the disappearances of the Dirty War as crimes, | Rebecca Solnit |