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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f2a18d7 | A guy I worked with and I talked it over about what you do with drunks. His dad was a reformed drunk. He told me you got to stop trying to help them out. You got to stop making excuses for them and not take excuses from them. You got to put them on a spot where they can't do nothing but face the truth because they aren't going to change a bit till they decide to do it. They got to be the ones who believe they've turned into dregs and someth.. | Glen Cook | ||
| 06317ad | Bragging is how criminals get caught and men with deep secrets deliver themselves to their enemies. It's bonehead human nature. We all want to look special. Knowing something is one of the best ways. | Glen Cook | ||
| 3ef338a | Quite unwittingly I saved the lives of twenty enemies of the Stranglers scheduled to be tortured and murdered during the night. The priests freed them to tell the world that the Deceivers were real and had found their messiah, that those who did not come to Kina soon would be devoured in the Year of the Skulls. A fun bunch of guys, Croaker would say. | the-black-company | Glen Cook | |
| 3652fa8 | The more you know, the less you need. --YVON CHOUINARD | Scott Jurek | ||
| 07e791a | Bundle!" Chuck shouted agin, nonsensically, as he hurled himself on top of them. It was as if he were re-creating a scene from some dumb college frat movie he'd loved but no one else had ever seen." | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| f1a40c2 | Instead, she poured herself another drink. Tinsley was horrible, yes, but at least she was open about it. Callie couldn't help feeling like Brett and Jenny were just as bad ... just more secretive. But maybe it was just the wine talking. Maybe. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 51968fe | She nodded, even though everyone knows that the first time, for anything, is rarely the last. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 9a74d41 | You and Kara, huh? So that's why we've never hooked up! : No. That would be because I hate you. :) Oh. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 941b318 | Next year at this time, we're going to be hanging out with some new bunch of friends we met at college. People we don't even know exist yet. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| c43fa01 | I don't need anyone in my life who doesn't wanna be there. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| cbd2b9b | erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries--America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires. | cowboys empires italy | Jess Walter | |
| fcbe07c | Listen," Richard says, ,,unless you're about to inherit some money, what we're talking about here is irreversible, fatal. You have fiscal Ebola, Matt. You are bleeding out through your nose and your mouth and your eye sockets, from your financial asshole." See! Fiscal Ebola? My financial asshole is bleeding? This was exactly why I started poetfolio.com; there are money poets everywhere." | humor | Jess Walter | |
| 14905aa | the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be. | Jess Walter | ||
| ba7e41b | Then we'll make a deal, you and me. We'll do and say exactly what we mean. And to hell with what anyone thinks about it. If we want to smoke, we'll smoke, if we want to swear, we'll swear. How does that sound? | Jess Walter | ||
| d8a00f7 | Your parents don't get to tell your story. Your sisters don't. When he's old enough, even Pat doesn't get to tell your story. I'm your husband and I don't even get to tell it. So I don't care how lovesick this director is, he doesn't tell it. ... No one gets to tell you what your life means!" ~Alvis" | Jess Walter | ||
| 77e108f | But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we live. | fear fucking-up regret | Jess Walter | |
| 9ec69b8 | Among the world's evils--fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation--smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kids' school. | Jess Walter | ||
| e66c0c5 | He laughed, but his face was unreadable as he looked at her titles. "Ah, a collection from Sir Walter Scott. Very nice, I've always liked his poetry. Sense and Sensibility, but surely you have read this one." She nodded after a moment. "Y-Yes. It is one of my favorites. I only rather liked this binding." He held his gaze on her for a moment and then nodded." | Jess Michaels | ||
| 2e18ea5 | Ideas are sphincters. Every asshole has one. | Jess Walter | ||
| 8031da1 | One afternoon, Sam, the onion man, and his donkey, Mary Lou, were returning to his boat, which was anchored just a little off shore. It was late in November and the peach trees had lost most of their leaves. "Sam!" someone called. He turned around to see three men running after him, waving their hats. He waited. "Afternoon, Walter. Bo, Jesse," he greeted them, as they walked up, catching their breath. "Glad we caught you," said Bo. "We're g.. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 5868fb0 | And I wonder if we don't live like water seeking a level a low bed until one day we just go dry. I wonder if a creek ever realizes it has made its own grave. | Jess Walter | ||
| 5c6ddb8 | A hole opened up and he had to know what was inside it. So he picked and picked until the hole was huge, and then everything sort of... fell in, him, his wife, his kid, and this fragile life they'd built at the edge of this hole. And that's why he was here, because he'd begun wondering if maybe his father hadn't fallen in the same hole - | Jess Walter | ||
| 069b9db | He wondered if the German girl ever knew that someone had loved her so much that he painted her twice on the cold cement wall of a machine-gun pillbox. | Jess Walter | ||
| 39dfc4e | With news and data that is tailored to our prejudices, we deprive ourselves of true information. We wind up wallowing in our own false ideas, reflected back at us by the media. The news is ceasing to be a window unto the world; it is becoming a mirror that allows us to gaze only upon our own beliefs. | Charles Seife | ||
| 9e8d71b | Where there is the Infinite there is joy. There is no joy in the finite. --THE CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD | Charles Seife | ||
| f88e027 | Not only does the media fail to challenge our preconceptions - instead reinforcing them as media outlets try to cater to smaller audiences - but we all are able to find small groups of people who share and fortify the beliefs we have, no matter how quirky or outright wrong they might be. Ironically, all this interconnection is isolating us. We are becoming solipsists, trapped in worlds of our own creation. | Charles Seife | ||
| 56ce0a9 | A bad idea, a wrong piece of information, a digital brain-altering virus can spread at the speed of light through the internet and quickly find a home among a dispersed but digitally interconnected group of true believers. This group acts as a reservoir for the bad idea, allowing it to gather strength and reinfect people; as the group grows, the belief, no matter how crazy, becomes more and more solidly established among the faithful. | Charles Seife | ||
| f587bb1 | Skinnerian conditioning, crossed with social pressure, is now an ever-present invisibly hand that tries to manipulate all of your actions on the internet. This is the hand that is making you act against your own self-interest. Once you recognize it, you see it everywhere, hovering over you, trying to make you click your mouse or press buttons on your smartphone, giving up your valuable time, money, or information in return for little or not.. | Charles Seife | ||
| 5dc2b38 | Skinnerian conditioning, crossed with social pressure, is now an ever-present invisible hand that tries to manipulate all of your actions on the internet. This is the hand that is making you act against your own self-interest. Once you recognize it, you see it everywhere, hovering over you, trying to make you click your mouse or press buttons on your smartphone, giving up your valuable time, money, or information in return for little or not.. | Charles Seife | ||
| ff6a529 | Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends | Charles Seife | ||
| 4a075b1 | Digital information has an unbelievably high R0 [basic reproductive rate], and this means that it's hard to stop once it emerges. It spreads from person to person - even those at a great distance - incredibly quickly, thanks to its high transmissibility and the high interconnectedness of digital society. Once it escapes into the wild, it's all but impossible to stop its spread. This is wonderful, so long as the information is correct and us.. | Charles Seife | ||
| daf9365 | Britain has 450,000 listed buildings, 20,000 scheduled ancient monuments, twenty-six World Heritage Sites, 1,624 registered parks and gardens (that is, gardens and parks of historic significance), 600,000 known archaeological sites (and more being found every day; more being lost, too), 3,500 historic cemeteries, 70,000 war memorials, 4,000 sites of special scientific interest, 18,500 medieval churches, and 2,500 museums containing 170 mill.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 072aba3 | True law necessarily is rooted in ethical assumptions or norms; and those ethical principles are derived, in the beginning at least, from religious convictions. When the religious understanding, from which a concept of law arose in a culture, has been discarded or denied, the laws may endure for some time, through what sociologists call "cultural lag"; but in the long run, the laws also will be discarded or denied. With this hard truth in m.. | Russell Kirk | ||
| b887cd2 | A statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company predicted the imminent extinction of Black people in his epic book that relied on the 1890 census figures. Unlike the Plessy ruling, Frederick Hoffman's Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro received plenty of attention in 1896. Packed with statistical tables and published by the American Economic Association, the book was a pioneering work in American medical research, and it c.. | Ibram X. Kendi | ||
| 0470fe4 | Study after study shows that diverse teams perform better. In a 2014 report for Scientific American, Columbia professor Katherine W. Phillips examined a broad cross section of research related to diversity and organizational performance. And over and over, she found that the simple act of interacting in a diverse group improves performance, because it "forces group members to prepare better, to anticipate alternative viewpoints and to expec.. | Sara Wachter-Boettcher | ||
| 58cfc24 | After comparing more than two thousand DNA samples, an American molecular geneticist, Dean Hamer, concluded that a person's capacity to believe in God is linked to his brain chemicals. Of all things! Why not his urine? Perhaps it will not be amiss to observe that Dr. Hamer has made the same claim about homosexuality, and if he has refrained from arguing that a person's capacity to believe in molecular genetics is linked to a brain chemical,.. | David Berlinski | ||
| 334bef2 | Even just living next to a restaurant may pose a health hazard. Scientists estimated the lifetime cancer risk among those residing near the exhaust outlets at Chinese restaurants, American restaurants, and barbecue joints. While exposure to fumes from all three types of restaurants resulted in exposure to unsafe levels of PAHs, the Chinese restaurants proved to be the worst. This is thought to be due to the amount of fish being cooked,28 as.. | Michael Greger | ||
| bd765cc | One must apply the greatest artistry in three things," Alberti wrote, "walking in the city, riding a horse, and speaking, for in each of these one must try to please everyone."12 Leonardo mastered all three." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9c3e807 | The egg industry itself funded research on Salmonella and the various ways to cook eggs. What did they find? Salmonella in eggs can survive scrambled, over-easy, and sunny-side-up cooking methods. Sunny side up was found to be the riskiest. The industry-funded researchers bluntly concluded: "The sunny-side-up method should be considered unsafe."84 In other words, even the egg industry itself knows that its product, prepared in a manner that.. | Michael Greger | ||
| 5e0d471 | Leonardo believed his research had the potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence of an energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected... that the molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine... that there is a single force moving within all of us." Langdon felt disconcerted. And the power of God shall unite us a.. | categorically connected energy energy-force evidence exist existence molecules particles physical physics religion science scientific spiritual spirituality within | Dan Brown | |
| 888de65 | In a meat industry trade publication, an Alabama poultry science professor explained why we don't have such a "heavy-handed" policy: "The American consumer is not going to pay that much. It's as simple as that." If the industry had to pay to make it safer, the price would go up. "The fact," he said, "is that it's too expensive not to sell salmonella-positive chicken."99" | Michael Greger | ||
| c0b7257 | By the early 1960's America had reluctantly come to realize that it possessed, as a nation, the most potent scientific complex in the history of the world. Eighty per cent of all scientific discoveries in the preceding three decades had been made by Americans. The United States had 75 per cent of the world's computers, and 90 per cent of the world's lasers. The United States had three and a half times as many scientists as the Soviet Union .. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 24632a9 | Rather than standing on the sidelines, Snow got passionately involved. His work wasn't about abstract scientific discovery alone. It was about people and community. That's what science is supposed to be about--not an academic exercise for the ivory tower, or racking up publications, grants, and offers of tenure. It's about using the tools and technology available to make lives better, no matter what articles of faith obstruct the path. | Mona Hanna-Attisha | ||
| 32a6e1c | A society that values order above all else will seek to suppress curiosity. But a society that believes in progress, innovation and creativity will cultivate it, recognising that the enquiring minds of its people constitute its most valuable asset. In medieval Europe, the enquiring mind - especially if it enquired too closely into the edicts of Church or state - was stigmatised. During the Renaissance and Reformation, received wisdoms began.. | Ian Leslie |