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| 9a527a2 | certain group of people in the United States tried an experiment. They tried the experiment of making a fortune without working, of making a fortune through the stock exchange. They extended the experiment until it exploded and all went down to earth. "Aspects of World Trade" Thomas J. Watson Sr. July 31, 1930" | Peter Greulich | ||
| 7184afc | The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of the grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have s.. | Peter Watson | ||
| fbe1bb9 | Just goes to show how life leaks away when you ain't paying attention. One day you look up, look around, and the world is empty. Not empty exactly but something is wrong, there ain't no color left to life." outraged, he glared at Lucius. "Watsons long gone and Coxes moved away, Burdetts and Betheas, too. Ain't none of them good old families left. Died out or gone off to the cities, gone away like they was never here at all." | Peter Matthiessen | ||
| 1962551 | Is every third human in this galaxy named Solo?" Khalee Lah" | Elaine Cunningham | ||
| 5aa6915 | Don't you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board. | care decisions elder eldest expectations hope strength weakness | Beth Revis | |
| 8be50a8 | I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequate word. I see the stars as a part of the universe, and having spent my life behind walls, suddenly having none fills me with both awe and terror. Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a m.. | across-the-universe amy atu-series awe choking earth elder emotion galaxy home out-of-reach planets sea-of-stars stars terror universe unreachable | Beth Revis | |
| ce6d991 | Besides," he says, "every hero I know is soaked in blood." -- | Beth Revis | ||
| e980ccc | And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we'll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home. | amy-martin atu-series centauri-earth home new-place planet shades-of-earth truth world | Beth Revis | |
| 0de46c1 | I. Can't. Do this. I can't. It's too much. This-all of this-living- I can't. I just can't. To have given it all up and be left with nothing but this metal wall- | Beth Revis | ||
| 105e83c | Even when you're silent, even when you block out all noise, you body is still a cacophony of life. | Beth Revis | ||
| 759a128 | Even when you're silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. | Beth Revis | ||
| d9b5fbb | But Harley has always been this way, for as long as I've known him: he thinks ignorance is the best way to protect someone, and he doesn't understand that what we imagine is often worse than the truth. | Beth Revis | ||
| f86bc22 | Todo lo que tuve que hacer fue morir un rato, !y ahora tienes un nuevo planeta! | Beth Revis | ||
| 3c6958e | But i don't care. Because we can say them or not; it doesn't matter. What is in our heats is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness and silence. | Beth Revis | ||
| bb2427d | Harley siempre ha sido asi: piensa que la ignorancia es la mejor manera de protegerse. No entiende que, a menudo, lo que nos imaginamos es peor que la verdad | Beth Revis | ||
| faaad7c | Y por un momento, le tengo envidia al Sr. William Robertson, Numero 100, quien esta flotando en un mar de estrellas.-Elder | Beth Revis | ||
| 69e7388 | Me detengo, tragando aire, mi corazon acelerado al maximo en mis oidos. Me estiro para alcanzar con una mano y toco la pared. Mis dedos se curvan en un puno, pero cae debilmente a mi lado. Y ahi es cuando me doy cuenta de la mas importante verdad en mi vida en esta nave. No hay lugar a donde correr. | Beth Revis | ||
| 1b7e800 | I've made her relive, over and over, the last few days," I say softly, watching Ms. White's body. "I've had to fill in the blanks with my own feelings and experiences. She's spiraling around those last moments, those times when she went against me, and she's feeling it from my side, the pain, the betrayal." She thinks she's awake. I'm doing to her just what she did to me. I'm making her feel what it was like to slowly go crazy, to question .. | betrayal days ella-shepard feeling hurting-people jadis-white relive the-body-electric | Beth Revis | |
| 9e58fb9 | It's all in my mind. I'm in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy. "You need to wake up, Ella." The words are a command I cannot obey." | crazy ella-shepard in-my-mind mind wake-up | Beth Revis | |
| eb6d904 | Maybe being alone in the sea, with its unexplored depths, its clawing-finger waves, really is safer compared to the land, where there are people and malice and death. | Beth Revis | ||
| e2f5312 | I'm not human. I'm better. | human | Beth Revis | |
| b3a959e | I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This--this--this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run. | amy-martin atu-series cooling open rain run shades-of-earth space stars torrential universe | Beth Revis | |
| 3b59e5f | Or... maybe I'm not going crazy. "Maybe I'm some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and I'm just breaking down. I'm not sure which way is worse. Dad laughs. "You're not in your right mind, dear," he says. "No, no, no, you're not." And then-- --Silence. Dad fades away. The reverie chair disappears. There's just blackness. I remember then that I am in the reverie of something dead. Whatever that thing was, it was dead. And, just as I'm s.. | blackness breaking-down crazy dead dreamscape light mind reverie silence | Beth Revis | |
| e6d83ee | She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They're the loudest thing I've ever heard. | loudest silent sobs | Beth Revis | |
| b39a693 | It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that's already come true. | came-true horror nightmare | Beth Revis | |
| 2701817 | Now we get to the Karma thing: You make yourself so vulnerable by not tipping well or treating people in the service industry with respect. Not only is it wrong to treat another human being like that, but there's a practical consideration: They're standing between you and eating. Without waiters, nothing comes to your table and nothing goes away. Aren't you worried that they'll put rat poison in your food, or at least spit in it? pages 86-8.. | Tim Gunn | ||
| 9a57b77 | By the close of the nineteenth century her studies with her father were being supplemented by tuition in the classics from Dr Warr of King's College, Kensington, and from Clara Pater, sister of the English essayist and critic Walter Pater (1839-94). Woolf was very fond of Clara and an exchange between them later became the basis for her short story 'Moments of Being: Slater's Pins Have No Points' (1928). Thoby boarded at Clifton College, Br.. | Jane Goldman | ||
| 06fa007 | In 1922 Woolf met the writer Vita Sackville-West, who was to join Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf as the most significant people in her life. | Jane Goldman | ||
| 412c906 | Leonard Woolf was two years older than Virginia, whom he had first met in 1901 in the rooms of her brother Thoby at Cambridge. He went from St Paul's School to Trinity College on a scholarship in 1899 and was the first Jew to be elected to the Cambridge Apostles. His father Sidney Woolf (1844-92) was a barrister who died prematurely, leaving his widow, Marie, with the care of their ten children. After Cambridge, Leonard reluctantly entered .. | Jane Goldman | ||
| d433ca8 | Leonard and Virginia married in August 1912. Virginia was 30. Soon after her marriage she suVered another breakdown and her mental health declined sporadically over the following year, culminating in a suicide attempt in September 1913. They were advised against having children because of Virginia's recurring depressive illness, a cause of some regret to her, and a point of much heated debate among her later biographers. | Jane Goldman | ||
| 0fa190c | In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: 'It isn't, really it isnt, merely because you are so beautiful - though of course that is a large reason & so it should be - that I love you: it is your mind & your character - I have never known anyone like you in that - wont you believe me? | Jane Goldman | ||
| 12acceb | On the other hand, maybe what attracts us aren't the stories of falling apart so much as the stories of self-creation. The falling apart stuff is just a byproduct, a hazard of the trade. Maybe what I loved about Camille Claudel was what she created out of what she smashed to bits. How did a bourgeois girl become an artist and a woman? What was the female equivalent of the Great Man? If it didn't exist, why not? Who said it didn't? Who said .. | Carina Chocano | ||
| 376d581 | I get your moments when nothing seems to matter & I suppose that most of the time we, or I at any rate, are passively inert to happiness or unhappiness. I mean that we are so persistently automatic that most of the day is a trance. When I do think or feel, it is usually with rage or despair. Don't you feel often or always that there is so little time to lose, & that we are losing it so fast. The Christians are right there, I feel, it wouldn.. | Leonard Woolf | ||
| 5cbda35 | There are numerous biographies of Woolf. Biography has been highly influential in shaping the reception ofWoolf 's work, and her life has been as much debated as her writing. I would recommend the following three which represent three different biographical contexts and a range of positions on Woolf 's life: Quentin Bell's Virginia Woolf: A Biography (1972), Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf (1996), and Julia Briggs's Virginia Woolf: An Inner L.. | Jane Goldman | ||
| 99509e4 | Until the twentieth century, the T-shirt's role was strictly to form a barrier between a man's body and the more valuable clothing he actually wanted the world to see. | Tim Gunn | ||
| 946934a | The bulky caveman boot certainly has a modern heir: Uggs. I feel they are aptly named and don't belong in this millennium, but I realize I'm in the minority on that. | Tim Gunn | ||
| acc4491 | A T-shirt is a T-shirt. Spending hundreds of dollars on it doesn't elevate it. He was under-dressed, even if his casual outfit did cost more than my suit and tie. I once had another fashion victim tell me, 'This T-shirt cost twelve thousand dollars!' What difference does that make? If that's the message you want to send about yourself and your fashion sense, you should wear the price tag, or that should be the message on your T-shirt: 'Hi. .. | fashion-victims money | Tim Gunn | |
| f1f2b49 | Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly." --Epictetus" | Tim Gunn | ||
| 2d7f727 | Whether they come from Brooks Brothers or a thrift store, the sweaters we wear have a magnificent ancestry. Their history spans the worlds of Irish fishermen, French knights, World War I soldiers, busty Hollywood 'sweater girls,' and the television saint Mr. Rogers. That history lives in each garment. By being aware of it, we can better appreciate what we have. | fashion sweaters | Tim Gunn | |
| d33c70d | And now let's move to news concerning the wizard who is proving just as elusive as Harry Potter. We like to refer to him as the Chief Death Eater, and here to give his views on some of the more insane rumors circulating about him, I'd like to introduce a new correspondent: Rodent." "' '?" said yet another familiar voice, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione cried out together: "Fred!" "No--is it George?" "It's Fred, I think," said Ron, leaning in c.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| bbc8277 | And now, over to Romulus for our popular feature 'Pals of Potter.'" "Thanks, River," said another very familiar voice; Ron started to speak, but Hermione forestalled him in a whisper. " " "Romulus, do you maintain, as you have every time you've appeared on our program, that Harry Potter is still alive?" "I do," said Lupin firmly. "There is no doubt at all in my mind that his death would be proclaimed as widely as possible by the Death Eater.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2988166 | Johnson argued that the most truthful life-writing is when 'the writer tells his own story', since only he knows the whole truth about himself. (He does not use the word 'autobiography', which only came into circulation in the early 19th century.) Those who write about another may want to over-praise him or 'aggravate his infamy'; those who write about themselves, he says - optimistically - have no 'motive to falsehood' except 'self-love', .. | Hermione Lee | ||
| 9f03e74 | Il mondo della Magia si allontana sempre di piu dal mondo dove regna il Cristo. Non ho nulla contro di lui, ma solo contro i suoi preti che negano il potere della Grande Dea oppure l'avvolgono nella veste azzurra della Signora di Nazareth e affermano che era vergine. Ma che cosa ne puo sapere una vergine delle sofferenze dell'umanita? E ora che il mondo e cambiato e Artu, mio fratello e amante, che fu re e che sara re, giace morto (e la gen.. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 74e5808 | He was guarded behind a hundred fences of reserve and anger. | Marion Zimmer Bradley |