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| 8c26d37 | Again, as with creating a nurturant family life, it would be unreasonable to expect that creating a nurturant society should be easy or quick. One must be patient and ready to deal with frustration. And one must bear in mind the morality of happiness and self-nurturance. In the midst of frustration, you must find a way to be basically happy and to take care of yourself. If you don't, you will become less nurturant. Women have known througho.. | George Lakoff | ||
| 057917b | Consider a cognitive scientist concerned with the empirical study of the mind, especially the cognitive unconscious, and ultimately committed to understanding the mind in terms of the brain and its neural structure. To such a scientist of the mind, Anglo-American approaches to the philosophy of mind and language of the sort discussed above seem odd indeed. The brain uses neurons, not languagelike symbols. Neural computation works by real-ti.. | George Lakoff | ||
| e8f0ca5 | Conservatives have, at least since the 60s, seen their system of values under attack--from feminism, the gay rights movement, the ecological movement, the sexual revolution, multiculturalism, and many more manifestations of Nurturant Parent morality. Conservatives have seen the values of these movements taught in the schools. They are appalled that what they see as the only system of real morality is being undermined. Conservatives believe .. | George Lakoff | ||
| b8fff36 | 1. Why should poor conservatives vote against their financial interests? Because they are voting their moral identities, not their pocketbooks. They are voting for people who believe in what they believe, and they want to see a world in which their moral principles are upheld 2. Why do Tea Party members of Congress obstruct even the workings of an overwhelmingly conservative Congress? Because they believe that compromising with progressive .. | George Lakoff | ||
| 9a7397f | pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stable scientific findings--the embodied mind, the cognitive unconscious, and metaphorical thought. Just as the ideas of cells and DNA in biology are stable and not likely to be found to be mistakes, so we believe that there is more than enough converging evidence to establish at least these three results. Ironically, these scientific results ch.. | philosophy-of-life philosophy-of-science religion-and-philoshophy religion-philosophy science thinking thoughts-of-the-mind western-philosophy | George Lakoff | |
| e5ccd09 | Aristotle, on the other hand, saw poetry as having a positive value: "It is a great thing, indeed, to make proper use of the poetic forms, . . . But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor" (Poetics 1459a); "ordinary words convey only what we know already; it is from metaphor that we can best get hold of something fresh" (Rhetoric 1410b)." | George Lakoff | ||
| 0d0cedd | What they signified was precious, but what they were was not. | Victoria Finlay | ||
| 06183c3 | You love them all the more for their concern, but wish they'd get it through their heads that there are some people who don't need the constant companionship of other human beings in order to feel that their life has meaning." From "...He Didn't Even Leave a Note..." | Gary A. Braunbeck | ||
| ff64c74 | Try this way of picturing a human lifespan. The National Football League's Dallas Cowboys' stadium holds 105,000 people. Now, imagine that you're watching life go by down on the field, and every day you watch that life go by from a different seat. You don't even get a third of the way around. Before you've settled into a third of the seats, you'd be dead. And, that's if you had a good run, eighty-two-plus years. Yikes! | Bill Nye | ||
| 9bd745f | Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. | Bill Nye | ||
| 4747028 | As I learned more about evolution, I realized that from nature's point of view, you and I ain't such a big deal. Humans are just another species on this planet trying to make a go of it, trying to pass our genes into the future, just like chrysanthemums, muskrats, sea jellies, poison ivy ... and bumblebees. | Bill Nye | ||
| e6a51a5 | Meg, what I'm about to do - never, ever try this on your own." I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regularly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science Guy I would always promote safe laboratory practices." | Rick Riordan | ||
| c20a981 | A poem needs as well as of content. | Helen Vendler | ||
| ee6025b | And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its glean in the meal-bin. --"Sunlight" | love | Seamus Heaney | |
| f828294 | Did you ever hear tell,' said Jimmy Farrell, 'of the skulls they have in the city of Dublin? White skulls and black skulls and yellow skulls, and some with full teeth, and some haven't only but one,' and compounded history in the pan of 'an old Dane, maybe, was drowned in the Flood.' My words lick around cobbled quays, go hunting lightly as pampooties over the skull-capped ground. -Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces | ireland vikings | Seamus Heaney | |
| 1ac21a1 | And you, Tacitus, observe how I make my grove on an old crannog piled by the fearful dead: a desolate peace. Our mother ground in sour with the blood of her faithful, they lie gargling in her sacred heart as the legions stare from the ramparts. Come back to this 'island of the ocean' where nothing will suffice. Read the inhumed faces of casualty and victim; report us fairly, how we slaughter for the common good and shave the heads of the n.. | the-troubles | Seamus Heaney | |
| a2eca34 | Which would be better, what sticks or what falls through? Or does the choice itself create the value? | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 4a79886 | I composed habits for those acres so that my last look would be neither gluttonous nor starved. I was ready to go anywhere. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 72f0ffc | Mid-Term Break I sat all morning in the college sick bay Counting bells knelling classes to a close. At two o'clock our neighbours drove me home. In the porch I met my father crying-- He had always taken funerals in his stride-- And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow. The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram When I came in, and I was embarrassed By old men standing up to shake my hand And tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble'... | grief loss | Seamus Heaney | |
| eba240b | I see." Gamache lowered his voice, though all could still hear the words. "When I was Chief Superintendent, I had a framed poster in my office. On it were the last words of a favorite poet, Seamus Heaney. Noli timere. It's Latin. Do you know what it means?" He looked around the room. "Neither did I," he admitted when no one spoke. "I had to look it up. It means 'Be Not Afraid.' His eyes returned to the unhappy young agent. "In this job you'.. | noli-timere | Louise Penny | |
| b21fe22 | For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| a59e5c8 | Islanders too are for sculpting. | wind | Seamus Heaney | |
| 287de2e | The hall towered, gold-shingled and gabled, and the guest slept in it until the black raven with raucous glee announced heaven's joy, and a hurry of brightness overran the shadows. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 3480a60 | It is the nature of men to build walls around themselves. They think it will protect them from hurt. It does the opposite. The hurt still gets in, but now it rattles around the walls, unable to get out. So you build more walls. You are now seeing the world without walls. You are free, Ro. Free to hurt and free to heal. | David Gemmell | ||
| aa2c21e | You can buy gold that is bright as the sun and diamonds as pale as the moon. But you cannot buy the sun. You cannot own the moon." II" | David Gemmell | ||
| 3842818 | Most myths contain a grain of truth," said Lantern, warily. "Indeed they do, Younger Brother. Is that why you carry a lock of hair and a fragment of bone within the locket around your neck?" For a moment only, Lantern's sapphire eyes glinted with anger. "You see a great deal, Elder Brother. You see into men's dreams, and you see through metal. Perhaps you should be reading the dreams of the townsfolk." "I know their dreams, Lantern. They wa.. | David Gemmell | ||
| 7d57448 | Once I loved life ad the sun was a golden joy. But joy is sometimes short lived, priest. And when it dies, a man will seek inside himself and ask: Why? Why hate is so much stronger than love? Why the wicked reap such rich rewards? Why do strenght and speed count for more than morality and kindness? And then the man realizes...there are no answers. None. And for the sake of his sanity the man must change perceptions. Once I was a lamb, playi.. | David Gemmell | ||
| 99878fe | You were a warrior, Lantern. Such men are not renowned for understanding the infinite shades of gray that govern the actions of men. Black and white are your colors." "Scholars tend to overcomplicate matters," said Skilgannon. "If a man runs at you with a sword it would be foolish to spend time wondering what led him to such action. Was his childhood scarred by a cruel father? Did his wife leave him for another man? Was he perhaps misinform.. | David Gemmell | ||
| 0c67668 | I carry the seeds of your hatred,' he shouted, hurling his words to the winds, 'and I know where to plant them.' Yes, he thought, Thebes is the right destination for the Lion of Macedon. | David Gemmell | ||
| 30dc702 | You are a Chosen Man. You are Parmenion, the Death of Nations. A hundred thousand souls will you send to the dark river, screaming and wailing, lamenting their fate. It is right and just that you should know your choices. | David Gemmell | ||
| e094f90 | Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall. | risk | David Gemmell | |
| 35f3246 | Yes, it would have been good, he thought, to spend quiet years with his family, waiting for his diseased heart to fail as he sat in his chair staring at the mountains. But this was better. This was life! Not the killing and the terrified screams of dying men suddenly facing the awesome spectre of their own mortality. No, but to face his fears as a man, to stand at the brink of the abyss and refuse to be cowed or beaten down. | last-stand oldage | David Gemmell | |
| 55b3f25 | The truth is that every invention leads men to say: can I use it to kill, to main, to terrify? | David Gemmell | ||
| 8a733b2 | Death haunts everyone and never fails | David Gemmell | ||
| 801ceb3 | The world was changing, and he was running out of places to hide. | David Gemmell | ||
| 7501bab | Spring is that wonderful if somewhat delusional time for a gardener when the sap rises and everything seems possible. | Marta McDowell | ||
| a0911fe | So the badger poked up the fire, poured himself another cup of tea, and went back to the History to read the curious story of the Fern Vale dwelves, a story (he suspected) that was mostly unknown to the Big Folk. Of course, that sort of thing wasn't at all unusual, for although the human residents of the Land between the Lakes thought they knew everything about their surroundings, and although scholarly books related the history, inventorie.. | Susan Wittig Albert | ||
| 69eb074 | Grown up at last and required to live all day long in the real world, it now seemed to Beatrix that imaginary fairies were of a great deal more use than real ones. And I think we must agree with her on that score. It is undeniably true that the imagination is far more powerful than knowledge, and that it is much more important to believe in something than to know it! There is, after all, a limit to the things we can know (even if we are for.. | Susan Wittig Albert | ||
| d6f2c16 | She was a Victorian girl; a girl of the days when men were hard and top-hatted and masculine and ruthless and girls were gentle and meek and did a great deal of sewing and looked after the poor and laid their tender napes beneath a husband's booted foot, and even if he brought home cabfuls of half-naked chorus girls and had them dance on the rich round mahogany dining-table (rosily reflecting great pearly hams and bums in its polished depth.. | women | Angela Carter | |
| 12960a4 | A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems. | Angela Carter | ||
| e4fad01 | It would mean that the castle is not yet generating enough eroto-energy. | Angela Carter | ||
| 959f934 | But needs must when the devil drives. | Angela Carter | ||
| 2c0be05 | If I could see not one single soul in that wilderness of desolation all around me, then the six of us - mounts and riders, both - could boast amongst us not one soul, either, since all the best religions in the world state categorically that not beasts nor women were equipped with the flimsy, insubstantial things when the good Lord opened the gates of Eden and let Eve and her familiars thumble out. | fairytales religion sarcastic-observations | Angela Carter | |
| 34ddf7d | Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with. | Angela Carter |