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| a4effff | Tally sticks were quite explicitly IOUs: both parties to a transaction would take a hazelwood twig, notch it to indicate the amount owed, and then split it in half. The creditor would keep one half, called "the stock" (hence the origin of the term "stock holder") and the debtor kept the other, called "the stub" (hence the origin of the term "ticket stub.)" | iou | David Graeber | |
| 881b82c | This last is important. Even in corporate environments, it is very difficult to remove an underling for incompetence if that underling has seniority and a long history of good performance reviews. As in government bureaucracies, the easiest way to deal with such people is often to "kick them upstairs": promote them to a higher post, where they become somebody else's problem." | David Graeber | ||
| 52cc6a1 | Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right! | humor satire slapstick | Richard Curtis | |
| 790b6e2 | Eva's chin ticked up. "Are you threatening me, m'lord?" Scoffing, he gave an exaggerated eye roll. "Heaven forbid someone threaten William Wallace's woman." Narrowing her eyes, she glared at him for a moment. Even if he'd seen her take the pictures, he wouldn't have a clue what she was up to. And she'd turned the flash off. He had absolutely no grounds on which to make any accusations. With a dismissive nod she turned her attention back to .. | Amy Jarecki | ||
| 0f105bd | Make your future dream a present fact, by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled." This" | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| e42bc4f | Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily. | culture distortion emotion perception | Harold Bloom | |
| c80e9e4 | Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry. | church-and-state idolatry manipulation | Harold Bloom | |
| 00c8124 | One reads for oneself and for strangers. | education goodreads influence relationships | Harold Bloom | |
| bb6a162 | The unity of a great era is generally an illusion. | division | Harold Bloom | |
| 47b2eaa | Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge. | intimacy-with-god mystery-omniscience worship | Harold Bloom | |
| 7d20ca7 | Calling a work of sufficient literary power either religious or secular is a political decision, not an aesthetic one. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 227eefb | I treasure ruefully some memories of W.H. Auden that go back to the middle 1960s, when he arrived in New Haven to give a reading of his poems at Ezra Stiles College. We had met several times before, in New York City and at Yale, but were only acquaintances. The earlier Auden retains my interest, but much of the frequently devotional poetry does not find me. Since our mutual friend John Hollander was abroad, Auden phoned to ask if he might s.. | Harold Bloom | ||
| a648ca1 | King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life. | idolatry leadership | Harold Bloom | |
| 2a0f455 | To condemn Wordsworth for not writing verse of political and social protest, or for having forsaken the revolution, is to cross the final divide between academic arrogance and moral smugness. | Harold Bloom | ||
| bbd53e1 | Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. | bitterness compassion condemnation conviction curiosity graciousness openness | Harold Bloom | |
| ae0bcfd | American Religionists, when I questioned them, frequently said that falling in love was affirming again Christ's love for each of them. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 64f8c6c | Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. - From the book jacket | innovation | Harold Bloom | |
| 2cbc0dc | You get too much at last of everything: of sunsets, of cabbages, of love. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 11c769f | When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime. -- | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 4bf9b85 | We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0b6c0c7 | He] seemed like a kid who was looking for something, looking for something, just didn't know what it was. I was like that once, but then I realized what I was looking for: Money! Ha! Ha hyah, hooh boy! (pg.43) | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 6cce783 | In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| e0f2b77 | You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. . . . | Jon Krakauer | ||
| e02b7bf | In Missoula, Grizzly football exists in a realm apart, where there is a pervasive sense of entitlement. University of Montana fans, coaches, players, and their lawyers expect, and often receive, special dispensation. | football | Jon Krakauer | |
| 4883d44 | says Brother Richard, a wide, cheerful man with liver spots and a comb-over, who brags that he has twenty-eight grandchildren. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 535481e | with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 251e12e | The more improbable the situation and the greater the demands made on [the climber], the more sweetly the blood flows later in release from all that tension. The possibility of danger serves merely to sharpen his awareness and control. And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a6918b6 | What distinguishes gurus from more orthodox teachers is not their manic-depressive mood swings, not their thought disorders, not their delusional beliefs, not their hallucinatory visions, not their mystical states of ecstasy: it is their narcissism.* ANTHONY STORR, FEET OF CLAY | Jon Krakauer | ||
| c0cec66 | Moreover, a similar study published in 2009 by Stephanie K. McWhorter, which examined 1,149 navy recruits who'd never been convicted of sexual assault, replicated Lisak's findings: 144 of the recruits (13 percent) turned out to be undetected rapists, and 71 percent of these 144 rapists were repeat offenders. An average of 6.3 rapes or attempted rapes could be attributed to each of them. Of the 865 rapes and attempted rapes reported in McWho.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 91fc71d | The LDS Church has annual revenues estimated at more than $6 billion, and | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 227ebb9 | For a few minutes the roof of the bus remains visible among the stunted trees, a tiny white gleam in a wild green sea, growing smaller and smaller, and then it's gone. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| acc876a | If the expansion of the LDS faith continues at its current pace, within sixty years governing the United States will become "impossible without Mormon cooperation," according to the eminent scholar Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University--and an unabashed admirer of Joseph Smith and the Mormons." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5aaedd5 | Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear narrative that is assimilated into an ongoing life story....[R]ather, they are encoded in the form of vivid sensations and images. It | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5e3cf64 | Several authors and editors I respect counseled me not to write the book as quickly as I did; they urged me to wait two or three years and put some distance between me and the expedition in order to gain some crucial perspective. Their advice was sound, but in the end I ignored it - mostly because what happened on the mountain was gnawing my guts out. I thought that writing the book might purge Everest from my life. It hasn't, of course. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 1bc852d | narcissistic personality disorder, or NPD. According to DSM-IV, NPD is distinguished by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy | Jon Krakauer | ||
| dba4732 | Between 1840 and 1844 God instructed the prophet to marry some forty women. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a67c7f4 | Thoreau's declaration in "Civil Disobedience": "I heartily accept the motto--'That government is best which governs least." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| eea9bfa | It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders; engaging in risky behavior is a rite of passage in our culture no less than in most others. Danger has always held a certain allure. That, in large part, is why so many teenagers drive too fast and drink too much and take too many drugs, why it has always been so easy for nations to recruit young men to go to war. It can be argued that youthful .. | travel wanderlust | Jon Krakauer | |
| 1383de6 | And because he happened to be the father of Debbie's own stepmother, Mem, she unwittingly became a stepmother to her stepmother, and thus a stepgrandmother to herself. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 46aa1fd | In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly. One has to look no further than individuals who feel compelled to devote their lives to becoming concert pianists, say, or climbing Mount Everest. For some, the province of the extreme holds an allure that's irresistible. And a certain percentage of such fan.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| c9ea1fb | that's a real big part of what holds this religion together: it's not having to make those critical decisions that many of us have to make, and be responsible for your decisions. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 4952539 | The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world, by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearning of such queer intensity that it beggars the modern imagination. | papar peace spirit | Jon Krakauer | |
| c92a9ef | It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 634cdfa | Alaska topraklari merhametsizdir, ne umutlari ne de ozlemleri umursar. | Jon Krakauer |