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| cf89944 | The other animals." When she didn't reply, he sighed, frustration on his face. "They have - what you say - hop, hop. And they have the-" He put his hand behind his head and made a 'V' then wiggled his fingers. "Ah! You mean hares." -- | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 711a573 | When it's a memory, you already know the outcome so it's easy to think it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and is more complicated. But I don't think it is. Not really. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| cbbc8e9 | Innocent and virtuous, she represented the exact type of female he avoided... God, she was a taking thing, even for an avaricious reformer. | innocent submissive taking virtuous wanton | Karen Hawkins | |
| b389d4f | As I reach my thirtieth year of service as a butler in a gentleman's household, I find myself looking back. Between my secret recipe for boot blacking (an indispensable tool for a butler), and a vastly superior method to remove wine stains from velvet (which some will erroneously hold to be an impossibility), I find my memories salted with some faint wisdoms, a few tested experiences, and many, many interesting stories. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 1aa4b19 | Pray stop your infernal whispering. You sound like a pack of nuns planning a murder. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 1b71c23 | Did you bring money with you, or shall we play for markers?" She flipped the stack of cards to the table with a professional twist of her wrist. "I don't play for less than a guinea a hand." His lips twitched. "The question is not if I have money. The question is, do you?" "I don't need funds, as I don't plan on losing," she said, her gaze mocking. For a moment, he thought he'd heard her incorrectly. Slowly, he said, "I beg your pardon, but.. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| b1be1e1 | Margaret," she told me time and again, "you may be anything you wish, so long as you're never boring." | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 3b36c1a | When does life become easy does it ever become a pain how do we as a people make things change could we start with love and spread it from shore to shore Maybe give our last dollar to the needy and the poor | William Timothy Taylor 2012 | ||
| 3ffc71e | It was so easy for women,their arms opened out instinctively and they gathered in whatever hurt there was and that was that, they didn't even have to think about it. | Mary Lawson | ||
| 82c70e0 | Good luck. Maybe that's all it was. Maybe the whole of life depended not on how hard you tried, how determined you were, how sensible, how smart: maybe the whole shooting match depended on luck. | Mary Lawson | ||
| 5737875 | I want my pockets to be like a TARDIS, or Mary Poppins's carpetbag. | Jenny Lawson | ||
| 602fe6f | I believe in justice, I want redress for all wrongs done, I want the good life-if such a thing exists-accessible to all. Yet, emotionally, I would be only too happy to become world dictator, if only to fulfill my mission: the destruction of the last vestigial traces of traditional manhood in the race to realign the sexes, thus reducing population, while increasing human happiness and preparing humanity for its next stage. | Gore Vidal | ||
| ba8db87 | I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was. | aging | Gore Vidal | |
| 6d4c4e6 | None of this is quite true but Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 4950047 | All over Greece, strangers of a certain age will greet one another with the question, "And where were you and what did you do when Xerxes came to Marathon?" Then they exchange lies." | Gore Vidal | ||
| 43ba57c | It was of course Jefferson's gift at one time or another to put with eloquence the "right" answer to every moral question. In practice, however, he seldom deviated from an opportunistic course, calculated to bring him power." | Gore Vidal | ||
| ae9c95b | Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on. | Gore Vidal | ||
| e13dde8 | Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 6f6029f | In politics, as in love, opposites attract, and the misunderstandings that ensue tend to be as bitter and, as in love, as equally terminal. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 4eacd50 | After all, as educated men, we should realize that myths always stand for other things. They are toys for children teething. The man knows that the toy horse is not a true horse but merely suggests the idea of a horse to a baby's mind. When we pray before the statue of Zeus, though the statue contains him as everything must, the statue is not the god himself but only a suggestion of him. Surely, as fellow priests, we can be frank with one a.. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 4603f37 | I realize," said Sumner, "that the press is hardly reliable." Lincoln turned from the window; suddenly, he grinned. "Oh, yes, they are. They lie. And then they re-lie. So they are nothing if not re-lie-able." | Gore Vidal | ||
| 7c4add6 | Everybody with an IQ above room temperature is onto the con act of our media. They are obeying bigger, richer interests than informing the public--which is the last thing that corporate America has ever been interested in doing. --Gore Vidal | Real Network | ||
| 29ebc71 | A crock of shit," Rick had called it. But actually this was worse. Shit, to quote Gore Vidal, has its own integrity. This was a crock of nothing." | Robert Harris | ||
| 15165ef | Now you may not know this"--Lincoln shut his eyes--"but when I first ran for the Illinois legislature, I came out, more or less, for female suffrage; not exactly the most popular position to take back then, and in that part of the world." "It is still not the most popular issue anywhere in the world, thank God." "Well, Mrs. Fremont comes to see me late at night--right off the cars from the West--and threatens me to my face with an uprising .. | Gore Vidal | ||
| d1750f5 | Well, the trick of the national security state is, first of all, there must always be an enemy, and he's--must be terrifying, and he wants to blow us up because he's evil and we're good. So every day we are brainwashed: The Russians have discovered antigravity, or they've done this, or they've done that, and they're evil; we are good, as well as overweight. Things--little things like this matter a great deal in advertising. Great advertisin.. | Real Network | ||
| e2f68ce | The flight insurance example highlights another psychological phenomenon that is important to understanding how fear influences our thinking: "probability neglect." Social scientists have found that when confronted with either an enormous threat or a huge reward, people tend to focus on the magnitude of the consequence and ignore the probability. Consider how the Bush administration has used some of the techniques identified by Professor Gl.. | Al Gore | ||
| 9c00c60 | Al Gore, best described by CNN sound tech Mark A. as "amazingly lifelike"; Steve Forbes, with his wet forehead and loony giggle; G.W. Bush's patrician smirk and mangled cant; even Clinton himself, with his big red fake-friendly face and "I feel your pain." Men who aren't enough like human beings even to hate-what one feels when they loom into view is just an overwhelming lack of interest, the sort of deep disengagement that is often a defen.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| abd9fe3 | Like the Internet, environmentalism stretches back a long way, yet many people believe Al Gore invented it. There's no question that Gore's slideshow-turned-film documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, gave a huge jumpstart to the global warming ... sorry, "climate change" ... wait, sorry, "climate disruption" ... no, hold on, "climate chaos" movement. (If the science is settled, why do they have to keep changing its name?) I won't bother recou.. | Mike Huckabee | ||
| c48d08b | The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both. | Al Gore | ||
| 0d7ddc3 | People who suffer the most from a given state of affairs are paradoxically the least likely to question, challenge, reject, or change it." To explain this peculiar phenomenon, Jost's team developed a theory of system justification. Its core idea is that people are motivated to rationalize the status quo as legitimate--even if it goes directly against their interests. In one study, they tracked Democratic and Republican voters before the 200.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| f09b393 | Jeannie is Bill Clinton, and I am Al Gore. She "feels their pain," and I'm the dork reminding them to turn off the lights. I'm always Joe Biden saying the wrong thing." | Jim Gaffigan | ||
| 2c0f3bc | if consumption by the one billion people in the developed countries declined, it is certainly nowhere close to doing so where the other six billion of us are concerned. If the rest of the world bought cars and trucks at the same per capita rate as in the United States, the world's population of cars and trucks would be 5.5 billion. The production of global warming pollution and the consumption of oil would increase dramatically over and abo.. | Al Gore | ||
| 712ba08 | Bernays's business partner, Paul Mazur, said, "We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture.... People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality. Man's desires must overshadow his needs." As Bernays later wrote, in 1928, the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democra.. | Al Gore | ||
| cc2816c | Vice President Gore, Richard Clarke, and Madeleine Albright were "strong support[ers]" of the program, joining in President Clinton's "intense" interest in it.5 Egypt's most famous terrorist, Talaat Fouad Qassem, was "seized in Croatia, flown to the USS Adriatic, a navy warship, interrogated, then flown to Egypt for [torture and] execution."6 Egypt's secret police, the Gihaz al-Mukhabarat al-Amma, is widely known for its brutal torture regi.. | Andrew P. Napolitano | ||
| 229f458 | Giving people presents is such an intimate act; you're basically telling them who you think they are, | Ruth Reichl | ||
| f79f976 | I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don't recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late." "What about Remy? What" | Ruth Reichl | ||
| b0e7eb0 | That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault." Lulu" | tragedy | Ruth Reichl | |
| af07aef | Luxury is best appreciated in small portions. When it becomes routine it loses its allure. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| b61a38c | I discovered that endings have their own odd thrill. In the mania of the moment, it's possible to forget what you are losing. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 091cec0 | Hope can't hurt | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 0de9812 | I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don't recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 1addec9 | I wonder if any of us ever really knows another person?" she replied, sounding wistful." | Ruth Reichl | ||
| c9d6f38 | I know that. I do watch Spooks.' Carol was surprised. 'You do? I don't.' 'You should. They do. | tony-hill | Val McDermid | |
| 25cae82 | You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder. | Val McDermid |