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| 0c4a46a | they were a fanatically independent people, much addicted to intrigue, treachery and murder, and that among their other national traits was an intolerance of rulers (or, if it came to that, of any form of authority whatsoever, other than their own desires). | M.M. Kaye | ||
| c7ef9e5 | It was an age of lavishness. Of enormous meals, enormous families, enormous spreading skirts and an enormous, spreading Empire. An age of gross living, grinding poverty, inconceivable prudery, insufferable complacency and incomparable enterprise. | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 06462f2 | Feigned or not, sometimes I'm jealous of Hominy's oblivousness, because he, unlike America, has turned the page. That's the problem with history, we like to think of it's a book - that we can turn the page and move the fuck on. But history isn't the paper it's printed on. It's memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. History is the things that stay with you. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 1db70ec | Money talks, bullshit walks ... Pecunia sermo, somnium ambulo. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 4b03e71 | Crip up or grip up ... Criptum vexo vel carpo vex. | Paul Beatty | ||
| ed2e2fa | At the zoo, I stood in front of the primate cage listening to a woman marvel at how "presidential" the four-hundred-pound gorilla looked sitting astride a shorn oaken limb, keeping a watchful eye over his caged brood. When her boyfriend, his finger tapping the informational placard, pointed out the "presidential" silverback's name coincidentally was Baraka, the woman laughed aloud, until she saw me, the other four-hundred-pound gorilla in t.. | humour racism-in-america slurs | Paul Beatty | |
| d4c9b9b | Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people and movie stars of all races, though I can't think of any Asian-American ones. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 3637552 | The formulaic repetitiveness of filing and stuffing envelopes appeals to me in some fundamental life-affirming way. | Paul Beatty | ||
| c82a91a | And this country, the latent hight school homosexual that it is, the mulatto passing for white that it is, the Neanderthal incessantly plucking its unibrow that it is, needs people like him. It needs somebody to throw baseballs at, to fag-bash, to nigger-stomp, to invade, to embargo. Anything that, like baseball, keeps a country that's constantly preening in the mirror from actually looking in the mirror and remembering where the bodies are.. | Paul Beatty | ||
| e1892dd | They say a cigarette takes three minutes off your life, but good hashish makes dying seem so far away. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 1a83ce4 | In 7.81 square miles of vaunted black community, the 850 square feet of Dum Dum Donuts was the only place in the "community" where one could experience the Latin root of the word, where a citizen could revel in common togetherness. So one rainy Sunday afternoon, not long after the tanks and media attention had left, my father ordered his usual. He sat at the table nearest the ATM and said aloud, to no one in particular, "Do you know that th.. | blacks community income income-inequality presentations racial-relations | Paul Beatty | |
| 6b19a97 | If Jean Valjean had me representing him," he likes to say, "then Les Miserables would've only been six pages long. Dismissed--Loaf of Bread Pilfery." | Paul Beatty | ||
| 069538b | What goes around, comes around ... Quod circumvehitur, revehitur. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 5c879a7 | Washington, D.C., with its wide streets, confounding roundabouts, marble statues, Doric columns, and domes, is supposed to feel like ancient Rome (that is, if the streets of ancient Rome were lined with homeless black people, bomb-sniffing dogs, tour buses, and cherry blossoms). | Paul Beatty | ||
| fe13e21 | The meetings consisted mostly of the members who showed up every other week arguing with the ones who came every other month about what exactly "bimonthly" means." | Paul Beatty | ||
| 4b88247 | One if by Land Cruiser. Two if by C-class Mercedes. The bougies are coming! The bougies are coming! | Paul Beatty | ||
| 1adff6c | Listing hard to the right like a drunken seaman with an inner ear infection. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 7f32206 | That crap about being better off under slavery is too much even for you, isn't it, Foy?' 'At least McJones cares.' 'Come on, he cares about black people like a seven-footer cares about football. He has to care because what else would he be good at. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 61d4b92 | That there's something about the craziness that he had to go through that's kept me relatively sane. | Paul Beatty | ||
| f069a54 | This segregation is confirmed by the common stereotypes of these two disciplines and their representatives. While scientists are perceived as absentminded, casually dressed individuals who live in a refined world of abstract theory with little practical reality, lawyers are usually perceived as formally dressed people who are practically oriented, concentrating mainly on trivialities (such as negotiating their retaining fee) and engaging pr.. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 15d79f3 | He had a deep respect for life, a special compassion for animals, and great awe and reverence for nature's complexity and abundance. While a brilliant inventor and designer himself, he always thought that nature's ingenuity was vastly superior to human design. He felt that we would be wise to respect nature and learn from her. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 8d80206 | The natural world, on the other hand, is one of infinite varieties and complexities, a multidimensional world which contains no straight lines or completely regular shapes, where things do not happen in sequences, but all together; a world where--as modern physics tells us--even empty space is curved. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 87f5a2c | human needs are finite, but human greed is not ... | needs | Fritjof Capra | |
| a1f6755 | The principles of classical management theory have become so deeply ingrained in the ways managers think about organizations that for most of them the design of formal structures, linked by clear lines of communication, coordination, and control, has become almost second nature. This largely unconscious embrace of the mechanistic approach to management has now become one of the main obstacles to organizational change. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| ef9d1ed | Throughout the living world, we find living systems nesting within other living systems. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 245dd95 | The game can be won or lost, but not the player himself. If he has worked hard, he has improved his game and indeed his faculties; this happens in defeat fully as much as in victory. As the contestant is related to his total person, so is the finite self of any particular lifetime related to its underlying Atman. | Huston Smith | ||
| bf5a112 | If I were asked under what sky the human mind...has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions to some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant--I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the correcti.. | Huston Smith | ||
| e7792fc | No individual is solely reflective, emotional, active, or experimental, and different life situations call for different resources to be brought into play. Most people will, on the whole, find travel on one road more satisfactory than on others and will consequently tend to keep close to it; but Hinduism encourages people to test all four and combine them as best suits their needs. | Huston Smith | ||
| 377956d | To try to extinguish the drive for riches with money is like trying to quench a fire by pouring butter over it. | Huston Smith | ||
| 262d986 | Detachment from the finite self or attachment to the whole of things--we can state the phenomenon either positively or negatively. When it occurs, life is lifted above the possibility of frustration and above ennui--the third threat to joy--as well, for the cosmic drama is too spectacular to permit boredom in the face of such vivid identification. | Huston Smith | ||
| 4e3176f | Hinduism advises such people not to try to think of God as the supreme instance of abstractions like being or consciousness, and instead to think of God as the archetype of the noblest reality they encounter in the natural world. | Huston Smith | ||
| 7ad9b9b | In March 1955, Powell called for a boycott of Harlem savings banks that "practice 'Jim Crow-ism' and 'economic lynching.'" He urged Abyssinian Baptist Church's fifteen thousand members to withdraw their funds from white-woned banks and transfer them to either the black-owned Carver Federal Savings in Harlem or the black-owned Tri-State Bank in Memphis, Tennessee (108)." | Manning Marable | ||
| d4f0f96 | When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever. | Laurie R. King | ||
| aaf75f5 | He was a talkative man and jabbered away the whole time as his horse meandered about the road. It saved us from having to construct a story for him, though by the time he left us in Banbury, I was most weary of smiling stupidly out from under my hat brim and trying not to squint. As his wagon pulled away, I turned to Holmes. "Next time we do this, I will play the deaf old woman and you can laugh at rude jests for an hour." | Laurie R. King | ||
| f203f1c | The lust for murder is not a rational thing. In queens, it is an instinctual response. | Laurie R. King | ||
| f06c345 | I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love." | feminist feminist-quotes independence intellect love mystery passion romance sherlock | Laurie R. King | |
| 3601cf1 | Marsh looked at me sideways, causing a brief stir of familiarity. "You liked the library?" "It was all I could do to keep her from bolting herself inside," Alistair told him. With mock indignation, I protested, "I never even touched a book. I walked through and walked out." "Her eyes were filled with an unnatural light," Alister confided in his cousin. "I feared for my safety." | Laurie R. King | ||
| 639330b | You did tell me what a very superior sort of mind your friend has. What a pity he was born trapped in a man's body. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 3cd44f1 | One must never disregard a message from the universe. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 2ebf108 | THE END OF a case is always long, tedious, and anticlimactic, | Laurie R. King | ||
| dd3e6f1 | These last weeks, since Christmas, have been odd ones. I have begun to doubt that I knew you as well as I thought. I have even wondered if you wished to keep some part of yourself hidden from me in order to preserve your privacy and your autonomy. I will understand if you refuse to give me an answer tonight, and although I freely admit I will be hurt by such a refusal, you must not allow my feelings to influence your answer." I looked up in.. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 7688a58 | His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not easy. | needed needed-to-be-done not-easy purpose simple | Larry McMurtry | |
| db8c2ec | But then July accepted it and never scolded back, so perhaps that was the way of the world: women scolded, and men kept quiet and stayed out of the way as much as possible. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 677c4a8 | However, he didn't have a high opinion of the average man's ability as a fighter. The majority of men couldn't fight at all and even most outlaws were the merest amateurs when it came to battle. Few could shoot well, and even fewer had any mind for strategy. | Larry McMurtry |