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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f9ac3a4 | La avaricia, como el amor, posee el don de la vision de los acontecimientos futuros, que presiente y adivina. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 6b64fc4 | Dusuncelerimi kendi uzerime cevirerek dusundum: Kendisinin de ozgur kalmasini dileyecek kadar sevmiyordu beni. Sevgi suc islemekten kacinirsa siniri var gibi gorunur bize; oysa sevgi sonsuz olmalidir. Kalbim korkunc burkuldu. "Sevmiyor beni!" diye dusundum." | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| dac789f | Christianity and monarchy are twin principles. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 2cc576b | Le grand monde a son argot. Mais cet argot s'appelle le style. | société style | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 05104d4 | If we could picture the thoughts of those who stand about a deathbed, what fearful sights should we not see? Money is always the motive-spring of the schemes elaborated, of all the plans that are made and the plots that are woven about it! | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 11a19a1 | Retrouver Paris! savez-vous ce que c'est, o Parisiens? | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 1c915b2 | To be sure, it would be a mistake to underestimate the importance of the intuitive knowledge that everyone acquires about contemporary wealth and income levels, even in the absence of any theoretical framework or statistical analysis. Film and literature, nineteenth-century novels especially, are full of detailed information about the relative wealth and living standards of different social groups, and especially about the deep structure of.. | Thomas Piketty | ||
| 55aee2a | Women always persuade men they have made into sheep that they are lions with a will of iron. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 5b4b424 | All is true, - so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 728e4b2 | I clap my hands together. (Where do I get the strength, the burst of energy?) To chase away the ghosts. Dispel my fears. Arrange the dream. Maintain a kind of balance | literature | Anne Hébert | |
| b1e0876 | That's what it means to be out of your mind. To let yourself be carried away by a dream. To give it room, let it grow wild and thick, until it overruns you. | fiction literature | Anne Hébert | |
| 7be8f21 | Ici, je me cache quand je veux. Je puis me cacher des jours et des jours, sans qu'on sache si j'existe ou non, et, sans que je le sache bien moi-meme. Je m'enferme la-haut. Je lis, je dors, je reve. Je ne bouge plus. | Anne Hébert | ||
| 4c2225a | Reality television gave me an amazing feeling of moral and intellectual superiority without actually requiring any effort past moving the dogs to find the remote. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| d1d6cd6 | I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 6369913 | I bet if I spent less time with the television and more time pursuing activities that enhance my life and expand my knowledge, I won't freeze up in business or social situations. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 0a3f545 | You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce. | employement funny jobless joblessness need recession stupid stupidity unemployed | Jen Lancaster | |
| 733918b | Sidebar: Mindy Kaling describes "best friend" as being a friendship tier and not a singular person. Mindy Kaling is wise beyond her years.)" | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 4654261 | Presently, Mary Mac--that's what we call her for short--has churned out more kids than I can count. It's like she's a hoarder, only for children. In terms of personal achievement, she's pretty much the patron saint of minivans and stretch marks. What is that meme I've seen about the prolific 19 Kids and Counting mother? Ah, yes, "It's a vagina, not a clown car." Add one persecution complex, stir, and, boom! Meet my older sister." -- | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 4475a77 | Butterflies are a lot like rainbows: They're phenomenally beautiful in real life, yet no graphic representation can do them justice; ergo, it's best to forgo. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 2f48f33 | With two pit bulls in the house, we have a responsibility to make sure they're always under control. I mean, we're well aware of how sweet and harmless they are, yet the fact that they even exist intimidates others, so we train for our neighbors' peace of mind. As an added bonus, the dogs love it! | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 0b3480c | I used to have to hunt for hard-boiled eggs when I was a kid. What was the point of that? Was I supposed to be, 'Yay! I found them! Egg-salad sandwiches for everyone!' I was seven! I wanted chocolate, not bioavailable protein. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 86c6631 | The thing about mass transportation is that it transports the masses. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| f3dfbfc | eBay is a fine place to unload your Prada bag when you're in a desperate situation and it's exactly what the doctor ordered when searching for a specific item, say an authentic 1965 edition of the game Mystery Date. eBay is a very, very bad place to go if you're a hypercompetitive asshole with a penchant for spite bidding. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 6ff5f49 | I view investing as a method of purchasing assets to gain profit in the form of reasonably predictable income (dividends, interest, or rentals) and /or appreciation over the long term. | personal-finance | Burton G. Malkiel | |
| 40117af | The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 2674911 | Forecasts are difficult to make--particularly those about the future. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| d5a7149 | Nobody knows more than the market. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 39a6689 | A couple, both age seventy-eight, went to a sex therapist's office. The doctor asked, "What can I do for you?" The man said, "Will you watch us have sexual intercourse?" The doctor looked puzzled, but agreed. When the couple finished, the doctor said, "There's nothing wrong with the way you have intercourse," and charged them $50. The couple asked for another appointment and returned once a week for several weeks. They would have intercours.. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 72b596f | Two-thirds of professionally managed funds are regularly outperformed by a broad capitalization-weighted index fund with equivalent risk, and those that do appear to produce excess returns in one period are not likely to do so in the next. The record of professionals does not suggest that sufficient predictability exists in the stock market to produce exploitable arbitrage opportunities. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 2230364 | Fourth, you learn how to distract yourself from depressing thoughts. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 23ed5fd | This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods; and (with a tip of trilby) commend liberal pluralism for living with the contradictions. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| e540039 | Morality, on the other hand, as Immanuel Kant insisted, is ultimately practical: though it matters morally what we think and feel, morality is, at its heart, about what we do. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| b3c3ca5 | Once you start offering reasons for ignoring the interests of others, however, reasoning itself will usually draw you into a kind of universality. A reason is an offer of a ground for thinking or feeling or doing something. And it isn't a ground for me, unless it's a ground for you. If someone really thinks that some group of people genuinely doesn't matter at all, he will suppose they are outside the circle of those to whom justifications .. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| c31ebaf | I am not alone is doubting the imperative to respect cultures, as opposed to persons; and I believe we can respect persons only inasmuch as we consider them as abstract rights-holders. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| a3c87a6 | Mark slapped him, and Trey was stunned into silence. "Hey!" Mark said. "That really does work on hysterical people. Always wanted to try that." | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 4176b88 | It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 5d9eb29 | It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 4732fa2 | Cleopatra breathed my air,' Katherine muttered. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| f29acf9 | Hope doesn't mean anything... Action's the only thing that counts. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 959dec0 | Somehow this change was even scarier than all the people downstairs, because Jordan | the-missing-series | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 95184fc | It kind of seemed like, as long as he was alive, there was still hope that he could fix things. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 75f6a84 | But really, he told himself. There are just some people who don't seem like they ever could have been young. It's like trying to imagine my grandparents as little kids. Or--like the guy who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies. No way he was ever young. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 52c6baa | Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?' This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had. | second-chance the-missing-series | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| c258e05 | is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present? | time-travel | Margaret Peterson Haddix |