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| 33bd457 | When The Empire Strikes Back first came out in 1980 and I saw Luke summon his lightsaber to his hand in the wampa cave, I remember thinking, "Whoa! Awesome!" And then, after I'd seen it maybe ten more times, I wondered, "Where'd he learn how to do that?" My nine-year-old self never suspected that one day I'd get the chance to provide the answer, and I'm grateful to Del Rey and Lucasfilm for making it happen." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ccead69 | The ladies in the beer commercials were hot, no doubt, but when a goddess wants to make an effort, no one else can even open the jar of mustard, let alone cut it. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4386c3f | Strange how we unconsciously steer ourselves into new spectacular mistakes while trying to avoid repeating our past failures. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7eefd83 | Sometimes you simply need to say thank you to someone, to be grateful for the road behind and the road ahead and the place you're at, and gods are very good at accepting those feelings. And for all that humanity asks them for intercession with this crisis or that, it's important when things go well to be thankful or at least conscious of your good fortune, whether the gods deserve the gratitude or not. We strive so much to achieve these sma.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 506eb29 | Defend the honor of your arse-munching couch. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 1043dcd | There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| f7dc850 | Ne mozhesh da spechelish nishcho, ako ne si gotov da go izgubish - vsichko ili chast. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| cc345ca | But as well as copy-shop piracy, there is another kind of "taking" that is more directly related to the Internet. That taking, too, seems wrong to many, and it is wrong much of the time. Before we paint this taking "piracy," however, we should understand its nature a bit more. For the harm of this taking is significantly more ambiguous than outright copying, and the law should account for that ambiguity, as it has so often done in the past... | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 1df2144 | We take this for granted in America today: a democracy in which the first test of credibility is not votes, or broad public support, but money. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| c0075e9 | It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest. | past | Lawrence Lessig | |
| 708148d | The obvious point of Conrad's cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died from copyright circumvention. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 734851a | It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years' time would be christened New Jersey, was in fact the backdoor of China, that India, with its steamy profusion of gods and curries, lay just beyond those bluffs. | Russell Shorto | ||
| 422d6f7 | So this is the Sierras, eh?" he said, looking out over the dark lake. "All that time growing up I never made it up here before." "It's the Range of Light," I said, passing the joint back to him. "That's what John Muir called it. I can see why. I've never seen light like I have out here. All the sunsets and sunrises against the mountains." "You're on a spirit walk, aren't you?" Paco said, staring into the fire. "I don't know," I said. "Maybe.. | Cheryl Strayed | ||
| e37d084 | be apart. Despite getting rejected by my top-choice school, I was starting to really believe in myself again based on all the positive feedback we continued to get on our videos. And besides, I knew I could always reapply to Emerson the following year and transfer. * * * College started out great, with the best part being my newly found freedom. I was finally on my own and able to make my own schedule. And not only was Amanda with me, I'd a.. | Joey Graceffa | ||
| 905e3df | Qui vous le dit, qu'elle (la vie) ne vous attend pas ? Certes, elle continue, mais elle ne vous oblige pas a suivre le rythme. Vous pouvez bien vous mettre un peu entre parentheses pour vivre ce deuil... accordez-vous le temps. *** Parce que s'a me fait plaisir. Parce que je sais aussi que l'entourage peut se montrer tres discret dans pareille situation, et que de se changer les idees de temps en temps fait du bien. Parce que je sais que v.. | Agnès Ledig | ||
| 8f2b1b4 | If you're white and you're wrong, you're wrong. If you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green--God makes no rules about color ... only society makes such rules. That is why we must have redemption and have it now." - Bob Marley" | Ever N Hayes | ||
| 28d7d53 | She moved in for a better look.It was a portrait of Bob Marley,a pretty good one,actually.No Woman, No Cry...that's right.No teenage girls either.All right,ten points if you'Re a poet,minus twenty-five if you're in a band and minus fifty if you're into the ganja. | funny relationships | Sheri Meshal | |
| d660731 | the colony, enough time to impress the settlers with his abilities, and then returned to Europe; now he was coming back. Not long after his ship, the Sea-Mew, passed through the narrows between Staten Eylandt | Russell Shorto | ||
| d3e3775 | He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous for it. | Russell Shorto | ||
| a013d45 | In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying to a modern thinker - the inventor of analytic geometry, no less - a primitive tradition that extends back not only to the institutionalization of Christianity in the fourth century, when Christians first broke into the tombs of saints to gather relics, but farther still, beyond the horizon of recorded histor.. | reason | Russell Shorto | |
| 4dd2acf | Relying on physical remedies alone was often seen as downright ungodly: in England, Puritan minister John Sym advised "caution" that people "dote not upon, nor trust, or ascribe too much to physical means; but that we carefully look and pray to God for a blessing by the warrantable use of them." To do otherwise--to rely on a physic or powder alone--would be to put the material above the spiritual. That was why a strictly mechanical approach.. | Russell Shorto | ||
| 57abcd4 | There was actually a time when people wanted to give Hitler the benefit of the doubt as to his intentions (in 1935, Winston Churchill thought it possible that Hitler might 'go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation'). | fascism hitler | Russell Shorto | |
| 9fe2181 | It was the Dutch of this era who invented the idea of the home as a personal, intimate space; one might say they invented coziness. | Russell Shorto | ||
| 9d52a7b | This book tells the story of that moment in time. It is a story of high adventure set during the age of exploration--when Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, and Captain John Smith were expanding the boundaries of the world, and Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Galileo, Descartes, Mercator, Vermeer, Harvey, and Bacon were revolutionizing human thought and expression. | Russell Shorto | ||
| 04eed18 | As happens so often in history at the dying of one age and the birth of another, an era of phenomenal ugliness, strife, and chaos was about to unfold. | history netherlands | Russell Shorto | |
| e3df525 | Instead, power went to those who made things happen: businessmen and local magistrates. Over time, human nature being what it is, these men would create a kind of nobility, sometimes even buying titles from cash-poor foreigners, but this in itself underscores the point. Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth cent.. | Russell Shorto | ||
| bc2545f | Charles the Fifth], pretty much every way worked to hold up the pillars of the medieval world order: monarchic power, domination by the Catholic Church, feudal land management, divine right, mercantile colonialization, and obedience to authority along the strict metaphysical line of the great chain of being. | holy-roman-empire medieval-europe medieval-world-order | Russell Shorto | |
| f5c64e0 | One line lands in a word and one word | Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore | ||
| f486db2 | What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false. | romanticism truth way-of-the-world | Anne Brontë | |
| acf503e | The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or anyone can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking. You might be miserable without a home, but even you could live; and not so miserably as you suppose. The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "little more than nothing will disturb it, little less than all things will suffice" to break it. As in th.. | life | Anne Brontë | |
| 17b6642 | it is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble the foe;--and if you were to rear an oak sapling in a hothouse, tending it carefully night and day, and shielding it from every breath of wind, you could not expect it to become a hardy tree, like that which has grown up on the mountain-side, exposed to all the action of the elements, and not even sheltered from the shock of the tempest.' 'Granted;--but | Anne Brontë | ||
| 9df4a28 | It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day. All very judicious and proper, no doubt; but are such assertions supported by actual experience? We are naturally disposed to love wha.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 4468e1e | It is not, indeed, to be supposed that you would wish to marry any one till you were asked: a girl's affections should never be won unsought. But when they are sought - when the citadel of the heart is fairly besieged - it is apt to surrender sooner than the owner is aware of, and often against her better judgment, and in opposition to all her preconceived ideas of what she could have loved, unless she be extremely careful and discreet. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 4c566b0 | the reprehensible presumption of individuals who attempted to think for themselves in matters connected with religion, or to be guided by their own interpretations of Scripture, | Anne Brontë | ||
| 268ff4c | But he, that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. Anne Bronte | Ruth Hogan | ||
| 0426303 | I can conceive few situations more harassing than that wherein, however you may long for success, however you may labour to fulfil your duty, your efforts are baffled and set at nought by those beneath you, and unjustly censured and misjudged by those above. | Anne Brontë | ||
| d0ff33b | Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own. | reason | Anne Brontë | |
| ca1bd59 | Oh, Youth may listen patiently, While sad Experience tells her tale, But Doubt sits smiling in his eye, For ardent Hope will still prevail! He hears how feeble Pleasure dies, By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe; He turns to Hope--and she replies, "Believe it not-it is not so!" | hope life poetry | Anne Brontë | |
| 17684d7 | I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.' 'That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us. | judgment solitude vain-hopes | Anne Brontë | |
| c3b8126 | because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevated that we ourselves shall then regard as trifling those objects and pursuits we now so fondly cherish, and that, though our companions will no longer join us in those childish pastimes, they will drink with us at other fountains of delight, and mingle their souls with ours in higher aims and nobler occupations beyond our present comprehension, but.. | childhood-friends companionship | Anne Brontë | |
| 8252682 | No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it. | relationships | Anne Brontë | |
| 918f254 | the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment. | Anne Brontë | ||
| ab21f2c | Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement | inspirational-quotes wisdom-quotes | Robin Hobb | |
| f59740d | It is my way, to speak directly. I do not mean to give offense by it. It has always seemed to me that honest words leave the least room for misunderstanding. | Robin Hobb |