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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 015e176 | collected minerals and at ten years of age wrote poems but still played with blocks. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 78a552a | the highest form of musicality in the sphere of thought. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 0fb1550 | The idea of treating war as anything other than the harshest means of settling questions of very existence is ridiculous," he challenged the army commanders. "Every war costs blood, and the smell of blood arouses in man all the instincts which have lain within us since the beginning of the world: deeds of violence, the intoxication of murder, and many other things. Everything else is empty babble. A humane war exists only in bloodless brain.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 443012a | It is wrong," he told his colleagues repeatedly, "to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is"--which is the territory classical physics had claimed for itself. "Physics concerns what we can say about nature."290" | Richard Rhodes | ||
| fab37ff | I try not to speak more clearly than I think. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 2e92a70 | Einstein was arguing against quantum theory just as irrationally as his opponents had argued against relativity theory. Einstein remained adamant (he remained adamant to the end of his life where quantum theory was concerned). | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 21ba494 | Heacox had disobeyed the first two laws of safety and survival: Do not touch unless you have to, and then do not touch | Graham Masterton | ||
| cd0f32a | She climbed out of the car and walked across the farmyard with her raincoat collar turned up. Liam was standing by the open grave with his hands in the pockets of his long brown | Graham Masterton | ||
| 2780e5f | I hereby solemnly and sincerely declare before God that I will faithfully discharge the duties of a member of An Garda Siochana with fairness, integrity, regard for human rights, diligence and impartiality, upholding the constitution and the law and according equal respect to all people | Graham Masterton | ||
| df38190 | Well, then,' said Charlie, his face half hidden in the shadows. 'How long do you think this baby has been dead? | Graham Masterton | ||
| c341b66 | parias | Graham Masterton | ||
| e31e3e5 | Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult. ERICH FROMM | A.C. Grayling | ||
| bf58ce0 | Russia, we now know, opted for door number two: information dominance. It was a logical choice for a weak but proud nation, one that could not match the West in the traditional forms of economic or military power. And it was less about matching the West than it was about bringing the West (especially the United States) down to Russia's level by challenging its confidence in itself and its institutions. And the enabler for all of this was th.. | Michael V. Hayden | ||
| 5b9144c | Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings 'are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture'. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 11f4144 | The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions. ALEXANDER CHASE | A.C. Grayling | ||
| be997ef | To lie sleepless with pain at night, or to wake every morning and feel the return of grief, yet to get up and carry on as best one can, is courage itself. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 1eb8084 | The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 18049c9 | For we live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; and our time should be counted in the throbs of our hearts as we love and help, learn and strive, and make from our own talents whatever can increase the stock of the world's good. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 703b109 | I to je zapravo sustina proslavljanja Dana sv. Valentina:san o ljubavi. Zivot bi zaista bio gorak kada se san nikada ne bi ostvario ili kada nasa najvaznija zivotna iskustva ljubavi - storge, pragma, ludus, agape - ne bi bila dovoljno trajna i cvsta da nas spasu kad nas zahvati oluja erosa i manije - donoseci nam blazenstvo i ostavljajuci pustos za sobom. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 85a9924 | the word God is typically invoked to denote the all-encompassing and unanswerable source of authority governing what people can think, say, eat and wear, in what circumstances and with whom they can have sexual relations, how they must behave on specified days or weeks of the year, and so comprehensively on. The fact that different religions claim that their god or gods have different requirements in these respects should be evidence that r.. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 59b40dc | One day everything will be well, that is our hope,' said Voltaire; 'today everything is fine, that is our illusion. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| f8f0e9b | All great truths begin as blasphemies. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW | A.C. Grayling | ||
| dcbfab0 | Art You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 392dfc6 | Very serious, very serious," the gateman said, shaking his head also. "You can't get in without a reason." He thought for a moment and then continued. "Wait a minute; maybe I have an old one you can use." He took a battered suitcase from the gatehouse and began to rummage busily through it, mumbling to himself, "No ... no ... no ... this won't do ... no ... h-m-m-m ... ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion o.. | Norton Juster | ||
| b759fe7 | What a strange thing to have happen," he thought (just as you must be thinking right now). "This game is much more serious than I thought, for here I am riding on a road I've never seen, going to a place I've never heard of, and all because of a tollbooth which came from nowhere. I'm certainly glad that it's a nice day for a trip," he concluded hopefully, for, at the moment, this was the one thing he definitely knew." | Norton Juster | ||
| 0c4beeb | I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit." The" | Norton Juster | ||
| f4de08a | EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST. | Norton Juster | ||
| 261598a | I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit." The Humbug dropped his needle and stared in disbelief while Milo and Tock began to back away slowly. "Don't try to leave," he ordered, with a menacing sweep of his arm, "for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job." "But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who su.. | Norton Juster | ||
| a949174 | Does everyone here grow the way you do?' puffed Milo when he had caught up. 'Almost everyone,' replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. 'Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that.' 'What happens to them?' insisted Milo. 'Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else,' said Alec th.. | Norton Juster | ||
| 47c4374 | you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say. | Norton Juster | ||
| b31d212 | I'm the official Senses Taker, and I must have some information before I can take your senses | Norton Juster | ||
| 3dd203a | 4. Confusion in the Market Place Indeed it was, for as they approached, Milo could see crowds of people pushing and shouting their way among the stalls, buying and selling, trading and bargaining. Huge wooden-wheeled carts streamed into the market square from the orchards, and long caravans bound for the four corners of the kingdom made ready to leave. Sacks and boxes were piled high waiting to be delivered to the ships that sailed the Sea .. | Norton Juster | ||
| cf6de98 | Ali to je samo velika olovka", usprotivio se Uholaz i u nju kucnuo stapom za setnju. "To je istina", suglasio se Matemagicar, "ali kad se jednom naucis njome sluziti, onda nema kraja onom sto mozes uciniti." | Norton Juster | ||
| fac8349 | Sve se na koncu svede na nista. | Norton Juster | ||
| f9cd8bb | Bolje upasti u rijec nego u bunar. | Norton Juster | ||
| cad71e4 | Kad god se nasmijesis, radost se oko tebe siri poput kolobara u bari, i kad god si tuzan, nitko nigdje ne moze biti stvarno sretan. A isto ti je tako i sa znanjem, jer kad god naucis nesto novo, citav svijet postaje mnogo bogatiji. | Norton Juster | ||
| c63c910 | Ali sto cemo s Dvorcem u oblacima? Mozda je on ipak vazan." (...) "Neka ga vjetar nosi", odgovorila je Smisla. "I sretan mu put", dodala je Mjera, "jer bez obzira koliko bio lijep, on je ipak samo zatvor." | Norton Juster | ||
| 0044f92 | Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, | Norton Juster | ||
| fb0b010 | In the 1960s, the Stanford historian Peter Laslett did a careful study of British marriage records and found that at no time in the recorded past did people regularly marry at very early ages. Between 1619 and 1660, for instance, 85 percent of women were nineteen | Bill Bryson | ||
| d167666 | Jeff watched her come, the whole time. He never noticed her mincing, hesitant steps on treacherous heels. He was simply swept up in the ancient ceremony. And discovering, as untold millions of young men had discovered before him, that there is nothing in the world as beautiful as his bride approaching. | husband marriage wife | Eric Flint | |
| 971afbf | The host in question, the chapel's owner, Grayson Boscastle, the fifth Marquess of Sedgecroft, sat thinking that the bride had the most appealing derriere he hadseen in quite a long time. Not that he made a point of lusting after young women in wedding dresses, but he had been staring at the back of her for over two hours now. | Jillian Hunter | ||
| d29e4d9 | You look even better than you did before," he added in a quiet voice. "I'm the one returning to the party with his rhubarb at full rise." | Jillian Hunter | ||
| 68d6017 | Is that why the top three buttons of your riding jacket are unfastened?" Miranda asked with an innocent look. "Because you were showing him your bulbs?" | Jillian Hunter | ||
| a1063ea | Do you really think I'm bad?" "Of course, Jane. Every woman is, if given the chance." | Jillian Hunter |