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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9f9a9f6 | Whatever the theoretical possibilities of rearing animals without suffering may be, the fact is that the meat available from butchers and supermarkets comes from animals who were not treated with any real consideration at all while being reared. So we must ask ourselves, not: Is it ever right to eat meat? but: Is it right to eat this meat? | Peter Singer | ||
| d0e778f | If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left. | ethics fairness left-wing moral-philosophy politics | Peter Singer | |
| c7691d2 | Marx portrays religion as a response to the oppression and heartlessness of the world; but an inadequate response because instead of challenging the oppression itself, it merely numbs the pain. | Peter Singer | ||
| 09cb870 | Humanos o no, todos los animales son iguales. | peter singer | ||
| a9c3024 | If your purpose is something larger than you--to accomplish something, to prove something to yourself--then suddenly everything becomes both easier and more difficult. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 95f51df | Most of us would be seized with fear if our bodies went numb, and would do everything possible to avoid it, yet we take no interest at all in the numbing of our souls. --EPICTETUS | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1178ee5 | As Plato said, every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue. It's essential to constantly keep this in your mind, for it will make you more gentle to all. | marcus-aurelius meditations | Ryan Holiday | |
| 837f125 | Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what's left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?" --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.56-57" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8a8e93d | Stillness is what aims the archer's arrow. It inspires new ideas. It sharpens perspective and illuminates connections. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2cb6756 | As Goethe once observed, the great failing is "to see yourself as more than you are and to value yourself at less than your true worth." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 679498c | Always prepare ourselves for more difficult times. Always accept what we're unable to change. Always manage our expectations. Always persevere. Always learn to love our fate and what happens to us. Always protect our inner self, retreat into ourselves. Always submit to a greater, larger cause. Always remind ourselves of our own mortality. And, of course, prepare to start the cycle once more. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 68fc59a | When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you. | break power | Ryan Holiday | |
| 3c3da96 | Yet far too many people set out to produce something that, if they were really honest with themselves, is only marginally better or different from what already exists. Instead of being bold, brash, or brave, they are derivative, complementary, imitative, banal, or trivial. The problem with this is not only that it's boring, but that it subjects them to endless amounts of competition. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ec8277b | social media isn't a set of tools to allow humans to communicate with humans. It is a set of embedding mechanisms to allow technologies to use humans to communicate with each other, in an orgy of self-organizing. . . . The Matrix had it wrong. You're not the battery power in a global, human-enslaving AI, you are slightly more valuable. You are part of the switching circuitry.1 | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7951024 | How can anyone maintain their sanity when everything you read, see, and hear is designed to make you stop whatever you're doing and consume because the world is supposedly ending? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 58bac00 | Understand at last that you have something in you more powerful and divine than what causes the bodily passions and pulls you like a mere puppet. What thoughts now occupy my mind? Is it not fear, suspicion, desire, or something like that?" --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.19" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4ded57f | When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn't wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?" --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.13.1" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e49c919 | There is clarity (and joy) in seeing what others can't see, in finding grace and harmony in places others overlook. Isn't that far better than seeing the world as some dark place? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2a592dd | The more time kids spend online, studies show, the worse their grades are. According to Nielson, active social networkers are 26 percent more likely to give their opinion on politics and current events off-line, even though they are exactly the people whose opinions should matter the least. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c73e2dd | They sat down to eat after Honor set the table. He knew she wanted to help in some way, but there was no way he'd let her near the stove. "Stop grinning at me like that," she said after she swallowed her first bite. "Yes, you're an amazing cook, and I love eating your food, but that smile means you're thinking about how I'm not allowed near your stove. It was one time, Jacks. One time." "You burned the pot, Honor. Boiling water. Water, Hono.. | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| cc6d7cd | Talkativeness is afraid of the silence which reveals its emptiness," Kierkegaard once said. Now you know why sharing, commenting, clicking, and participating are pushed so strongly by blogs and entertainment sites. They don't want silence. No wonder blogs auto refresh with new material every thirty seconds. Of course they want to send updates to your mobile phone and include you on e-mail alerts. If the users stops for even a second, they m.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d1449c9 | Free and cheap helps." So does making the entire process as easy and seamless as possible. The more you reduce the cost of consumption, the more people will be likely to try your product. Which means price, distribution, and other variables are not only essential business decisions, they are essential marketing decisions." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7597851 | IN THE INTRODUCTION I EXPLAINED A SCAM I CALL "trading up the chain." It's a strategy I developed that manipulates the media through recursion. I can turn nothing into something by placing a story with a small blog that has very low standards, which then becomes the source for a story by a larger blog, and that, in turn, for a story by larger media outlets. I create, to use the words of one media scholar, a "self-reinforcing news wave." Peo.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b3ec48f | When we aim high, pressure and stress obligingly come along for the ride. Stuff is going to happen that catches us off guard, threatens or scares us. Surprises (unpleasant ones, mostly) are almost guaranteed. The risk of being overwhelmed is always there. In these situations, talent is not the most sought-after characteristic. Grace and poise are, because these two attributes precede the opportunity to deploy any other skill. We must posses.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2948583 | You are grown, Abby, dear. You're amazing. I don't know why you don't see that." "But, that's just it. I do see that. I know I'm amazing and that people should get over the past and see that I'm an adult who likes to dance and not just knit. They need to get over the fact that my parents always fought and don't even know who I am anymore. They need to know that I'm not the goody-goody they think I am. But that's not going to happen in a tow.. | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| 4b34b1c | I'm a fucking adult. I can eat a cookie before dinner if I want to." Sure, keep telling yourself that. Knowing if his mother had been alive, she would have scolded him, he tiptoed to the airtight container and took out one cookie. Come on, one little frosted cookie wouldn't hurt. He hesitated, and then he grabbed a second cookie in case the first didn't take the edge off. He bit down into the sugary goodness and groaned. Hell, yeah, this is.. | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| 45d9735 | What did I say about interrupting?" "You're cute when you're feisty." "I swear to God when men say something so degrading, I just want to slap the hell out of them. You're very, very lucky that I'm here to help you and not to kill you." "So, you're an elf assassin now, are you?" "Oh, peppermint balls!" | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| dfcc60a | Third step, get to know her surroundings so she could get out of there. Or at least try. That's what the heroine always did, right? And they said romance novels never taught anyone anything. She'd prove them wrong. And get the heck out of there. | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| 4562d57 | She really needed to stop reading romantic suspense because now horror stories from authors like Shiloh Walker were on her mind and a little too vivid for what she needed at the moment. | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| 4889f3e | When attempting to turn things around for a particularly disliked or controversial client, Sitrick was fond of saying, "We need to find a lead steer!" The media, like any group of animals, gallops in a herd. It takes just one steer to start a stampede." | pr public-relations the-media | Ryan Holiday | |
| 6837140 | Publishers and advertisers can't differentiate between the types of impressions an ad does on a site. A perusing reader is no better than an accidental reader. An article that provides worthwhile advice is no more valuable than one instantly forgotten. So long as the page loads and the ads are seen, both sides are fulfilling their purpose. A click is a click. | journalism marketing media pr public-relations | Ryan Holiday | |
| 02ffd13 | Tyler had bandaged her burns, and she had soothed his bruises. They hadn't made love, though she knew they'd both wanted to. But sometimes those aches and pains were a little too much to get in the mood. | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| 3fcbfdd | It is one of many campaigns I have done in my career, and by no means an unusual one. But it illustrates a part of the media system that is hidden from your view: how the news is created and driven by marketers, | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3aed69e | Jackson opened his eyes as Tyler smiled. "You know broody is in right now," his sheriff brother said with a grin. "Just get some vampire teeth or shift into a wolf and any woman would have you." Jackson growled, and Tyler nodded again. "Yep, Jacks, growl just like that for the ladies, and they'll come right to you." | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| 5b89530 | By one course he can progress to "positive freedom"; he can relate himself spontaneously to the world in love and work, in the genuine expression of his emotional, sensuous, and intellectual capacities; he can thus become one again with man, nature, and himself, without giving up the independence and integrity of his individual self. The other course open to him is to fall back, to give up his freedom, and to try to overcome his aloneness b.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 72bb8dd | THE FOOL WHO FEEDS THE MONSTER. I knew I had to find this century-old drawing, though I wasn't sure why. As I rode the escalator through the glass canyon of the atrium and into the bowels of the central branch of the Los Angeles Public Library to search for it, it struck me that I wasn't just looking for some rare old newspaper. I was looking for myself. I knew who that fool was. He was me. In addiction circles, those in recovery also use t.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a863ccd | They'd made love in that lake, near that lake, and around that lake countless times. He still remembered a time where a fish got a little too friendly... Honor threw her head back and laughed, catching the attention of the diner again. "You're remembering the fish, aren't you?" Jackson rested his face in his hands. "God, that damn fish." "You always get this little line between your brows when you remember that frisky fish." Thankfully, the.. | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| 1462f48 | He pulled back, leaving them both breathless, and then tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. "I'll follow you to the inn since it's on my way home." She nodded, her lips swollen from his kiss, her eyes a little glazed. "Are you okay to drive?" She smiled then looked down at his dick. "Well, if you can drive with a second stick shift, I think I can make it." He threw his head back and laughed then let her get in her car." | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| 390421b | To borrow from Budd Schulberg's description of a media manipulator in his classic novel The Harder They Fall, I was "indulging myself in the illusions that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch." I no longer have those illusions." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c2ef894 | As a general rule, however, the more accessible you can make your product, the easier it will be to market. You can always raise the price later, after you've built an audience. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5bf2530 | No one said life was easy. No one said it would be fair. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 29bd692 | The more you do, the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d615553 | creating more work is one of the most effective marketing techniques of all. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ea9ace3 | Advertising can add fuel to a fire, but rarely is it sufficient to start one. | Ryan Holiday |