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| f62bd5c | For years the scar, harelip or misshapen nose has been looked on as a handicap, and its importance in the social and emotional adjustment is unconsciously all embracing. It is the "hook" on which the patient has hung all inadequacies, all dissatisfactions, all procrastinations and all unpleasant duties of social life, and he has come to depend on it not only as a reasonable escape from competition but as a protection from social responsibil.. | Erving Goffman | ||
| 985955c | When one removes this factor by surgical repair, the patient is cast adrift from the more or less acceptable emotional protection it has offered and soon he finds, to his surprise and discomfort, that life is not all smooth sailing even for those with unblemished, "ordinary" faces. He is unprepared to cope with this situation without the support of a "handicap," and he may turn to the less simple, but similar, protection of the behavior pat.. | Erving Goffman | ||
| 7582c0d | Although the pictures shown here cannot be taken as representative of gender behavior in real life... one can probably make a significant negative statement about them, namely, that as pictures they are not perceived as peculiar and unnatural. | Erving Goffman | ||
| 629fda6 | The Jews love their mythic connections. The Son of God, a Son of David, the original Messiah king of Israel." Eleazer knew all too well about the promised Son of David. "Behold, the days are coming, declares Yahweh, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. "A son of Zeus!" said an amused Artabanus. "You jest," said Antipas, "Bu.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| aea2d54 | Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to establish whether somebody you meet for the first time knows somebody you know. Watch people do it. I'm from such and such place. Oh yes? So you know So-and-So? Yes! And So-and-So? No, I don't know her, but of course, there's So-and-So. That's how it works." "I suppose so. But why?" "Because we don't like impersonality. .. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 6091fb9 | Alexander Dow, his boss at Edison, who thought him immensely talented, tried to dissuade him. "Electricity, yes," Dow told Ford. "That's the coming thing. But gas--no." | David Halberstam | ||
| 9f5123d | However, as legal scholar David Cole has observed, "in practice, the drug-courier profile is a scattershot hodgepodge of traits and characteristics so expansive that it potentially justifies stopping anybody and everybody."29 The profile can include traveling with luggage, traveling without luggage, driving an expensive car, driving a car that needs repairs, driving with out-of-state license plates, driving a rental car, driving with "misma.. | Michelle Alexander | ||
| 04ef7d7 | was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind. | atheism atheist berkman biography brainwashing deceit stultifying | David Burns | |
| eb871df | Hamish Alexander stood on 's flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power. | David Weber | ||
| c6c2159 | On August 21, 1968, Pavel and six of his friends reacted with horror to the shortwave reports coming out of Czechoslovakia. For months they had been listening for every detail of the Prague Spring, cheering on Alexander Dubcek's attempt to create a "socialism with a human face." They waited to see how Khrushchev's conqueror and successor, Leonid Brezhnev, would deal with the rebellion of a satellite state. Would he show the same ruthlessnes.. | David Remnick | ||
| 83c8750 | He agreed with David Hockney that an artist really had to be able to draw before anything else could be achieved. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| d1b9e32 | Nathaniel Septimus Ernest Bertram Lysander Tybalt Zacharias Edmund Alexander Humphrey Percy Quentin Tristan Augustus Bartholomew Tarquin Imogen Sebastian Theodore Clarence Smythe. | David Walliams | ||
| 4797f4d | The "public" does not work--a sentence like "most of the American public works in the service industry" would never appear in a magazine or paper, and if a journalist were to attempt to write such a sentence, her editor would certainly change it to something else. It is especially odd since the public does apparently have to go to work:" | David Graeber | ||
| 0d30c80 | The rules provide them with their wealth and power, and the more complex they can make them, the harder it is for people of lesser means to understand and therefore comply. That way, powerful people can always find some legal justification for persecuting those of lesser rank. Large numbers of complex rules also enables corruption to thrive. | David A. Wells | ||
| 38705fb | The reduction of experience to 'a series of pure and unrelated presents' further implies that the 'experience of the present becomes powerfully, overwhelmingly vivid and "material": the world comes before the schizophrenic with heightened intensity, bearing the mysterious and oppressive charge of affect, glowing with hallucinatory energy' (Jameson, 1984b, 120). The image, the appearance, the spectacle can all be experienced with an intensit.. | David Harvey | ||
| 3713a7f | Psychologist and mindfulness expert David Richo, Ph.D., has focused on how these healthy connections are formed and what is needed to keep them alive. He describes the "5 A's" as the qualities and gifts we all naturally seek out from the important people in our lives, including family, friends, and especially partners. What are these 5 A's? * Attention--genuine interest in you, what you like and dislike, what inspires and motivates you with.. | Jeffrey M. Schwartz | ||
| 2f35ad1 | Do we need to talk about my kissing you a year ago? I've behaved myself for two weeks, Ellen, and hope by action I have reassured you where words would not." Silence or the summer evening equivalent of it, with crickets chirping, the occasional squeal of a passing bat, and the breeze riffling through the woods nearby. "Ellen?" Val withdrew his hand, which Ellen had been holding for some minutes, and slid his arm around her waist, urging her.. | Grace Burrowes | ||
| dcc1f99 | We experience only the one moment of the present. The past is only memory and the future only possibility. | David A. Wells | ||
| d874e3b | If you feel guilt for things you've done, then face it and own it because it truly does belong to you, maybe more than anything else in the world. But also learn from it. Let it guide you to act in a way that doesn't lead you to feel guilty ever again. | David A. Wells | ||
| 2eda1ee | Donald no doubt enjoys the bridge player's definition of trump: a winning play by a card that outranks all others. But other definitions include "a thing of small value, a trifle" and "to deceive or cheat" as well as "to blow or sound a trumpet." As a verb, trump means "to devise in an unscrupulous way" and "to forge, fabricate or invent," as in "trumped-up" charges. Donald" | David Cay Johnston | ||
| c2ae7be | The science fiction magazine has played a unique role in the development of this fiction, functioning partly as a medium for publication and partly as a forum for ongoing debate about the nature of this fiction. SF pieces were being published in a range of popular magazines by the 1890s, but the first SF-dedicated periodical was Amazing Stories, founded in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback. The opening issue identified a tradition by publishing tales .. | David Seed | ||
| 42c8342 | Ah ... you've just stumbled into one of humanity's greatest conundrums. It's difficult, maybe even impossible, for a good person to fully comprehend the inner workings of an evil person's mind. Lacking that comprehension, most people assume that everyone else sees the world in the same way that they do. As a result, far too many people are easily taken in by the carefully crafted deceptions and lies that are told so convincingly by those wh.. | David A. Wells | ||
| 6d1192e | There come those times in a nation's life, Os Guinness has written, when its people rise up against the founding principles of their own nation. This is one of those times in America. It is far more dangerous than any terrorist attack. It is, in fact, "a free people's suicide," as he puts it in the title of his book. Why? Because what holds the republic together has never been simply the Constitution and our laws. The law is an exceedingly .. | David F. Wells | ||
| 27081fe | He had committed no crime. Yet men, armed with steel and magic, were trying to murder him. Alexander had never done anything that justified the forfeiture of his life. He was entitled to live until he had. The man he'd killed had died in the commission of a crime. He'd come to kill and had died instead. Justice done. | David A. Wells | ||
| 2152218 | see the world for what it was and make decisions based on an honest and objective understanding of reality rather than a fantasy created out of hopes, desires, and wishes. | David A. Wells | ||
| aac06f7 | Obedience to authority does not absolve you of guilt if your actions are immoral. We must all choose when faced with a moral dilemma. How you choose reveals your nature and your character. | David A. Wells | ||
| 62356f2 | And yet, day in and day out, most people live honorable lives," Alexander said. "They raise their children, work to provide for their families, help their neighbors and try to do the right thing even when the choice is hard. Human beings are essentially good. We love our children, honor our elders, protect our vulnerable, and give charity to those in need." | David A. Wells | ||
| 35aebdd | Henry, you mustn't mind. It is really a kindness to have him.' 'Well, I do mind, Emily,' said Mr Leslie, getting up. 'Kindness is one thing and your family is another. You treat this house as if it were the Ark, Emily, inviting everyone in.' 'At least she doesn't ask them in couples, sir,' said David. 'A female Holt would be appalling.' 'That's enough,' said his father. 'If Mr Holt comes into this house, I go out of it.' He took a cigar fro.. | humour | Angela Thirkell | |
| ee848b6 | think at times our situation could be compared to that of Simba in The Lion King. Simba is turned around by a lion in his life--his uncle Scar. Though he was the prince, he ends up running away. He is supposed to fight his evil uncle Scar and take his rightful place as the king, but he backs off from the confrontation. It is not long before he forgets that he was ever a king, a prince or even a lion. His friends offer little help because th.. | Andrew Mullek | ||
| d658a8f | The remedy for what ails our democracy is not simply better education (as important as that is) or civic education (as important as that can be), but the reestablishment of a genuine democratic discourse in which individuals can participate in a meaningful way--a conversation of democracy in which meritorious ideas and opinions from individuals do, in fact, evoke a meaningful response. And in today's world, that means recognizing that it's .. | Al Gore | ||
| c291d74 | remembered an incident from the prison. In that other world-within-a-world, back then, I moved into a new prison cell and discovered a tiny mouse there. The creature entered through a cracked air vent, and crept into the cell every night. Patience and obsessional focus are the gems we mine in the tunnels of prison solitude. Using them, and tiny morsels of food, I bribed the little mouse, over several weeks, and eventually trained it to eat .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| de3bb25 | a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems. | libertarian politics | David Welch | |
| c505b21 | These men lived in a world where the meaning of words was fluid, where there were no absolutes. Everything was a matter of interpretation or opinion. Truth and fact mattered little to them. Power was their stock in trade and it was clear after the meeting that most of them didn't care much how they acquired it. | David A. Wells | ||
| 97150bb | Chapter One Vivek Ranadive "IT WAS REALLY RANDOM. I MEAN, MY FATHER HAD NEVER PLAYED BASKETBALL BEFORE." 1. When Vivek Ranadive decided to coach his daughter Anjali's basketball team, he settled on two principles. The first was that he would never raise his voice. This was National Junior Basketball--the Little League of basketball. The team was made up mostly of twelve-year-olds, and twelve-year-olds, he knew from experience, did not respo.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 8552718 | Nothing in the period that followed was too good for the Rouge; it had the best blast furnaces, the best machine tools, the best metal labs, the best electrical systems, the most efficient efficiency experts. At its maturity in the mid-twenties, the Rouge dwarfed all other industrial complexes. It was a mile and a half long and three quarters of a mile wide. Its eleven hundred acres contained ninety-three buildings, twenty-three of them maj.. | David Halberstam | ||
| 8b97cdd | A reaction is automatic, habitual," Ludo said. "A response is considered. That's the difference. What's important is to create space, to open ourselves up to possibilities beyond the habitual, which rarely serve us well. Anger is never an enlightened response. We may be wrathful--speaking in mock-angry tones to stop a child who is about to step near a fire, for example--but that's very different from real anger." | David Michie | ||
| 3f93b3e | My friend David Kritchevsky, who was probably the leading researcher in this area until his death, found40 that "protein of animal origin is more cholesterolemic [leading to higher cholesterol in the bloodstream] and atherogenic [contributing to heart disease] than protein of plant origin for rabbits," citing several studies41--a distinction between types of protein that was first noted in regard to atherosclerosis more than sixty years ago.. | T. Colin Campbell | ||
| 20c8fe5 | And now I see the outside of our house, with the latticed bedroom-windows standing open to let in the sweet-smelling air, and the ragged old rooks'-nests still dangling in the elm-trees at the bottom of the front garden. Now I am in the garden at the back, beyond the yard where the empty pigeon-house and dog-kennel are--a very preserve of butterflies, as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate and padlock; where the fruit clusters on t.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 35d53db | Opportunities often come along only once. If you don't seize them, you may not get another chance. | David A. Wells | ||
| 140d7a2 | In the West, we are perilously getting down to our last man. Liberal democracy, among us, is achieving the goal that Fukuyama predicted for it: It is eliminating the alpha males from our midst, and at a dizzyingly accelerating rate. But in Muslim societies, the alpha male is still alive and well. While we in America are drugging our alpha boys with Ritalin, the Muslims are doing everything in their power to encourage their alpha boys to be .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 1abf792 | There are no true answers, just shades of grey, coincidence, and circumstance. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f2f6b7a | I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f335bb0 | The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life. no one knows why some things work out and some things don't. Why some of us are lucky and some of us get... | Richard Curtis | ||
| d866407 | Insofar as we have freedoms, it's not because some great wise Founding Fathers granted them to us. It's because people like us insisted on exercising those freedoms--by doing exactly what we're doing here--before anyone was willing to acknowledge that they had them. | David Graeber |