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| e51d99f | Like not a few of those seduced by the wild, McCandless seems to have been driven by a variety of lust that supplanted sexual desire. His yearning, in a sense, was too pow!erful to be quenched by human contact. McCandless may have been tempted by the succor offered by women, but it paled beside the prospect of rough congress with nature, with the cosmos it!self | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3af7427 | He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.... | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0706200 | The United States Violence Against Women Act of 2005 requires that all victims of sexual assault be given free access to an evidence collection kit, | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 08b4255 | But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Determination and faith are their strongest weapons. At best such men are regarded as eccentric; at worst, mad. . . . Everest | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 052ae26 | Allison asked him, "Has this happened before?..." "No! Never!" Donaldson sobbed. "This is the first time anything has ever happened to me like this. Ever!...I" | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a76efcb | When the subject of religiously inspired bloodshed comes up, many Americans immediately think of Islamic fundamentalism, which is to be expected in the wake of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions. Muhammad is not the only prophet whose words have been used to sanction barbaris.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| c713aa9 | War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f2e3121 | La 18.20, Cotter l-a contactat pe Hall si i-a spus ca Jan Arnold sunase din Christchurch si astepta sa i se faca legatura. - Imediat, a spus Rob.Am gura uscata. Vreau sa inghit niste zapada inainte sa vorbesc cu ea. A revenit putin mai tarziu si a spus incet, cu o voce sparta si foarte distorsionata: - Buna, draga mea. Sper ca esti in pat si ca ti-e cald. Ce faci? - Nu pot sa-ti spun cat ma gandesc la tine! a raspuns Arnold. Pari mult mai b.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 2a798f5 | Quantifying the prevalence of sexual assault is a highly speculative exercise because at least 80 percent of those who are assaulted don't report the crime to authorities. This book is an effort to understand what deters so many rape victims from going to the police, and to comprehend the repercussions of sexual assault from the perspective of those who have been victimized. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| bf41957 | or that they think I'd actually let them pay for my law school if I was going to go....I've told them a million times that I have the best car in the world, a car that has spanned the continent from Miami to Alaska, a car that has in all those thousands of miles not given me a single problem, a car that I will never trade in, a car that I am very strongly attached to--yet they ignore what I say and think I'd actually accept a new car from t.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5d5bf4a | No more than 20 percent of rapes are reported to the police, a statistic that defies comprehension until one looks closely at how sexual-assault cases are adjudicated in the United States. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3a91e84 | Chaos is indeed the normal state of affairs on the battleground, and no army has figured out a way to plan effectively for, let alone alleviate, the so-called fog of war. When the military is confronted with the fratricidal carnage that predictably results, denial and dissembling are its time-honored responses of first resort. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3c26ae9 | Despite being discredited, the studies by Kanin and McDowell named above are still routinely cited on numerous websites dedicated to advancing the notion that American society suffers from an epidemic of spurious rape allegations by malicious women, resulting in the wrongful conviction of many thousands of innocent men. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 9bd6f71 | The accused rapist, Calvin Smith, had graduated from a small-town high school the previous June, where he'd distinguished himself as an athlete. Individuals who knew Smith have described him as "kind," "easygoing," and "goofy." But he had never had sex before meeting Kaitlynn Kelly, and a look at what he has posted on a social media site suggests that he was a frustrated, involuntary celibate. On January 11, 2011, Smith posted a line from t.. | involuntary-celibate men-s-rights-activists mras rape rape-culture rapists | Jon Krakauer | |
| b99a72d | by the | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 66ebdb5 | Handwritten in neat block letters on a page torn from a novel by Nikolay Gogol, it read: S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, CHRIS MCCANDLESS. AUGUST? | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0c2879a | According to the Department of Justice's investigation of the Missoula County Attorney's Office, from January 2008 through April 2012 the Missoula Police Department referred 114 reports of sexual assault of adult women to the MCAO for prosecution. A "referral" indicated that the police department had completed its investigation of the case in question, determined that there was probable cause to charge the individual accused of sexual assau.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 9ed21e6 | The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 1c4f4fc | It is not uncommon for doctors to be chronic overachievers; Beck wasn't the first physician to go overboard with a new hobby. But | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 83250ed | Kittredge wrote, I was looking for what I took to be a genuine world to inhabit. I wanted to be someone that I could understand and stand--a romantic idea that seems commonplace in the West these days....The northern Rockies seemed like an undiscovered land, thick with secrets no one could bother to keep. During | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 81b1789 | By fixing my sights on one summit after another, I managed to keep my bearings through some thick postadolescent fog. Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything--the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the texture of the clouds--to stand out in brilliant relief. Life thrummed at a higher pitch. The world was made real. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 9150fc5 | Beidleman knew they were on the eastern, Tibetan side of the Col and that the tents lay somewhere to the west. But to move in that direction it was necessary to walk directly upwind into the teeth of the storm. Wind-whipped granules of ice and snow struck the climbers' faces with violent force, lacerating their eyes and making it impossible to see where they were going. "It was so difficult and painful," Schoening explains, "that there was .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a894ca5 | So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 95d85aa | Suffice it to say that [Everest] has the most steep ridges and appalling precipices that I have ever seen, and that all the talk of an easy snow slope is a myth.... My darling this is a thrilling business altogether, I can't tell you how it possesses me, and what a prospect it is. And the beauty of it all! George Leigh Mallory, in a letter to his wife, June 28, 1921 | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 801eadc | no one can make us upset without our consent | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 781258b | Release the what-ifs and all of your goals for the future, replacing them with the power of this instant. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 12beb02 | live with freedom and simplicity. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| ca2645d | What was driving you was the trajectory of Well-Being. What was driving you was the understanding that you weren't born to be dependent on someone else. And you did not come to use someone else as your excuse for not being in alignment. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| b696fb6 | It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not." -- ANDRE GIDE" -- | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| fa8867f | Your attachments are the source of all your problems. The need to be right, to possess someone or something, to win at all costs, to be viewed by others as superior--these are all attachments. The open mind resists these attachments and consequently experiences inner peace and success. To release attachments, you have to make a shift in how you | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| d7515a2 | At the group consciousness level, you're often dedicated to continuing social problems such as war, brutality, and religious persecution, which originated in ancestral enmities that have existed for thousands of years. But it also comes right down to daily living. Families insist that you adopt their viewpoint, hate whom they hate, and love whom they love. You have blind allegiance to a company that may be making weapons of destruction, a c.. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 1acf3ee | There is just one life for each of us: our own. -- Euripides | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| bdfe647 | You do indeed have a past, but not now! And yes, you have a future, but not now! | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 24fbe69 | You are entitled to it, and there are no strings attached. You must never depend on another person to "give" you happiness; that places too much of a burden on both of you. If you are truly happy inside yourself and allow the other person that same right, then you automatically bring happiness to each other without even trying, and it is a bonus because it is not expected or anticipated...it just is." | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| a3dc96b | Stop focusing on what you do not have, and take stock of all that you do have. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 9d06b21 | And this means that, instead of always waiting for their needs to be satisfied by some external source, human beings can work inwardly by means of their thought, their will, and their spirit to obtain the nourishing healing elements they need. This is why the teaching I bring you is of the spirit, of the creator and not of matter ... | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 875a03b | The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 183d56e | Eliminate as many judgments of others in your thoughts as possible. The simplest, most natural way to accomplish this is to see yourself in everyone. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| d1cd89b | Guess now who holds thee?" -- "Death," I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, -- "Not Death, but Love." -- ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING" | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| d158275 | If you want to find deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the beliefs that have been handed to you. You have to go to that place within yourself. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| bf8f137 | a good man is but a bad man's teacher, and a bad man is but a good man's job. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| f3fd3ff | Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't ... you aren't. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| c5735e0 | The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert. While reading a book, notice where your thoughts are. While on vacation, be there instead of thinking about what should have been done and what has to be done when returning home. Don't let the elusive present moment get used up by thoughts that aren't in the here and now. There | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 0c242d8 | Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds, on the heel that has crushed it. | Wayne W. Dyer |