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| bec5e26 | What I suggest here as a solution is what Aldous Huxley suggested, as well. And I can do no better than he. He believed with H. G. Wells that we are in a race between education and disaster, and he wrote continuously about the necessity of our understanding the politics and epistemology of media. For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, bu.. | Neil Postman | ||
| 69dc47b | You may kill me, but I can hold you - and all the universe for that matter - in the grip of this small brain. I would not change. Even now | H. G. Wells | ||
| 429f1b9 | n trf lTlq b`yd `n kl mnhm,wlt`ryf lqdym ltqlydy llzwj b'nh lHy@ m` `l~ lsr wlDr l ynsbh 'bd,dh blGt l'mwr dhrwth lm'swy@. n lbny'yn Hyn yGDbwn mn zwjthm,fnhm yrklwnhn Ht~ lmwt,wlnbl ykhwnwn zwjthm,'m byn lmwZfyn lSGr w'SHb lmtjr fqd tfsht fy lwqt lHDr `d@ dhbH zwjthm bl rHm@! | H.G. Wells | ||
| b583f31 | To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man -- the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks | H.G. Wells | ||
| 789f86b | Let's be sure we'd be acting perfectly right in bustin' that there door open. A door onbust is always open to bustin', but ye can't onbust a door once you've busted en. | H.G. Wells | ||
| a27440d | Go to the devil!" said the stranger in a tremendous voice, and "Shut that door after you." So that brief interview terminated." | H.G. Wells | ||
| f74bdb4 | They ought not to have let things come to this," he said, but he was never very clear even to himself who or why "They" were nor what "This" was. Some person or persons unknown was to blame. He hated these unknowns in general. But he was unable to focus his hatred into hating some responsible person or persons in particular. If only he could find who it was had neglected to do something, or had done something wrong or messed about with thin.. | hatred responsibility society | H.G. Wells | |
| ebfaa2a | For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the coat-collar of him, and then -- nothingness, no visible thing at all! | H.G. Wells | ||
| 514e236 | Sometimes I doubt if the game is worth the candle. (...) But I know if I abandoned my ambition--hardly as she uses me--I should have nothing but remorse left for the rest of my days. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 62cb521 | Wells recognized that these crude novels correctly foresaw modern warfare as aiming at the massive destruction of the physical structures of an enemy civilization and the terrorizing if not annihilating of its noncombatant population. His Martians anticipate with uncomfortable accuracy, for example, American bombings of Dresden and Tokyo, followed by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and boastful proclamations of "shock and awe" tactics against Iraq... | H.G. Wells | ||
| 48cc583 | thm@ qnwn llTby`@,kthyr mnhml ltfkyr fyh hw 'n t`dd wzdhr tqd lmknyt l`qly@ bmthb@ t`wyD `n ltGyyr wlkhTr wlmt`b lty twjh lnsn,n Hywn fy Hl@ tkyf kml m` byy'th hw mjrd al@ l tfkr.fl tlj' lTby`@ l~ ldhk l dh thbt 'n l`d@ wlGryz@ l jdw~ mnhm.lys thm@ dhk Hyth l ywjd 'y tGyyr wl 'y Hj@ l~ ltGyyr. n tlk lHywnt lty l tshrk l jzy'y fy ldhk hy lty `lyh 'n twjh tnw` hy'l fy lHjt wl'khTr. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 8cca8c3 | It's a beast of a country," said the Voice. "And pigs for people." | H.G. Wells | ||
| 98d5169 | I had seen the Magic Shop from afar several times; I had passed it once or twice, a shop window of alluring little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, ventriloquist dolls, the material of the basket trick, packs of cards that looked all right, and all that sort of thing, but never had I thought of going in until one day, almost without warning, Gip hauled me by my finger right up to the window, and so conducted himself that t.. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 34a79ce | But to me the future is still black and blank-is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers -shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle-to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man. | H.G. Wells | ||
| d6a9295 | If we don't end war, war will end us. --H. G. Wells | Ernest Cline | ||
| 1506261 | According to H.G. Wells, you either adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. It is not necessary to change, after all survival is not mandatory This generation might seem arrogant to the older generation due to some reasons. The older generation believes an older person or someone of higher authority is always right and being sceptical is an insult, lol Our generation is full of people who are so skeptical, they wann.. | adoption aged civilization generation ignorance old respect technology threat young | OMOSOHWOFA CASEY | |
| 3e47d3e | That's not all that hard," I tell him. "Crack some eggs, fry up some bacon. Boom. Everyone's fucking Jamie Oliver." | Karina Halle | ||
| 6ef83fa | I say to hell with Generals, Princes and the rest. Life is too short. I want to live, fight, love, die. Not waste my time studying. | Darren Shan | ||
| 22f1652 | As for advice--write as much as you can! Time's ticking, and if you don't throw everything you have into your stories today, you might find yourself on the wrong side of THE END tomorrow! | Darren Shan | ||
| d9f877b | This world was made to be cloaked in gray. It wouldn't feel natural if the sun shone brightly all the time. | irland natural stormy weather | Darren Shan | |
| 253073b | Two strong futures lie ahead, each as possible as the other. It's rare for fate to boil down to two such evenly matched eventualities. Normally the paths of the future are many. When two exist like this, chance decides which the world will take. | Darren Shan | ||
| c0b0f54 | But what Desmond didn't tell you is -- by the end of the hunt, if you have faced the Vampaneze Lord four times and failed to kill him, only one of you will be alive to witness the fall of the vampire clan. The other two will be dead. | Darren Shan | ||
| 57d418f | You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire? | Darren Shan | ||
| 64340a7 | You are a creature of the darkness, the same as myself and Mr. Dowling. Like us, I fear that you will end up destined to play a cruel, vicious part in the shaping of the future. Some of us cannot escape the damnable reach of fate. | Darren Shan | ||
| f1f8dc6 | Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled. | fear fearful terror | Darren Shan | |
| b30097d | The secret to success is to stop when you're ahead. | Darren Shan | ||
| f39b6fc | Doubt finds its way into all men's hearts. | Darren Shan | ||
| 3329937 | One night of slavery is too much. | Darren Shan | ||
| cc4dccf | Beranabus murmurs, face crinkling. "Most humans know nothing of true warfare. They wage their silly territorial battles, kill each other ruthlessly and freely, and consider themselves experts on war and suffering. But the real war has always been ahead of them, unseen, unimagined. Enemies who can't be killed by normal weapons, who have their base in an alternate universe, who are interested only in slaughtering every living being on the fac.. | death demons planet war | Darren Shan | |
| 0fc59e1 | We cannot help where we are born or how we are raised," Tel Hesani said. "But we can reject the twisted beliefs of those around us if we need to. Our loved ones and elders don't always know what is best. A man should listen to his heart and make his own decisions about what is wrong and what is right." | darren-shan inspirational inspirational-quotes the-thin-executioner | Darren Shan | |
| 0edfe44 | I scanned the bookshelves: my favourite fantasy and horror authors from when I was younger - Stephen King, Darren Shan, Neal Shusterman, Michael Grant, Joe Hill; | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2ba8186 | scratches his tummy with the tip of her | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 1712901 | You could hear a mouse fart. | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| da671c4 | I think in some ways it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows. Keep marching, boys and girls. Keep marching. | past tomorrow | Rodman Philbrick | |
| 081959a | Psychology of small things rules. | influence leadership manners | Stefan Fatsis | |
| fae38df | Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures. | counseling encouragement | Stefan Fatsis | |
| f75cb82 | You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. C. S. Lewis | D.C. Talk | ||
| facb56b | In 1977, I was barely twenty-five. The law office of Joseph Rauth, Washington, D.C. Two men, a father and son, arrived in Joseph's office. The son, David Lavoix, was holding an article from the New York Times, and the father seemed...troubled, absent. David Lavoix held out the clipping, which talked about Project MK-Ultra. Just so you know, the Times had sent the first shot across the bow two years earlier, in 1975, by revealing that in the.. | Franck Thilliez | ||
| cd7143d | Bill Miller, the chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management and a major Amazon shareholder, asked Bezos at the time about the profitability prospects for AWS. Bezos predicted they would be good over the long term but said that he didn't want to repeat "Steve Jobs's mistake" of pricing the iPhone in a way that was so fantastically profitable that the smartphone market became a magnet for competition." | Brad Stone | ||
| f2231e2 | Rather than making you never want to eat chicken again, it simply makes you angry. It makes you hold a grudge. You'll eat chicken again, by God, and you'll chew really, really hard. | david rakoff | ||
| aa9eb5b | Lying flat against the tile of the kitchen floor listening to someone else have sex is essentially my early twenties in a nutshell. | sex | David Rakoff | |
| 8113041 | The man beside me, apropos of nothing, raises his hand and says that there is 'a story' that man started society because he was 'cast out of a garden because of a sin.' He doesn't attribute this anecdote, leaving it a blind item from a source we might not know. He seems nice enough but potentially dangerous. | David Rakoff | ||
| 37be3c6 | L]ike most people, I like to think of myself as being spontaneous, ready for anything, fun. This is the evening's second hard-won insight: I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything. I suspect that others would probably regard this news as about as momentous and surprising as when I decided to come out (which was about as momentous and surprising as if I had bravely announced to everyone that I had dark hair and opposable thumbs). I am.. | David Rakoff | ||
| 2a89486 | Here's the second joke: Two psychiatrists meet on the street and say hello. "How are you?" asks one. "Eh, not so good," says the other. "I had a stupid misunderstanding, a slip of the tongue. I was visiting my mother out at the old folks' home. We were having lunch and I asked her to pass me the salt, but instead I said, 'You fucking bitch you ruined my life." | psychoanalysis | David Rakoff |