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| ae1792b | What's that?" Mr. Bynum said. He leaned over me, fists doubled up. "Vagina, fallopian tube, penis, scrotum," I said. It took them both aback. I meant for it to. "That ain't what you said," Mr. Bynum said. But I had him slightly off guard. "No sir," I said. "What I said to Mrs. Bynum was cunt and prick and fuck and shit." I pronounced each word very distinctly. The Bynums were silent. The encounter had taken a bewildering turn. I gave t.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| d97a4be | all vessels leaked to some degree. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f6207c4 | It's happiness to see you. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c4d061d | Without realizing it, he had been wasting time--years and years of time, time that would never be his again. He had failed to take advantage of the diversity of opportunity that had been, all along, available to him. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 20bc961 | CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 80b5348 | But, as with people, some plants were completely useless. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f862fea | Most of the talk of human beings was silly talk, talk that was of less weight than a man's breath. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| b04b533 | Without risk there was no power, not for a grown man. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| d308354 | All his work, and it hadn't saved anyone, or slowed the moment of their going by a minute. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 47057fe | The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring, usually within a few days. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6de9cbe | l'shkhS l`qy'dywn jdan ymylwn l~ 'nw` m`yn@ mn ltfkyr, qd tkwn fj@ jdan, d`man l`qy'dhm. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 5bef7cb | n 'sbb ltTrf lyst dyny@ bl sysy@. | دين سياسة | Amartya Sen | |
| 7dacd09 | there are two principal approaches to secularism, focusing respectively on (1) neutrality between different religions, and (2) prohibition of religious associations in state activities. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 22771e6 | The Vedas may be full of hymns and religious invocations, but they also tell stories, speculate about the world and - true to the argumentative propensity already in view - ask difficult questions. A basic doubt concerns the very creation of the world: did someone make it, was it a spontaneous emergence, and is there a God who knows what really happened? As is discussed in Essay 1, the Rigveda goes on to express radical doubts on these issu.. | Amartya Sen | ||
| fc10b6b | for nearly a decade, the World Bank has been reiterating its finding that "crime and violence have emerged in recent years as major obstacles to the realization of development objectives."8 The Bank has stated flatly, "In many developing countries, high levels of crime and violence not only undermine people's safety on an everyday level, they also undermine broader development efforts to improve governance and reduce poverty."9 Multiple stu.. | Gary A. Haugen | ||
| 67148cb | Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; ... Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; ... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.53 | Amartya Sen | ||
| 27323e8 | He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational school at Santiniketan had many progressive features. The emphasis here was on self-motivation rather than on discipline, and on fostering intellectual curiosity rather than competitive excellence. | Amartya Sen | ||
| b8648fb | Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be. Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 8ffcffe | So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 per cent, more than twice what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 508db9a | But it's hard to make the case that the one-child policy advanced Chinese women's rights when, balanced against urban women's advancements, one considers the huge numbers of females killed at birth or abandoned, as well as aborted female foetuses. Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen estimates that infanticide and gendercide have contributed to a missing 100 million women in Asia. Roughly half of those would have been Chinese. With the.. | Mei Fong | ||
| 2bd6e27 | Nilai Kemanusiaan kita ditantang secara kasar manakala keragaman di antara kita dipampatkan secara semena-mena ke dalam satu sistem kategorisasi tunggal yang semena-mena | Amartya K. Sen | ||
| a34701b | It was a sordid scene. Philip leaned over the rail, staring down, and he ceased to hear the music. They danced furiously. They danced round the room, slowly, talking very little, with all their attention given to the dance. The room was hot, and their faces shone with sweat. It seemed to Philip that they had thrown off the guard which people wear on their expression, the homage to convention, and he saw them now as they really were. In that.. | dance fate horror pity pleasure sordid | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 10dd622 | He was occupied with the forming of a pattern out of the manifold chaos of life, and the materials with which he worked seemed to make preoccupation with pigments and words very trivial. Lawson had served his turn. Philip's friendship with him had been a motive in the design he was elaborating: it was merely sentimental to ignore the fact that the painter was of no further interest to him. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 3d58dab | anxious | Wilson Rawls | ||
| abbf658 | When I saw my little sister kneeling in the center of that snow-white circle, and that old crutch laying on the ground beside her, I forgot about ponies and .22s. I wanted my little sister to get that old leg of hers fixed up. I wanted that more than anything I had ever wanted in my life. That was going to be my wish. Once | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 6063ace | WILSON RAWLS was born on a small farm in the Oklahoma Ozarks. He spent his youth in the heart of the Cherokee nation, prowling the hills and river bottoms with his only companion, an old bluetick hound. Rawls's first writing was done with his fingers in the dust of the country roads and in the sands along the river, and his earliest stories were told to his dog. Not until Rawls's family moved to Muskogee and he could attend high school did .. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 79b58b7 | His | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 84aa18b | I SUPPOSE THERE'S A TIME IN PRACTICALLY EVERY YOUNG boy's life when he's affected by that wonderful disease of puppy love. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 61f92e4 | than anyone in the country." I didn't care how many deals Grandpa cooked up. He was still the best grandpa in the whole wide world. "What have you got?" I asked. "Come over to the store," he said, "and I'll show you." On our way over, I heard him mutter, "I hope this doesn't turn out like the ghost-coon hunt." On" | Wilson Rawls | ||
| c7634e2 | coaxed, | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 31b7a3a | eardrums | Wilson Rawls | ||
| aeef7dc | I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over." | dogs friendship love loyalty | Wilson Rawls | |
| 88e4050 | People have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love. . . . It's a shame that people all over the world can't have that kind of love in their hearts. . . . There would be no wars.. | Rebecca Frankel | ||
| 911bd26 | Everything emanated from the temple. On the northern side of the oval Salt Lake Valley, the earliest Mormon arrivals set aside ten acres for what they called Temple Square. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| cb7cf22 | Just be aware that you reach a point of diminishing, or even negative, returns as the specifications get more and more detailed. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 9e989ed | Have you noticed how some project teams are efficient, with everyone knowing what to do and contributing fully, while the members of other teams are constantly bickering and don't seem able to get out of each other's way? Often this is an orthogonality issue. When teams are organized with lots of overlap, members are confused about responsibilities. Every change needs a meeting of the entire team, because any one of them might be affected. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| a0887eb | Entropy is a term from physics that refers to the amount of "disorder" in a system." | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 026e6a1 | An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. * Benjamin Franklin | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 551cfbf | Ashley June: such a romantic at heart. Even in the moments after imminent death, apparently. | Andrew Fukuda | ||
| 2de4b2d | My state's constitution seems to contain a provision requiring that once every two years we must pass a bill which dazzles the entire country in its glittering, bejeweled stupidity. Not all of them are bad. I rather like the absurd ones. For instance, it is illegal to go whale hunting in Oklahoma. That law is certainly a nice gesture (whales both sing and have giant brains, putting them one point ahead of many legislators). But humpback poa.. | Andrew Heaton | ||
| 396862e | Documenting the reasons behind requirements will give your team invaluable information when making daily implementation decisions. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| d613e38 | Providing a comfortable transition through familiar metaphors is one way to help get buy-in. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 1d6ef5f | That's the most tragic thing about child abuse and its effects--they never leave, just take on another form. The abuser goes on living as if nothing has ever happened, while the victim pays the price. | Andrew E. Kaufman | ||
| 57d010f | The land of the 45rpm record is the land of chaos. | Andrew Cartmel |