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| 4f4a8fe | There is nothing to which the most fastidious could object; men and women, old and young, take part, but there is no confusion, and when feeling is overpowering there is deep silence; but the tears are tears of joy, for it is of Calvary we sing and to Calvary we look. There are two things that used to be indispensable to us which we can do without now--a clock and an organ. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 2fb2ce5 | And Evan Roberts, I believe, has said that he is glad that this is the case, for it proves that it is not Roberts, the man, his magnetism, or his personality that is so great an influence, but rather the Spirit at work in the meetings. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 6e1c5ec | He has something of the same feeling about the hymn singing, I am told. Much as he loves it himself, and music is in him to his very fingertips, be feels--I judge both from the hearsay and from watching him break into the midst of the singing when, in a way they have in Wales, they repeat over and over the same stirring melody--that too much singing moves only surface emotions and takes the congregations' mind from the deeper influence of p.. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 560d2b2 | Leadership, he was discovering, had its ups and downs--kind of like the bowsprit on a swelling sea. | inspirational | Michael Robert Evans | |
| a7938ac | Striking evidence of the effect of the revival in the villages surrounding Wrexham was given at the Wrexham County Petty Sessions last week, when the magistrates, who generally sit for two or three hours, concluded their business in an hour. There was not a single case of drunkenness to be tried. The coal miners working in the Rhosddu colliery sing hymns in descending the pit, and in ascending after their work. They also spend part of the t.. | Evan Roberts | ||
| bba7604 | it would be nice if something I wanted came to me, on its own. I'm tired of chasing the things I'm supposed to want. | Michael Robert Evans | ||
| bc4d217 | The people are the meeting, not the preacher, once his short talk is ended, though his spirit remains to fire them to congregational rather than individual leadership. | Evan Roberts | ||
| bd40b91 | We've prayed for this awakening," cries a workman at one meeting. "We've seen the devils worst often; but now, at last, we are seeing Christ's best." | Evan Roberts | ||
| e3f27f8 | lqd khlq lbd` lbshry mshkl , l'n qdr@ lbshry@ `l~ lt`ml m` nty'j bd`th qSr@ `l~ llHq bqdr@ lbshry@ `l~ lbd` | Robert Evan Ornstein | ||
| a1b3a10 | Captain Jack, that volatile Modoc, seems to have been handled still more causally. After being hanged and buried, Jack was exhumed, embalmed, and exhibited at carnivals: admission ten cents. How many instances of such sensibility one chooses to catalogue may be limited by the amount of time spent turning over musty pages. During the seventeenth century, Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle, came upon a wood plank near the ruins of Ft. Creveco.. | Evan S. Connell | ||
| 35f1b47 | Writing became a tool I used to digest my life and understand, finally, the grace, the gratitude I could feel, not because everything was hunky-dory, but because we can use everything we are. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| d85d11e | it is Simone I want to visit in her cramped grave. To thank her for a single line in The Second Sex that I read in my midtwenties. It rang in my head like a bell, tolling the direction to my future. I paraphrase: In order to create, one must be deeply rooted in society. After reading that line I vowed to elbow my way in, to be heard. I knew women had been pushed to the margins. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 13ac237 | How to generate writing ideas, things to write about? Whatever's in front of you is a good beginning. Then move out into all streets. You can go anyplace. Tell me everything you know. Don't worry if what you know you can't prove or haven't studied. | writing knowledge | Natalie Goldberg | |
| c1fac72 | We're always thinking we should be writing no matter what else we might be doing. It's not fun. The life of an artist isn't easy. You're never free unless you are doing your art. | writing inspirational | Natalie Goldberg | |
| ab69f48 | We must continue to open in the face of tremendous opposition. No one is encouraging us to open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| b1170ca | We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop these details from continuing. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| e818de7 | When you draw and pay attention to what is, it's a form of being present. This inspires the mind, makes it happy, and the heart wants to express more. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| d6af78b | I think I intuitively suspected that perspective would put me outside the painting. I didn't want that. I wanted to get close to those tables and chairs, to jump in and feel myself dancing with them, even as I sat drawing them. I didn't want things to lie down; I wanted them to come forward, to beckon and call, to be noticed on the paper as I was noticing them in real life. I wanted the viewer to have a direct connection with the objects, t.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| d596ad2 | Hear "You are boring" as distant white laundry flapping in the breeze. Eventually" -- | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| b56c634 | To read and to write is to be empowered. No shackle can ultimately hold you. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 3aeda08 | The state of California itself was now just like me - a free-spirited liberal with a mostly sunny disposition teetering on the edge of financial ruin. (Natalie Teeger) | mr-monk | Lee Goldberg | |
| 97eaab9 | There is no failure--just a big field to wander in. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| e48536f | We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 45059ec | You're more interested, finally, in living life again in your writing than in making money. Now, let's understand--writers do like money; artists, contrary to popular belief, do like to eat. It's only that money isn't the driving force. I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time to work at my real work. Think of it. Employers pay salaries for time. That is the basic commodity that huma.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 9a73b6d | There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it. It is not getting sidetracked, thinking you shouldn't write any more about your Jewish family when that's your role in life: to record their history, who they were in Brooklyn, on Long Island, at Miami Be.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 6c5f324 | The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander. | writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 5cfbfb6 | Writing is 100% listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you. if you can capture that reality around you, your writing needs nothing else. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 7fd8cd7 | It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents and collect an allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at least, accept it. | writing writing-advice | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 31e40f0 | My desolation was that no one knew me and I did not know myself. My family's life was my life. I knew nothing else. I was clothed, fed, given a bed to sleep in, encouraged to marry early and rich, and loved in a generic way -- I was "the big one," which meant the older and my sister was the 'little one" --but no one spoke to me, no one explained anything." | family-relationships | Natalie Goldberg | |
| c18df8f | Jump in, no excuses. Exert the force of your life. Persevere under all circumstances. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 1a4142e | General Garrison assembled all of the men for a memorial service, and captured their feelings of sadness, fear, and resolve with the famous martial speech from Shakespeare's Henry V: Whoever does not have the stomach for this fight, let him depart. Give him money to speed his departure since we wish not to die in that man's company. Whoever lives past today and comes home safely will rouse himself every year on this day, show his neighbor h.. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 42a538b | Westmoreland's body counts were bogus. He believed them--he was not the first general to welcome statistics he wanted to hear. But, in practice, there was every incentive for field commanders to inflate or even invent body counts. It was how their performance was assessed, and it became one of the greatest self-reporting scams in history. The absurd body counts and kill ratios were proof of his leadership. Westmoreland sold them to LBJ, who.. | Mark Bowden | ||
| d10d973 | Viva Colombia! We have just killed Pablo Escobar! | Mark Bowden | ||
| 1fa801d | You could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-eyed babies was to show up with more guns. And in this real world, nobody had more or better guns than America. If the good-hearted ideals of humankind were to prevail, then they needed men who could make it happen. | Mark Bowden | ||
| c5f5a24 | Soldiering was about fighting. It was about killing people before they killed you. It was about having your way by force and guile in a dangerous world, taking a shit in the woods, living in dirty, difficult conditions, enduring hardships and risks that could--and sometimes did--kill you. It was ugly work. Which is not to say that certain men didn't enjoy it, didn't live for it. Garrison was one of those men. He embraced its cruelty. He wou.. | Mark Bowden | ||
| cfdc0b0 | He would think about this a lot later, and the best he could explain it was, his own life no longer mattered. All that did matter were his buddies, his brothers, that they not get hurt, that they not get killed. These men around him, some of whom he had only known for months, were more important to him than life itself. It was like when Telscher ran out on the road to pull Joyce back in. Carlson understood that now, and it was heroic, but i.. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 488bdbb | It was terribly risky, maybe even hopeless. But one or two properly armed, well-trained soldiers could hold off an undisciplined mob indefinitely. Shughart and Gordon were experts at killing and staying alive. They were serious, career soldiers, trained to get hard, ugly things done. They saw opportunity where others could see only danger. Like the other operators, they prided themselves on staying cool and effective even in extreme danger... | Mark Bowden | ||
| 3cc49e0 | Sitting cross-legged on the rug, puffing on a pipe, wearing a fat gold Rolex on his wrist, Khamenei asked the colonel, "If we were to release all of you now, without any conditions, how long would it be before you could begin to supply us again with spare parts for our military forces?" | Mark Bowden | ||
| 4077eb4 | Beware of men with theories that explain everything. | Mark Bowden | ||
| 96862e6 | His only cause, ultimately, was himself. | Mark Bowden | ||
| e38f60f | General Maza, the survivor of two grotesque assassination attempts, put it bluntly: 'This country won't be put right as long as Escobar is alive. | Mark Bowden | ||
| feef186 | Instead of being assembled by genes, the worm was assembled by "memes," a word coined by British scientist and polemicist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene. Memes are original ideas. Dawkins argued that they play the same role in cultural evolution as genes play in biology, getting passed along from person to person, surviving and adapting as they move." | Mark Bowden | ||
| 099f6e3 | Whenever they spoke, most of us would just keep quiet, nod our heads, and put on what author Mark Bowden calls "the glaze." This is the "unmistakable look of profound confusion and disinterest that takes hold whenever conversation turns to workings of a computer." | P.W. Singer | ||
| 1b31716 | Today the most serious computer predators are funded by rich criminal syndicates and even nation-states, and their goals are far more ambitious. Cyberattacks were launched at digital networks in Estonia by ethnic Russian protesters in 2007 and in Georgia before Russia attacked that country in 2008; and someone, probably Israel or the United States (or both), successfully loosed a worm called Stuxnet in 2010 to sabotage computer-controlled u.. | Mark Bowden |