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| 94927ca | He knew nothing about werewolves but what was in the movies. He hadn't even believed they existed until he was attacked. The tall dude, though, knew. Joshua managed to force his body to make a left-hand turn at the corner, and again once he was across the street, and then a third time. He came looping past the Kitchen Kitsch where the tall dude was standing in the hole in the wall. "You're really conflicted about this running away part, are.. | Wen Spencer | ||
| 59a856b | If you constantly compare this moment with some perfection that you imagined, you are fated to be forever disappointed. Adventure is the unforeseen, not the expected." Blithe" | Wen Spencer | ||
| b177de9 | Globally, 12 percent of bird species, 23 percent of mammals, and 32 percent of amphibians are at risk of extinction. Since 1970, global populations of these creatures have declined by nearly 30 percent. Just how these losses will shift the distribution of microbes between and across species, pushing some over the threshold, remains to be seen.53 | Sonia Shah | ||
| 6e5365b | But you have learn to let go, my mother said, 'That's part of it, isn't it?' 'Part of what?' Part of what it means to love someone. To really love someone. If you love someone you just don't see them as an extension of yourself. You don't just love them for what's in it for you.' 'Love means knowing when to let go,' she told me. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 1fb30e6 | I know what that is, 'he said. 'That's drugs, that is.' 'You're a genius, aren't you?' 'Dad will kill you' 'Then I'll be dead.' Then they were both silent, thinking about the room down the hall that no one was allowed to touch, that no one was allowed to enter, and the brother who you were not alloewd to mention in this house. The brother you could't even fucking mention | Tony Parsons | ||
| fcef35b | Riddle me this - she is my daughter but I am not her father: who am I? I am a step parent. Ah, but I don't really believe in the term step-parent. I don't think the role exists. Not really. For either in the end you are either a child's parent or you are not. And blood does not have a lot do to with it. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 521a553 | I have this theory about divorce. I have a theory that is never a tragedy for adults and always a tragedy for children. Adults can lose weight, find someone nicer, get their life back. Divorce gives grown-ups a get-out-of-jail-free card. It is the children who pay the price, and pay it for the rest of their lives. But we can't admit that, all us scarred veterans of the divorce court, because it would mean admitting that we have inflicted wo.. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 5d2d9a7 | Dosao sam u New Musical Express s dvadeset i dve godine...Usao sam kao decak, a izasao kao muskarac. A ako ne bas kao muskarac, onda kao decak koji se mnogo drogira i koji je upoznao Debi Hari. No nisam ni mislio da ce to trajati zauvek, pa se i zavrsilo. S dvadeset pet godina bio sam nezaposleni siromasni otac. S dvadeset devet bio sam nezaposleni razvedeni siromasni otac. Kako god da se gleda, sve je islo nizbrdo. ... Najzad sam postao pi.. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 0ab29ee | Say what you like about those starry-eyed souls, about the upheaval and destruction they always leave in their wake, but there is one thing about romantics that nobody can deny. They never settle for second best | Tony Parsons | ||
| b00277b | Spark asks whether men or women are in the driver's seat and whether the power to choose one's destroyer is women's only form of self-assertion. | Elaine Showalter | ||
| c354cf7 | September 1995: Mark and I had our well documented book entitled TRANCE Formation of America published, complete with irrefutable graphic details which are in themselves evidence to present to Congress, all factions of law enforcement including the FBI, CIA, DIA, DEA, TBI, NSA, etc., all major news media groups, national and international human rights advocates, both American Psychological and Psychiatric Associations, the National Institut.. | Cathy O'Brien | ||
| d98fef3 | A landmark 2007 report by the American Psychological Association (APA) found girls being sexualized--or treated as "objects of sexual desire... as things rather than as people with legitimate sexual feelings of their own"--in virtually every form of media, including movies, television, music videos and lyrics, video games and the Internet, advertising, cartoons, clothing, and toys. Even Dora the Explorer, once a cute, square-bodied child, g.. | Nancy Jo Sales | ||
| 6a0f1e2 | Early in the 19th-century, the behaviorist E. L. Thorndike performed a series of experiments that satisfied two generations of American psychologists that abstractions were not importantly involved in learning how to perform skilled tasks. He asked his subjects to perform a particular task for varying amounts of time (e.g., cancelling Os from a sentence, and then switched them to another task; cancelling adverbs from a sentence). He found t.. | Richard E. Nisbett | ||
| 6833cd1 | The most chronic and complex of the dissociative disorders, multiple personality disorder, was renamed multiple personality disorder, was renamed 'dissociative identity disorder' in 1994 in DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association). The rationale for the name change, was among other things, to clarify that there are not literally separate personalities in a person with dissociative identity disorder; 'personalities' was a historical term fo.. | dissociative-disorders dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder psychiatry psychology | Colin A. Ross | |
| f11fb8c | Biological warfare (BW) and chemical warfare (CW) research was run out of Edgeware Arsenal but also involved testing in many other locations including Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. As in the radiation experiments described in an earlier chapter, BW/CW research involved releasing bacteria, fungi and viruses into general population areas. The bacterium Serratia marascens was released in many locations including New York (June 7-10, 1966), San .. | Colin A. Ross | ||
| 305c758 | AR 601-210 was necessary because conscientious objectors could not enlist as medical experiment volunteers when there was no active draft program, according to prior Army regulations. This meant that the supply of WHITECOAT volunteers was cut off at the end of the Vietnam War. | Colin A. Ross | ||
| 70d01c3 | Chief, Medical Staff, Technical Services Division, CIA responded, "I imagine the only reason would have been concern for broadening awareness of its existence." | Colin A. Ross | ||
| 06e1fdb | within the CIA and its independence from supervision by the regular chain of command within the clandestine services made it possible for the activities of the Operation to stray over the bounds of the Agency's authority without the knowledge of senior officials. | Colin A. Ross | ||
| 3e206d1 | senior administrators within the CIA participated in plausible denial and other disinformation and cover-up strategies concerning CIA operations run on U.S. soil. Like | Colin A. Ross | ||
| 990f5da | Team within the United States, such operations had to be kept secret because the CIA was prohibited by its Charter from carrying out operations in the United States. | Colin A. Ross | ||
| fda254c | after the matter has cooled off during an extended period of investigation, to find a scapegoat to blame for unauthorized tampering with the mails. | Colin A. Ross | ||
| 234b9ce | His day-to-day life was fairly frivolous and lazy and laid-back. It was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a bunch of cats hanging on his shoulders and maybe reading a book at the same time or doing a crossword puzzle." - Ken Morton, Edward Gorey's first cousin once removed, on Gorey's daily routines." | Mark Dery | ||
| c2cb225 | I do remember with great pleasure, if not terribly clearly, a play by Richard Foreman with music by Stanley Silverman called Hotel For Criminals, which I saw in a sinisterly suitable mansion in the cultured wilds of western Massachusetts in the summer of 1974, and which could be described as based loosely on Fantomas. | fantomas | Edward Gorey | |
| 7dcce69 | The sky has grown completely black, It's time to think of turning back. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 46ca1d5 | I have lain awake in the darkness many nights Thinking of poems, going to sleep on poems, Finally,with the darkness closing on The bright remembered words. I have thought of the darkness Closing on the world, the words of the poems forgotten, All the great beautiful words of the poems Fading from the mind of the world, let go Slowly, unknowingly, as from the mind Of one diseased the light of man's endeavor Fades to the idiot darkness and is.. | Charles E. Butler | ||
| db703f3 | Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers united against African-American political and civil equality. This compact of white supremacy enabled southern whites to impose Jim Crow segregation on public space, disfranchise African-American citizens by barring them from the polls, and use the lynch-mob noose to enforce black compliance. W.. | Edward E. Baptist | ||
| 13a1cf7 | The malicious erasure of women's names from the historical record began two or three thousand years ago and continues into our own period. Women take as great a risk of anonymity when they merge their names with men in literary collaboration as when they merge in matrimony. The Lynds, for example, devoted equal time, thought, and effort to the writing of Middletown, but today it is Robert Lynd's book. Dr. Mary Leakey made the important pale.. | woman history feminist | Elizabeth Gould Davis | |
| 529c0a9 | Who was it under the chair?" said Windle. "That was Schleppel," said Lupine. "We think he's a bogeyman." "Are bogeymen undead?" "He won't say." "You've never seen him? I thought bogeymen hid under things and, er, behind things and sort of leapt out at people." "He's all right on the hiding. I don't think he likes the leaping out," said Lupine. Windle thought about this. An agoraphobic bogeyman seemed to complete the full set." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4c31ce3 | To kill what you'd cherish & cure," he opined, "that seems to be the way of things." | David Mitchell | ||
| 41a831a | The pieces fell into place. I fell into pieces. | David Mitchell | ||
| 52c14c7 | Acting like an insider can be enough to be one. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8bb67a0 | Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides ... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an .. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1c9c8f8 | I watched clouds awobbly from the floor o' that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds. | David Mitchell | ||
| 88bff16 | Siddhartha is a dead man and a living ideal. The man taught about overcoming pain, and influencing one's future reincarnations. "But I pray to the ideal." | David Mitchell | ||
| 3c339c7 | I thought, I am in this world, but no longer of this world. | David Mitchell | ||
| dc79d03 | Uzaemon is no longer surprised by Shuzai's perspicacity. "I don't know if I have the right to involve you." "To a believer in Fate," replies Shuzai, "it's not you who is involving me." | extrovert introversion introvert | David Mitchell | |
| f6ed0e5 | Who wins, you or the sony?" The sony, I answered, or how would I ever improve? So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?" | David Mitchell | ||
| 141a07a | there ain't no journey what don't change you some. | David Mitchell | ||
| ae6270e | conduct your life in such a way that, when your train breaks down in the eve of your years, you have a warm, dry car driven by a loved one--or a hired one, it matters not--to take you home. | David Mitchell | ||
| 4f55d03 | What's wrong, de Zoet? You look like your breeches are beshatten. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8f656e2 | Men have imagined republics and principalities that never really existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what 'is' for what 'should be' pursues his downfall rather than his preservation; for a man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good." For this plainspoken pragmatism, Cardinal Pole denounced Nic.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 41e1829 | When shaving, thinks Jacob, a man rereads his truest memoir. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3e9dd53 | ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights," the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful." -- | David Mitchell | ||
| d728052 | The challenge of the politics of atypicality becomes particularly pressing within neoliberal biopolitics, particularly in that much of disability's social oppression is based on medical classifications that overindividuate bodies within categories of pathology while turning labeled subjects into generic representations of their medicalized condition group. | David T. Mitchell |