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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.. | feminist history woman | 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 | ||
| 1821287 | And I might try to apologize, on a good day, on my best day if you stick around. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| bc5cef6 | For young Americans in the 1960s, for whom the psychedelic experience was new in every way, the whole idea of involving elders was probably never going to fly. But this is, I think, the great lesson of the 1960s experiment with psychedelics: the importance of finding the proper context, or container, for these powerful chemicals and experiences. Speaking of lines, psychedelics in the 1960s did draw | Michael Pollan | ||
| aefe7d0 | It's often said that a political scandal is what happens when someone in power inadvertently speaks the truth. | Michael Pollan | ||
| d758ab6 | One of the things that commends travel, art, nature, work, and certain drugs to us is the way these experiences, at their best, block every mental path forward and back, immersing us in the flow of a present that is literally wonderful--wonder being the by-product of precisely the kind of unencumbered first sight, or virginal noticing, to which the adult brain has closed itself. (It's so inefficient!) Alas, most of the time I inhabit a near.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 4b8895b | When one is screening raw footage of people in costume tripping on mushrooms and dancing sloppily to a reggae band, a little goes a long way, | Michael Pollan | ||
| 38dab41 | EAT WELL-GROWN FOOD FROM HEALTHY SOILS. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 89c8696 | This was huge for me. I saw that if I can name and admit a feeling, confess it to someone, it would let go. A little older and wiser, now I can do this for myself. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 3429bc1 | REGARD NONTRADITIONAL FOODS WITH SKEPTICISM. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 39bb9da | I would never have found it if not for psychedelics. This strikes me as one of the great gifts of the experience they afford: the expansion of one's repertoire of conscious states. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 71cc169 | Psychedelic experiences are notoriously hard to render in words; to try is necessarily to do violence to what has been seen and felt, which is in some fundamental way pre- or post-linguistic or, as students of mysticism say, ineffable. Emotions arrive in all their newborn nakedness, unprotected from the harsh light of scrutiny and, especially, the pitiless glare of irony. Platitudes that wouldn't seem out of place on a Hallmark card flow wi.. | psychedelics science | Michael Pollan | |
| f5b7777 | And suddenly I realized that the molecules of my body, and the molecules of my spacecraft, the molecules in the body of my partners, were prototyped, manufactured in some ancient generation of stars. [I felt] an overwhelming sense of oneness, | Michael Pollan | ||
| d63ff3f | A month before our breakfast, Griffiths had received the Eddy Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, perhaps the most prestigious lifetime achievement prize in the field. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 645e592 | With numbers comes strength, | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| ac5cae8 | Carhart-Harris suspects that the loss of a clear distinction between subject and object might help explain another feature of the mystical experience: the fact that the insights it sponsors are felt to be objectively true--revealed truths rather than plain old insights. It could be that in order to judge an insight as merely subjective, one person's opinion, you must first have a sense of subjectivity. Which is precisely what the mystic on .. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 74660c3 | I felt as though I were communing directly with a plant for the first time and that certain ideas I had long thought about and written about--having to do with the subjectivity of other species and the way they act upon us in ways we're too self-regarding to appreciate--had taken on the flesh of feeling and reality. I looked through the negative spaces formed by the hydrangea leaves to fix my gaze on the swamp maple in the middle of the mea.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 81fba23 | Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities -- call them spirits if you like -- other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing them all, our kith and kin. | noetics psychedelics | Michael Pollan |