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| b4f534f | From my mother I had learned that man is of the earth, that his clay feet are part of the ground that nourishes him, and that it is this inextricable mixture that gives man his measure of safety and security. Because man plants in the earth he believes in the miracle of birth, and he provides a home for his family, and he builds a church to preserve his faith and the soul that is bound to his flesh, his clay. But from my father and Ultima I.. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 5d04116 | Ay, every generation, every man is a part of his past. He cannot escape it, but he may reform the old materials, make something new | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 5fe3bc3 | Ultima said to take life's experiences and build strength from them, not weakness. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| eba3b2c | Those sons of bitches up there are to blame!' Another worker shouted and jumped forward. He shook an angry fist at the blank faces that looked down on the death scene from the offices atop the yard administration. 'Sanchez's work crew had been cut back twice! It's unsafe to work with so few men! You all know that! Yes, someone's to blame, and the blame lies with those bastards that treat us like animals and our rotten union that won't prote.. | class-warfare corrupt-unions unions unskilled-labor workers workers-rights | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| 9364bed | He started from nothing, I hear say, and now he's got the only supermarket in the barrio. He has a big Cadillac car, and a lot of political connections at City Hall. They say he delivers the barrio's votes every election, for the right price. Some of the people call him el patron. Of course he takes his mordida from everyone--Do you know he charges the people on welfare a dime to cash their checks. He gets a man a job, and he takes a bite. .. | credit interest | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| e550db3 | We don't need the gospels, we need the fiery men who wrote them! | christianity religion religious-hypocrisy the-gospels | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| ab529db | Bah! Do you think the poor people of the barrio pay for the upkeep of the Church? No! Wealth flows from wealth! And sources of wealth need stability to exist! And the Church provides stability! We teach the poor how to bear their burden; they are promised the kingdom of heaven, which is far more important than the little gains your strike would make ... | class-warfare religious-hypocrisy strikes unions workers-rights | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| 4f93bca | I cannot let things remain as they are, because then I would not be free. If I cease to act because I fear the future, then I create a worse enslavement for myself. That much I know. While my people are not free, I am not free. If the freedom and justice I seek loose destruction upon the earth, then I accept that responsibility, but it seems to me that the real responsibility must be borne by those who keep me from my freedom. I must act! | solidarity | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| b42f73e | That's what the welfare people want,' Tranquilino gritted his teeth, 'to have us on welfare and to have our women working. Then they can point to our broken families and say the mexicano is a lazy, no good son-of-a-bitch! | class-warfare poverty-cycle racism welfare | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| b93e3b8 | What greater good could there be in a man's life than to lift the oppression that destroys them, what greater honor is there? | solidarity | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| 8d8e797 | Look, I control a large part of this barrio because I control one thing, credit. That's right, it's that simple. Credit is the lifeline, the blood that turns the wheels. In Barelas I control it, but out there, well, out there are bigger animals, and they in turn control my credit. It doesn't matter how good a businessman I am, if they cut off my credit I am dead, the barrio's dead, nothing grows without the green blood of the dollar. Now, h.. | corruption credit greed | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| 7c4a43d | Even after the big rancheros and the tejanos came and fenced the beautiful llano, he and those like him continued to work there, I guess because only in that wide expanse of land and sky could they feel the freedom their spirits needed. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 02acf62 | If time and the passage of events are the same, then times move barely at all. It time and events are the same, then it is only people who barely move. If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly. | Alan Lightman | ||
| c1a6bc0 | Philosophers have argued without a trend toward order; time would lack meaning. The future would be indistinguishable from the past. Sequences of events would be just so many random scenes from a thousand novels. History would be indistinct, like the mist slowly gathered by treetops in evening. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 44e0a78 | Indeed, what sense is there in continuing the present when one has seen the future? | Alan Lightman | ||
| 1c1d93a | If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly. | Alan Lightman | ||
| f74f07f | In fact, this is a world without future. In this world, time is a line that terminates at the present, both in reality and in the mind. In this world, no person can imagine the future. | Alan Lightman | ||
| a99ad17 | In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right an wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action is already chosen, there can be no freedom of choice. | Alan Lightman | ||
| e1d98ca | But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know? | Alan Lightman | ||
| b2122a3 | Einstein once wrote, "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." | Alan Lightman | ||
| dcec9be | His dreams have taken hold of his research. His dreams have worn him out, exhausted him so that he sometimes cannot tell whether he is awake or asleep. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 1a94e23 | But the psychological change accompanying these technologies is more subtle, and perhaps more important. Consciously and unconsciously, we have gradually grown accustomed to experiencing the world through disembodied machines and instruments. As I stood in line to board an airplane recently, the young woman in front of me was primping in her mirror--straightening her hair, putting on lipstick, patting her checks with blush--a female ritual .. | Alan Lightman | ||
| c632d79 | A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips without looking back. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 51c49fd | Theoretical physicists are Platonists. Until the last few years, they believed that the entire universe, the one universe, was generated from a few principles of symmetry and mathematical truths, perhaps throwing in a handful of parameters like the mass of the electron. It seemed that we were closing in on a vision of our universe in which everything could be calculated, predicted, and understood. However, two theories in physics, called "e.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| b0b261c | Sergeant Dominick Leland was tall, thin as barbed wire, and peered at the world through a permanent scowl. A rim of steel-colored fuzz circled his mocha pate, and two fingers were missing from his left hand, lost to a monstrous Rottweiler-mastiff attack dog he fought to protect a K-9 partner. With thirty-two years on the job as a K-9 officer, Dominick Leland had served as the Platoon's Chief Trainer longer than anyone in the history of the .. | Robert Crais | ||
| 162dd68 | indicate that the same fundamental principles, from which the laws of nature derive, lead to many different self-consistent universes, with many different properties. It is as if you walked into a shoe store, had your feet measured, and found that a size 5 would fit you, a size 8 would also fit, and a size 12 would fit equally well. Such wishy-washy results make theoretical physicists extremely unhappy. Evidently, the fundamental laws of na.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| e19f751 | I love what I do for a living. I'm also confident that as I continue my commitment to the ideas discovered in my quest, this love will only deepen. Thomas feels the same way about his work. So do most of the people I profiled in the book. I | Cal Newport | ||
| 644aaa4 | To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. | Cal Newport | ||
| dd2ace2 | When she leveraged her value to obtain a thirty-hour schedule at her first job, for example, her employer couldn't say no (she was saving them too much money), but they didn't like it. It took nerve on Lulu's part to push through that demand. | Cal Newport | ||
| 2fc52b7 | All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 0e33e3c | something more fundamental to human flourishing: the sense of meaning that comes from acting with intention. | Cal Newport | ||
| dd35f0c | A job...is a way to pay the bills, a career is a path towards increasingly better work, and a calling is work that's an important part of your life and a vital part of your identity. | Cal Newport | ||
| c2ffa74 | this approach, in which you fit deep work wherever you can into your schedule, the journalist philosophy. | Cal Newport | ||
| ed67ea9 | We now know from decades of research in both psychology and neuroscience that the state of mental strain that accompanies deep work is also necessary to improve your abilities. | Cal Newport | ||
| 21d838e | How do people end up loving what they do? | Cal Newport | ||
| f4704dc | the rhythmic philosophy. This philosophy argues that the easiest way to consistently start deep work sessions is to transform them into a simple regular habit. The goal, in other words, is to generate a rhythm for this work that removes the need for you to invest energy in deciding if and when you're going to go deep. | Cal Newport | ||
| d0d0d71 | In an age of network tools, in other words, knowledge workers increasingly replace deep work with the shallow alternative--constantly sending and receiving e-mail messages like human network routers, with frequent breaks for quick hits of distraction. Larger efforts that would be well served by deep thinking, such as forming a new business strategy or writing an important grant application, get fragmented into distracted dashes that produce.. | Cal Newport | ||
| 8aa0e00 | some general questions that any effective ritual must address: Where you'll work and for how long. | Cal Newport | ||
| 03b1f5c | Do what Thoreau did, which is learn to have a little disconnectedness within the connected world--don't run away. | Cal Newport | ||
| 26359b1 | Where you'll work and for how long. You ritual needs to specify a location for your deep work efforts. | Cal Newport | ||
| 3bc16f1 | How you'll work once you start to work. Your ritual needs rules and processes to keep your efforts structured. | Cal Newport | ||
| eb9db72 | How you'll support your work. Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. | Cal Newport | ||
| cb269ae | If you want to become a superstar, mastering the relevant skills is necessary, but not sufficient. You | Cal Newport | ||
| 3e04f41 | The 4DX framework is based on the fundamental premise that execution is more difficult than strategizing. | Cal Newport |