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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2340f21 | He detested hierarchy and enjoyed the friendship of people in all walks of life. He was, like Shakespeare, an actor with a talent for comedy. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 0df087a | La realidad debe primar sobre las relaciones publicas, pues no se puede enganar a la naturaleza. RICHARD P. FEYNMAN (1918-1988) | Lawrence M. Krauss | ||
| eeff674 | Only with quantitative observations can one arrive at quantitative relationships, which are the heart of physics. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| c9b4a8c | than he expects. But it's a purely brute force approach | David Weber | ||
| 2de3dcb | therefore, did learn a lesson: The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry. Those people who have for years been insisting (in the face of all obvious evidence to the contrary) that the male and female are equal and capable of rational thought may have something. The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get som.. | Richard Feynman | ||
| 3f52680 | No one can endure his own solitude. | André Malraux | ||
| ee1c445 | only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons, | David Weber | ||
| 07cd286 | What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets. | André Malraux | ||
| 00b5ed9 | The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. | André Malraux | ||
| b4eba1f | So in this case, knowing that you're watching our backs, as it were, will probably be worth more to both of us then having you actually at the table. | David Weber | ||
| f7b45db | that power setting produced an acceleration of over | David Weber | ||
| 0626266 | you people's departments | David Weber | ||
| b864273 | Pat turned away with a shiver. The peace of the old kitchen was in delightful contrast to the storm outside. The stove was glowing clear red in the dusk. Thursday was coiled up under it, thinking this was how things should be. It was so nice to be in this bright, warm room, supping Judy's hot pea soup and watching the reflection of the kitchen outside through the window. Pat loved to do that. It looked so uncanny and witchlike...so real yet.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 59e7a8f | 1906 Anne of Green Gables is rejected by four publishers. Montgomery puts the manuscript away in a hatbox. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 53a6ed2 | if he had preached like Peter and Paul it would have profited him nothing, for that was the day old Caleb Ramsay's sheep strayed into church and gave a loud 'ba-a-a' just as h | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 46c4af0 | There are some people to whom life will never be anything more than a kitchen garden; and there are others to whom it will always be a royal palace with domes and minarets of rainbow fancy. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c20b826 | Admiralty House was a modest structure, only a little over a hundred stories in height, | David Weber | ||
| 9423480 | And for the whole system to be healthy, all parts of it must enjoy equal freedoms. And the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what they will. Without that, all other freedoms are not merely meaningless, they are shams. | David Weber | ||
| 9a9706e | penaids. | David Weber | ||
| a1f6283 | If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity? | André Malraux | ||
| 22aced0 | agreement not to discuss. "He never gets tired of comparing one physical artifact to another," Anders went on, "even if they all look pretty" | David Weber | ||
| 2b95364 | only a sergeant | David Weber | ||
| 7600c08 | No one could place two-thirds of a world's population on the Dole and keep them there forever without the entire system crashing | David Weber | ||
| 349430a | Without love, there can be no true marriage; with love, there can be nothing else. | David Weber | ||
| 0139d65 | Insurgent, terrorist, guerrilla, or patriot. As far as he was concerned, anyone who chose violence against the helpless as his means of protest deserved the same label: barbarian, and | David Weber | ||
| 32cc7e4 | Roaring Deeps, | David Weber | ||
| 75a3c28 | The moral, Lieutenant, is that there is no such thing as a deadly weapon. There are only deadly people, | David Weber | ||
| 4f10628 | The only problem is, if you tell the yammerheads to shut their gobs, you don't have real representation anymore. If everyone isn't free to speak his mind, then, ultimately, no one is, and in the end, that will come home and bite everyone involved on the ass. Noise and disagreement are part of the price you pay for freedom." "The" | David Weber | ||
| 987a247 | need for you to infect him, since he already had a good sense | David Weber | ||
| 18f2818 | How do I know where my doubts over their capability stop being genuine love and concern? When my belief that they must be reeducated before they can become my equal stops being a realistic appreciation of the limitations they've been taught and becomes sophistry to bolster the status quo and protect my own rights and privileges? | David Weber | ||
| 51902f2 | liberty was a tree which had to be watered occasionally with the blood of patriots? | David Weber | ||
| b120319 | grimace. | David Weber | ||
| a9947be | Manticore System's G0 primary and its G2 companion were dim behind her, reduced to two more stars amid millions, for the Junction lay almost seven light-hours from them. | David Weber | ||
| 59dc56a | David Brooks's The Social Animal. I recommend chapters 3 through 9, which give a far richer account than what I think about the subject. | Mark M. Weber | ||
| 5f77c53 | have no | David Weber | ||
| 114a230 | overtures from a cold-blooded consideration of advantages to an emotional rejection based on their own bigotry. And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins." *" | David Weber | ||
| e2a534b | sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them. "At" | David Weber | ||
| 5c84b72 | Throughout this book I have tried to point out why interest, especially as it has been used by people such as Hume, Smith, Tocqueville, and Weber, is still a very useful concept. One reason why the concept of interest imparts a distinct dynamic to the analysis is that it is mainly interest which makes people takes action. It supplies the force that makes people get up at dawn and work very hard throughout the day. Combined with interests of.. | alexis-de-tocqueville david-hume economic-sociology interest max-weber | Richard Swedberg | |
| b0c6e15 | you can't waste resources reinforcing failure ... | David Weber | ||
| 75101b5 | if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins. | David Weber | ||
| cc010e1 | rights, a physician with his experience and demonstrated skill should have been home in the Star Kingdom on the staff of one of the major base hospitals, or else assigned to one of the lavishly equipped hospital ships which accompanied the Fleet Train. | David Weber | ||
| aacdd58 | Jesus, look at that idiot!" Waters' exec muttered, and the citizen captain shook his head in disgust. Having" | David Weber | ||
| 5d12d4c | one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts. | David Weber | ||
| ccbe40d | he was always circumspect . . . and always careful to avoid any relationship which could ever become more than friendship. But | David Weber |