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| c46ff88 | We all have good and bad in us, and we have to strive all the time to make the good cancel out the bad. We can never be perfect - we all of us do mean or wrong things at times - but we can at least make amends by trying to cancel out the wrong by doing something worthy later on. | Enid Blyton | ||
| 5698301 | I mean to express the quality of a memory, in order to say something about this life we live, so much of which is fugitive, so much of which is lost in the living of it. | Richard Bausch | ||
| fb9cf82 | In this book the reader will find, I hope, an antidote for historical amnesia. To this day, the public remembers the Revolution mostly in its enshrined, mythic form. This is peculiar in a democratic society because the sacralized story of the founding fathers, the men of marble, mostly concerns the uppermost slice of American revolutionary society. That is what has lodged in our minds, and this is the fable that millions of people in other .. | Gary B. Nash | ||
| ed6da93 | Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed. | B. K. S. Iyengar | ||
| 192a567 | used | Paul Collins | ||
| 557f359 | ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says." | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 646318c | Why have your eyes gone into their own room? | Anne Sexton | ||
| 25c8eae | The best way to honor friends who have died is to treat our living ones with equal affection. | André Maurois | ||
| ef43395 | I am alive when your fingers are. | Anne Sexton | ||
| 7d4959d | It has been said that the First World War was the chemists' war, because mustard gas and chlorine were employed for the first time, and that the Second World War was the physicists' war, because the atom bomb was detonated. Similarly, it has been argued that the Third World War would be the mathematicians' war, because mathematicians will have control over the next great weapon of war--information. | Simon Singh | ||
| cd83721 | As for me, I am a watercolor.I wash off. | Anne Sexton | ||
| d130cfc | The Vigenere cipher was called "le chiffre indechiffrable," but Babbage broke it;" | Simon Singh | ||
| 7071fa8 | You said the anger would come backjust as the love did. | Anne Sexton | ||
| 0ba833d | The security of a cryptosystem must not depend on keeping secret the crypto-algorithm. The security depends only on keeping secret the key. | Simon Singh | ||
| 2807ae8 | flying robots from an alien power regularly strike down from the skies and kill Pakistani citizens. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 7c9a56f | In June 1991 he took the drastic step of asking a friend to post PGP on a Usenet bulletin board. PGP is just a piece of software, and so from the bulletin board it could be downloaded by anyone for free. PGP was now loose on the Internet. | Simon Singh | ||
| 03b27c4 | Rejewski had no idea of the day key, and he had no idea which message keys were being chosen, but he did know that they resulted in this table of relationships. Had | Simon Singh | ||
| 112354c | Among the darker nations, Paris is famous for two betrayals. The first came in 1801, when Napoleon Bonaparte sent General Victor Leclerc to crush the Haitian Revolution, itself inspired by the French Revolution. The French regime could not allow its lucrative Santo Domingo to go free, and would not allow the Haitian people to live within the realm of the Enlightenment's " Rights of Man." The Haitians nonetheless triumphed, and Haiti became .. | global-south imperialism independence third-world war | Vijay Prashad | |
| 6b3ac02 | The French had handed the information from Schmidt to the Poles because they believed it to be of no value, but the Poles had proved them wrong. | Simon Singh | ||
| ee1e304 | Emma Goldman. | Howard Zinn | ||
| bbffbcd | And as far as the United States in Vietnam, the United States did not lose prestige because it left Vietnam. It lost prestige when its as bombing Vietnam. | Howard Zinn | ||
| b0d0bff | El grito de los pobres no siempre es justo, pero si no lo escuchas, nunca sabras lo que es la justicia"." | Howard Zinn | ||
| 01b024a | Vremia - ego vsegda ili slishkom mnogo, ili slishkom malo. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 13e00a6 | Kogda vdokhnovenie molchit, razum bystro vydykhaetsia. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 28d5d6e | But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster--the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the a.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 03f005e | many people seem to lose God along life's way. | Yann Martel | ||
| 0630c61 | before the Bessemer process, iron was hardened into steel at the rate of 3 to 5 tons a day; now the same amount could be processed in 15 minutes). Machines | Howard Zinn | ||
| dd7e3fd | was allowed to merge with Hartford. It was all settled out of court, | Howard Zinn | ||
| 0a865d0 | That, being as blunt as I can, is my approach to the history of the United States. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 1596c91 | Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? | Howard Zinn | ||
| 5fc3fec | These groups have long been present in U.S. history. Above all, black and brown dissident groups--but also those from indigenous and Asian/Asian-American, as well as white communities--have arisen to challenge their communities' dispossession. They are viewed by the state as in need of monitoring, control, even "neutralization," to use FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's term for the destruction, division, defamation, and even death that the FBI.. | Mark Lewis Taylor | ||
| 6a44683 | Twenty five years later the sheriff was gone, but Sherrod was still in Albany, organizing farming cooperatives.) | Howard Zinn | ||
| 5b9d66d | in the industrial towns children went to work with their fathers and mothers, schools and doctors were only promises, a bed of one's own was a rare luxury. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 2460081 | During elections for the 1776 convention to frame a constitution for Pennsylvania, a Privates Committee urged voters to oppose "great and overgrown rich men ... they will be too apt to be framing distinctions in society." | Howard Zinn | ||
| 95f214c | I'll never forget that day." It confirmed what I learned from my Spelman years, that education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the" | Howard Zinn | ||
| f7d1f41 | As it happens, the term "white skin privilege" was first popularized in the 1970s by the SDS radicals of "Weatherman," who were carrying on a terrorist war against "Amerikkka," a spelling designed to stigmatize the United States as a nation of Klansmen. Led by presidential friends, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, the Weather terrorists called on other whites to renounce their privilege and join a global race war already in progres.. | David Horowitz | ||
| 8ba30b9 | I ain't gonna kill; it's against my will. . . . | killing war | Howard Zinn | |
| 0b2dd01 | He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 42317c9 | Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. . . | Howard Zinn | ||
| c2358a7 | strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought | Howard Zinn | ||
| 191bec9 | The Mexicans had fired the first shot. But they had done what the American government wanted, according to Colonel Hitchcock, who wrote in his diary, even before those first incidents: I have said from the first that the United States are the aggressors. . . We have not one particle of right to be here. . . It looks as if the government sent a small force on purpose to bring on war, so as to have a pretext for taking California and as much .. | military war | Howard Zinn | |
| ddbfee6 | In all, Africa may have lost as many as 5o million human beings to death and slavery during the centuries that we call the beginnings of modern civilization. | Howard Zinn | ||
| b20d8dd | patroonship | Howard Zinn | ||
| c3de922 | James was part of a movement of prominent American businessmen, politicians, and intellectuals who formed the Anti-Imperialist League in 1898 and carried on a long campaign to educate the American public about the horrors of the Philippine war and the evils of imperialism. It was an odd group (Andrew Carnegie belonged), including antilabor aristocrats and scholars, united in a common moral outrage at what was being done to the Filipinos in .. | Howard Zinn |