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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7bb33cb | Benjamin Rush, the eighteenth-century founder of the disease concept of alcoholism, also thought that lying, murder, and political dissent were diseases. | Stanton Peele | ||
| 9858feb | The core beliefs that the alcoholism movement has successfully promulgated are: Alcoholics don't drink too much because they intend to, but only because they can't control their drinking. Alcoholics inherit their alcoholism and thus are born as alcoholics. Alcoholism always grows worse without treatment, so that alcoholics can never cut back or quit drinking on their own. | Stanton Peele | ||
| 3c38638 | Alcoholism as a disease can strike any individual--it is an "equal-opportunity destroyer"--and respects no social, religious, ethnic or sexual bounds. Treatment based on AA principles is the only effective treatment for alcoholism--in the words of one proponent, a modern medical "miracle"--without which no one can hope to arrest a drinking problem. Those who reject the AA approach for their drinking problems, or observers who contradict any.. | Stanton Peele | ||
| 52969fb | Duty was simply not enough. There had to be more than that! | Sheri S. Tepper | ||
| 6830353 | The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| fbe2382 | must have taken a | J.A. Jance | ||
| e05fea7 | The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| ab63337 | Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| 0d481f9 | The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| cf5f870 | A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| d5a2c0f | Error is the price we pay for progress. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| d1bd569 | The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| beab2b5 | For the kingdom of heaven is with us today. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| d2e2e6f | That's the most sexist idea I've ever heard," Nellie said harshly. "I'm female, so I have to be clueless. He's male, so he's got a great sense of direction." | Gordon Korman | ||
| 41e3aa5 | you-know-who." Amy" | Gordon Korman | ||
| 76eedaa | No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| fce2ac8 | Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| a74d203 | A male--even such a male as Tibby--was enough to stop the foolery. The barrier of sex, though decreasing among the civilised, is still high, and higher on the side of women. Helen could tell her sister all, and her cousin much about Paul; she told her brother nothing. It was not prudishness, for she now spoke of "the Wilcox ideal" with laughter, and even with a growing brutality. Nor was it precaution, for Tibby seldom repeated any news tha.. | E. M. Forster | ||
| 00b6814 | Round every knob and cushion in the house sentiment gathered, a sentiment that was at times personal, but more often a faint piety to the dead, a prolongation of rites that might have ended at the grave. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 5b7210e | lqd Sn`n lal@ lky tnfdh rdtn, lknn l nmlk 'n ndf`h ltnfydhh lan.. wlan tjbrn `l~ `bdth.. n lal@ ttTwr w lkn lys wfq mkhTTtn..twSl msyrh lkn lys nHw hdfn.. nHn mwjwdwn fqT kkryt dm tsry fy shryynh, wdh knt qdr@ `l~ l`ml bdwnn, fswf ttrkn nmwt. | E. M. Forster | ||
| 24f05fc | The love that Socrates bore Phaedo now lay within his reach, love passionate but temperate, such as only finer natures can understand, and he found in Maurice a nature that was not indeed fine, but charmingly willing. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 28f1c57 | If Wilcoxes hadn't worked and died in England for thousands of years, you and I couldn't sit here without having our throats cut. There would be no trains, no ships to carry us literary people about in, no fields even. Just savagery. No--perhaps not even that. Without their spirit life might never have moved out of protoplasm. More and more do I refuse to draw my income and sneer at those who guarantee it. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 4b0496b | He had not the knack of surrounding himself with nice people--indeed, for a man of ability and virtue his choice had been singularly unfortunate; he had no guiding principle beyond a certain preference for mediocrity; | E.M. Forster | ||
| 3b1cf70 | In our father's house are many mansions, they taught, and there alone will the incompatible multitudes of mankind be welcomed and soothed. Not one shall be turned away by the servants on that verandah, be he black or white, not one shall be kept standing who approaches with a loving heart. And why should the divine hospitality cease here? Consider, with all reverence, the monkeys. May there not be a mansion for the monkeys also? | E.M. Forster | ||
| c04c713 | She heard melody and harmony and counterpoint; he heard something calling him from far, far away. | Robert Hellenga | ||
| fd4f39c | Sometimes pain is God's megaphone, his only way to get our attention. | god pain | Robert Hellenga | |
| 286fd9b | However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads. | time | Robert Hellenga | |
| 2e862b8 | He knew that he'd known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imaginary conversations, imagining her saying such delightful things. | love | Robert Hellenga | |
| 5716e79 | The advice he reads in Ann Landers - good advice as long as you don't need it, perfectly sensible as long as you don't have any use for it. | Robert Hellenga | ||
| 9a08149 | What to do with the past? There was so much of it. | reconciling-the-past | Robert Hellenga | |
| 37158e3 | He wondered what you had to do to lose your driver's license in Italy. | Robert Hellenga | ||
| 6b6ec0f | Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| 6e26cf1 | the yard. When Ben knocked on Griffin's door the next morning on his way to school, he was surprised when the door was answered by Mrs. | Gordon Korman | ||
| a5132c4 | All-Time | Gordon Korman | ||
| 7ef910d | What's next on your reading list? Discover | Judy Blume | ||
| 0215ff2 | Follow him!" Amy said urgently. "Why?" "Do it!" -- | Gordon Korman | ||
| 6c4b3f8 | Dark hair, olive skin, handsome features. It always made Amy guilty to find him good-looking. Ian Kabra. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 021c6de | Things are finally starting to go our way, | Gordon Korman | ||
| c6c1b10 | She was salted in the ladies' room? | Gordon Korman | ||
| 3808917 | The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia. | Alfred North Whitehead | ||
| baea7fe | Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. --Proverbs 3:31 | James Ellroy | ||
| 64e6bca | Chaol had told himself that he was only following Celaena to make sure she didn't hurt herself or anyone else, but as she'd neared the royal mausoleum, he followed for other reasons. The night provided good cover, but the moon was bright enough to keep him back, far enough away so she wouldn't see or hear his approach. But then he saw where she had stopped, and realized he had no right to be here for this. He'd been about to turn away when .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d5abddc | Americans' "fatal tendency of disunion." | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 7424c79 | The historical periods I like to learn about aren't so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite because it features the beloved plot of carnage in service of democracy, but I prefer American history. And if I had to pick my pet domestic bloodbaths, nothing beats Salem or Gettysburg. I'm a sucker for Puritan New England and the Civil War. Because those two subjects feature the central tension of American lif.. | Sarah Vowell |