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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f92ec85 | Some of the most whimsical things that have been written by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, the most mysterious situations that have been invented by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe, or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or Mr. John Buchan, might have been founded on fact in Moscow. | Francis Mccullagh | ||
| 600c6d5 | To wheedle and coax is safer than to command. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 0934d8d | To determine the price-earnings ratio of a particular company's stock, you take the price per share of the company's stock and divide it by the company's earnings per share. | Eric Tyson | ||
| ebb7c7d | annual increases in your rent is 4 percent per year. | Eric Tyson | ||
| 60bacf2 | Wondering what the best ways are to invest globally? | Eric Tyson | ||
| 564be42 | your money. Don't expect your inspections to eliminate all future | Eric Tyson | ||
| 4b3d7cd | Collectibles have little intrinsic value and are thus subject to the whims and speculations of buyers and sellers. | Eric Tyson | ||
| 31b8983 | Some people argue that teaching children financial basics is the parents' job. However, this well-meant sentiment is what we're relying on now, and for all too many, it isn't working. In some families, financial illiteracy is passed on from generation to generation. Education takes place in the home, on the streets, and in the schools. Therefore, schools must bear some responsibility for teaching this skill. However, if you're raising child.. | Eric Tyson | ||
| 460d0c9 | To achieve typical longer-term financial goals, such as retiring, the money that you save and invest generally needs to grow at a rate much faster than the rate of inflation. | Eric Tyson | ||
| 844dab5 | It's very well to be thrifty, but don't amass a hoard of regrets. | Eric Tyson | ||
| f571217 | Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have. There are two ways to be rich: One is to have great wealth; the other is to have few wants. | Eric Tyson | ||
| 4411e19 | If you fully convert your home to rental property and use it that way for years before selling it, after you do sell you can either take advantage of the lower long-term capital gains rates or do a tax deferred exchange. For tax purposes, you get to deduct depreciation and all of the write-offs during the ownership and you can shelter up to $25,000 in income from active sources subject to income eligibility requirements. (Please | Eric Tyson | ||
| 1d98aa1 | In you don't continually invest in your education, you risk losing your competitive edge. | Eric Tyson | ||
| fd7336d | Although she'd kept wildcats since she was in her twenties, she'd never removed one from his native environment before. All her cats had been found looking dejected in zoos or in circuses on the outskirts of industrial French towns. When she heard any story of ill treatment or brutality or cramped, dirty cages, she would jump in her car, get out her map, and race to the scene. Once there she would offer the zookeepers or circus owners so mu.. | Clare Naylor | ||
| 6038e99 | Io e te. Le nostre mani s'incontrano e prende forma un mondo. | mani mondo | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 017c292 | Jonas: 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.' ...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the light they made. And the warmth. | Lois Lowry | ||
| f0260e2 | Sunkiausias dalykas Atminties Saugotojui yra ne skausmas. Sunkiausia, kad saugai prisiminimus vienas. Jais reikia dalintis. | prisiminimai siuntėjas | Lois Lowry | |
| 5ec87c6 | What's his comfort object called?" Lily asked, picking up the stuffed creature which had been placed beside the newchild in his basket. Father glanced at it. "Hippo," he said. Lily giggled at the strange word. "Hippo," she repeated, and put the comfort object down again. She peered at the unwrapped newchild, who waved his arms." | Lois Lowry | ||
| 550f03e | Release was not the same as Loss. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 6d86280 | Now he became aware of an entirely new sensation: pinpricks? No, because they were soft and without pain. Tiny, cold, featherlike feelings peppered his body and face. He put out his tongue again, and caught one of the dots of cold upon it. It disappeared from his awareness instantly; but he caught another, and another. The sensation made him smile. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 97dd934 | He felt himself overwhelmed with a new perception of the colour he knew as red. | Lois Lowry | ||
| d9206a8 | Do you remember the day when the plane flew over the community?" "Yes. I was scared." "So were they. They prepared to shoot it down. But they sought my advice. I told them to wait." "But how did you know? How did you know the pilot was lost?" "I didn't. I used my wisdom, from the memories. I knew that there had been times in the past--terrible times--when people had destroyed others in haste, in fear, and had brought about their own destruc.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 4b23ae4 | He thrust his tongue into his cheek, wrinkled his nose and creased his forehead. He made a chortling sound. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 75b1fc5 | Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence. The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of independence, the first very visible symbol of growing up. | Lois Lowry | ||
| b2904f1 | Was there someone there, waiting, who would receive the tiny released twin? Would it grow up Elsewhere, not knowing, ever, that in this community lived a being who looked exactly the same? For a moment, he felt a tiny, fluttering hope that he knew was quite foolish. He hoped that it would be Larissa, waiting. Larissa, the old woman he had bathed. He remembered her sparkling eyes, her soft voice, her low chuckle. Fiona had told him recently .. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 5a59165 | That he had this power frightened him. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 8996a86 | Put your hands on me," he directed, aware that in such anguish The Giver might need reminding. The hands came, and the pain came with them and through them." | Lois Lowry | ||
| 058d4e6 | He turned his head toward the voice and looked into the half-closed eyes of a boy who seemed not much older than himself. Dirt streaked the boy's face and his matted blond hair. He lay sprawled, his gray uniform glistening with wet, fresh blood. The colors of the carnage were grotesquely bright: the crimson wetness on the the rough and dusty fabric, the ripped shreds of grass, startlingly green, in the boy's yellow hair. The boy stared at h.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| ad63318 | There are so many good memories," The Giver reminded Jonas. And it was true." | Lois Lowry | ||
| 92309e3 | What did you perceive?" The Giver asked. "Warmth," Jonas replied" | Lois Lowry | ||
| ce03240 | ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO FEMALES UNDER NINE THAT HAIR RIBBONS ARE TO BE NEATLY TIED AT ALL TIMES. He turned toward Lily and noticed to his satisfaction that her ribbons were, as usual, undone and dangling. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 3f1c3b7 | Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colours. "And grandparents" he added" | Lois Lowry | ||
| 318a396 | Jonas looked at her. She was so lovely. For a fleeting instant he thought he would like nothing better than to ride peacefully along the river path, laughing and talking with his gentle female friend. But he knew such times had been taken from him now. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 68c3e6e | Then, as the middle hours of the night approached, the noise of Gabe's restlessness woke Jonas. The newchild was turning under his cover, flailing his arms, and beginning to whimper. Jonas rose and went to him. Gently he patted Gabriel's back. Sometimes that was all it took to lull him back to sleep. But the newchild still squirmed fretfully under his hand. Still patting rhythmically, Jonas began to remember the wonderful sail that The Give.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| e2dbe27 | I have a wonderful idea. Maybe when you become a Twelve, they'll give you the Assignment of Storyteller! | Lois Lowry | ||
| b411e7f | Jonas thought of his favorite female, Fiona, and shivered. He wouldn't want his gentle friend to suffer the way he had, taking on the memories. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 729281e | and she asked to be released. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 94f1484 | All of it-all the things they had thought through so meticulously- fell apart | Lois Lowry | ||
| 2d2dc1b | Together the fugitives slept though the first dangerous day. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 49105ee | He could feel the little head nudge his back, bouncing gently against him as he rode. Gabriel was sleeping soundly, strapped into the seat. Before he had left the dwelling, he had laid his hands firmly on Gabe's back and transmitted to him the most soothing memory he could: a slow-swinging hammock under palm trees on an island someplace, at evening, with a rhythmic sound of languid water lapping hypnotically against a beach nearby. As the.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| fa0063b | Jonas looked down through the dusk at the little head against his chest. Gabriel's curly hair was matted and filthy, and there were tearstains outlined in dirt on his pale cheeks. His eyes were closed. As Jonas watched, a snowflake drifted down and was caught briefly for a moment's sparkle in the tiny fluttering eyelashes. | Lois Lowry | ||
| aa6ac51 | But the bicycle stopped. It would not move. He got off and let it drop sideways into the snow. For a moment he thought how easy it would be to drop beside it himself, to let himself and Gabriel slide into the softness of snow, the darkness of night, the warm comfort of sleep. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 0fec495 | A teenage girl wrote that she had been considering suicide until she read The Giver. | Lois Lowry | ||
| c80c037 | Jonas repeated it. "Love." It was a word and concept new to him." | Lois Lowry |