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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c7aa634 | All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 8b6edcf | He watched the old man sleep and felt the vast loneliness of the world, the loneliness passed from person to person like a beach ball at a rock concert, kept aloft at all costs, and this was his moment to shoulder it. Or maybe it was his own personal loneliness, a solitary, errant longing no one else could ever know, and the knowledge of this stoked the already existing loneliness, made it widen and blur at the edges until it included every.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 4ef4779 | I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 2000336 | There was a shop on Lexingon that advertised passport pictures. I like to go sometimes. I keep them in a little album. Mostly they're of me, except for one, which ia of Isaac, aged five, and another of my cousin, the locksmith. He was an amateur photographer and one day he showed me how to make a pinhole camera. This was the spring of 1947. I stood in the back of his tiny shop watching him fix the photographic paper inside the box. He told .. | writing | Nicole Krauss | |
| 7ad0011 | Do not feel ashamed to forgive and forget. | Ali | ||
| aa7520e | Ruling Yemen is hard. I always say it's like dancing on the heads of snakes | Ali Abdullah Saleh | ||
| 6c0dd22 | It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region. | Ali Khamenei | ||
| 275e926 | Vitoria and his allies believed that natural law existed not just among Christians but among all peoples. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| f59b39f | The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible. | Ali Khamenei | ||
| 9bf3bfb | Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated. | Ali Khamenei | ||
| 6f36800 | But it would be about tolerating dissent. Now, movies or plays, pieces of art about dissent, they always, I think, flatter the author and they flatter the audience. WOODS: Yeah. KAUFFMAN: Because, of course, all right-thinking people are on the side of the dissenter. WOODS: Right. KAUFFMAN: You know, who is being persecuted by the narrow-minded peasants, or the clerics who deny that the Earth is round, or that it orbits the sun, or .. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| db69969 | It is only with government help--in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like--that business can "exploit" the public in any meaningful sense. That" | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| cf5d4b0 | we must listen to the very limits of human knowledge and only when this utterly breaks down should we refer things to God."45 William" | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| cfcac77 | Persecutions of witches, erroneously associated with the Middle Ages, became widespread only during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 15e16da | The Far Right is less interested in Burkean immunities from government power than it is in putting a maximum of governmental power in the hands of those who can be trusted. It is control of power, not diminution of power, that ranks high. Thus when Reagan was elected conservatives hoped for the quick abolition of such government 'monstrosities' as the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and the two National Endowments of the .. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 2510567 | Republicans throughout the twentieth century have been advocates of prudence and restraint in the conduct of foreign affairs. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 34a2d73 | Leftist intellectuals were practically unanimous in favoring U.S. entry into World War I since they understood the opportunity it presented for institutional change at home. Wartime economic planning, they were convinced, would help to erode Americans' conservative beliefs in the limits of government and the inviolability of private property. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 5a09eb7 | It's one thing to describe someone as a voice crying in the wilderness, but that doesn't quite capture Laurence Vance and his work. Vance is a voice crying in a soundproof sarcophagus on the moon. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 607f68e | A conservative recognizes a hierarchy of concerns: I owe my children, my neighbors, and my co-religionists much more than I owe anyone in Iraq or anywhere else. Cicero, like so many figures in our classical past, held that "the union and fellowship of men will be best preserved if each receives from us the more kindness in proportion as he is more closely connected with us." The Bible confirms the wisdom of the ancients, instructing us that.. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| ccd2565 | cradle to the grave. In fact, though, a major study released in May 2002 by the Swedish Institute of Trade (HUI) decisively punctured the myth of welfare-state "prosperity" in Sweden: by the end of the 1990s, Sweden's median income was $26,800, compared to $39,400 in the United States. More to the point, the HUI economists specifically pointed out: "Black people, who have the lowest income in the United States, now have a higher standard of.. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 08dda25 | Madison wrote in Federalist #41, "For what purpose could the enumeration of particulars be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?" In 1792, he said: If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every state, county, and paris.. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 7d01440 | Emin's My Bed, which was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize, consisted of an unmade bed complete with bottles of vodka, used prophylactics, and bloodied undergarments. While on display at the Tate Gallery in 1999, the bed was vandalized by two nude men who proceeded to jump on it and drink the vodka. The world of modern art being what it is, everyone at the gallery applauded, assuming that the vandalism was part of the show. Emin is.. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 2af2475 | However, one listing of common abbreviations compiled in 1859 includes "1 1" (dot dot, dot dot) for "I AM READY"; "G A" (dash dash dot, dot dash) for "GO AHEAD", "S F D" for "STOP FOR DINNER"; "G M" for "GOOD MORNING." | Tom Standage | ||
| 75499e2 | 1738 | Tom Standage | ||
| aa07e2d | Drinks have had a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course. Understanding the ramifications of who drank what, and why, and where they got it from, requires the traversal of many disparate and otherwise unrelated fields: the histories of agriculture, philosophy, religion, medicine, technology, and commerce. | Tom Standage | ||
| d26ca92 | Well, their piety is more evolved," said Mrs. Pace. "In America we have only two forms, as Matthew Arnold said: the bitter and the smug. In France, it appears, there is a third type, the worldly." | Diane Johnson | ||
| 342ef17 | They have made the divine sanctuary unsafe for everybody. | Ali Khamenei | ||
| f2d507f | Yet despite my depression and my fear for the future, I could not quite succumb to the prevailing despair. The worst had happened, but that meant that I no longer had anything much to lose, and increasingly I found that quite liberating. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 58295a1 | There are many opinionated religious people who would do well to heed Paul's warnings to the "strong" who were intimidating the "weak" with their overbearing certainty. Above all, we need to take seriously Paul's insight that no virtue was valid unless it was imbued with a love that was not a luxurious emotion in the heart but must be expressed daily and practically in self-emptying concern for others." -- | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 925db61 | With this new empathetic understanding of the context, we will find that we can imagine ourselves, in similar circumstances, feeling the same. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 780be74 | Any interpretation of scripture that bred hatred or disdain for others was illegitimate, | Karen Armstrong | ||
| a9d3e1d | The Zookeeper's Wife is the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Polish Christian zookeepers who, horrified by Nazi racism, managed to save more than three hundred people. Author Diane Ackerman writes movingly about Polish emigre Eva Hoffman's psychic earthquake of having to shed her name in order to save her life: "Nothing much has happened, except a small, seismic mental shift. The twist in our names takes them a tiny distance from us--but.. | Whitney Johnson | ||
| 0022feb | I felt both puny and pretentious, trying to write in the grandeur of that natural world where everything was older than time and I was the briefest object in the landscape. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| 1834b44 | Always delighted to grab any privileges I can get, I don't like the sense of being privileged by law. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| cbb2795 | It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travellers. The sensible approach would be to expect the worst, the very worst; that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows, with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| 74a134f | Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved--the Arabs more than the Christian Copts--kept them stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| 0cad632 | Slowly we wound uphill past fields and thick forest until we reached the eastern edge of the Rift Valley. Far below, as far as I could see, lay the golden plain ringed by blue mountains. It was true, it was there, and more magical than I had ever pictured it. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| 5208c92 | This was not the velvet embracing desert sky at El Geneina; this was infinite space. The idea of no boundaries, no end, is terrifying in the abstract and much worse if you are looking at it. The far-off stars were an icy crust; the darkness beyond the stars was more than I could handle. The machinery that keeps me going is not geared to cope with infinity and eternity as so clearly displayed in that sky. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| c3d48ae | It is amazing that the refugees stay sane. First the bombs, perhaps the "battle" around them, their casualties, their naked helplessness; then the flight, leaving behind everything they have worked for all their lives; then the semi-starvation and ugly hardship of the camps or the slums; and as a final cruelty, the killing diseases which only strike at them." | poverty refugees vietnam war | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 2bc3313 | The white hunter was laughing happily, his adoring girl was open-mouthed in admiration for his nerve, I was sweating with dismay and outrage, and then an elephant charged and did not stop and our hero stepped hard on the gas and drove off, saying, "Not bluffing that time." So now I knew, lucky me, what a medium-size elephant stampede was like. Doomed to see elephants in the company of lunatics. All I wanted was to watch them with love and r.. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| 04dade8 | Impatience leading swiftly to boredom is my vice, not panic. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| 74c80a1 | My vehement distaste for Reaganism and Thatcherism is joined to 35.2 million Americans who voted against Reagan in 1980 (out of a total 76.5 million votes cast) and 37.5 million Americans who did likewise in 1984; and allied with 57.8% of the British electorate who voted against Mrs. Thatcher in 1987. Plus 56.1% anti-Thatcherites in 1979 and 57.6% in 1983. That is quite a lot of consensus repugnance. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| 57e58b7 | We had a lengthy discussion of the difficulties I had had working on other biographies and the efforts made by Martha Gellhorn, Susan Sontag and others to prevent publication. Gellhorn's representative, Bill Buford, sent a threatening letter to my publisher. Michael, a journalist first, called Buford a "dirty dog." I never dreamed, then, that he, too, would, in the end, assume a rather high-handed attitude towards my manuscript, ordering me.. | Carl Rollyson | ||
| bb765b2 | The latrine broke my lion heart. | Martha Gellhorn |