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| b12bfbe | Heather strained to see through the smoke, trying to find her parents and Baby Jacks. She saw a collection of around fifteen wolves in the foreground, about halfway up the meadow, near the fallen maple limb. The maple tree, half-burned with a tangled scar of black char where the lightning had ripped through it, somehow still stood. The hard rain had doused the flames that would have surely overtaken it. | S.D. Smith | ||
| ef92232 | Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America. We drove twenty-two miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the signs started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted five signs before we reached the site. There were forty cars and a tour bus in the makeshift lot. We.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 782bfc0 | All Bowser players are carried. | Andrew Yang | ||
| 47995b3 | Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 46aa0b1 | But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create. It's | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 5615c43 | Nobody ever said that capitalism guarantees profit. | Andrew Zimbalist | ||
| 25bb94c | Baseball performance is an outcome of opposing forces. | Andrew Zimbalist | ||
| afc3912 | Baseball's popularity and, more so, it's revenues continue to increase. | Andrew Zimbalist | ||
| 5452960 | But since the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, terrorists have killed many times that number of people in Pakistan. Tens of thousands have died here in terror and counterterror violence, slain by bombs, bullets, cannons, and drones. America's 9/11 has given way to Pakistan's 24/7/365. The battlefield has been displaced. And in Pakistan it is much more bloody. | middle-east pakistan pakistan-united-states-relations politics terrorism | Mohsin Hamid | |
| bdad592 | There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh, as if seen for the first time; then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 00bd60e | What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is. | Tony Judt | ||
| ae6cba1 | Second, we'll mitigate the entire system of anti-missile defence, everywhere and 100 per cent. | Andrey Gurulyov | ||
| 604b5d2 | The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ffddfa6 | Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 48449ee | to read a novel is to engage in probably the second-largest single act of pleasure-based data transfer that can take place between two human beings, | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 7daa693 | exceeded only by sex. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 8b8aabe | Sufis tell of two paths to transcendence: | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| b80e3fb | The legacy of unregulated wealth creation is bitter indeed. | Tony Judt | ||
| c23edcc | Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde! | Anne Rice | ||
| 30b0a17 | one is to look out at the universe and see yourself, the other is to look within yourself and see the universe. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ed010e1 | it's possible to open our eyes, to see, to recognize our solitude--and at the same time to not be entirely alone. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 6839af7 | We'll destroy the entire group of enemy's space satellites during the first air operation. | Andrey Gurulyov | ||
| c911865 | Doesn't matter now, devils who paint angels. | Anne Rice | ||
| a05f237 | Rimsha Masih fiasco--in which they had championed the execution of a fourteen-year-old mentally disabled Christian girl for the crime of blasphemy, only to be roundly rebuffed by a rare confluence of sane elements within Pakistan's legal system, media, civil society, and clergy, who collectively revealed that she had been framed by a property-coveting local mullah--they | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| bf8ce4d | How odd it would be to call Homer's Iliad or Rumi's Masnavi "the Great Eastern Mediterranean Poem." | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 4697769 | No one will care if they are American or British, we would see them all as NATO. | Andrey Gurulyov | ||
| f669132 | refugees from the East sought desperately to convince bemused French, American or British officials that they did not want to return 'home' and would rather stay in Germany--of all places. They were not always successful: between 1945 and 1947, 2,272,000 Soviet citizens were returned by the Western Allies. | Tony Judt | ||
| 02d710f | Canadian Labor Department in 1948 rejected girls and women applying to emigrate to Canada for jobs in domestic service if there was any sign that they had education beyond secondary school. | Tony Judt | ||
| e0801e3 | by 1945 few people believed any longer in the magic of the market. This was an intellectual revolution. | Tony Judt | ||
| d5130ae | Painted images of F-16s given by America were appearing on the backs of buses under the words "God is great." | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 6dc7007 | Armed college students were telling women to cover their heads. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| d020eb1 | courage is demanded not to attack when afraid, | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| d30be15 | In America, the murky, unknown places of the world are blank screens: | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| e3322d4 | stories of evil can be projected on them with as little difficulty as stories of good. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 19c8268 | And we also need to pull Belarus into this. | Andrey Gurulyov | ||
| 2a85aca | A tak pokazde, kdyz nejaky trouba prohlasi, ze Saddam Husajn je druhy Hitler, musime se do sporu vlozit a tyhle zjednodusujici pitomosti zkomplikovat. Realite odpovidajici zmatek je mnohem lepsi nez elegantni nepravdy. | Tony Judt | ||
| 744d734 | For anyone born after 1945, the welfare state and its institutions were not a solution to earlier dilemmas: they were simply the normal conditions of life - and more than a little dull. The baby boomers, entering university in the mid-'60s, had only ever known a world of improving life chances, generous medical and educated services, optimistic prospects of upward social mobility and - perhaps above all - an indefinable but ubiquitous sense.. | Tony Judt | ||
| 1c958a2 | Inequality, then, is not just unattractive in itself; it clearly corresponds to pathological social problems that we cannot hope to address unless we attend to their underlying cause. There is a reason why infant mortality, life expectancy, criminality, the prison population, mental illness, unemployment, obesity, malnutrition, teenage pregnancy, illegal drug use, economic insecurity, personal indebtedness and anxiety are so much more marke.. | Tony Judt | ||
| 7ff76f4 | khungvikki@gmail.com Vikki's Reading List Vikki's Reading List Comments Share FileEditViewInsertFormatDataToolsAdd-onsHelpAccessibilityLast edit was 6 days ago 100% $%123 Arial 10 Selfishness is uncomfortable even for the selfish. Hence the rise of gated communities: the privileged don't like to be reminded of their privileges - if these carry morally dubious connotations. Cells Selfishness is uncomfortable even for the selfish... | Tony Judt | ||
| 70902ec | Above all, the new Left-- and its overwhelmingly youthful constituency -- rejected the inherited collectivism of its predecessor. To an earlier generation of reformers from Washington to Stockholm, it had been self-evident that 'justice', 'equal opportunity' or 'economic security' were shared objectives that could only be attained by common action. A younger cohort saw things very differently. Social justice no longer preoccupied radicals... | Tony Judt | ||
| f46a34e | Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell (1946); The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert Camus (1951); The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz (1953); "The Power of the Powerless" by Vaclav Havel (1978); "How to Be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist" by Leszek.. | Timothy Snyder | ||
| f695acc | Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long without one another. And since the experience of the interwar years had clearly revealed the inability of capitalists to protect their own best interests, the liberal state would have to do it for them whether they liked it or not. | Tony Judt | ||
| bd1b1b4 | As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders. Relative indifference to wealth for its own sake was widespread in the postwar decades. In a survey of English schoolboys taken in 1949, it was discovered that the more intelligent the boy the more likely.. | Tony Judt | ||
| 5b4f600 | We should by now have learned that politics remains national, even if economics does not: the history of the 20th century offers copious evidence that even in healthy democracies, bad political choices usually trump 'rational' economic calculations. | Tony Judt |