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| 8df1a0e | went off during Sunday school. Addie Mae Collins's sister, Sarah, had to have an eye removed, and another girl was blinded. In the unrest that followed the bombing, two other African American children died. Sixteen-year-old Johnny Robinson was shot to death by police, and thirteen-year-old Virgil Wade was murdered by two white boys. Although these may be nothing more than names in a book to you now, you must remember that these children wer.. | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| 97f8287 | My dinosaurs weren't even in their graves for three hours before someone rolled their rocks away. Maybe it was a lot easier for a bunch of angels to get a million dinosaurs to heaven than it was to get the saver of the whole world there, but I wished they'd given me a couple more hours. | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| 33ec822 | When I left her office, I felt like she'd gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut to the jaw, picked me up, brushed me off again, then kicked me in the seat of my pants as she handed me a piece of cake and showed me the door. Being a reporter isn't as easy as it looks. | reporters | Christopher Paul Curtis | |
| 5e9e38b | She always blamed him for bringing her all the way from Alabama to Michigan, a state she called | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| 2d0dd8d | Como en casi todos los temas que me apasionan, no tengo nada particular que decir. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| c1caede | 7] The Shadows Code In the 1930's a mysterious crime-fighter called the Shadow was the hero of a popular pulp magazine and an even more popular radio show. Dressed all in black, the Shadow could glide unseen through the darkness to battle the forces of evil. Stories about the Shadow, written by Maxwell Grant (pseudonym for the Shadow's creator, Walter B. Gibson), often contained curious codes. This cipher, from a novelette called The Chain .. | Martin Gardner | ||
| 71624b8 | XXII | Martin Gardner | ||
| 3541045 | At St. John's College, Annapolis, where Robert Hutchins' educational views have been most successfully practiced, they make, it is true, a great hubbub about science. The school's catalog boasts that more mathematics and laboratory work are required than at any other college, and there is even a pretentious listing of all pieces of apparatus used by the student, down to such items as compass, calipers, and ruler. But so heavy is the emphasi.. | Martin Gardner | ||
| 184d846 | The Polybius Checkerboard Polybius was an ancient Greek writer who first proposed a method of substituting different two-digit numbers for each letter. The alphabet is written inside a 5-by-5 square matrix which has numbered rows and columns: | Martin Gardner | ||
| c99af48 | Reflexione entonces en la cada vez mas complicada relacion entre los hombres y los animales. En las premisas actuales. En los deberes que se tienen que cumplir en estos tiempos. En preceptos que algunos anos atras nos hubieran parecido inimaginables. Por ejemplo, en el hecho de adoptar animales y no comprarlos como era lo habitual. El de esterilizar tanto a las hembras como a los machos. Olvidar por completo mutilarlos inutilmente --orejas.. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| 7032dc3 | En los hospitales los trataban con desprecio. Muchas veces no querian recibirlos. Fue entonces cuando me nacio cierta compasion y comence a recoger a alguna que otra victima. Tal vez de esa manera se fue formando este Moridero que tengo la desgracia de regentar. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| 9a1eed3 | But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her. Remember that! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c60cf51 | love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 500fbb1 | You laugh like a little child, but you think like a martyr. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 50ee460 | What would become of him if the church punished him with her excommunication as the direct consequence of the secular law? There could be no more terrible despair, at least for a Russian criminal, for Russian criminals still have faith. Though, who knows, perhaps then a fearful thing would happen, perhaps the despairing heart of the criminal would lose its faith and then what would become of him? But the church, like a tender, loving mother.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c3100d4 | For sin is sweet; all abuse it, but all men live in it, only others do it on the sly, and I openly. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c8b1f97 | We are not particularly afraid,' said he, 'of all these socialists, anarchists, infidels, and revolutionists; we keep watch on them and know all their goings on. But there are a few peculiar men among them who believe in God and are Christians, but at the same time are socialists. Those are the people we are most afraid of. They are dreadful people! The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 54bfdec | What terrible tragedies people suffer through realism! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6f9ad89 | The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. I've | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 249a61e | Young man, be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education. Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, "Lord, have mercy on all who appear before thee today." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d504096 | Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e0ee10c | bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea-.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6933464 | Look how our young people commit suicide, without asking themselves Hamlet's question what there is beyond, without a sign of such a question, as though all that relates to the soul and to what awaits us beyond the grave had long been erased in their minds and buried under the sands. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| faa063d | Suffering is life. | suffering life | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| f18c1d9 | He was an example of everything that is opposed to civic duty, of the most complete and malignant individualism. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 04312c0 | But Ippolit Kirillovitch was encouraged; he had never been applauded before! He had been all his life unable to get a hearing, and now he suddenly had an opportunity of securing the ear of all Russia. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2dedd5a | right. For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5941cff | insinuate | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 83d2fe3 | Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window, | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b869e94 | Imagine: inside, in the nerves, in the head--that is, these nerves are there in the brain... (damn them!) there are sort of little tails, the little tails of those nerves, and as soon as they begin quivering... that is, you see, I took at something with my eyes and begin quivering, those little tails... and when they quiver, then an image appears... it doesn't appear at once, but an instant, a second, passes... and then something like a mom.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6d572df | sometime.You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good m.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5f20c78 | Doubts assuaged, Butler returned to his copy of Guns and Ammo, leaving his employer to unravel the secrets of the universe. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| cf0a7e7 | Que me motivaba? Creo que la mayoria de las personas creativas quieren expresar su agradecimiento por ser capaces de aprovechar el trabajo que otros han llevado a cabo antes que ellos. Yo no invente el lenguaje ni las matematicas que utilizo. Produzco solo una pequena parte de mis alimentos, y ninguna de mis prendas de ropa esta hecha por mi. Todo lo que hago depende de otros miembros de nuestra especie y de los hombros a los que nos subimo.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b24cf96 | IN 1967 YOUNG Tom Stoppard had his breakthrough hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a brilliant play about actors playing characters playing actors playing characters, and the amusing, confusing jumble of fiction and reality. Stoppard knew he was onto something new and important. "I have a feeling," he said at the time, "that almost everybody today is more trying to match himself up with an external image he has of himself, almost a.. | Kurt Andersen | ||
| b761307 | Hawkers are crying their wares, tract-sellers, delivery boys, and merchants go about their business. | Marc Norman/Tom Stoppard | ||
| d7a4856 | STANKEVICH The world outside of me has no meaning independent of my thinking it. (pauses to look) I look out of the window. A garden. Trees. Grass. A young woman in a chair reading a book. I think: chair. So she is sitting. I think: book. So she is reading. Now the young woman touches her hair where it's come undone. But how can we be sure there is a world of phenomena, a woman reading in a garden? Perhaps the only thing that's real is my s.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 7c24ec1 | STANKEVICH The world outside of me has no meaning independent of my thinking it. (pauses to look) I look out of the window. A garden. Trees. Grass. A young woman in a chair reading a book. I think: chair. So she is sitting. I think: book. So she is reading. Now the young woman touches her hair where it's come undone. But how can we be sure there is a world of phenomena, a woman reading in a garden? Perhaps the only thing that's real is my s.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 6872cc5 | This is not a drill. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 12f6bbb | Being a person is respect, because you're not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips, you're a human person and humanness isn't like something there can be different amounts of, it's maxed out from the start, total respect every time - kill one, kill a trainload, you're dissing the transcendental is all. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| e90cc77 | GULL (musing) : The law of probability, it has been oddly asserted, is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys (he has surprised himself) ... if six monkeys were .. . ROS: Game? GULL: Were they? ROS: Are you? GULL (understanding): Game. (Flips a coin.) The law of averages, if I have got this right, means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 1fc80bd | Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet air, he says. Your 'honour' is all shame and timidity and compliance. Pure of stain! But the artist is the secret criminal in our midst. He is the agent of progress against authority. you are right to be a scholar. A scholar is all scruple, an artist is none. The artist must lie, cheat, decei.. | courage life love | Tom Stoppard | |
| 8d0def9 | By why, Ligurinus, alas why this unaccustomed tear trickling down my cheek? - why does my glib tongue stumble to silence as I speak? At night I hold you fast in my dreams, I run after you across the Field of Mars, I follow you into the tumbling waters, and you show no pity. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 11575f8 | Even a single coin has music in it, should it be gold. - the player | Tom Stoppard | ||
| b571d45 | Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope. | Tom Stoppard |