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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 874fdd1 | I cannot make speeches, Emma. . . . If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more'" (E 3:13)." | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 39f6083 | It is very unfair to judge of anybody's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be'" (E 1:18)." | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 282e45b | A voracious reader with a large memory for what she read, | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| abb3906 | Sensibility, in Austen's time, meant relying on one's feelings as a guide to behavior, as a guide to truth. | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 471e297 | Emma is the eponymous heroine, which means having the name that is used as the title or name of something else.) | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 6e65d32 | Having "lost her bloom" in the eight years since her romance and break-up with Captain Wentworth before the novel begins, Anne is wispy and quiet, still in love with Wentworth, but feeling helpless to do anything about it because he hasn't attempted to contact her again, and protocol of the day says she can't make the first move in contacting him." | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| cf69711 | By paying attention to another woman (Edward to Lucy and Frederick to Louisa), about whom he doesn't really care, each man hurts the woman he really loves and who really loves him. | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| 3eae7a4 | The most famous courtesy book is Il Cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione, published in 1528. | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| be6b4aa | Dr. James Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, published in 1765 | Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray | ||
| dd8cc2c | At sixteen Helen was already famous, and at seventeen already forgotten, and very much alone. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 10cf96d | Was that what people learned between the stars? To care for other people very much indeed and to spring upon them only to reveal love and not devouring to their prey? | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 804051f | He looked at his dry old hand and it seemed to him that in this atmosphere, he had himself become more reptilian than human. "I am caught by the dry, drab enturtlement of old, old age," he murmured, but the voice was weak and the robots did not hear him." | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| f7e5755 | KENnEDY SHOT. OSWALD SHOT TOO. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| a5f47db | There is no all- purpose computer built that weighs as little as a hundred and fifty pounds. You do. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 99e5ffa | You and I are animals, darling, not even real people, but people do not understand the teaching of Joan, that whatever seems human is human. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 084008e | You are Rod McBan the hundred and fifty-first. Specifically, you are a spinal column with a small bone box at one end, the head, and with reproductive equipment at the other end. Inside the bone box you have a small portion of material which resembles stiff, bloody lard. With that you think--you think better than I do, even though I have over five hundred million synaptic connections. You are a wonderful object, Rod McBan. I can understand .. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 45c747e | This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ||
| 2cdd190 | It is to hope, though hope were lost. | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ||
| 9c38ed5 | Calling someone a bigot, or an idiot, or an asshole feels good, but it does not prove you right or that person wrong. | David McRaney | ||
| 5afb48c | the word enthusiasm is "the God within." | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 6387ab0 | I didn't get to masturbate this morning, and I've been dying to, so I've gotta go. | Anna Nicole Smith | ||
| 6b4c03c | Marrying into money was not a good thing for me. | Anna Nicole Smith | ||
| 548e305 | The social Web is revolutionizing the way institutions operate, and the way people communicate, but in the end it might not have much of an effect on the core social group you depend on for true friendship. You can maintain a giant number of weak ties to people on Facebook, Twitter, and whatever comes next, much like you can in a giant company. Strong ties, however, require constant grooming. People who use the number of friends they have o.. | David McRaney | ||
| 690ad3f | Believing you understand your motivations and desires, your likes and dislikes, is called the introspection illusion. You believe you know yourself and why you are the way you are. You believe this knowledge tells you how you will act in all future situations. Research shows otherwise. | David McRaney | ||
| f6d290d | When you are making plans, your better angels point to the nourishing choices, but in the moment you go for what tastes good. | David McRaney | ||
| 7c615e4 | Indeed, later research backed up their claims, showing that people who are brutally honest with themselves are not as happy day to day as people with unrealistic assumptions about their abilities. People who take credit for the times when things go their way but who put the blame on others when they stumble or fall are generally happier people. | David McRaney | ||
| 0464496 | THE MISCONCEPTION: | David McRaney | ||
| 3abd351 | If you see yourself as the kind of person who owns Apple computers, or who drives hybrids, or who smokes Camels, you've been branded. And once a person is branded, that person will defend the brand by finding flaws in the alternative choice and pointing out benefits in his or her own. | David McRaney | ||
| 63aa254 | those who believe failure is not an option never plan for it. | David McRaney | ||
| aff91ec | The research into cultural cognition is new, but these studies suggest that Western culture is less concerned with context and more concerned with the center of attention, which means it is possible Westerners are more susceptible to both change blindness and inattentional blindness. | David McRaney | ||
| a61eded | The promise of revenge is one way human beings ensure fairness, and you are precisely tuned to expect it. Your perceived status is part of the unconscious equation you work out when accepting, refusing, and making offers with other people. | David McRaney | ||
| 8e6c842 | THE MISCONCEPTION: When you argue, you try to stick to the facts. THE TRUTH: In any argument, anger will tempt you to reframe your opponent's position. | David McRaney | ||
| 5791d00 | THE MISCONCEPTION: You can predict how well you would perform in any situation. THE TRUTH: You are generally pretty bad at estimating your competence and the difficulty of complex tasks. | David McRaney | ||
| b7086e2 | As the philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, "In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." | David McRaney | ||
| f13ae10 | Scientists tell us we all come from monkeys, and that's why I homeschool," this person is using a straw man, because science doesn't say we all come from monkeys." | David McRaney | ||
| a9307ce | THE MISCONCEPTION: With the advent of mass media, you understand how the world works based on statistics and facts culled from many examples. THE TRUTH: You are far more likely to believe something is commonplace if you can find just one example of it, and you are far less likely to believe in something you've never seen or heard of before. | David McRaney | ||
| 6b4d939 | Your beliefs are rational, logical and fact-based, right? Well, consider a topic such as spanking. Is it right or wrong? Is it harmless or harmful? Is it lazy parenting or tough love? Science has an answer, but let's get to that later. For now, savor your emotional reaction to the issue and realize you are willing to be swayed, willing to be edified on a great many things, but you keep a special set of topics separate. The last time you got.. | David McRaney | ||
| 40c5493 | THE MISCONCEPTION: You see everything going on before your eyes, taking in all the information like a camera. THE TRUTH: You are aware only of a small amount of the total information your eyes take in, and even less is processed by your conscious mind and remembered. | David McRaney | ||
| fb0204f | Psychologists call missing information in plain sight inattentional blindness. You believe with confidence your eyes capture everything before them and your memories are recorded versions of those captured images. The truth, though, is you see only a small portion of your environment at any one moment. Your attention is like a spotlight, and only the illuminated portions of the world appear in your perception. | David McRaney | ||
| 08438fa | One of the best things about owning a brain is how you often seem to phase out of normalcy and briefly see your culture with a weirdly objective frame of mind. At some point every child realizes money is made up of slips of paper with no intrinsic value, and wonders why aloud. So, too, will children ask adults what's up with shaking hands, or putting your fork on one side of the plate, or saying "Bless you" after a sneeze. Parents apply the.. | David McRaney | ||
| 923a157 | In 2006, researchers Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler created fake newspaper articles about polarizing political issues. The articles were written in a way that would confirm a widespread misconception about certain ideas in American politics. As soon as a person read a fake article, experimenters then handed over a true article that corrected the first. For instance, one article suggested that the United States had found weapons of mass des.. | David McRaney | ||
| ea251af | Apophenia isn't always a bad thing. You need a sense of meaning to get out of bed, to push forward against the grain. Just remember that meaning comes only from within. Your mind is preorganized to notice order, even when the order is defined by your culture and not your synapses. | David McRaney | ||
| bf39551 | Subjective Validation THE MISCONCEPTION: You are skeptical of generalities. THE TRUTH: You are prone to believing vague statements and predictions are true, especially if they are positive and address you personally. | David McRaney | ||
| daf3498 | finished to raise their hands, | David McRaney |