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| af127f7 | I have never identified with the "K" in Kafka's works, by the way. Having grown up in a democracy, I have dared to imagine that I know at all times who is really in charge, what is really going on. This could be a mistake." | kafka knowledge leadership | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| dd6eb42 | One German-American friend of mine, an architectural historian my own age, can be counted on to excoriate Woodrow Wilson after he has had several strong drinks. He goes on to say that it was Wilson who persuaded this country that it was patriotic to be stupid, to be proud of knowing only one language, of believing that all other cultures were inferior and ridiculous, offensive to God and common sense alike, that artists and teachers and stu.. | ignorance knowledge nationality patriotism stupidity woodrow-wilson | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| 0d26b57 | Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| f2cc57c | After all that men have done to the women and children and every other defenseless thing on this planet, it is time that not just every painting, but every piece of music, every statue, every play, every poem and book a man creates, should say only this: 'We are much too horrible for this nice place. We give up. We quit. The End! | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| ee1a6b5 | think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty years ago. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 97b6937 | Kogda ia zagnal svoi kosmicheskii korabl' v khrono-sinklasticheskii infundibulum, menia mgnovenno ozarilo soznanie, chto vse kogda-libo byvshee prebudet vechno. a vse, chto budet, sushchestvovalo ispokon vekov. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| a26fda1 | Diadek, u vsekh durakov odna beda -- po krainei gluposti oni dazhe ne predstavliaiut sebe, chto na svete est' takaia shtuka, kak zdravyi smysl. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 7f8ebbb | Ia ZhERTVA TsEPI NESChASTNYKh SLUChAINOSTEI, KAK I VSE MY. | life | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| 9ddb2fc | Skol'ko let proshlo, poka my poniali, chto smysl chelovecheskoi zhizni -- kto by chelovekom ni upravlial, -- tol'ko v tom, chtoby liubit' tekh, kto riadom s toboi, kto nuzhdaetsia v tvoei liubvi. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 91c3e4a | You know what the trouble is with New York?" she asked me. "No," I said. "Nobody here," she said, "believes that there is such a thing as innocence." | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 7ac8c36 | I can only reply that the secret to success in every human endeavor is total concentration. Ask any great athlete. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 622d28d | What makes so many Americans proud of their ignorance? They act as though their ignorance somehow made them charming. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 0f02166 | Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| a9e33b3 | That is kind of like what I do," she said. She was demure about what she did. What she did was make people comfortable while she killed them." | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 0f4431b | The therapist, after a deeply upsetting investigation of normality at this time and place, was bound to conclude that a normal person, functioning well on the upper levels of a prosperous, industrialized society, can hardly hear his conscience at all. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 95e0aa9 | I spoke one time at the Library of Congress, in 1972, or so. A man stood up in the middle of the audience, when I was about halfway through, and he said, "What right have you, as leader of America's young people, to make those people so cynical and pessimistic?" I had no good answer, so I left the stage. Talk about profiles in courage!" | leadership pessimism youth | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| 26984ba | No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it. Oh, there have been lots of brilliant guesses. But honest, educated people have to identify with them as such--as guesses. What are guesses worth? Scientifically and legally, they are not worth doodley-squat. As the saying goes: "Your guess is as good as mine." The guesses we like best, as with so many things we like best,.. | life meaning-of-life secular-education skepticism theories wisdom | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| 6886ff6 | Be warned: If you allow yourself to see dignity in someone, you have doomed yourself to wanting to understand and help whoever it is. "If you see dignity in anything, in fact--it doesn't have to be human--you will still want to understand it and help it. Many people are now seeing dignity in the lower animals and the plant world and waterfalls and deserts--and even in the entire planet and its atmosphere. And now they are helpless not to wa.. | empathy understanding | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| 6e23917 | I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 3d014be | While the British colonel set Lazzaro's broken arm and mixed plaster for the cast, the German major translated out loud passages from Howard W. Campbell, Jr.'s monograph. Campbell had been a fairly well-known playwright at one time. His opening line was this one: America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, "It ain't no.. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| c9a65b8 | I tried to write a story about a reunion between my father and myself in heaven one time. An early draft of this book in fact began that way. I hoped in the story to become a really good friend of his. But the story turned out perversely, as stories about real people we have known often do. It seemed that in heaven people could be any age they liked, just so long as they had experienced that age on Earth. Thus, John D. Rockefeller, for exam.. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 80020a3 | Das Reich der Zwei, the nation of two my Helga and I had--its territory, the territory we defended so jealously, didn't go much beyond the bounds of our great double bed. Flat, tufted, springy little country, with my Helga and me for mountains. And, with nothing in my life making sense but love, what a student of geography I was! What a map I could draw for a tourist a micron high, a submicroscopic Wandervogel bicycling between a mole and a.. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| c604d81 | while people and circumstances certainly matter, what's even more important is what we think about those people and circumstances. | Michael Neill | ||
| 542a89c | Great living is not all output of thought and work. A man has to have intake as well. I don't know what you call it, but I call it religion, prayer, or God." O'Neill" | Michael Keane | ||
| f102866 | but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 8b85998 | It is, I think, the journalist's vice to believe that all history can instantly be reduced to experience: ("Pierre, an out-of-work pipe fitter in the suburb of Boulougne, is typical of the new class of chomeurs . . .") just as it is the scholar's vice to believe that all experience can be reduced to history ("The new world capitalist order produced a new class of chomeurs, of whom Pierre, a pipe fitter, was a typical case . . .")." | Adam Gopnik | ||
| 8648b9c | Cuando el sol y la luna habian nacido en Teotihuacan, habian sacado a los hombres de la oscuridad. Ella sabia por sus antepasados que la luz que emiten esos astros no es solo fisica sino espiritual y que su transito por los cielos servia para unificar en el pensamiento de los hombres el ciclo de tiempo y espacio. La contemplacion de los cielos, como en un juego de espejos, se convertia en una contemplacion interna, se volvia un instrumento .. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 6849ec2 | Mi abuela tenia una teoria muy interesante, decia que si bien todos nacemos con una caja de cerillos en nuestro interior, no los podemos encender solo, necesitamos, como en le experimento, oxigeno y la ayuda de una vela. Solo que en este caso el oxigeno tiene que provenir, por ejemplo, del aliento de la persona amada; la vela puede ser cualquier tipo do alimento, musica, caricia, palabra o sonido que haga disparar el detonador y asi encende.. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| af4b5ea | dr zndgy mwrdy pysh my ayd khh gr ss mwDw` r tGyyr ndhd, nbyd chndn jdy grfth shwd. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 276c0e0 | gr adm mytwnst bwh w mzhhy khnh mdry r hrj khh dlsh mykhwst bbrd, zndgy shyryntr mybwd | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 5394946 | Estos grandes astros han sobrevivido millones de anos gracias a que se cuidan mucho de no absorber los rayos ardientes que los amantes de todo el mundo les lanzan noche tras noche. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| b060640 | Que orgullosa se sentia de ver a Esperanza tan segura de si misma, tan inteligente, tan preparada, tan feliz, tan capaz, pero al mismo tiempo, tan femenina y tan mujer en el mas amplio sentido de la palabra. | feminism feminismo woman | Laura Esquivel | |
| d0a2339 | Si por una emocion muy fuerte se llegan a encender todos los cerillos que llevamos en nuestro interior de un solo golpe, se produce un resplandor tan fuerte que ilumina mas alla de lo que podemos ver normalmente y entonces ante nuestros ojos aparece un tunel esplendoroso que nos muestra el camino que olvidamos al momento de nacer y que nos llama a reencontrar nuestro perdido origen divino. El alma desea reintegrarse al lugar de donde provie.. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 785e9f2 | Que baile, que ria, que nada le impida galopar hasta la locura, que los ladridos de los perros no detengan su andar, que nunca tenga que elegir entre amar o vivir. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| f5c561d | Siento que deje pasar el amor. Que no lo cuide. No lo pode. No le quite las hojas muertas. Lo vi nacer, crecer y dar un bello fruto que no tuve la precaucion de cuidar para que se reprodujera para siempre. No, lo deje caer en la tierra y permiti que se pudriera. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 9ea1259 | Senor, no es por vicio ni por fornicio sino por dar un hijo a tu servicio. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 657e5cb | Y entendio que, antes de que encarnara dentro de su vientre, ella y su hijo ya eran lo mismo, y lo seguian siendo. Nunca habia habido perdida ni separacion. Nunca habia habido cuerpos diferenciados entre madre e hijo. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| fd954ff | There really is no place like the one you find between the pages of a book. | Emma Hart | ||
| ba4082d | La vida siempre nos ofrece dos posibilidades: el dia y la noche; el aguila o la serpiente, la construccion o la destruccion, el castigo o el perdon, pero siempre hay una tercera posibilidad oculta que unifica a las dos: descubrela. Despues | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 976667a | Nothing had spared her from being mocked for wetting her pants, not even the fact that she had rushed to the delegado's aid. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 7ab3ef2 | Mi abuela tenia una teoria muy interesante, decia que si bien todos nacemos con una caja de cerillos en nuestro interior, no los podemos encender solos, necesitamos [...] oxigeno y la ayuda de una vela. Solo que en este caso el oxigeno tiene que provenir, por ejemplo, del aliento de la persona amada; la vela puede ser cualquier tipo de alimento, musica, caricia, palabra o sonido que haga disparar el detonador y asi encender uno de los ceril.. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 7ead029 | La vida seria mucho mas agradable si uno pudiera llevarse a donde quiera que fuera los sabores y los olores de la casa materna. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 0d38536 | Surely the heart is not a fitting place to house hatred. But where is its place? I don't know. That is one of the universe's Unknowns. It would seem that the God's truly delight in messing things up, for in not having created a particular spot to house hatred, they have provoked eternal chaos. Hatred us forever hunting down a refuge, poking it's nose where it shouldn't, taking over sites reserved for others, invariably forcing out love. | love wise-words | Laura Esquivel | |
| 281af5b | Parecia que los dos habian olvidado las mas elementales reglas de urbanidad, que dicen que en una reunion social no hay que sacar a colacion cuestiones sobre personalidades, sobre temas tristes o hechos infortunados, sobre religion o sobre politica. | Laura Esquivel |