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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| af708fc | If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some builtin mental disorder which drives him toward self-destruction." --Arthur Koestler" | Will Tuttle | ||
| 72e0fb7 | oi politophulakes pou me phulagan, emoiazan polu dusarestemenoi ap'ole aute ten katastase. ose ora basanizan sto diplano domatio, me parakolouthousan m'endiapheron gia na doune pos antidrousa, isos akome kai me oikto. otan pherane piso to trito thuma, nekro e lipothumo, o gerontoteros ap'tous duo politophulakes mou erixe ena blemma, sekonontas tous omous se mia uposuneidete kineses suggnomes. se aute ten kinese briskotan oloklero to noema t.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 1c82ddc | In Germany, Martin Heidegger turned against his former mentor Edmund Husserl, but later Heidegger's friends and colleagues turned their backs on him. In France, Gabriel Marcel attacked Jean-Paul Sartre, Sartre fell out with Camus, Camus fell out with Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty fell out with Sartre, and the Hungarian intellectual Arthur Koestler fell out with everyone and punched Camus in the street. | Sarah Bakewell | ||
| 53f0daf | To know me you have to fly with me. Up In the Air, Walter Kirn, 2001 | Hans Bauer | ||
| f056e9d | Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 3dc8359 | epistemological | Walter Kirn | ||
| c71656f | Purple Noon. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 8f35c32 | If you've helped someone die, there is nothing I can tell you. If you haven't, I don't want to tell you. But I must, or what came later may make no sense. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 1927e93 | Philippe, | Walter Kirn | ||
| 4561c35 | The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods. | stranded uprooted | Walter Kirn | |
| 9999342 | Who all these people, so many of them brown? What this ritual unfolding around him? I've never seen a German look as German as Clark did when he assessed his likely assessors. His eyes were like small blue coins behind his glasses. | Walter Kirn | ||
| ab42ce3 | I sensed the presence of wizened bachelor potters working in sheds behind their mothers' houses. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 318907d | Sometimes I wondered if my problem was liking too many different kinds of | Walter Kirn | ||
| 262fb7b | people, including types that I didn't like much at all but felt I had something to learn or to gain from. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 1d33372 | Center is the unconditionally accepting, conscious, compassionate awareness that is our authentic nature. It is the nonseparate reality that contains, and is able to embrace, the illusion of a separate self - called I, me, my - that suffers. When in center, everything is as it is and none of it is taken personally. There is nothing wrong; no loss, lack, or deprivation; no fear; no urgency. The feeling of center is often described as peacefu.. | Cheri Huber | ||
| 9d41cc2 | I turned with the receiver to the wall as I absorbed the fact of Ivan's voice, and when I glanced back at the man on my sofa, he seemed like a scrap of paper, or the handle from a broken cup, or a single rubber band--a thing that has become dislodged from its rightful place and intrudes on one's consciousness two or three or many times before one understands that it is just a thing best thrown away. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| f3a2c35 | language . . . what exactly was it, and how did it happen? Celeste shrugged. "Some people think it was just business as usual--mutation, adaptation, selection, mutation, adaptation, selection, a slow continuity kind of thing, for hundreds of thousands of years. But other people think it happened incredibly fast, within about forty thousand years. And that this capacity that made it possible--this built-in capacity for the operation that let.. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| c3dca14 | The British public is woefully ignorant of the realities of the British empire, and what it meant to its subject peoples. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 7c3bba6 | Beyond the apartment's walls, in the night sky of his closed eyes, little lights charted the streets and broad avenues, the apartments and clubs of late revelers, the tall towers, where five or six guys he knew, guys only a few years ahead of him, would be toiling, even at this hour, in their big chairs, the vast windows of their offices overlooking the city, overlooking the planet with its mines and wells, its fields and great waterways, a.. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| b1aa5ed | Galicia. I contemplate the beautiful name as it unfolds, disclosing delicate, prancing, caparisoned horses and the lovely princesses riding them whose undulating red hair reaches to the carpet of flowers beneath the hooves. "You could always tell the Jews from Galicia by their red hair," my aunt says dreamily." | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| 3cfe8dd | Pretty girls are not to be envied. Because when a boy sees a pretty girl, he does not see a real person. He sees a mirror of his own desires, and he falls in love with the mirror. Boys put a pretty girl on a pedestal. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| f856223 | she just seemed to have been put together more on purpose than other people. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| a615beb | Sure she wanted him to be someone else, or at least sort of someone else. Pretty much everyone wants everyone else to be at least sort of someone else, don't they? | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| 164b1b9 | I was looking out at cliffs and the sea, all sluiced in delicate pinks and yellows and greens and blues, as if the sun were imparting to the sleeping rock and water dreams of their youth, dreams of the rock's birth in the earth's molten core, the water's ecstatic purity before it was sullied by life--as if the play of soft colors were the sun's lullaby to the cliffs and the sea, of endurance and transformation. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| e16e7ac | And as she talks, I concentrate on spreading out my substance, making myself spongy to absorb the puffiness into myself, to absorb the pain radiating through her feet and legs and back. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| 0fec72f | They would sit down at the bar, Mr. Perfect and the girl, and the predictable theatrics would start right up, so the moment he appeared I'd resign myself to a night of watching a wallet flirt with a price tag. Mr. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| 6cbcdfd | It's odd--no matter how you feel about a place, it's as though you exchange something with it. It keeps a little bit of you, and you keep a little bit of it." "I know," he said. "And the thing you mostly get to keep is leaving." | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| a74aedf | Gentlemen, I like war. Gentlemen, I love war. I like genocide. I like blitzkrieg. I like aggressive war. I like defensive war. I like sieges. I like breaking through. I like withdrawing. I like cleaning up. I like retreating. In moors. On highways. In trenches. In plains. On tundra. In desert. On sea. In sky. In mud. | Kohta Hirano | ||
| 5b13211 | As Manu S. Pillai acidly observes, 'In other words, there is nothing a quiet ghar wapsi cannot solve when it comes to the building of a good dharmocracy.'90 | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| fd16506 | I believe in the unity of all living things. God is in us and in all that exists." "So, when you eat a carrot, aren't you eating God?" | god humor left-behind ryan | Jerry B. Jenkins | |
| dec557a | If there's one thing I know, it's that God has a purpose for things. Everything fits together like a puzzle, but we're looking at it from a human angle. All we can see are missing pieces. He sees the big picture and knows how it all fits." Vicki" -- | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 85d72cb | had | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| df055c6 | their | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 0c01b6d | guys, | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 2279039 | that was | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 3c5d87a | She said he acted like any small chore or favor was the biggest burden in the world. | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 39ec62f | Would you like to compare what you do around here with what I do? | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 1267acd | Bruce Barnes | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 2be2714 | For a long time I've concentrated on how small I am, how little I have to offer," Vicki continued. "That's not the point. The point is how big God is and what he wants to do." Shelly" | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 862e85b | No more hiding. No more pretending to be something she wasn't. She would wear an older woman's clothes, but she would wear them in such a way that she was honest with herself, with others, and with God. She was a teenager who had been left behind, but she was also one who had seen what was right and acted upon it. She belonged to God now, and she would present herself to him as she really was. | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 87d397e | And they prayed for him. | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| c2fb33c | I, for one, dearly hope that a British prime minister will find the heart, and the spirit, to get on his or her knees at Jallianwala Bagh in 2019 and beg forgiveness from Indians in the name of his or her people for the unforgivable massacre | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 76aad71 | One of the more difficult questions I used to find myself being asked as a United Nations official, especially when I had been addressing a generalist audience, was: What is the single most important thing that can be done to improve the world?... If I had to pick one thing we must do above all else, I now offer a two-word mantra: "Educate girls." -- | girls | Shashi Tharoor | |
| 0d7664f | But in looking to understand the forces that have made us and nearly unmade us, and in hoping to recognize possible future sources of conflict in the new millennium, we have to realize that sometimes the best crystal ball is a rear-view mirror. | Shashi Tharoor |