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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7fa934e | Before I go on, I want to say something about the word protection. I worry that because it has such a positive connotation, by implication anything being protected seems, ipso facto, worth protecting. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 40d2abd | Moreover, successful leaders embrace the reality that their models may be wrong or incomplete. Only when we admit what we don't know can we ever hope to learn it. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 4616b6a | He told me that he thinks he and the other proven directors have a responsibility to be teachers--that this should be a central part of their jobs, even as they continue to make their own films. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 7c0eac4 | But as always, my focus was on the challenges ahead and on staying true to our goal of recognizing problems early and engaging them fully. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 913d26c | That's because success convinces us that we are doing things the right way. There is nothing quite as effective, when it comes to shutting down alternative viewpoints, as being convinced you are right. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 26d5eff | No one embodied the spirit of the frontier more than Daniel Boone, who faced and defeated countless natural and man-made dangers to literally hand cut the trail west through the wilderness. He marched with then colonel George Washington in the French and Indian War, established one of the most important trading posts in the West, served three terms in the Virginia Assembly, and fought in the Revolution. His exploits made him world famous; h.. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 1fb7cf4 | The manner in which the Americans are subdivided into sects also conflicts with any commendable desire that may exist to build glorious temples in honor of the Deity: and convenience is more consulted than taste, perhaps, in all that relates to ecclesiastical architecture. Nevertheless, | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| f7b78ca | Men who, in their hearts, really care no more for mankind than See-wise cared for the fish, lift their voices in shouts of a spurious humanity, in order to raise themselves to power, on the shoulders of an excited populace. Bloodshed, domestic violence, impracticable efforts to attain an impossible perfection, and all the evils of a civil conflict are forgotten or blindly attempted, in order to raise themselves in the arms of those they cal.. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 289a40e | The turf shall be my fragrant shrine; My temple, Lord! that arch of thine; My censer's breath the mountain airs, And silent thoughts my only prayers. MOORE | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 3720407 | Then he was wrong, Hurry; very wrong. A man can enjoy plunder peaceably nowhere. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 51d3567 | As your distress is occasioned by my company," said Eve, "it is fortunately in my power to relieve it." | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| cd6d4b7 | Reading was the only subject at which I excelled. I would much rather be reading James Fenimore Cooper than dealing with participles in French. My poor school performance was puzzling because my parents saw that I possessed intelligence and curiosity. Marine biology became a passion. When I asked them to drive me to Boston to hear lectures by Jacques Cousteau, my first hero, they were happy to do so. They took me to the Woods Hole Oceanogra.. | Joe Perry | ||
| 6e0ed31 | Merika pragmata odegoun s' enan kosmo pera apo ta logia... einai san auton ton mikro kathrephte sta paramuthia -koitas mesa tou kai auto pou blepeis den einai o eautos sou. Gia mia stigme eides to Aphtasto... kai e | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 988d248 | Indijanac je stvorenje sto cete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti. | stvorenje čovjek | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 1800694 | Cuo sam vec sumu gdje jauce poput covjeka koji se nade u nevolji; slusao sam kako vjetar pjeva svoju pjesmu medu granjem drveca; slusao sam munju kako praska poput upaljena grmlja, kad bljuje iskre i rasljaste plamenove, i sve mi se to cinilo tek kao volja Onoga koji drzi sve stvari u svojoj ruci. | munja priroda vatra vjetar šuma | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 22ecdf3 | They linger yet, Avengers of their native land."--Gray" | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 7a6e608 | Now Mr. Green was so completely a star of a confined orbit, that his ideas seldom described a tangent to their ordinary revolutions. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| c88ae15 | Mr. Dodge, you have the high consolation of knowing that, throughout this trying occasion, you have conducted yourself in a way no other man of the party could have done. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| ad21213 | if a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an undersized opinion of himself. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 0a1a94c | Who have we here? some amateur in fights! an inquisitive, wonder- seeking non-combatant, who has volunteered to serve his king, and perhaps draw a picture, or write a book, to serve himself! Pray, sir, in what capacity did you serve in this vessel? | sea-stories | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| c4c9c8a | So much the better -- so much the better; for I have always found that a conceited man never knows content. All things prove it. Why have we not the wings of the pigeon, the eyes of the eagle, and the legs of the moose, if it had been intended that man should be equal to all his wishes? | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| df9e447 | We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes." James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer" | Jason Letts | ||
| c1419dd | One, and she was the more juvenile in her appearance, though both were young, permitted glimpses of her dazzling complexion, fair golden hair, and bright blue eyes, to be caught, as she artlessly suffered the morning air to blow aside the green veil which descended low from her beaver. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 08457f5 | happy hunting-grounds | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 5c2d361 | natur'? | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 5b1d786 | Joan of Arc, | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| f47ab10 | Frontenackers | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| ab1304c | else would my scalp long since have been drying in a Mingo wigwam. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| fdd2893 | natur' is natur', | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| ab3a87e | Tis true, the Delawares call me Deerslayer, but it's not so much because I'm pretty fatal with the venison as because that while I kill so many bucks and does, I've never yet taken the life of a fellow-creatur'. They say their traditions do not tell of another who had shed so much blood of animals that had not shed the blood of man. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 3511a5d | His roving eyes began to moisten, and before the hymn was ended, scalding tears rolled out of a fountain that had long seemed dry, and followed each other down those cheeks that had oftener felt the storms of heaven, than any testimonials of weakness. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| a796e55 | The mind is apt to make some efforts to prove the fitness between its qualities and the condition of its owner, though it may often fail, and render that ridiculous which was only hated before. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| db957c2 | The diseased flesh fragments were then pocketed and brought along to their next targets and home villages, causing the spread of diseases twice-fold. The terrible event was immortalized in James Fenimore Cooper's celebrated novel, The Last of the Mohicans. The French and Indian Wars wound down in 1763, following the signing of the Treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris. The French were forced to give up Louisianan and Canadian territories, whic.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| c657fcd | I have passed days thinking of these matters, out in the silent woods, and I have come to the opinion, boy, that as Providence rules all things, no gift is bestowed without some wise and reasonable end. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 1738190 | which descended low from her beaver. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 717bdf5 | We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| a999e2a | As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have fought at his side in many a bloody scrimmage; and so long as I could hear the crack of his piece in one ear, and that of the Sagamore in the other, I knew no enemy was on my back. Winters and summers, nights and days, have we roved the wilderness in company, eating of the same dish, one sleeping while the other watched; and afore it shall be s.. | loyalty | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 2ba0ec6 | Che diritto hanno i cristiani bianchi di vantarsi del loro sapere, mentre un indiano e in grado di leggere una lingua che sarebbe troppo oscura per il piu saggio di loro? | saggezza superbia | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 156db45 | In turn, this brought the famous accolade from Seymour that would for ever be associated with Beresford's name: 'Well done, Condor!' For the rest of his life, when he entered a crowded hall, as often as not, a voice would raise the cry 'Well done, Condor!' and cheers would follow. | Richard Freeman | ||
| c8e3afe | Events that are nonrepeatable are ignored before their occurrence, and overestimated after (for a while). After | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 8390e40 | narrated Black Swans, those that are present in the current discourse and that you are likely to hear about on television, and | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 17d5264 | An insight into how the mechanisms of religion and the transmission of morals obey the same renormalization dynamics as dietary laws--and how we can show that morality is more likely to be something enforced by a minority. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 0af7558 | I am convinced that there exists a tradable security in the Western world that would be 100% correlated with the changes in temperature in Ulan Bator, | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 1167927 | There is an element of deceit associated with interventionism, accelerating in a professionalized society. It's much easier to sell "Look what I did for you" than "Look what I avoided for you." Of course a bonus system based on "performance" exacerbates the problem." | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |