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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8fcd25a | with | Ian Rankin | ||
| ee3ed6d | Oils in general, which produce a beneficial effect on the nervous system, include Chamomile, Clary Sage, Juniper, Lavender, Marjoram, Melissa and Rosemary. Bergamot, Chamomile, Lavender and Marjoram have analgesic, antispasmodic and sedative properties, helping to relieve pain, promote a calming effect, and reduce over-activity of the nervous system. Eucalyptus, Peppermint and Rosemary are both analgesic and antispasmodic, helping to reliev.. | Beth A. Jones | ||
| 7c87d89 | doctors advised intensive talk therapy, even electroshock treatment. Some gay men were castrated against their will, a procedure that removed their testicles and deadened the sex drive. Others were lobotomized, a medical practice that destroyed the connections between the frontal lobes and the thalamus of the brain, deadening just about all aspects of behavior. | Ann Bausum | ||
| 7a83d78 | Few bars in New York, even gay bars, permitted same-sex dancing. | Ann Bausum | ||
| 04bf973 | Men danced with men, often for the first time in their lives. | Ann Bausum | ||
| 2e9a0ea | Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween. | Ann Bausum | ||
| d28e40f | When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one's bedroom, in more than half of the country's states plus the nation's capital. | stonewall | Ann Bausum | |
| 61ac44b | We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women. | women stonewall gay | Ann Bausum | |
| 4277271 | And then there were the lesbians. | Ann Bausum | ||
| 0a4b6c2 | The joys, the sorrows soon will end. The tomb confines all mortals! Do not cry or place flowers at my grave. Do not place a cross with my name to cover these bones! Ah, the misguided desire to smile; God pardon and accept me, all is finished. | John Nicholl | ||
| c649ae1 | Grav laughed, causing his overhanging beer gut to wobble like a birthday jelly. 'Yeah, I'm starting ballet classes next week. My saggy arse will look good in the tights.' 'Now, | John Nicholl | ||
| a94c038 | What is this, the Spanish Inquisition or something?" [Drew Nichols] "Yeah, and you didn't expect it, did you? [John Bell]" | Shawn Goodwin | ||
| a710a1f | Another woman has been arrested and thrown in jail because she refused to get up out of her seat on the bus for a white person to sit down. It is the second time since the Claudette Colvin case that a Negro woman has been arrested for the same thing. This has to be stopped. Negroes have rights too, for if Negroes did not ride the buses, they could not operate. Three-fourths of the riders are Negro, yet we are arrested, or have to stand over.. | John Nichols | ||
| e1977da | We are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like w.. | John Nichols | ||
| 4bc9e40 | People simply do not understand numbers, risk, or probability, and few things can make discussion between experts and laypeople more frustrating than this "innumeracy," as the mathematician John Allen Paulos memorably called it. For people who believe flying is dangerous, there will never be enough safe landings to outweigh the fear of the one crash. "Confronted with these large numbers and with the correspondingly small probabilities assoc.. | Thomas M. Nichols | ||
| a8a289e | Only when Clark Nichols was not in the shop did the boys argue religion. Or at night up in the attic where they bunked the boys would argue. Willy deemed himself a loyal churchman of the Church of England. John War was a Dissenter. In Piddington John Warr had joined a group of Dissenters who had been meeting since 1767. They now had a meeting house in Hackleton. Large indeed at about 200, the group was made up of field workers, domestic ser.. | Sam Wellman | ||
| 43c5038 | How wrongly Willy had judged Mister Nichols. Among his numerous prayers now he prayed for Clarke Nichols. And when Mister Nichols announced he was going to marry Frances Howes in October of 1777 Willy prayed for her too. He had a second chance. He was going to change his life. The counterfeit shilling had proven once and for all he was a sinner. And he wanted to change like John Warr had changed, for his fellow apprentice had surely become .. | Sam Wellman | ||
| 70a09e8 | Willy began to avidly read the Bible and books from Nichols' small library. Books by Jeremy Taylor taught him how a person tries to attain greater holiness in his life. Apparently this quest for personal holiness was the thrust behind John Wesley's Methodism too. For the first time Willy began to think maybe a Christian needed to do more than attend church. | Sam Wellman | ||
| 5b08398 | There is however, one reason why the arts so rarely accept a mission that IS within the power of the Church to alter. In the past, the densest or richest location of baptised art has been the Liturgy. The sacred use of the arts in the liturgical setting has provided inspiration for artists engaged in producing artworks for contexts outside the Liturgy, for consumption beyond the limits of the visible Church. In the modern West, the Muses ha.. | liturgy theology-of-art | Aidan Nichols O.P. | |
| ce8d0e5 | There were still exciting groups on the horizon: Ben Pollack, Isham Jones, Red Nichols, and Ted "Is Ev-rybody Happy?" Lewis provided an early training ground for many of the stars of the swing era, which was just around the corner. Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Jimmie Lunceford, and Chick Webb had started or were soon to start bands in the mid- to late 1920s, and Duke Ellington was already one of the most respecte.. | John Dunning | ||
| 776c04a | Detroit, for example, a new police commissioner took over in 1971 and began implementing a more Nixonian approach to illicit drugs. Chief John Nichols doubled up the personnel on his narcotics unit and started arresting and imprisoning heroin dealers instead of merely chasing them off, as the city had done in the past. The result was an impressive stat sheet on the enforcement side: 1,600 arrests. But cracking down on dealers opened the cit.. | Radley Balko | ||
| 6dcdced | If we've been forced into a back-alley fight, are we to ignore the essential weapons of the street brawl? | John Nichol | ||
| bb2e6c7 | Mum sometimes says that there is danger of confusing equal opportunity with being fundamentally the same. | John Nicholl | ||
| a35deba | How much beer are you drinking these days?' 'Seven or eight pints.' 'A week?' 'A day.' She shook her head and scowled. 'What about the whisky?' 'One or two a week.' 'Glasses?' 'Bottles. | John Nicholl | ||
| bc6160d | am sorry to tell you that your partner is dead.' You see, words are important. Just eleven words, and my life was devastated. There was no room for hope, no room for bargaining, no room for denial and no room for pleading. A light had gone out and would never shine again. | John Nicholl | ||
| 1e9a4fc | Consider the various ways in which Trump's campaign represented a one-man campaign against established knowledge. He was one of the original "birthers" who demanded that Barack Obama prove his American citizenship. He quoted the National Enquirer approvingly as a source of news. He sided with antivaccine activism. He admitted that he gets most of his information on foreign policy from "the shows" on Sunday morning television. He suggested t.. | Thomas M. Nichols | ||
| f027048 | I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values," said King. "We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable" | John Nichols | ||
| 1b19652 | You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry ... Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying tha.. | John Nichols | ||
| 4b286ed | If I am not for myself, who will be for me? Yet if I am for myself only, what am I? | John Nichols | ||
| 5ccaafa | Perceptive and valuable personal explorations of time alone include A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland, Party of One by Anneli Rufus, Migrations to Solitude by Sue Halpern, Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton, The Point of Vanishing by Howard Axelrod, Solitude by Robert Kull, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit, The Story of My H.. | Michael Finkel | ||
| cea39bf | If universal building codes and protections for children with pre-existing conditions can be presented as assaults on American values and the rule of law - and reported upon as such in major media that turn a promise of balance into an excuse for airing nonsense - then the debate has been dumbed down to such an extent that the right has already won, no matter what the result on election day. | John Nichols | ||
| dbec7b2 | This was my dad, for gosh sakes! After not seeing him for two years, I had finally found him-in another dimension playing chess with a ghost! How was I supposed to calm down? | dad dimension ghost | John McNichol | |
| af849d8 | Presidents can be exceptional men or awful men, and soon presidents will be women. | politics president | John Nichols | |
| 99d8a52 | Christ came to save men, but a good Pagan will go to heaven, and a bad Nazarene to hell. I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other. I will bring ten Mussulman, shall shame you all in good will towards men and prayer to God. | John Nichol | ||
| 166a999 | Nerves got the better of the most experienced pilots during Rhubarbs. On one occasion, two of Robertson's fellow 111 Squadron pilots flew over the Channel up into cloud then came down and slipped over the coast. They spotted a train and shot it up before heading back home. They were surprised on return to be called into the Station Commander's office. What had they been shooting at? A train. Did they damage it? Yes, quite a bit. Did they re.. | John Nichol | ||
| fd192f7 | Major (later General) Curtis LeMay recalled the shock of fog when he flew in to a British airfield for the first time from the US. 'Can you see the runway lights?' the control tower asked the pilot of his aircraft, to which the pilot replied: 'Shit, I can't even see my copilot! | John Nichol | ||
| ae10a5c | In 1941, after a year's experience of bombing Germany, a crucial Air Ministry analysis of photographic evidence had revealed that only 22 per cent of bomber crews who claimed to have hit their target actually got within five miles of it.5 In the more heavily defended Ruhr | John Nichol | ||
| 20b178e | But this was life in those days. Today we are a totally different society. We put out bunches of flowers, have little vigils, hold hands and have counsellors to tell us all what to do. It was totally different then. The world events were so monumental that you had no time to think about the people who had fallen by the wayside. If we had had today's attitudes, we would never have won the war. | John Nichol | ||
| ff33905 | same | Lisa Chaney | ||
| 18ec05c | One of those settlers was Normandy-born and ornately named J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur, who embarked for America in 1754, purchased an estate in Pennsylvania, and married the daughter of an American merchant. In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country and his countrymen in the most flattering terms: We are the most perfect so.. | Simon Anholt | ||
| 153d259 | In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country and his countrymen in the most flattering terms: We are the most perfect society now existing in the world... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world... Here a man is free as he ought to .. | Simon Anholt | ||
| b964ec5 | America is basically about freedom. | Simon Anholt | ||
| 1611e05 | a while. Until about a year | Susan Conant | ||
| 67f0e9c | Gino Fosse vond deze vreemde afbeeldingen van martelaren fascinerend. Hij had uren in de San Stefano Rotondo, niet ver van de villa Celimontana, zitten kijken naar de vaklieden die de verbijsterende schilderingen op de muren daar restaureerden. Deze afbeeldingen spraken tot hem, zeiden iets dat hij niet helemaal begreep. Op de lippen van de martelaren lag op het moment dat zij de kwellingen doorstonden, een raadselachtig eeuwig geheim dat z.. | David Hewson |