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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 7990011 | His Christianity was muscular. | Benjamin Disraeli | ||
| cdd31c0 | The more you are talked about the less powerful you are. | Benjamin Disraeli | ||
| 80ffd54 | It makes a huge difference whether I treat a nonbeliever as someone who is wrong rather than as someone who is on the way but lost. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 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 | ||
| e56db0d | Prophets sneer that the Wizards' faith in human resourcefulness is unthinking, scientifically ignorant, even driven by greed (because remaining within ecological limits will cut into corporate profits). | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 2f8e7b5 | As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. | Benjamin Disraeli | ||
| b679493 | An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. | Benjamin Disraeli | ||
| 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 | ||
| d52cb03 | It was a few years after the beginning of the Lebanese war, as I was attending the Wharton School, at the age of twenty-two, that I was hit with the idea of efficient markets--an idea that holds that there is no way to derive profits from traded securities since these instruments have automatically incorporated all the available information. Public information can therefore be useless, particularly to a businessman, since prices can already.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| ebeccd8 | There is no education like adversity. | Benjamin Disraeli | ||
| d4f69a3 | Without tact you can learn nothing. | Benjamin Disraeli | ||
| 17499c8 |
Pero las ventas de un libro o la magnitud de los sucesos sociales no siguen este tipo de restricciones. Cuesta mucho mas de mil dias aceptar que un escritor carece de talento, que no se producira un crac en la Bolsa, que no estallara una guerra, que un proyecto no tiene futuro, que un pais es < |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 88ed267 | The market is like a large movie theater with a small door. And the best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| e105792 | Independence is person-specific: I have always been taken aback at the high number of people in whom an astonishingly high income led to additional sycophancy as they became more dependent on their clients and employers and more addicted to making even more money.) | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 8022a80 | So I stayed in the quant and trading businesses (I'm still there), but organized myself to do minimal but intense (and entertaining) work, focus only on the most technical aspects, never attend business "meetings," avoid the company of "achievers" and people in suits who don't read books, and take a sabbatical year for every three on average to fill up gaps in my scientific and philosophical culture. To slowly distill my single idea, I want.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| ce29535 | We produce thirty-year projections of social security deficits and oil prices without realizing that we cannot even predict these for next summer--our cumulative prediction errors for political and economic events are so monstrous that every time I look at the empirical record I have to pinch myself to verify that I am not dreaming. What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| af65f5f | La mente humana padece tres trastornos cuando entra en contacto con la historia, lo que yo llamo el terceto de la opacidad. Son los siguientes: a) la ilusion de comprender, o como todos pensamos que sabemos lo que pasa en un mundo que es mas complicado (o aleatorio) de lo que creemos; b) la distorsion retrospectiva, o como podemos evaluar las cosas solo despues del hecho, como si se reflejaran en un retrovisor (la historia parece mas clara .. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 9eff8b0 | Todo lo que se necesita es una sola (y, por lo que me dicen, fea) ave negra.** Doy un paso adelante, dejando atras esta cuestion logico-filosofica, para entrar en la realidad empirica, la cual me obsesiona desde nino.*** Lo que aqui llamamos un Cisne Negro (asi, en mayusculas) es un suceso con los tres atributos que siguen. Primero, es una rareza, pues habita fuera del reino de las expectativas normales, porque nada del pasado puede apuntar.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| c460f29 | Lo que no sabemos La logica del Cisne Negro hace que lo que no sabemos sea mas importante que lo que sabemos.* Tengamos en cuenta que muchos Cisnes Negros pueden estar causados y exacerbados por el hecho de ser inesperados. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |