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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f0e43dd | A four-syllable name is impractical in battle, lad, and in most poetry too, if ye care about what the bards say. I'll give ye only two syllables until ye actually save me bones from the Fae. You can pick. Cory, Ian, Andy, Gobshite, I don't care. What'll it be?" "Coriander, sir." He shoots a pleading glance at Brighid, but she looks amused, and I laugh at him. "How about Fuckstick? Aye, that'll do." He doesn't have a ward against me calling .. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c335433 | If you still want to tell him you're sorry tomorrow or a hundred years from now, you're going to get that chance. Because you're going to be around. And maybe when you say it there will be forgiveness and it will be good. And if there isn't forgiveness, then it will still be good, because you will have done what's right: He deserves that apology. And in the meantime, there is beer and blood and the songs of bards, the great wide world to li.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 9bf7741 | He's the father of modern empiricism, or the scientific method. Before he came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than the other guy, or, if they did use facts, they only selected ones that reinforced their prejudices and advanced their agenda." "More than ever. But Bacon showed us a way to shed preconceived notions and conduct experiments in such a way that the resul.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| eb3625d | the inability to ameliorate the soul-destroying visual discord of corporate fast-food franchises. Some acquaintance or another would periodically drag me into one of the horrors, and, under the malign influence of a decor scheme that assaulted my retinas with primary colors, | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 49b8fff | Great Big Bears! What happened to you? - Oberon | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 451d7c8 | I am unsure why modern men are so reluctant to admit that they enjoy snuggling. When they scoff at it or claim to despise it, they're lying, of course, trying to conform to some bullshit code of machismo. Regardless of one's lifespan, there are few pleasures in it like a lazy morning under comfy blankets with someone you love. Granuaile's soft smile and the early beams of sunlight on her freckled cheeks, all healed now, were so beautiful th.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c4d445d | A man's supposed to shit himself after he dies, son, not before. Try to remember that, lad, so that when your time comes, you won't make a right girly mess of it. Now fuck off and go play in the bog. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4ab0a85 | There are trees to pee on and tiny animals to chase! (Oberon | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 6dabce5 | Tasmania doesn't think we can wait, and I'm on board with the idea. I'm thinking these new Druids will be Gaia's healers above all else, fighting centuries of humans turning everything to shite. I wonder if they have a fancy law or name for the principle that Humans Ruin Everything for Profit. Maybe that's just capitalism. Regardless, it's going to take generations of Druids to undo all this damage. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 53fd351 | He does that a lot--go in a different direction, I mean. I sometimes think if it weren't for Oberon, Siodhachan would be the loneliest man alive. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 06b9d08 | What is all this melodrama? Just because they've never heard of your favorite thing doesn't mean they hate their lives or they need your sympathy or need you to come along and show them how to fix it. In fact, it's kind of arrogant of you to think that. Imperialist, even. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 87a510e | It tore me away from a nightmare where I was trying to teach high school science to a room full of creationists, so I was mightily relieved to see the Chooser of the Slain. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 333005f | The universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibilities. you have just received some sensory input that suggest its bigger than you previously thought. What are you going to do with that information? Will you deny it or embrace it? | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ff9bcf8 | Just blast everything and fly a fast ship. And bring a Wookiee. Works for me. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 5e4f5f4 | Have you learned nothing from this journey? Magic is a drug. You can't just go around eating everything that sparkles. | life | Kevin Hearne | |
| cc3f9fa | Good. Because we were thinking of a place kind of like this one in Oregon." Atticus had already told his attorney, Hal Hauk, to find a suitable place near or in the Willamette Valley." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| dd29ecf | Kevin Hearne | |||
| 490c52d | What's the point of fighting for your friends' lives and stuff if you don't live your life with them?> | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 61cf939 | Ma ithis, nar chacair!" I told him in Gaeilge, a fantastic curse for one such as Mammon, who always wants more: It means, "May you eat but not defecate." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e5eac4d | What if Captain Smythe did not reject his orders? What if Captain Smythe was not there at all? What if instead of soldiers they | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| c259780 | Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective--on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely on facing the future? | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 0f16f0d | What use is decency when we have been thrust into this peril--treading about without even a corset! Are we to be judged? | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 07419c5 | Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him--but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one's actions rather than one's lack of them. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 01f9da9 | Despite himself he scoffed--a staccato bark of saliva--at the very notion of ladders. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| ebbaf6b | She was difficult, she knew. She did not make friends. She was brisk and demanding, unsparing and indulgent. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 6f9d974 | What was it about disfigurement, however arbitrary the source, that led the mind to underestimate, even dismiss the victim ... | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| a7728f7 | She knew how fortunate she was to have her independence, and to have a disposition that cared so little for the opinions of others. Let them talk, she thought, as long as they also saw her holding her head high, and as long as she possessed the whip-hand of wealth. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 4fb274e | There was too much to say - she wanted to prove her independence but knew the Contessa would not care, she wanted revenge but knew the Contessa would never admit her defeat. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| a8f0243 | The francolin's voice is the glory of the fields. | Birds | ||
| 7079b8d | What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful? | Birds | ||
| 59d7f84 | Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 389d67c | This was how people were able to do things when they didn't want to - they made themselves feel something else, like anger, more than the fear. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 92e5ac9 | Is thinking small?" asked Isobel. "Small as air." May tapped my head with her finger. "And just as big." | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 4198c85 | She was already fierce. She required none of this nonsense, and if she'd carried a man's strength and her father's horsewhip these villains would as one be on their knees. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 8e73524 | That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and accoutrements were by definition objective, even scientific, in nature. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 9ab533f | Briefly, the Long Count consists of a tabulation of days elapsed since the supposed inception of the calendar, the total being expressed as so many cycles of differing magnitudes. The largest of these cycles is the baktun, containing 144,000 days; next, the katun, 7,200 days; then the tun, with 360 days; the uinal, with 20; and the smallest of all, always at the bottom of the column, the kin of one day. Each of these in the days of Maya asc.. | Michael D. Coe | ||
| b9c9f00 | Covarrubias began proclaiming, like Caso, that Olmec was the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica." | Michael D. Coe | ||
| b57e7c4 | The Olmec civilization was truly the first in Mesoamerica. | Michael D. Coe | ||
| f339e7e | Every schoolchild learns of L'Enfant's design to make an invasion of Washington difficult. But more interesting is the placement of the White House relative to the Capitol. The distance between them is one mile, and at the time it was a mile through difficult terrain (the mall was a swamp). The distance was a barrier meant to tilt the intercourse between Congress and the president by making it marginally more difficult for them to connect--.. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 4574107 | The question is: Which means best advances the regulator's goal, subject to the constraints (whether normative or material) that the regulator must recognize? My | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| cf08497 | Lawrence Lessig dice que tres cosas regulan la red: los mercados, la ley y el codigo. | Marta Peirano | ||
| eb31d39 | If my writing produces angry reactions, then it might also effect a more balanced reflection. These are hard times to get it right, but the easy answers to yesterday's debate won't get it right. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 769f775 | Liberty in cyberspace will not come from the absence of the state. Liberty there, as anywhere, will come from a state of a certain kind. We build a world where freedom can flourish not by removing from society any self-conscious control, but by setting it in a place where a particular kind of self-conscious control survives. We build liberty as our founders did, by setting society upon a certain constitution. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 337b63c | In speaking of a constitution in cyberspace we are simply asking: What values should be protected there? What values should be built into the space to encourage what forms of life? | Lawrence Lessig |