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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 89a7542 | Self-reflection was never Aretha's strong suit, and yet in the late eighties, she began discussing the idea of writing her memoirs. Before she hired an agent to shop a deal, though, she spoke about her life to reporter Ed Bradley for a 60 Minutes segment. The resulting profile was little more than a puff piece. Yet Aretha was extremely unhappy with the interview because of one particular question. Bradley wanted to know about the sexual con.. | David Ritz | ||
| febb57c | Es nuestra concepcion de la muerte lo que determina nuestras respuestas a todas las preguntas que la vida nos plantea. | vida | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| f311ab8 | La apreciaba por lo que era, no por lo que parecia. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| a7257bc | Kayla replied, 'And we---or the p-zeds, at any rate---copy indiscriminately, without reflection. And if the person they're coyping is a psychopath, then their behavior ends up being de facto psychopathic, too.' "" | science-of-mind | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| 1b33f88 | Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace." -Robert J. Sawyer" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 771dbdf | neurotransmitters, a paramecium | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 7c3556d | To use the human metaphor, it would be like trying to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. It can't be done. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| c8e47d5 | He hoped the experiment would indeed succeed today. The next Gray Council was coming up soon, and he and Adikor would have to explain again what they were giving back to the community through their work. Scientists usually got their proposals approved--everyone could clearly see how science had bettered their lives--but, still, it was always more satisfying to report positive results. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 046ebd5 | El unico tipo de infierno que puedo concebir --dijo Espiritu-- es pasar por la eternidad sin que se formen nuevas conexiones; sin ver las cosas de forma nueva; sin divertirse por el absurdo de la economia, de la religion, de la ciencia, del arte. Todo es muy, muy divertido, si lo piensas bien. | infierno | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| 5346cf1 | By your time, life had been evolving on Earth for four billion years. But there are Earth-descended life-forms in this time that are products of fourteen billion years of evolution. You'll never believe what daisies evolved into--or sea anemones, or the bacteria that caused whooping cough. In fact, I had lunch a few days ago with someone who evolved from whooping-cough bacteria. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 0d3cece | My Canada includes Quebec--but its license plates no longer call it La belle province. I can't remember what they say now. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 526312d | rws rwy zyn sb my nshynd t hmyshh br sr shwhrsh swr bshd. | persian | Simin Daneshvar | |
| 28d728b | Toda nuestra fantasia y toda nuestra logica no pueden facilitarnos sino una idea insuficiente del origen de una obra de arte. | fantasía lógica | Stefan Zweig | |
| b2c62fd | Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. | Ballads | ||
| 6256e9c | For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in. | Ballads | ||
| be5c8a7 | More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. | Ballads | ||
| 88bee1c | A famous man is Robin Hood,The English ballad-singer's joy. | Ballads | ||
| 1b478c1 | Ballet is the fairies' baseball. | Ballet | ||
| 687d7cd | On the grounds that since Muslims had become allergic to me they would not join the party. | Balraj Madhok | ||
| a8d18c8 | People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within. | Banana Yoshimoto | ||
| dee77a5 | Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life. | Banana Yoshimoto | ||
| f90888a | No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. | Banana Yoshimoto | ||
| 2e39cf8 | I cannot let this book go no matter how many times I read it...it is as adorable as Lord Krishna. | Bangalore Nagarathnamma | ||
| 7aa1ca9 | The best way to rob a bank is to own one. | Banking | ||
| 4027b8e | I am just a banker "doing God's work". | Banking | ||
| 4d1b777 | Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. | Banking | ||
| ce17b1d | Banks do not have an obligation to promote the public good. | Banking | ||
| b763296 | Bankers have no right to establish a customary law among themselves, at the expence of other men. | Banking | ||
| 4b069cc | Taking out a commission of bankruptcy is a well-known mode of recovering a debt. | Bankruptcy | ||
| 90259a1 | He who desireth to sleep soundly, let him buy the bed of a bankrupt. | Bankruptcy | ||
| 8f45c5d | 'How did you go bankrupt?' Bill asked. 'Two ways,' Mike said. 'Gradually and then suddenly.' | Bankruptcy | ||
| a9ede52 | Come when the heart beats high and warm,With banquet song, and dance, and wine! | Banquet | ||
| fd7f5e0 | I'm the slave of my baptism. | Baptism | ||
| 38b2fe1 | You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt. | Barack Obama | ||
| d0afec4 | Es gehort zur Tragik aller Despoten, dass sie den unabhangigen Menschen selbst dann noch furchten, wenn sie ihn politisch machtlos und mundtot gemacht haben. Es genugt ihnen nicht, dass er schweigt und schweigen muss. Schon dass er nicht ja sagt, nicht dient und nicht buckelt, dass er sich nicht geschaftig in die Schar ihrer Schmeichler und Diener einreiht, macht sein Vorhandensein, sein Nochvorhandensein fur sie zum Argernis. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| f2f00f1 | No one is pro-abortion. | Barack Obama | ||
| 6b7b0c8 | I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game. | Barack Obama | ||
| 6ddb6ba | John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded. | Barack Obama | ||
| 890ea16 | I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. | Barack Obama | ||
| e3400e6 | Mon aujourd'hui est si different de chacun de mes hier, avec mes phases d'ascension et mes chutes, qu'il me semble avoir vecu non pas une existence, mais plusieurs, en tout point dissemblables. Car il m'arrive souvent, quand je dis sans y prendre garde : << Ma vie >>, de me demander involontairement : << Laquelle de mes vies ? >> | Stefan Zweig | ||
| cff357f | wrote her family in November, three months after arriving | George Prochnik | ||
| d39a475 | person | George Prochnik | ||
| 4258784 | credit 12.1) But on the ship | George Prochnik | ||
| bcb58b6 | Liebe Leser, auf Anregung einer Leserin habe ich mich dazu entschlossen, diese Sammlung mit einem alphabetischen Index zu versehen. | Stefan Zweig |