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| f5447ee | If today I were to counsel a young writer who is still unsure of his way, I would try to persuade him first to adapt or translate a sizable work. In all sacrificing service there is more assurance for the beginner than in his own creation, and nothing that one has ever done with devotion is done in vain. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 24e567a | It's just opposition that rejuvenates. Had I remained a senator, it would have been too easy for me; I would long since have become intellectually lazy and inconsistent. Nothing harms a thinking man more than lack of opposition; it is only since I found myself alone and no longer surrounded by youth that I was forced to become young again myself." Some years had to pass before I understood that trials challenge, persecution strengthens, and.. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| e3b0858 | A new world suddenly opened up on the printed page before me, the words moved vigorously towards me as if they had been seeking me for centuries... | Stefan Zweig | ||
| b47c896 | Erst im Ungluck weiss man wahrhaft, wer man ist. | 20th-century marie-antoinette stefan-zweig | Stefan Zweig | |
| 5fca8e8 | Derken iceriye karanlik coktu, tipki yuregime coken karanlik gibi. | stefan zweig | ||
| 76e9a5b | tlk lnkb@ lty rfqtny Twl Hyty wswf trfqny fy mmty 'n 'Zl nkr@ | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 7c83bec | By 2014, the war in Afghanistan will be over. | Barack Obama | ||
| 82ae730 | Regarding Girl Scout Camp survival skills: "For instance, if I see a snake, I should stand still or walk backwards slowly, never run. I am one hundred percent sure I will not do that. But now, while running as fast as I can, I will be thinking, I shouldn't be running." | snakes | Firoozeh Dumas | |
| 2c42ef7 | Shushtari proverb "Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell." It's fair to say that the Shushtari floating in my house" | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 39cdaf0 | Most immigrants agree that at some point, we become permanent foreigners, belonging neither here nor there. Many tomes have been written trying to describe this feeling of floating between worlds but never fully landing. Artists, using every known medium from words to film to Popsicle sticks, have attempted to encapsulate the struggle of trying to hang on to the solid ground of our mother culture and realizing that we are merely in a pond b.. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| c5beb63 | Here, those kids are called nerds and geeks and dorks. This may be the only country where people make fun of the smart kids. Now that's stupid. I only hope that the engineer who built the bridge I drive across or the nurse who administers our vaccines or the teacher who teaches my kids was a total nerd. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 890d270 | A fruit basket would have been nice, but instead we found that a flyer had been slipped under the door. Dear Brainwashed Cowards, You are nothing but puppets of the corrupt Shah. We will teach you a lesson you will never forget. Death to the Shah. Death to you. My father crumpled the flyer and threw it away. "Let's find out where they're having the dinner buffet," he said." | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 0aa35a9 | When we were finally asked whether we wanted to marry each other, the groom is supposed to answer yes right away, but the bride is expected to take her sweet time and cause a little bit of last-minute anxiety for the groom and his family. When my uncle asked whether I wanted to marry Francois, I said nothing. My family yelled the traditional response: "She has gone to pick flowers." My uncle repeated his question. Again, I said nothing. The.. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 21785b4 | The "F Word" My cousin's name, Farbod, means "Greatness." When he moved to America, all the kids called him "Farthead." My brother Farshid ("He Who Enlightens") became "Fartshit." The name of my friend Neggar means "Beloved," although it can be more accurately translated as "She Whose Name Almost Incites Riots." Her brother Arash ("Giver") initially couldn't understand why every time he'd say his name, people would laugh and ask him if it i.. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| a56386b | We had always known that ours is a small country and that America is very big. But even as a seven-year-old, I was surprised that so many Americans has never noticed us on the map. Perhaps it's like driving a Yugo and realizing that the eighteen-wheeler can's see you. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| b530fca | When I announced to my family that I wanted to add an American name, they reacted with their usual laughter. Never one to let mockery or good judgment stand in my way, I proceeded to ask for suggestions. My father suggested "Fifi." Had I had a special affinity for French poodles or been considering a career in prostitution, I would've" | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 7ea8cf4 | We never sought exotic forms of discomfort; they were part of a package deal that came with our homeland. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 3f6c4b5 | Asking my father to ask the waitress the definition of "sloppy Joe" or "Tater Tots" was no problem. His translations, however, were highly suspect." | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 00e8360 | At some point, someone must have yelled "Good job, Kaz!," which my father interpreted as "You should go on television and win a fortune!" Bowling" | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 1942979 | Is that boy from your country?" she asked me. "Why, yes," I wanted to tell her. "In my country, which I own, this is National Lose Your Child at Disneyland Day." "No," I told her. "He's not from my country." | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 69be63f | A couple of days of this powdered cuisine and my uncle actually lost a few pounds. Things were going well until he decided that adding a couple of scoops of Baskin-Robbins improved the flavor substantially. Following | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| f34c035 | On our second day, my parents announced that Kauai was boring. "There's nothing to look at, just plants and rainbows," my father declared. "There are no stores," added my mother. Instead of staying for another week, we left the next day. The" | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| b1d4feb | My dad says that the dogs and cats in America are luckier than most people in the world. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 6fdaa4d | Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the 'other God that failed' alongside Communism and radical socialism.4 | Anthony Giddens | ||
| 6a700c9 | In describing the ways that religious and other types of communities appropriate and understand their histories, among both fundamentalists and non-fundamentalists, the sociologist Anthony Giddens utilizes the term "reflexivity" and states that it is the characteristic of "all human action." Reflexivity takes place when individuals and/or communities utilize their perceptions of their histories as a way of guiding their present and future a.. | fundamentalism islam islamism religion sociology | Jon Armajani | |
| e1b36cc | Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA. | Barack Obama | ||
| e072fee | Vociferous international audiences thronged the streets. Actually, it is nothing more nor less than an Italian version of Birmingham. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 4bee1b3 | in to the pier, | Eric Ambler | ||
| 34fdc46 | For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as a superhuman Law, it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 9f91add | Nuit de Petits Gars! Numero soixante-neuf! Cinq francs la bouteille. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 8fee12b | The truth about many of our great traditional patriots is ugly or ludicrous; but it makes no difference. They are defended angrily. National feeling in small states is always angry; it must be so, for its roots are in fear and self-doubt and for those things reason is no protection. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 399d502 | The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own. | duplicity self-awareness self-deception | Eric Ambler | |
| 86378ca | Banking!" Mathis was saying. "What is it but usury? Bankers are money lenders, usurers. But because they lend other people's money or money that does not exist, they have a pretty name. They are still usurers. Once, usury was a mortal sin and an abomination, and to be a usurer was to be a criminal for whom there was a prison cell. To-day the usurers are the gods of the earth and the only mortal sin is to be poor." | Eric Ambler | ||
| 5648b23 | Your international financier... has no political convictions. For him there is no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest. He believes in the survival of the fittest and the gospel of tooth and claw because he makes money by seeing that the weak die before they can become strong and that the law of the jungle remains the governing force in the affairs of the world. And he is all about us. Every city in the world knows him. .. | big-business capitalism finance | Eric Ambler | |
| 8cb46e9 | The pages of European history are, so to speak, bespattered with the records of Black Mondays and Black Thursdays. It may be that, in this twentieth century, almost daily acquaintance with large-scale catastrophe has deprived the custom of its point. Black and white have tended to merge into a drab grey. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 3f31e1c | But you couldn't get away from danger! It was all about you, all the time. You could live in ignorance of it for years: you might go to the end of your days believing that some things couldn't possibly happen to you, that death could only come to you with the sweet reason of disease or an "act of God": but it was there just the same, waiting to make nonsense of all your comfortable ideas about your relations with time and chance, ready to r.. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 016111f | Book 1--A country doctor knows there is more behind the murder of his old friend than anyone realizes. Answer: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie. "Book 2--A messenger dies in a mysterious plane crash, leaving behind a list of ten names. Answer: The List of Adrian Messenger, by Philip MacDonald. "Book 3--Two strangers travel on a train and talk about murder. Answer: Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith. "Book 4--A smart-.. | Carolyn G. Hart | ||
| 0fd47fc | Perhaps it is that I am old, but I find it extremely difficult to identify men with their ideas. I can dislike, even hate an idea, but the man who has it seems to be still a man. | Eric Ambler | ||
| 39568e2 | beneath it all, religion has always been the fuel that keeps the furnaces of intolerance and hatred burning. And it holds us back from better things, but mostly from coming to terms with the truth about who we've become, from embracing everything science has taught us and continues to teach us, from forcing us to make ourselves accountable for our own actions. | Raymond Khoury | ||
| deb8c73 | What did it matter if it was based on a story that embellished the truth? | Raymond Khoury | ||
| 184cf3a | I curse you, Philippe le Bel, and your buffoon pope, and I call on God Almighty to have you both join me before His seat within the year, to suffer His judgment, and burn forever in the furnaces of hell... | Raymond Khoury | ||
| 4f46de6 | At the time, any science, as it was then called, was thought to be a challenge to the authority of the Church; a science that promised spiritual purification was a direct threat to the Church. | Raymond Khoury | ||
| 736325a | Over a billion people out there, worshipping these writings, accepting every word as God's own wisdom, slaughtering each other over them, and all of it without having the vaguest notion of where these scriptures really come from. | Raymond Khoury | ||
| 13e6138 | racing certainty | Raymond Khoury |