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| 1233f90 | 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 | ||
| c03e5ac | This battle, this war, between us . . . this 'clash of civilizations,' as your people like to call it. It's a long-term fight. It's not about who's got the biggest gun. It's not about landing one big killer punch. It's about attrition. It's about killing the body slowly, with lots of well-placed jabs. It's about relentlessly chipping away at the soul of your enemy with every opportunity you get. | Raymond Khoury | ||
| 740ac5f | There are two billion Christians out there, Sean, and a lot of them think of the Bible as God's words. His actual words. They think the twenty-seven texts that make up the New Testament were handed down to us by God himself, to help us lead better lives and achieve eternal salvation. They don't realize that nothing could be farther from the truth and that what we call the Bible was actually | Raymond Khoury | ||
| a7f103a | I'm not a particularly ideological person. There's things, some values I feel passionately about. | Barack Obama | ||
| 0fd668e | together a few hundred years after Jesus's crucifixion. But we know different. We know for a fact that early Christianity was very diverse in its beliefs and in its writings. It was made up of scattered communities of people who had competing interpretations of what Jesus was and what he preached and what he did, communities that based their faiths on very different ideas. And before too long, they started squabbling about whose version was.. | Raymond Khoury | ||
| 33282d5 | It was only with Christianity that the idea of what a person believed in started to matter, and matter a lot, because his or her eternal life suddenly depended on it. | Raymond Khoury | ||
| eb95752 | But the winners chose what we should believe in. They chose which writings were sacred and which ones were 'heretical. | Raymond Khoury | ||
| 02be2d0 | But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations. | Barack Obama | ||
| 6bb2b26 | nineteenth-century feminism was defeated by men's adamant refusal to take responsibility for maintaining themselves and their children; | Marilyn French | ||
| 4cb0d8b | In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet. | Marilyn French | ||
| 8f6d318 | My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter. | Marilyn French | ||
| 876508d | Pride. You have it where you can have it. | pride self-esteem sexism | Marilyn French | |
| f3360e2 | She felt her wrists, her arms, rubbed her hand over her breasts, her belly, her thighs. She was warm and smooth and her heart beat calmly, fine pulsing energy was being driven through her, she could walk, she could talk, she could feel, she could think. And suddenly it was all right, the past, even if it was all wrong, because it had freed her, it had placed her here, still alive, more alive than she had been since the days long ago when sh.. | Marilyn French | ||
| d3f76e3 | But we all die, and all death is violent, the overthrowing of the state of life, so why did that year [1968]seem so terrible? Are King or Kennedy or some peasant folk in a village more important than the starved-out of Biafra, the names on the Detroit homicide list? Maybe I'm playing an intellectual game, marking out one year or two on a calendar as special in horror so I can add that they were also special in significance, and thus compens.. | Marilyn French | ||
| 02c1826 | Some people use bullfights, some the Mass, some art in order to ritualize or transform death into life or at least meaning. But my terror is that life itself is a ritual transforming everything into death. | Marilyn French | ||
| c8af41a | Today, the official national language is Italian. This is based on the dialect of Florence, although people from each region have their own accents and speak Italian in a slightly different way. In some northwest border regions near France the people may speak French; and German is spoken in the far north. Sardinia has its own language. | Marilyn Tolhurst | ||
| 2bd5e87 | Despues, mucho despues, recordaria aquellos anos y comprenderia asombrada que a los quince ya se habia decidido por la mayoria de los postulados que sostendria durante el resto de su vida: que las personas no eran esencialmente malas, que la perfeccion era la muerte, que la vida era mejor que el orden y que un poco de caos era bueno para el alma. Mas importante aun: esta vida lo era todo. Por desgracia, olvido esas cosas y tuvo que recordar.. | viața | Marilyn French | |
| fb64e39 | Six men control almost all the media in the United States--book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society. You will almost never see a feminist column on an op-ed page, a feminist article in a magazine, or newspaper, actual (not satirized) feminist ideas on television or in the movies. Only magazines & radio con.. | feminism gender human-rights inequality magazines media movies newspapers politics preface radio sexism television women women-s-rights | Marilyn French | |
| d67b9e4 | men and women desperate enough to risk death to express their wishes.19 | Marilyn French | ||
| bd5ae2a | They saw women in the public sphere as whores, thieves, she-men with the audacity to carry guns and wear pants. | Marilyn French | ||
| 33b9b59 | February 26: At the French Film Institute in New York City, Marilyn receives the Crystal Star as "Best Foreign Actress" for her performance in The Prince and the Showgirl. At the party afterward, she is photographed holding and kissing a dachshund." | Carl Rollyson | ||
| bb12891 | From the Bridge" by Captain Hank Bracker Pebbles, Rocks & Mountains Rocks can be formed in many different ways and are found in just about every corner of our planet, the Moon, up in space and who knows where else. Now pebbles are the mini-me's of rocks and generally are about one to three inches in size. Geologists will tell you that they are about 5 millimeters in diameter, but who's counting? In fact there are two beaches that are made u.. | Captain Hank Bracker | ||
| e83bfe8 | Laws institutionalized men's unfounded superiority over women by defining marriage as ownership | Marilyn French | ||
| 899eebe | Kaum ist das Leben aus dem Korper gewichen, wird er zu einem gigantischen Festschmaus fur andere Organismen. Zuerst fur Bakterien, dann fur Insekten. Fliegen. Aus den gelegten Eiern schlupfen Larven, die sich an der nahrreichen Substanz laben und dann abwandern. Sie verlassen die Leiche in Reih und Glied und folgen einander in einer ordentlichen Linie, die sich immer nach Suden bewegt. Manchmal nach Sudosten oder Sudwesten, aber niemals nac.. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 062da69 | As you are now, so I once was As I am now, so will you be | death | Simon Beckett | |
| 30b585b | Then we left it behind and entered another world. Steep, densely forested slopes closed in around us, plunging us into shadow as the road wound through them. Part of the huge Appalachian Mountains chain, the Smokies covered eight hundred square miles and spanned the border between Tennessee and North Carolina. They'd been declared a National Park, although looking out of the car window I thought that nature was blithely unaware of such dist.. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 2757c5f | there was nothing I could do for her, or for Miller either. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 4864d26 | a shallow embankment. It was upright but canted | Simon Beckett | ||
| c7e2cd9 | La muerte habia provocado sus habituales y siniestros cambios, una alquimia inversa que transformo el oro de la vida en materia abyecta y pestilente. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 0fa42c1 | All narcissists are self-obsessed, but malignant narcissists are at the top of the scale. They have a pathological self-belief--a sense of grandiosity, even--which demands attention and admiration. They're convinced they're special in some way and want other people to acknowledge it as well. Crucially, they're also sadists who lack any conscience. They don't necessarily get fulfilment from inflicting pain, but they enjoy the sense of power .. | narcissistic-violence narcissists-cruel | Simon Beckett | |
| ba0f596 | Observad como se rodea de vigilancia y de baluarte a las doncellas. No tienen los conventos muros bastante altos; las madres, cerraduras bastante seguras; la religion, deberes bastante frecuentes para encerrar a todas esas encantadoras aves en su jaula, a la cual no se toma uno el trabajo de arrojar flores. Por su cuenta, ellas deben de desear ese mundo que se les oculta, deben de creerlo tentador, deben de escuchar la primera voz que a tra.. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| bde6d6c | Ser amado de veras por una cortesana constituye una victoria dificil bajo otro aspecto muy distinto. En ellas el cuerpo ha gastado el alma, los sentidos han quemado el corazon y el desenfreno ha acorazado los sentimientos. De mucho tiempo atras se saben de memoria las palabras que se les dicen, conocen los medios que se emplean para lograrlas, han vendido el amor mismo que inspiran. Aman por oficio y no por impulso. Estan mejor guardadas po.. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| 8a3f538 | Se censura a los que se arruinan por actrices y mujeres entretenidas; lo que asombra es que no hagan por ellas veinte veces mas locuras. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| c1892d1 | Nosotras, cuando todavia tenemos un poco de corazon, damos a las palabras y a las cosas una extension y una intensidad desconocidas para las demas mujeres. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| 2407d2d | Nosotras, criaturas de azar, no tenemos deseos fantasticos ni amores inconcebibles. Nos entregamos igual por una cosa que por otra. Hay individuos que se arruinarian sin obtener de nosotras nada, y hay otros que nos logran por un ramillete. Nuestro corazon tiene caprichos; esa es su unica distraccion y su unica excusa. Yo me he entregado a ti mas deprisa que a ningun hombre. ?Por que? Porque, al verme escupir sangre, me cogiste la mano; por.. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| 1ec23b2 | Tenemos amantes egoistas que gastan su fortuna no en nosotras, como afirman, sino en su vanidad. Para esos individuos se requiere que estemos alegres cuando estan alegres ellos, bien del estomago cuando quieren comer, escepticas como ellos lo son. Se nos prohibe disponer de nuestro corazon, so pena de ser escarnecidas y de perjudicar nuestro credito. No nos pertenecemos ya. Ya no somos seres, sino cosas. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| 1b69b92 | Por mucho que se ame a una mujer, cualquiera que sea la confianza puesta en ella, cualquiera que sea la certidumbre que nos de su pasado, siempre se es mas o menos celoso. Si ha estado usted enamorado, seriamente enamorado, ha debido de experimentar esa necesidad de aislar del mundo el ser dentro de quien se quisiera vivir por completo. Parece que, por indiferente que sea a lo que lo rodea, la mujer amada pierde parte de su perfume y de su .. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| f303475 | Como el aspecto de la vida y de la dicha ajena hace desear vivir a quienes la vispera, en la soledad de su alma y en la sombra de su cuarto enfermos, anhelaban morir en breve! | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| c8d5074 | Menester es que hayamos hecho mucho dano antes de nacer, y que vayamos a gozar de una felicidad muy grande despues de nuestra muerte, para que permita Dios que tenga esta vida todas las torturas de la expiacion y todos los dolores de la prueba. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| 580e290 | Soy de opinion que no se puede crear personajes sino cuando se ha estudiado mucho a los hombres, lo mismo que no se puede hablar una lengua sino a condicion de haberla aprendido a fondo. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| a992038 | Hay algo mas triste de ver que la vejez del vicio, en la mujer sobre todo? No encierra ninguna dignidad y no inspira ningun interes. Una de las mas entristecedoras evidencias que cabe comparar es ese arrepentimiento frecuente, no de la mala senda seguida, sino de los calculos mal urdidos y del dinero mal empleado. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| 484e7c0 | De cuando en cuando conviene revelar los martirios de esos seres a quienes se condena sin oirlos, a quienes se desdena sin juzgarlos. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| 1ef9ab6 | Margarita era bonita; pero, lo mismo que suena mucho la ida rebuscada de esas mujeres, suena su muerte poco. Son soles que se ponen como se levantan, sin ruido. | Alexandre Dumas fils | ||
| 96bcecc | Pobres criaturas! Si se yerra al amarlas, no puede uno menos de compadecerlas. Compadeceis al ciego que no ha visto jamas los rayos del sol, al sordo que no ha oido jamas los acordes de la naturaleza, al mudo que jamas ha podido emitir la voz de su alma, y con un falso pretexto de pudor, no quereis compadecer esa ceguera del corazon, esa sordera del alma, esa mudez de la conciencia que enloquecen a la infeliz afligida y que la hacen, a desp.. | Alexandre Dumas fils |