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| bd811f1 | Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? An instinct of self-preservation is precisely what man does not possess. An .. | human-nature instincts life man thought | Ayn Rand | |
| 3199737 | Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 31ea2e2 | We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed - selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful - we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic - and do you know of any o.. | eden steinbeck | John Steinbeck | |
| d4ffb0a | Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished. | Nora Roberts | ||
| df58e7a | She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 0729685 | She heard music. Angels singing? she thought, dizzy. It seemed odd for angels to sing after table sex. She managed to swallow on a throat wildly dry. "Music," she murmured. "My phone. In my pants. Don't care." "Oh. Not angels." "No. Def Leppard." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 5056c69 | Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I'll never understand God. My heart tells me I'm not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra] | religion science | Dan Brown | |
| 96f3b8e | The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| c494f28 | Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? | Steven Pressfield | ||
| d32d4f1 | We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 2c6b959 | We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses. | change | C.G. Jung | |
| 99c3bbb | But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away. | Jack London | ||
| 76e549e | Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you. | louisa-may-alcott mothers | Louisa May Alcott | |
| a4c9c74 | but, dear me, let us be elegant or die. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 30ea96b | hnk ktb .. Glfh 'fDl m fyh | reading | Charles Dickens | |
| f4f33bb | There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 5a63a9b | Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her. | Charles Dickens | ||
| c51709c | It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets. | Charles Dickens | ||
| c736648 | This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3bf6983 | Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3bfc11d | We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 773d270 | He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy. They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port Smith is 100 miles upstream of Port Jones. The river flows at 5 miles per hour. The boat goes through water at 10 miles per hour. How long does it take to go from Port Smith to Port Jones? How long to come back? Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick questio.. | intelligence math navy | Neal Stephenson | |
| 0d74eac | History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot. | stories | Paul Murray | |
| e4ce55f | She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences." | Edith Wharton | ||
| d68193d | Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves? | Edith Wharton | ||
| dd0f243 | What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you'.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 692db6d | Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a2c4ee5 | I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 7fc9956 | He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a01e788 | I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. | interpretation perspective wonko-the-sane | Douglas Adams | |
| a5c8075 | Despair, or folly?' said Gandalf. 'It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure .. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2c0a078 | Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinuviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Luthien Tinuviel alone of the Elf-.. | luthien mortality tinuviel | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| e310216 | Et Earello Endorenna utulien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta! | elendil middle-earth | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 3ebbd87 | wandering in the summer in the woods of Neldoreth [Beren] came upon Luthien, daughter of Thingol and Melian, at a time of evening under moonrise, as she danced upon the unfading grass in the glades beside Esgalduin. Then all memory of his pain departed from him, and he fell into an enchantment; for Luthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Iluvatar. Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the star.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 44b62fc | For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ed3b8c1 | Ignorance is fatal. | death fatal ignorance knowledge ray wisdom | Ray Bradbury | |
| cf07378 | Tom," said Douglas, "just promise me one thing, okay?" "It's a promise. What?" "You may be my brother and maybe I hate you sometimes, but stick around, all right?" "You mean you'll let me follow you and the older guys when you go on hikes?" "Well . . . sure . . . even that. What I mean is, don't go away, huh? Don't let any cars run over you or fall of a cliff." "I should say not! Whatta you think I am, anyway?" "'Cause if worst comes .. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4556e86 | Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your rainment. For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. Some of you say 'It is the north wind who has woven the clothes we wear.' And I say, .. | modesty | Gibran Kahlil Gibran | |
| 6798027 | How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| ad07a6d | I swear it on Solin's life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there's truly no excuse for you. (Arik) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d06370b | Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b88d581 | You need to modulate that unwarranted ire, buddy. I'm not your 'ho and you ain't my pimp | urian | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 063b844 | People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it. | truth-of-life | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 607e18f | If you really love her, Cratus, let her know it every day. And always put her before you and your wants just as you've done here today. Take it from someone who knows. Love lost is the hardest burden to shoulder, and it's one you can never get under. (Artemis) | Sherrilyn Kenyon |