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| 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 navy math | 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. | wonko-the-sane interpretation perspective | 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-.. | mortality tinuviel luthien | 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 wisdom ray fatal ignorance knowledge | 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 | |
| 58ed23e | And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." -- | politics humor | Jonathan Swift | |
| 14661d1 | Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 13f536a | We will go out into the world and plant gardens and orchards to the horizons, we will build roads through the mountains and across the deserts, and terrace the mountains and irrigate the deserts until there will be garden everywhere, and plenty for all, and there will be no more empires or kingdoms, no more caliphs, sultans, emirs, khans, or zamindars, no more kings or queens or princes, no more quadis or mullahs or ulema, no more slavery a.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| cf887e6 | In his eyes, I'm some kind of perfect. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| a6ce697 | I had no one before Rose. No true friends. No family, not really. Now I have her. I have people I care about. People that I want to protect. Now I have everything. The only thing about having everything is that you can lose it all. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| a0ad694 | As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist." -- | living witness mystery | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| d221121 | You see, though we travel together, we travel alone. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2c08651 | The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed." | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b7686c0 | When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you. | memories inspirational-life remembering | Katherine Paterson | |
| a9cbed4 | It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 52bec2f | There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| b9bd73e | I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it. | religion | Sarah Vowell | |
| 0873c3a | I'm always disappointed when I see the word "Puritan" tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to hell." | pilgrims puritans roman-catholicism | Sarah Vowell | |
| dfa6d84 | My face set to a grim and determined expression. I speak in all modesty as I say this, but I discovered at that moment that I have a fierce will to live. It's not something evident, in my experience. Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the impr.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 96ed142 | I say to you all, once again -- in the light of Lord Voldemort's return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. | harry-potter unity strength | J.K. Rowling | |
| 685d4e5 | Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs," sighed George, patting the heading of the map. "We owe them so much." "Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers," said Fred solemnly." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 70ced88 | Angelina, Alicia, and Katie suddenly giggled. "What?" said Wood, frowning at this lighthearted behavior. "He's that tall, good-looking one, isn't he?" said Angelina. "Strong and silent," said Katie, and they started to giggle again. "He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together," said Fred impatiently." | J.K. Rowling |