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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
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Thomas More (Utopia)
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7 things negative people will do to you. They will... 1. Demean your value; 2. Destroy your image 3. Drive you crazily! 4. Dispose your dreams! 5. Discredit your imagination! 6. Deframe your abilities and 7. Disbelieve your opinions! Stay away from negative people!
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Israelmore Ayivor
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When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people tooโ€”leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.
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Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete... Remember, to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person might not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
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Bob Moorehead (Words Aptly Spoken)
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Hey, lookโ€”your girlfriend is saying something." Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl?
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Eoin Colfer
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You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your loverโ€™s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.
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T.H. White (The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4))
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Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone who's an 8 color type...I'm like, hey girl, Magenta! and she's like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, no I want Magenta!
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John Mayer
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Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.
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Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
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I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.
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Sylvia Plath (The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)
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Girlfriend isnโ€™t enough to describe you, Tate. That term is disposable. Youโ€™re not my girlfriend, my girl, or my woman. Youโ€™re. Just. Mine,โ€ I bit out every syllable, so she would fucking understand. โ€œAnd Iโ€™m yours,โ€ I added, a little calmer.
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Penelope Douglas (Until You (Fall Away, #1.5))
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I hope you aren't planning to order me back to bed." "No, you have far too much crockery at your disposal.
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Rosamund Hodge (Cruel Beauty)
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If you hurt herโ€”โ€ โ€œIf I hurt her, I will bring every weapon at my disposal and lay them at your feet for you to do to me what you will. If I hurt her, I will no sooner carve out my own heart than dare draw breath again.โ€ She was silent. โ€œDo you understand?โ€ he prompted. โ€œYou love her.โ€ No, he did not love her. The word for what he felt for Zafira bint Iskandar did not yet exist.
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Hafsah Faizal (We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya, #2))
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Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you. Sing. Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss. Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements. Stretch. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone. Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's. Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Read the directions, even if you don't follow them. Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out. Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. But trust me on the sunscreen.
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Mary Schmich (Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life)
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Archer?โ€ I asked, raising my eyebrows. Hey, you might be able to take away my magical powers, but the power of sarcasm was still at my disposal. โ€œIs your last name Newport or Vanderbilt? Maybe followed by some numbers? Ooh!โ€ I said, widening my eyes, โ€œor maybe even Esquire!โ€ Iโ€™d hoped to hurt his feelings or, at the very least, make him angry, but he just kept smiling at me. โ€œActually, itโ€™s Archer Cross, and Iโ€™m the first one. Now what about you?โ€ He squinted. โ€œLetโ€™s see . . . brown hair, freckles, whole girl-next-door vibe going on . . . Allie? Lacie? Definitely something cutesy ending in ie.โ€ You know those times when your mouth moves but no sound actually comes out? Yeah, thatโ€™s pretty much what happened. And then, of course, my mom took that opportunity to end her conversation with Justinโ€™s parents and call out, โ€œSophie! Wait up.โ€ โ€œI knew it.โ€ Archer laughed. โ€œSee you, Sophie,โ€ he called over his shoulder as he disappeared into the house.
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Rachel Hawkins (Hex Hall (Hex Hall, #1))
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We teach people how to treat us. If you donโ€™t put up with shit, and donโ€™t settle for anything less than respect, thatโ€™s what youโ€™ll get. But if you let the douchebags walk all over you and treat you like youโ€™re disposable, then thatโ€™s what youโ€™ll always get.
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Kristen Proby (Play with Me (With Me in Seattle, #3))
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Stress is the trash of modern life-we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
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Danzae Pace
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With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Itโ€™s an epidemic with women your age. A gross disparity between the way that they speak and the quality of thoughts that theyโ€™re having about the world. They are taught to express themselves in slang, in clichรฉs, sarcasmโ€”all of which is weak language. The superficiality of the language colors the experiences, rendering them disposable instead of assimilated. And then to top it all, you call yourselves โ€˜girls.โ€™โ€‰
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Stephanie Danler (Sweetbitter)
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The heaviest burden: โ€œWhat, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: โ€˜This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sighโ€ฆ must return to youโ€”all in the same succession and sequenceโ€”even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and againโ€”and you with it, speck of dust!โ€™ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: โ€˜You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine!โ€™ If this thought were to gain possession of you, it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, โ€œdo you want this once more and innumerable times more?โ€ would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?
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Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs)
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You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.
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Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
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There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. You think you know yourself when you know what you are. But you never know who you are. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot. See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of yourself in terms of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation. Donโ€™t be too lazy to think.
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Nisargadatta Maharaj
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First, opportunites are abundant. At any place and time you can look around and identify problems that need solving....regardless of the size of the problem, there are ususally creative ways to use the resources already at your disposal.
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Tina Seelig (What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20)
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Girlfriend isnโ€™t enough to describe you, Tate. That term is disposable. Youโ€™re not my girlfriend, my girl, or my woman. Youโ€™re. Just. Mine,
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Penelope Douglas (Until You (Fall Away, #1.5))
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I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, for two years, the brightest moments I found were the ones in your office, where I could lift my head to look up at you. I did not know the nature of what I felt in your presence, nor the reason. I know it now. That is all I want, Hank. I want you in my bed - and you are free of me for all the rest of your time. There's nothing you'll have to pretend - don't think of me, don't feel; don't care - I do not want your mind, your will, your being or your soul, so long as it's to me you will come for that lowest one of your desires. I am an animal who wants nothing but the sensation of pleasure which you despise - but I want it from you. You'd give up amy height of virtue for it , while I - I haven't any to give up. There's none I seek or wish to reach. I am so low that I would exchange the greatest sight of beauty in the world for the sight of your figure in the cab of a railroad engine. Amd seeing it, I would not be able to see it indifferently. You don't have to fear that you're now dependent on me. It's I who will depend on any whim of yours. You'll have me anytime you wish, anywhere, on any terms. Did you call it the obscenity of my talent? It's such that it gives you a safer hold on me than on any other property you own. You may dispose of me as you please - I'm not afraid to admit it - I have nothing to protect from you and nothing to reserve. You think that this is a threat to your achievement, but it is not to mine. I will sit at my desk, and work, and when the things around me get hard to bear, I will think that for my reward I will be in your bed that night. Did you call it depravity? I am much more depraved than you are: you hold it as your guilt, and I - as my pride. I'm more proud of it than anything I've done, more proud than of building the Line. If I'm asked to name my proudest attainment, I will say: I have slept with Hank Rearden. I had earned it.
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Ayn Rand
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You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. [...] Your life is not disposable.
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David Levithan (Two Boys Kissing)
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It was well for him, with his chivalry and mysticism, to make the grand renunciation. But it takes two to make love, or to make a quarrel. She was not an insensate piece of property to be taken up or laid down at his convenience. You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover's soul was not you own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.
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T.H. White (The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4))
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These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.
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Greg Behrendt (It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy)
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The opportunity was too perfect to miss. Harry crept silently around behind Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, bent down, and scooped a large handful of mud out of the path. 'We were just talking about your friend Hagrid,' Malfoy said to Ron. 'Just trying to imagine what he's saying to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. D'you think he'll cry when they cut off his hippogriff'sโ€”' SPLAT. Malfoy's head jerked back as the mud hit him; his silverblond hair was suddenly dripping in muck.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3))
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An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy.
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Christopher Isherwood (Exhumations)
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If I hurt her, I will bring every weapon at my disposal and lay them at your feet for you to do to me what you will. If I hurt her, I will no sooner carve out my own heart then dare draw breath again.
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Hafsah Faizal (We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya, #2))
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Do not listen to her," Alaric said. "She is going to tell you in some kind of code only the two of you will understand, because you are siblings, to call the police on your cell phone. But if you do that, I will kill you and dispose of your body in a place where no one will find it. The river, I think. Your doorman is so stupid, he won't notice if I leave this building carrying a body in a rolled-up carpet.
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Meg Cabot (Insatiable (Insatiable, #1))
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You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.
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Chinonye J. Chidolue
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Yes, alone we are, deeply alone, and always, in store for us, a layer of loneliness even deeper. There is nothing we can do to dispose of that. No, loneliness shouldnโ€™t surprise us, as astonishing to experience as it may be. You can try yourself inside out, but all you are then is inside out and lonely instead of inside in and lonely. My stupid, stupid Merry dear, stupider even that your stupid father, not even blowing up buildings helps. Itโ€™s lonely if there are buildings and itโ€™s lonely if there are buildings and itโ€™s lonely if there are no buildings. There is no protest to be lodged against lonelinessโŽฏnot all the bombing campaigns in history have made a dent in it. The most lethal of manmade explosives canโ€™t touch it. Stand in awe not of Communism, my idiot child, but of ordinary, everyday loneliness.
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Philip Roth (American Pastoral)
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If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.
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Dave Barry
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I ask you neither for health nor for sickness, for life nor for death; but that you may dispose of my health and my sickness, my life and my death, for your glory ... You alone know what is expedient for me; you are the sovereign master, do with me according to your will. Give to me, or take away from me, only conform my will to yours. I know but one thing, Lord, that it is good to follow you, and bad to offend you. Apart from that, I know not what is good or bad in anything. I know not which is most profitable to me, health or sickness, wealth or poverty, nor anything else in the world. That discernment is beyond the power of men or angels, and is hidden among the secrets of your providence, which I adore, but do not seek to fathom.
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Blaise Pascal
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If the essence of creativity is linking disparate facts and ideas, then the more facility you have making associations, and the more facts and ideas you have at your disposal, the better you'll be at coming up with new ideas. As Buzan likes to point out, Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, was the mother of the Muses.
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Joshua Foer (Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything)
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Rage did her no good. You didn't get mad at the weasel who was sneaking into your yard and eating your hens. You simply laid a trap and disposed of the animal. Anger was pointless. - Egwene, pg. 77
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Robert Jordan (The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time, #12))
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You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory! I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Who is he, the ill-disposed gentleman in pink?" inquire the Comte, when they were out of earshot. "A creature of no importance," shrugged Philip. "So I see. Yet he contrives to arouse your anger.?" "Yes," admitted Philip. "I do not like the color of his coat.
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Georgette Heyer (Powder and Patch)
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Do you know about the spoons? Because you should. The Spoon Theory was created by a friend of mine, Christine Miserandino, to explain the limits you have when you live with chronic illness. Most healthy people have a seemingly infinite number of spoons at their disposal, each one representing the energy needed to do a task. You get up in the morning. Thatโ€™s a spoon. You take a shower. Thatโ€™s a spoon. You work, and play, and clean, and love, and hate, and thatโ€™s lots of damn spoonsย โ€ฆ but if you are young and healthy you still have spoons left over as you fall asleep and wait for the new supply of spoons to be delivered in the morning. But if you are sick or in pain, your exhaustion changes you and the number of spoons you have. Autoimmune disease or chronic pain like I have with my arthritis cuts down on your spoons. Depression or anxiety takes away even more. Maybe you only have six spoons to use that day. Sometimes you have even fewer. And you look at the things you need to do and realize that you donโ€™t have enough spoons to do them all. If you clean the house you wonโ€™t have any spoons left to exercise. You can visit a friend but you wonโ€™t have enough spoons to drive yourself back home. You can accomplish everything a normal person does for hours but then you hit a wall and fall into bed thinking, โ€œI wish I could stop breathing for an hour because itโ€™s exhausting, all this inhaling and exhaling.โ€ And then your husband sees you lying on the bed and raises his eyebrow seductively and you say, โ€œNo. I canโ€™t have sex with you today because there arenโ€™t enough spoons,โ€ and he looks at you strangely because that sounds kinky, and not in a good way. And you know you should explain the Spoon Theory so he wonโ€™t get mad but you donโ€™t have the energy to explain properly because you used your last spoon of the morning picking up his dry cleaning so instead you just defensively yell: โ€œI SPENT ALL MY SPOONS ON YOUR LAUNDRY,โ€ and he says, โ€œWhat theย โ€ฆ You canโ€™t pay for dry cleaning with spoons. What is wrong with you?โ€ Now youโ€™re mad because this is his fault too but youโ€™re too tired to fight out loud and so you have the argument in your mind, but it doesnโ€™t go well because youโ€™re too tired to defend yourself even in your head, and the critical internal voices take over and youโ€™re too tired not to believe them. Then you get more depressed and the next day you wake up with even fewer spoons and so you try to make spoons out of caffeine and willpower but that never really works. The only thing that does work is realizing that your lack of spoons is not your fault, and to remind yourself of that fact over and over as you compare your fucked-up life to everyone elseโ€™s just-as-fucked-up-but-not-as-noticeably-to-outsiders lives. Really, the only people you should be comparing yourself to would be people who make you feel better by comparison. For instance, people who are in comas, because those people have no spoons at all and you donโ€™t see anyone judging them. Personally, I always compare myself to Galileo because everyone knows heโ€™s fantastic, but he has no spoons at all because heโ€™s dead. So technically Iโ€™m better than Galileo because all Iโ€™ve done is take a shower and already Iโ€™ve accomplished more than him today. If we were having a competition Iโ€™d have beaten him in daily accomplishments every damn day of my life. But Iโ€™m not gloating because Galileo canโ€™t control his current spoon supply any more than I can, and if Galileo couldnโ€™t figure out how to keep his dwindling spoon supply I think itโ€™s pretty unfair of me to judge myself for mine. Iโ€™ve learned to use my spoons wisely. To say no. To push myself, but not too hard. To try to enjoy the amazingness of life while teetering at the edge of terror and fatigue.
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Jenny Lawson (Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things)
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If youโ€™ve decided who you want to be,โ€ Glenn said, โ€œAccept all of it. The good, the bad, the ambiguous. Vulnerabilities and strengths. The anger, thatโ€™s part of it. The fear for people you care about, thatโ€™s a strength too. Doesnโ€™t feel very good while youโ€™re experiencing it, but itโ€™s a well you can tap. And with luck, knowing who you are means not having to waste time and effort on putting up a facade. Maybe that extra time and effort you have at your disposal will make the difference.
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Wildbow (Worm (Parahumans, #1))
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Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
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Frederick Douglass
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To quietly work away at disposing of your own excess is actually the best way of dealing with a family that doesnโ€™t tidy.
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Marie Kondล (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Magic Cleaning #1))
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Moods are not to be confused with emotions. Moods will dispose you to having an emotion. Certain moods you're more likely to get angry than others, as we all know, but emotion is not the same as mood. Emotions, I think, always have to do with agitated forms of desire. Whenever you're in an emotional state, you have some sort of agitated desire. So, emotions are fairly special -- I am not always in some sort of emotional state or other, but I think I am always in some mood or other.
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John Rogers Searle
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All around him people were eating their unfood wih, if not actual evidence of enjoyment, then with no more actual disgust than was to be found in burger chains all over the planet. He stood up, took his tray over to the PLEASE DISPOSE OF YOUR REFUSE WITH CARE receptacle, and dumped the whole thing. If you had told him that there were children starving in Africa he would have been flattered that youโ€™d noticed.
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Terry Pratchett (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)
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Going in the company of negative people is just like having thick muddy soil underfoot... They will only draw you back if you don't tear them off! Move out of your current disposal with the intention of getting to your true destination!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my deserting you, unless you give me cause.' I never, never will, sir,' interposed Oliver. I hope not,' rejoined the old gentleman; 'I do not think you ever will. I have been deceived before, in the objects whom I have endeavoured to benefit; but I feel strongly disposed to trust you, nevertheless, and more strongly interested in your behalf than I can well account for, even to myself. The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
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Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
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The greatest weight.-- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!" Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?
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Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs)
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You count the days and watch the years go by. You tell yourself, and you believe it, that you'd rather just die. You'd rather stare death boldly in the face and say you're ready because whatever is waiting on the other side has to be better than growing old in a six-by-ten cage with no one to talk to. You consider yourself half-dead at best. Please take the other half. You've watched dozens leave and not return, and you accept the fact that one day they'll come for you. You're nothing but a rat in their lab, a disposable body to be used as proof that their experiment is working. An eye for an eye, each killing must be avenged. You kill enough and you're convinced that killing is good. You count the days, and then there are none left. You ask yourself on your last morning if you are really ready. You search for courage, but the bravery is fading. When it's over, no one really wants to die.
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John Grisham (The Confession)
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FORBIDDEN Pain without learning is forbidden, waking up one day not knowing what to do, being afraid of your memories. It is forbidden not to smile at problems, not to fight for what you want, to abandon all because of fears, not to realize your dreams. It is forbidden not to show your love, to be ashamed of your tears, to not laugh with children, to make someone else pay your debts, bad humor. It is forbidden to forget your friends, to not try to understand why they live far away, to treat people as disposable, to call them only when you need them. It is forbidden to not be yourself in front of others, pretending around people you donโ€™t care about, trying to be funny just so you'll be remembered, to forget about all the people who love you. It is forbidden not to do things for yourself, to be afraid of life and its commitments, to not to live each day as if it were your last. It forbidden to take someone out without having fun, to forget their eyes, their laugh, to not respect love even if it is past, just because your paths have stopped crossing, to forget your past and only live in the moment. It is forbidden not to try to understand people, to think that otherโ€™s lives are worth more than yours, to not know that each one of us has our own way and our own happiness. It is forbidden not create your own story, to have no time for people who need you, to not understand what life gives to you, and that it can also be taken away. It is forbidden not find your happiness, to not live your life with a positive attitude, to not think we can do better and be better, to feel that without you, this world would still be the same...
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Josรฉ N. Harris (Mi Vida)
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Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?
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Ray Bradbury
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A horse having a wolf as a powerful and dangerous enemy lived in constant fear of his life. Being driven to desperation, it occurred to him to seek a strong ally. Whereupon he approached a man, and offered an alliance, pointing out that the wolf was likewise an enemy of the man. The man accepted the partnership at once and offered to kill the wolf immediately, if his new partner would only co-operate by placing his greater speed at the manโ€™s disposal. The horse was willing, and allowed the man to place bridle and saddle upon him. The man mounted, hunted down the wolf, and killed him. โ€œThe horse, joyful and relieved, thanked the man, and said: โ€˜Now that our enemy is dead, remove your bridle and saddle and restore my freedom.โ€™ โ€œWhereupon the man laughed loudly and replied, โ€˜Never!โ€™ and applied the spurs with a will.
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Isaac Asimov (Foundation (Foundation, #1))
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Why the hell did you think I was calling you?โ€ โ€œI assumed youโ€™d accidentally strangled one of your whores to death, or something equally kinky and awful, and you needed help disposing of the body.โ€ She yawned and glanced around. โ€œSo, where is she?โ€ I stared at her, touched. โ€œWould you really help me bury a body?โ€ That was so fucking sweet. If Gamble ever gave me his blessing to bang his sister, Iโ€™d be all over her so fast.
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Linda Kage (With Every Heartbeat (Forbidden Men, #4))
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When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. And now, the twilight of my life, this understanding has passed into contentment. Love, liberty, and time: once so disposable, are the fuels that drive me forward. And love, most especially, mio caro. For you, our children, our brothers and sisters. And for the vast and wonderful world that gave us life, and keeps us guessing. Endless affection, mia Sofia. Forever yours, Ezio Auditore.
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Ezio Auditore da Firenze
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What was I thinking?" Chiron cried. " I can't let you get away without this." He pulled a pen from his coat pocket. It was an ordinary disposable ballpoint, black ink, removable cap. Probably thirty cents. Gee," I said. "Thanks." Percy, that's a gift from your father. I've kept it for years, not knowing you were who I was waiting for. But the profecy is clear to me now. You are the one. I remembered the feild trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, when I'd vaporized Mrs. Dodds. Chiron had thrown me a pen that turned into a sword. Could this be...? I took off the cap, and the pen grew longer and heavier in my hand. In half a second, I held a shimmering bronze sword with a double-edged blade, a leather=wrapped grip, and a flat hilt riveted with gold studs. It was the first weapon that actually felt balanced in my hands. The sword has a long and tragic history that we need not go into," Chiron told me. "It's name is Anaklusmos." Riptide," I translated, surprised the Ancient Greek came so easily. Use it only for emergencies" Chiron said, "and only against monsters No hero should harm mortals unless absolutely, of course, but this sword wouldn't harm them in any case.
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Rick Riordan
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Eventually the Woodsman spoke. โ€˜We all have our routines,โ€™ he said softly. โ€˜But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.โ€™ The Woodsman stood and showed David his axe. โ€˜See here,โ€™ he said, pointing with his finger at the blade. Every morning, I make certain that me axe is clean and keen. I look to my house and check that its windows and doors remain secure. I tend to my land, disposing of weeds and ensuring that the soil is watered. I walk through the forest, clearing those paths that need to be kept open. Where trees have been damaged, I do my best to repair what has been harmed. these are my routines and I enjoy doing them well.โ€™ He laid a hand gently on Davidโ€™s shoulder, and David saw understanding in his face. โ€˜Rules and routines are good, but they must give you satisfaction. Can you truly say you gain that from touching and counting?โ€™ David shook his head. โ€˜No,โ€™ he said, โ€˜but I get scared when I donโ€™t do them. Iโ€™m afraid of what might happen.โ€™ โ€˜Then find routines that allow you to feel secure when they are done. You told me that you have a new brother: look to him each morning. Look to your father, and your stepmother. Tend to the flowers in the garden, or in the pots upon the window sill. Seek others who are weaker than you are, and try to give them comfort where you can. Let these be your routines, and the rules that govern your life.
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John Connolly (The Book of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things, #1))
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Social media is basically standing at a bucket filled with other peopleโ€™s vomit and you suck the vomit through a straw, and gag and wince at the unbearable taste of other peopleโ€™s vomit. Yet strangely we continue to suck through the straw as if weโ€™ve never tasted such lovely vomit. And then before you know it youโ€™re old and youโ€™re grey. And thatโ€™s the end of you. A lonely death. Your gravestone is marked with the six saddest words: Social Media Drained My Soul Away And they all mourn your loss at a budget funeral service while updating their social media statuses on mobile phones apps. And in years to come nobody remembers any of your updates; even those updates that you deep-down believed were going to bring about world peace. The Digital Age is more disposable than nappies and just as full of shit.
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Rupert Dreyfus (The Rebel's Sketchbook)
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The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble to arrive till to-morrow. Whichever she did Mrs Leak would not mind. That was one of the advantages of dealing with witches; they do not mind if you are a little odd in your ways, frown if you are late for meals, fret if you are out all night, pry and commiserate when at length you return. Lovely to be with people who prefer their thoughts to yours, lovely to live at your own sweet will, lovely to sleep out all night!
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Sylvia Townsend Warner (Lolly Willowes)
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Don't insert your hand inside a wolf's mouth - or a lion's, bear's, alligator's or crocodile's mouth, or in a lawn mower, garbage disposal, snowblower or blender - because, if you do, you're not going to have that hand for much longer! Don't believe me? Ask my good friend Captain Hook how he got his name! - Tyr
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Rick Riordan (Hotel Valhalla Guide to the Norse Worlds: Your Introduction to Deities, Mythical Beings & Fantastic Creatures (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard))
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Do one thing every day that scares you...Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own...Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
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Mary Schmich
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Oh, sublime writers! Please remember sometimes that this clay, this sand, and this manure which you so arbitrarily dispose of, are men! They are your equals! They are intelligent and free human beings like yourselves! As you have, they too have received from God the faculty to observe, to plan ahead, to think, and to judge for themselves!
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Frรฉdรฉric Bastiat (The Law)
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Itโ€™s not a crime to wish for other worlds. Youโ€™ll get taxed for it but they canโ€™t throw you in jail for creating your own private worldโ€ฆyet. Dramatics are fun, an indulgence. โ€˜You canโ€™t go backward,โ€™ โ€˜You canโ€™t live in the past,โ€™ they tell you. Why not? โ€˜Youโ€™ve got to put all that behind you and move on to other things,โ€™ they say. Bullshit! These are all expressions of modern disposability. Itโ€™s a mediocritizing techniqueโ€”trying to get rid of what I call โ€˜past orthodoxies.โ€™ Itโ€™s our past that makes us unique, therefore itโ€™s our past that economic interests want to rob from us, so they can sell us a new, improved future. Society now depends on a disposable worldโ€”out with the old, in with the new, including relationships. But how we weep and wish we could hold onto those cherished moments forever, to those long-whispered dreams, those tortured nightsโ€”how we want to grasp them and stop them from sifting through our fingers. I say, โ€˜Donโ€™t let it happen. Keep things the way you want them and let the rest of the world be duped.
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Anton Szandor LaVey (The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey)
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Citizens of Luna, I ask that you stop what youโ€™re doing to listen to this message. My name is Selene Blackburn. I am the daughter of the late Queen Channary, niece to Princess Levana, and the rightful heir to Lunaโ€™s throne. You were told that I died thirteen years ago in a nursery fire, but the truth is that my aunt, Levana, did try to kill me, but I was rescued and taken to Earth. There, I have been raised and protected in preparation for the time when I would return to Luna and reclaim my birthright. In my absence, Levana has enslaved you. She takes your sons and turns them into monsters. She takes your shell infants and slaughters them. She lets you go hungry, while the people in Artemisia gorge themselves on rich foods and delicacies. But Levanaโ€™s rule is coming to an end. I have returned and I am here to take back whatโ€™s mine. Soon, Levana is going to marry Emperor Kaito of Earth and be crowned the empress of the Eastern Commonwealth, an honor that could not be given to anyone less deserving. I refuse to allow Levana to extend her tyranny. I will not stand aside while my aunt enslaves and abuses my people here on Luna, and wages a war across Earth. Which is why, before an Earthen crown can be placed on Levanaโ€™s head, I will bring an army to the gates of Artemisia. I ask that you, citizens of Luna, be that army. You have the power to fight against Levana and the people that oppress you. Beginning now, tonight, I urge you to join me in rebelling against this regime. No longer will we obey her curfews or forgo our rights to meet and talk and be heard. No longer will we give up our children to become her disposable guards and soldiers. No longer will we slave away growing food and raising wildlife, only to see it shipped off to Artemisia while our children starve around us. No longer will we build weapons for Levanaโ€™s war. Instead, we will take them for ourselves, for our war. Become my army. Stand up and reclaim your homes from the guards who abuse and terrorize you. Send a message to Levana that you will no longer be controlled by fear and manipulation. And upon the commencement of the royal coronation, I ask that all able-bodied citizens join me in a march against Artemisia and the queenโ€™s palace. Together we will guarantee a better future for Luna. A future without oppression. A future in which any Lunar, no matter the sector they live in or the family they were born to, can achieve their ambitions and live without fear of unjust persecution or a lifetime of slavery. I understand that I am asking you to risk your lives. Levanaโ€™s thaumaturges are powerful, her guards are skilled, her soldiers are brutal. But if we join together, we can be invincible. They canโ€™t control us all. With the people united into one army, we will surround the capital city and overthrow the imposter who sits on my throne. Help me. Fight for me. And I will be the first ruler in the history of Luna who will also fight for you.
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Marissa Meyer (Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4))
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...What is the key word today? Disposable. The more you can throw it away the more itโ€™s beautiful. The car, the furniture, the wife, the childrenโ€”everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today isโ€”shopping. Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didnโ€™t know what to do with himselfโ€”heโ€™d go to church, start a revolutionโ€”something. Today youโ€™re unhappy? Canโ€™t figure it out? What is the salvation? Go shopping.... ...If they would close the stores for six months in this country there would be from coast to coast a regular massacre.
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Arthur Miller
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Somewhere beyond the battening, urged sweep of three-bedroom houses rushing by their thousands across all the dark beige hills, somehow implicit in an arrogance or bite to the smog the more inland somnolence of San Narciso did lack, lurked the sea, the unimaginable Pacific, the one to which all surfers, beach pads, sewage disposal schemes, tourist incursions, sunned homosexuality, chartered fishing are irrelevant, the hole left by the moonโ€™s tearing-free and monument to her exile; you could not hear or even smell this but it was there, something tidal began to reach feelers in past eyes and eardrums, perhaps to arouse fractions of brain current your most gossamer microelectrode is yet too gross for finding.
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Thomas Pynchon (The Crying of Lot 49)
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You are not disposable. I know you feel that way when people choose to walk out of your life, but their emptiness causes space. And that vacant area of your life is desperately crying out for the one meant to take up residence. Let the angry tenant go. You don't want someone staying because you've begged and pleaded for their occupancy. You want the one who sees your quaking heart and says: "Honey I'm home".
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Alfa Holden (Abandoned Breaths)
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Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž… ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฒ• ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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We are an adaptable species and this adaptability has enabled us to survive. However, adaptability can also constitute a threat; we may become habituated to certain dangers and fail to recognize them until it's too late. Nuclear armaments are the most conspicuous example; as you read this you are in effect wearing a military uniform and sitting in a very exposed trench. You exist at the whim of people whose power does not derive from your own consent and who regard you as expendable, disposable. You merely failed to notice the moment at which you were conscripted. A "normal" life consists in living as if this most salient of facts was not a fact at all.
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Christopher Hitchens (Letters to a Young Contrarian)
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Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž… ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ์ •ํ’ˆ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฒ• ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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She shrugged, looking as baffled by it as he felt. "I don't know. I wonder sometimes if people even know what love is anymore. Some days, when I'm watching my friends change lovers as unperturbedly as they change shoes, I think the world just got filled with too many people, and all our technological advances made things so easy that it cheapened our most basic, essential value somehow," she told him. "It's like spouses are commodities nowadays: disposable, constantly getting tossed back out for trade on the market and everyone's trying to trade up, up--like there is a 'trading up' in love." She rolled her eyes. "No way. That's not for me. I'm having one husband. I'm getting married once. When you know going in that you're staying for life, it makes you think harder about it, go slower, choose really well.
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Karen Marie Moning (Spell of the Highlander (Highlander, #7))
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My God." He pushed away from the bedpost. "Friends! And do you fall into bed with any man who's 'dear' to you? How am I to take that?" "Of course I don't." She stood up, letting the knotted scarf slip away. "I can't seem to help myself. With you. About that. It's extremely vexing." "You're quite right on that count," he said sullenly. "I'm damned vexed. I'd like to vex you right here on the floor, in fact. And the idea of Sturgeon vexing you is enough to dispose me to murder. Is that clear? Do you comprehend me?" He took a reckless stride toward her and caught her chin between his fingers. "I'm not your friend, my lady. I'm your lover.
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Laura Kinsale (Lessons in French)
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I have been deceived, before, in the objects whom I have endeavoured to benefit; but I feel strongly disposed to trust you, nevertheless; and I am more interested in your behalf than I can well account for, even to myself. The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, forever,on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them...
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Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
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The Earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made with no lines of demarcation, and it's no man's business to divide it. I see the whites all over the country gaining wealth, and I see the desire to give us lands which are worthless. The Earth and myself are of one mind. Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit. If I thought you were sent by the creator, I might he induced to think you had a right to dispose of me. Do not misunderstand me; but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with as I choose. The one who has a right to dispose of it is the one who created it. I claim a right to live on my land, and accord you the privilege to return to yours. Brother, we have listened to your talk coming from our father, the Great White Chief in Washington, and my people have called upon me to reply to you. The winds which pass through these aged pines we hear the moaning of departed ghosts, and if the voice of our people could have been heard, that act would never have been done. But alas though they stood around they could neither be seen nor heard. Their tears fell like drops of rain. I hear my voice in the depths of the forest but no answering voice comes back to me. All is silent around me. My words must therefore be few. I can now say no more. He is silent for he has nothing to answer when the sun goes down.
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Chief Joseph
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It's all well and good to have profound thoughts on a regular basis, but I think it's not enough. Well, I mean: I'm going to commit suicide and set the house on fire in a few months; obviously I can't assume I have time at my disposal, therefore I have to do something substantial with the little I do have. And above all, I've set myself a little challenge: if you commit suicide, you have to be sure of what you're doing and not burn the house down for nothing. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
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Muriel Barbery (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)
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Even a moment's reflection will help you see that the problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart. It will only yield to a change in the very way we feel about time. The value of time must change for us. And then the way we think about it will change, naturally and wisely. That change in feeling and in thinking is combined in the words of a prophet of God in this dispensation. It was Brigham Young, and the year was 1877, and he was speaking at April general conference. He wasn't talking about time or schedules or frustrations with too many demands upon us. Rather, he was trying to teach the members of the Church how to unite themselves in what was called the united order. The Saints were grappling with the question of how property should be distributed if they were to live the celestial law. In his usual direct style, he taught the people that they were having trouble finding solutions because they misunderstood the problem. Particularly, he told them they didn't understand either property or the distribution of wealth. Here is what he said: With regard to our property, as I have told you many times, the property which we inherit from our Heavenly Father is our time, and the power to choose in the disposition of the same. This is the real capital that is bequeathed unto us by our Heavenly Father; all the rest is what he may be pleased to add unto us. To direct, to counsel and to advise in the disposition of our time, pertains to our calling as God's servants, according to the wisdom which he has given and will continue to give unto us as we seek it. [JD 18:354] Time is the property we inherit from God, along with the power to choose what we will do with it. President Young calls the gift of life, which is time and the power to dispose of it, so great an inheritance that we should feel it is our capital. The early Yankee families in America taught their children and grandchildren some rules about an inheritance. They were always to invest the capital they inherited and live only on part of the earnings. One rule was "Never spend your capital." And those families had confidence the rule would be followed because of an attitude of responsibility toward those who would follow in later generations. It didn't always work, but the hope was that inherited wealth would be felt a trust so important that no descendent would put pleasure ahead of obligation to those who would follow. Now, I can see and hear Brigham Young, who was as flinty a New Englander as the Adams or the Cabots ever hoped to be, as if he were leaning over this pulpit tonight. He would say something like this, with a directness and power I wish I could approach: "Your inheritance is time. It is capital far more precious than any lands or stocks or houses you will ever get. Spend it foolishly, and you will bankrupt yourself and cheapen the inheritance of those that follow you. Invest it wisely, and you will bless generations to come. โ€œA Child of Promiseโ€, BYU Speeches, 4 May 1986
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Henry B. Eyring
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God does not exist, as neither does our hereafter, that second bogey being as easily disposed of as the first. Indeed, imagine yourself just deadโ€”and suddenly wide awake in Paradise where, wreathed in smiles, your dear dead welcome you. Now tell me, please, what guarantee do you possess that those beloved ghosts are genuine; that it is really your dear dead mother and not some petty demon mystifying you, masked as your mother and impersonating her with consummate art and naturalness? There is the rub, there is the horror; the more so as the acting will go on and on, endlessly; never, never, never, never, never will your soul in that other world be quite sure that the sweet gentle spirits crowding about it are not fiends in disguise, and forever, and forever, and forever shall your soul remain in doubt, expecting every moment some awful change, some diabolical sneer to disfigure the dear face bending over you.
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Vladimir Nabokov (Despair)
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We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It was the last time you were going to have Lake Tung Ting shrimp in that kinda shady Chinese restaurant and you had no idea. If you had known, perhaps you would have stepped behind the counter and shaken everyone's hand, pulled out the disposable camera and issued posing instructions. But you had no idea. There are unheralded tipping points, a certain number of times that we will unlock the front door of an apartment. At some point you were closer to the last time than you were to the first time, and you didn't even know it. You didn't know that each time you passed the threshold you were saying goodbye.
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Colson Whitehead (The Colossus of New York)
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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๋ฌผ๋ฝ•ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํด๋ŸฝํŒŒํ‹ฐ์ „์šฉ ์ •ํ’ˆghbํŒ๋งค โ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…โ–ณ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ์ž… ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•์•ฝํšจ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•!
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ์ •ํ’ˆ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ›„๊ธฐ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there. And none so poor to do him reverence. O masters, if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honourable men: I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honourable men. But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I found it in his closet, 'tis his will: Let but the commons hear this testament-- Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read-- And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue.
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William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
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I cannot understand the principle at all,' said Stephen. 'I should very much like to show it to Captain Aubrey, who is so very well versed in the mathematics and dynamics of sailing. Landlord, pray ask him whether he is willing to part with the instrument.' Not on your fucking life,' said the Aboriginal, snatching the boomerang and clasping it to his bosom. He says he does not choose to dispose of it, your honour,' said the landlord. 'But never fret. I have a dozen behind the bar that I sell to ingenious travelers for half a guinea. Choose any one that takes your fancy, sit, and Bennelong will throw it to prove it comes back, a true homing pigeon, as we say. Won't you?' This much louder, in the black man's ear. Won't I what?' Throw it for the gentleman.' Give um dram.' Sir, he says he will be happy to throw it for you; and hopes you will encourage him with a tot of rum. (pp. 353-354)
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Patrick O'Brian (The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey/Maturin, #14))
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œ ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋งค โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… โ€œThere must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ›„๊ธฐ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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There must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body
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์ •ํ’ˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œ ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋งค โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… โ€œThere must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ์ •ํ’ˆ๊ตฌ์ž…๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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There must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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It was really rather wretched that you couldnโ€™t will yourself to fall in love, for the very effort can keep falling at bay. Nor could you will yourself to stay that way. Least of all could you will yourself NOT to fall in love, for thus far whatever meager resistance she had put up had only made the compulsion more intense. So you were perpetually tyrannized by a feeling that came and went as it pleased, like a cat with its own pet door. How much more agreeable, if love were something that you stirred up from a reliable recipe, or elected, however perversely, to pour down the drain. Still, there was nothing for it. The popular expression notwithstanding, love was not something you made. Nor could you dispose of the stuff once manifested because it was inconvenient, or even because it was wicked, and ruining your life, and, by the by, someone elseโ€™s.
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Lionel Shriver (The Post-Birthday World)
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The human body is a funny machine. When you want to move something - say, your arm - the brain actually sends two signals at the same time: "More power!" and "Less power!" The operating system that runs the body automatically holds some power back to avoid overexerting and tearing itself apart. Not all machines have that built - in safety feature. You can point a car at a wall, slam the accelerator to the floor, and the car will crush itself against the wall until the engine is destroyed or runs out of gas. Martial arts use every scrap of strength the body has at its disposal. In martial arts training, you punch and shout at the same time. Your "Shout louder!" command helps to override the "Less power!" command. With practice, you can throttle the amount of power your body holds back. In essence, you're learning to channel the body's power to destroy itself.
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Hiroshi Sakurazaka (All You Need Is Kill)
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When I went into the Army, I made up my mind that I was putting myself at the Army's disposal. I believe in the war. That doesn't mean I believe in the Army. I don't believe in any army. You don't expect justice out of an army, if you're a sensible, grown-up human being, you only expect victory. And if it comes to that, our Army is probably the most just one that ever existed. . . . I expected the Army to be corrupt, inefficient, cruel, wasteful, and it turned out to be all those things, just like all armies, only much less so than I thought before I got into it. It is much less corrupt, for example, than the German Army. Good for us. The victory we win will not be as good as it might be, if it were a different kind of army, but it will be the best kind of victory we can expect in this day and age, and I'm thankful for it.
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Irwin Shaw (The Young Lions)
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Nothing breaks my heart more than seeing that person whoโ€™s struggling to lose weight who thinks that they need to run 20 miles a week. They have no desire to do it, their knees hurt, they hate it, and theyโ€™re not losing weight. And Iโ€™d like to say, โ€˜Well, Iโ€™ve got great news for you. You donโ€™t ever need to run another step a day in your life, because thereโ€™s no value in that.โ€™ โ€œThere is value in exercise, though, and I think that the most important type of exercise, especially in terms of bang for your buck, is going to be really high-intensity, heavy strength training. Strength training aids everything from glucose disposal and metabolic health to mitochondrial density and orthopedic stability. That last one might not mean much when youโ€™re a 30-something young buck, but when youโ€™re in your 70s, thatโ€™s the difference between a broken hip and a walk in the park.
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Timothy Ferriss (Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers)
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You could choose to live in either America or Denmark. In high-tax Denmark, your disposable income after taxes and transfers would be around $15,000 lower than in the States. But in return for your higher tax bill, you would get universal health care (one with better outcomes than in the US), free education right up through the best graduate schools, worker retraining programs on which the state spends seventeen times more as a percentage of GDP than what is spent in America, as well as high-quality infrastructure, mass transit, and many beautiful public parks and other spaces. Danes also enjoy some 550 more hours of leisure time a year than Americans do. If the choice were put this wayโ€”you can take the extra $15,000 but have to work longer hours, take fewer vacation days, and fend for yourself on health care, education, retraining, and transportโ€”I think most Americans would choose the Danish model.
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Fareed Zakaria (Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World)
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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์ •ํ’ˆ์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ๊ตฌ๋งคํ›„๊ธฐ "์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„ํƒ‘" ์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,โ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…โ–ณ์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ์ •ํ’ˆํŒ๋งค,์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œํŒ๋งค,์ •ํ’ˆ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,
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Hank Green's Secrets of Productivity: 1.) I have convinced myself that if I am not using all of the tools I have in my disposal to do the maximum amount of good [...] then I am less of a good person than I could otherwise could be. [...] 2.) I intentionally put myself in situations where people who I care about and who I respect rely on me to do things, which is very motivating. [...] 3.) I don't get caught up in doing everything perfectly. [...] I just want to try stuff and if it explodes... it exploded! And I learned! 4.) I love giving other people responsibility. I love putting them in difficult situations and saying: "Figure this out. Help me do this." And if they do it wrong or if they do it differently than how I would have done it, I don't get mad as long as they're learning, because there's no way to get good at stuff except to do it and fail and learn. [...] 5.) I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!
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Hank Green
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If you wish to examine me to determine the sex of the child, you may do so.โ€ Her chin lifted. โ€œBut as you wish me to accept yourself, for your predatory nature, you must accept me as I am. My heart and soul may be Carpathian, but my mind is human. I will not be put on a shelf somewhere because you or my husband deems it necessary. Human women moved out of the dark ages a long time ago. My place is with Mikhail, and I must make my own decisions. If you feel the need to add your protection to Mikhailโ€™s I will be most grateful.โ€ There was a long silence, and the red glow faded slowly from the slashing silver eyes. Gregori shook his head slowly, with infinite weariness. This woman was so different from his kind. Reckless. Compassionate. Unaware of every taboo she broke. His hand went to her stomach, fingers splayed. He focused, aimed, sent himself out of his body. His breath caught in his throat, and his heart seemed to melt. Deliberately he moved to surround the tiny being, merging his light and will for a heartbeat of time. He was taking no chances. This was his lifemate; he would ensure it with every means at his disposal, from the blood bonding to mental sharing. No one was as powerful as he. This female child was his and his alone. He could hang on until she came of age. โ€œWe did it, didnโ€™t we?โ€ Raven said softly, bringing Gregori back to his body. โ€œSheโ€™s a girl.โ€ Gregori stepped away from Raven, holding on to his composure with his great strength of will.
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Christine Feehan (Dark Desire (Dark, #2))
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He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting โ€œit was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.โ€ His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, delivered himself in these words, which I shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in: โ€œMy little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. I observe among you some lines of an institution, which, in its original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions. It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are ennobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom. As for yourself,โ€ continued the king, โ€œwho have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
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Jonathan Swift (Gulliverโ€™s Travels)
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What do think about abortion?โ€ โ€œI could feel the tension growing in the plane. I dropped my head, acknowledging that we had very different value systems for our lives. Then I thought of a way to respond to his question. โ€œYouโ€™re Jewish, right?โ€ I asked. โ€œYes,โ€ he said defensively. โ€œI told you I was!โ€ โ€œDo you know how Hitler persuaded the German people to destroy more than six million of your Jewish ancestors?โ€ The man looked at me expectantly, so I continued. โ€He convinced them that Jews were not human and then exterminated your people like rats.โ€ I could see that I had his attention, so I went on. โ€œDo you understand how Americans enslaved, tortured, and killed millions of Africans? We dehumanized them so our constitution didnโ€™t apply to them, and then we treated them worse than animals.โ€ โ€œHow about the Native Americans?โ€ I pressed. โ€œDo you have any idea how we managed to hunt Indians like wild animals, drive them out of their own land, burn their villages, rape their women, and slaughter their children? Do you have any clue how everyday people turned into cruel murderers?โ€ My Jewish friend was silent, and his eyes were filling with tears as I made my point. โ€œWe made people believe that the Native Americans were wild savages, not real human beings, and then we brutalized them without any conviction of wrongdoing! Now do you understand how we have persuaded mothers to kill their own babies? We took the word fetus, which is the Latin word for โ€˜offspring,โ€™ and redefined it to dehumanize the unborn. We told mothers, โ€˜That is not really a baby you are carrying in your belly; it is a fetus, tissue that suddenly forms into a human being just seconds before it exits the womb.โ€™ In doing so, we were able to assert that, in the issue of abortion, there is only one personโ€™s human rights to consider, and then we convinced mothers that disposing of fetal tissue (terminating the life of their babies) was a womanโ€™s right. Our constitution no longer protects the unborn because they are not real people. They are just lifeless blobs of tissue.โ€ By now, tears were flowing down his cheeks. I looked right into his eyes and said, โ€œYour people, the Native Americans, and the African Americans should be the greatest defenders of the unborn on the planet. After all, you know what itโ€™s like for society to redefine you so that they can destroy your races. But ironically, your races have the highest abortion rates in this country! Somebody is still trying to exterminate your people, and you donโ€™t even realize it. The names have changed, but the plot remains the same!โ€ Finally he couldnโ€™t handle it anymore. He blurted out, โ€œI have never heard anything like this before. I am hanging out with the wrong people. I have been deceived!
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Kris Vallotton
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I had started on the marriage and motherhood beat by accident with a post on my personal, read only by friends, blog called โ€˜Fifty Shades of Menโ€™. I had written it after buying Fifty Shades of Grey to spice up what Dave and I half-jokingly called our grown up time, and had written a meditation on how the sex wasnโ€™t the sexiest part of the book. โ€œDear publishers, I will tell you why every woman with a ring on her finger and a car seat in her SUV is devouring this book like the candy she wonโ€™t let herself eat.โ€ I had written. โ€œItโ€™s not the fantasy of an impossibly handsome guy who can give you an orgasm just by stroking your nipples. It is instead the fantasy of a guy who can give you everything. Hapless, clueless, barely able to remain upright without assistance, Ana Steele is that unlikeliest of creatures, a college student who doesnโ€™t have an email address, a computer, or a clue. Turns out she doesnโ€™t need any of those things. Here is the dominant Christian Grey and heโ€™ll give her that computer plus an iPad, a beamer, a job, and an identity, sexual and otherwise. No more worrying about what to wear. Christian buys her clothes. No more stress about how to be in the bedroom. Christian makes those decisions. For women who do too muchโ€”which includes, dear publishers, pretty much all the women who have enough disposable income to buy your booksโ€”this is the ultimate fantasy: not a man who will make you come, but a man who will make agency unnecessary, a man who will choose your adventure for you.
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Jennifer Weiner (All Fall Down)
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I began looking for these four: Smart. It doesnโ€™t mean high IQ (although thatโ€™s great), it means disposed toward learning. If thereโ€™s a best practice anywhere, adopt it. We want to turn as much as possible into a routine so we can focus on the few things that require human intelligence and creativity. A good interview question for this is: โ€œTell me about the last significant thing you learned about how to do your job better.โ€ Or you might ask a candidate: โ€œWhatโ€™s something that youโ€™ve automated? Whatโ€™s a process youโ€™ve had to tear down at a company?โ€ Humble. I donโ€™t mean meek or unambitious, I mean being humble in the way that Steph Curry is humble. If youโ€™re humble, people want you to succeed. If youโ€™re selfish, they want you to fail. It also gives you the capacity for self-awareness, so you can actually learn and be smart. Humility is foundational like that. It is also essential for the kind of collaboration we want at Slack. Hardworking. It does not mean long hours. You can go home and take care of your family, but when youโ€™re here, youโ€™re disciplined, professional, and focused. You should also be competitive, determined, resourceful, resilient, and gritty. Take this job as an opportunity to do the best work of your life. Collaborative. Itโ€™s not submissive, not deferentialโ€”in fact itโ€™s kind of the opposite. In our culture, being collaborative means providing leadership from everywhere. Iโ€™m taking responsibility for the health of this meeting. If thereโ€™s a lack of trust, Iโ€™m going to address that. If the goals are unclear, Iโ€™m going to deal with that. Weโ€™re all interested in getting better and everyone should take responsibility for that. If everyoneโ€™s collaborative in that sense, the responsibility for team performance is shared. Collaborative people know that success is limited by the worst performers, so they are either going to elevate them or have a serious conversation. This one is easy to corroborate with references, and in an interview you can ask, โ€œTell me about a situation in your last company where something was substandard and you helped to fix it.
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Ben Horowitz (What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture)
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But now I speculate re the ants' invisible organ of aggregate thought... if, in a city park of broad reaches, winding paths, roadways, and lakes, you can imagine seeing on a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon the random and unpredictable movement of great numbers of human beings in the same way... if you watch one person, one couple, one family, a child, you can assure yourself of the integrity of the individual will and not be able to divine what the next moment will bring. But when the masses are celebrating a beautiful day in the park in a prescribed circulation of activities, the wider lens of thought reveals nothing errant, nothing inconstant or unnatural to the occasion. And if someone acts in a mutant un-park manner, alarms go off, the unpredictable element, a purse snatcher, a gun wielder, is isolated, surrounded, ejected, carried off as waste. So that while we are individually and privately dyssynchronous, moving in different ways, for different purposes, in different directions, we may at the same time comprise, however blindly, the pulsing communicating cells of an urban over-brain. The intent of this organ is to enjoy an afternoon in the park, as each of us street-grimy urbanites loves to do. In the backs of our minds when we gather for such days, do we know this? How much of our desire to use the park depends on the desires of others to do the same? How much of the idea of a park is in the genetic invitation on nice days to reflect our massive neuromorphology? There is no central control mechanism telling us when and how to use the park. That is up to us. But when we do, our behavior there is reflective, we can see more of who we are because of the open space accorded to us, and it is possible that it takes such open space to realize in simple form the ordinary identity we have as one multicellular culture of thought that is always there, even when, in the comparative blindness of our personal selfhood, we are flowing through the streets at night or riding under them, simultaneously, as synaptic impulses in the metropolitan brain. Is this a stretch? But think of the contingent human mind, how fast it snaps onto the given subject, how easily it is introduced to an idea, an image that it had not dreamt of thinking of a millisecond before... Think of how the first line of a story yokes the mind into a place, a time, in the time it takes to read it. How you can turn on the radio and suddenly be in the news, and hear it and know it as your own mind's possession in the moment's firing of a neuron. How when you hear a familiar song your mind adopts its attitudinal response to life before the end of the first bar. How the opening credits of a movie provide the parameters of your emotional life for its ensuing two hours... How all experience is instantaneous and instantaneously felt, in the nature of ordinary mind-filling revelation. The permeable mind, contingently disposed for invasion, can be totally overrun and occupied by all the characteristics of the world, by everything that is the case, and by the thoughts and propositions of all other minds considering everything that is the case... as instantly and involuntarily as the eye fills with the objects that pass into its line of vision.
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E.L. Doctorow (City of God)