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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
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Reba McEntire
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Maya Angelou
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Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely.
Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.
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P.C. Cast (Betrayed (House of Night, #2))
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The wishbone will never replace the backbone
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Will Henry
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There are weak men; men who run and hide when life slaps them in the ass. Then there are men; men who have a backbone yet occasionally, when life slaps them in the ass, will rely on others. And then there are real men; men who don’t cry or complain, who don’t just have a backbone, they are the backbone. Men who make their own decisions and live with the consequences, who accept responsibility for their actions or words. Men who, when life slaps them in the ass, slap back and move on. Men who live hard and die even harder.
Men like my father and my uncles. Men I loved with all my heart.
Men like Deuce.
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Madeline Sheehan (Undeniable (Undeniable, #1))
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Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.
A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.
A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.
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Osho
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The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.
It was something. Don't say it wasn't.
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Megan Abbott (Dare Me)
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Fear and shame are the backbone of my self-control. They are my source of inspiration, my insurance against becoming entirely unacceptable. They help me do the right thing. And I am terrified of what I would be without them. Because I suspect that, left to my own devices, I would completely lose control of my life. I'm still hoping that perhaps someday I'll learn how to use willpower like a real person, but until that very unlikely day, I will confidently battle toward adequacy, wielding my crude skill set of fear and shame.
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Allie Brosh (Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened)
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There are moments in which all of us need to have a backbone and feel that we have the right to say no to adults if we believe they are doing the wrong thing. You must find your voice and not be afraid to speak up.
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Jaycee Dugard (A Stolen Life)
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Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.
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Abbi Glines (Twisted Perfection (Rosemary Beach, #5; Perfection, #1))
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Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken
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M.T. Anderson (The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1))
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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”—Reba McEntire
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Reba McEntire (Comfort from a Country Quilt: Finding New Inspiration and Strength in Old-Fashioned Values)
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It takes backbone to lead the life you want.
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Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road)
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run their devouring course, destroying the very foundations which it was imagined they would save.
But we are unbelievably ignorant concerning what goes on in our country--to say nothing of what goes on in the rest of the world--and appear to have become too timid to question what we are told. Our failure to trust one another deeply enough to be able to talk to one another has become so great that people with these questions in their hearts do not speak them; our opulence is so pervasive that people who are afraid to lose whatever they think they have persuade themselves of the truth of a lie, and help disseminate it; and God help the innocent here, that man or womn who simply wants to love, and be loved. Unless this would-be lover is able to replace his or her backbone with a steel rod, he or she is doomed. This is no place for love. I know that I am now expected to make a bow in the direction of those millions of unremarked, happy marriages all over America, but I am unable honestly to do so because I find nothing whatever in our moral and social climate--and I am now thinking particularly of the state of our children--to bear witness to their existence. I suspect that when we refer to these happy and so marvelously invisible people, we are simply being nostalgic concerning the happy, simple, God-fearing life which we imagine ourselves once to have lived. In any case, wherever love is found, it unfailingly makes itself felt in the individual, the personal authority of the individual. Judged by this standard, we are a loveless nation. The best that can be said is that some of us are struggling. And what we are struggling against is that death in the heart which leads not only to the shedding of blood, but which reduces human beings to corpses while they live.
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James Baldwin (Nothing Personal)
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The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.
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B.F. Skinner (Walden Two (Hackett Classics))
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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone!
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Luxie Ryder
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Say the planet is born at midnight and it runs for one day. First there is nothing. Two hours are lost to lava and meteors. Life doesn’t show up until three or four a.m. Even then, it’s just the barest self-copying bits and pieces. From dawn to late morning—a million million years of branching—nothing more exists than lean and simple cells. Then there is everything. Something wild happens, not long after noon. One kind of simple cell enslaves a couple of others. Nuclei get membranes. Cells evolve organelles. What was once a solo campsite grows into a town. The day is two-thirds done when animals and plants part ways. And still life is only single cells. Dusk falls before compound life takes hold. Every large living thing is a latecomer, showing up after dark. Nine p.m. brings jellyfish and worms. Later that hour comes the breakout—backbones, cartilage, an explosion of body forms. From one instant to the next, countless new stems and twigs in the spreading crown burst open and run. Plants make it up on land just before ten. Then insects, who instantly take to the air. Moments later, tetrapods crawl up from the tidal muck, carrying around on their skin and in their guts whole worlds of earlier creatures. By eleven, dinosaurs have shot their bolt, leaving the mammals and birds in charge for an hour. Somewhere in that last sixty minutes, high up in the phylogenetic canopy, life grows aware. Creatures start to speculate. Animals start teaching their children about the past and the future. Animals learn to hold rituals. Anatomically modern man shows up four seconds before midnight. The first cave paintings appear three seconds later. And in a thousandth of a click of the second hand, life solves the mystery of DNA and starts to map the tree of life itself. By midnight, most of the globe is converted to row crops for the care and feeding of one species. And that’s when the tree of life becomes something else again. That’s when the giant trunk starts to teeter.
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Richard Powers (The Overstory)
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Who can tell?
Your living is an organized hell.
The mansion of your mind just an oversized cell.
The pressure, everything is done to a measure.
In the sea of competition sunk like a treasure.
Like a feather falling slow spiraling to the floor.
Strung up like a broken violin to your course.
Opportunity is knocking at your door,
But you never left a welcome mat (It doesn't matter anymore.).
Or anyhow, but you're too late to turn back.
Fate pushing you into the wall like a thumbtack.
Ain't no comebacks in this game of life.
Roll the dice again,
Roll it once, never twice.
Keep on going, and taste the stars.
Keep on growing, and raise the bar.
You're living life for the As down to the Zs,
After one drop you got a fountain to seize.
Wanna break from the world, but the world wanna break you,
The weight makes your backbone curl up and make you.
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Tablo
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A profession is the backbone of life.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits)
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Forgiveness is not a luxury but a necessity. Forgiveness is the backbone of love. And love makes life bearable
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Aggie Blum Thompson (I Don't Forgive You)
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There are three different types of men in this world: There are weak men- men who run and hide when life slaps them in the ass. Then, there are men- men who have a backbone, yet occasionally, then life slapps them in the ass, will rely on others. And then, there are real men- men who don't cry or complain, who don't just have a backbone, then are the backbone. Men who make their own decisions and live with the consequences and who accept responsiblity for their actions or words. Men who, when life slaps them in the ass, slap back and move on.
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Madeline Sheehan
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You know me. Guys like me come a dime a dozen. No fire. No backbone. Dead weight waiting to be pulled around and taken to places where we want to go but can't go alone. Because we're afraid to go alone. Because we're afraid to be alone. Because we can't face people and we can't talk to people. Because we don't know how. Because we can't handle life and don't know the first thing about taking a bite out of life. Because we're afraid and we don't know what we're afraid of and still we're afraid. Guys like me.
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David Goodis (Dark Passage)
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…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something believed in with conviction or seen with precision and thus compelling words to a shape….
You have not finished with it because you have read it, any more than friendship is ended because it is time to part. Life wells up and alters and adds. Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered. So we look back upon essay after essay by Mr. Beerbohm, knowing that, come September or May, we shall sit down with them and talk.
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Virginia Woolf
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If you desire victory over your problems, if you truly want to live the resurrection life, you must have backbone and not just wishbone! You must be active—not passive. Right action begins with right thinking. Don’t be passive in your mind. Start today choosing right thoughts.
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Joyce Meyer (Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind)
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Don’t miss out on the love of a good woman, son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you, love is real. I’d have never had the success in my life without that woman right there. She’s been my backbone. She’s been my reason for everything I’ve ever done. One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won’t be that important anymore. But when you’re doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed. I can’t imagine this world without her in it. I don’t even want to.
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Abbi Glines (Twisted Perfection (Rosemary Beach, #5; Perfection, #1))
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I know because when I offered to help you move in you looked at me like you were just waiting for the punch line to a joke I wasn’t telling. And that’s what bullies do to people. They don’t just hurt you or make you feel bad for five minutes in high school . They create the backbone of every friendship you try to have from then on. They change your life forever.
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Charlotte Stein (Never Sweeter (Dark Obsession, #2))
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Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
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Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men)
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I couldn’t manage life the way everyone else easily seemed to, and I struggled with the messy consequences every day. But pushing my oshi was the center of my life, a given, and my one point of clarity. It was more than a core—it was my backbone.
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Rin Usami (Idol, Burning)
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To thrive in life you need three bones. A wishbone. A backbone. And a funny bone.
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Reba McEntire
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You scared the fucking life out of me, Spark. Never, ever do that again.
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Tate James (Dear Reader (Devil's Backbone, #1))
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Fear and shame are the backbone of my self-control. They are the source of inspiration, my insurance against becoming entirely unacceptable. They help me do the right thing. And I am terrified of what I would be without them. Because I suspect that, left to my own devices, I would completely lose control of my life.
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Allie Brosh (Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened)
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Music is the backbone of life. Whether you are poor or rich. No matter what race you are . No matter where you live. We all understand music and have music in us. Music is one common thing we share in the entire universe.
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D.J. Kyos
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What’s also missing is a sense of relationship. People suffer in isolation from one another. In a world without purpose, without meaningful values, what have we to share but our emptiness, the needy fragments of our superficial selves? As a result, most of us scramble about hungrily seeking distraction, in music, in television, in people, in drugs. And most of all we seek things. Things to wear and things to do. Things to fill the emptiness. Things to shore up our eroding sense of self. Things to which we can attach meaning, significance, life. We’ve fast become a world of things. And most people are being buried in the profusion. What most people need, then, is a place of community that has purpose, order, and meaning. A place in which being human is a prerequisite, but acting human is essential. A place where the generally disorganized thinking that pervades our culture becomes organized and clearly focused on a specific worthwhile result. A place where discipline and will become prized for what they are: the backbone of enterprise and action, of being what you are intentionally instead of accidentally. A place that replaces the home most of us have lost. That’s what a business can do; it can create a Game Worth Playing.
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Michael E. Gerber (The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It)
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Life has two choices: create or destruct. These choices are the backbone for all, within oneself and outside oneself. Too many ways of thinking are described by too many people that have no idea. If you're attached to your ways then detach, so you can change. Use this detachment in your writing, relationships, and understanding of life. Our future as individuals, as nations, and as mankind can only go one way. It's our choice whether we want the painful path or the peaceful path.
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Mark Donnelly (Silent Prophet)
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There are three different types of men in this world: There are weak men - men who run and hide when life slaps them in the ass. Then there are men - men who have a backbone, ye occasionally, when life slaps them on the ass, will rely on others.
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Madeline Sheehan
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J ESUS PRIMARY MISSION IS summed Up In This One Line: “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8). That was Jesus’ assignment; it was the disciples’ assignment, and it is your assignment as well. God’s purpose in saving you was not simply to rescue you and keep you busy until He shipped you off to Heaven. His purpose was much bigger; He commissioned you to demonstrate the will of God, “on earth as it is in heaven,” helping to transform this planet into a place that is radiant and saturated with His power and presence. This is the very backbone of the Great Commission, and it should define your life and mine.
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Bill Johnson (Spiritual Java)
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For example, I’ve talked about the lower middle class as the backbone of fascism in the future. I think this may happen. The party members of the Nazi Party in Germany were consistently lower middle class. I think that the right-wing movements in this country are pretty generally in this group.
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Carroll Quigley (Carroll Quigley: Life, Lectures and Collected Writings)
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The institution of marriage would be damaged. Ideologically, marital morality must be kept intact, in spite of the contradictory facts of sexual life, because marriage is the backbone of the authoritarian family, which in turn is the breeding ground for authoritarian ideologies and character structure.
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Wilhelm Reich (The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-governing Character Structure)
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a wishbone without a backbone doesn’t really get you very far,
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Robin Sharma (The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.)
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It’s not the case that while our natural attributes and aptitudes are made of sciencey stuff, our character, resilience, and backbone come packaged in a soul.
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Robert M. Sapolsky (Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will)
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The technical name for the stage of a jellyfish's life when it swims freely in the seas is Medusa, a moniker shared with the Ancient Greek mythological monster.
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Juli Berwald (Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone)
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What you say about someone behind their back, says a lot about your backbone.
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Gift Gugu Mona
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Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.
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Ziad K. Abdelnour (Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics)
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A nation with a strong base in science and technology is a nation with a strong backbone. By
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A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (My Life: An Illustrated Biography: An Illustrated Autobiography)
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To succeed in life you need three things; a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.
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Reba McEntire (The Best of Reba McEntire)
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Hold on, okay?” That was all the warning I got before he kicked the engine over and the bike roared to life between our legs. Holy hell.
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Tate James (Dear Reader (Devil's Backbone, #1))
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Education is the back-bone of everything in life. If the backbone/roots are strong nothing will be able to destroy it and if the roots are damaged nothing will stand over it.
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Gaurav Punjabi
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Consider yourself an orphan, when it comes to identity, only then can you grow the backbone, to unleash your original humanity.
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Abhijit Naskar (Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn (Caretaker Diaries))
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Adversity can create and opportunity for self-discovery. When you are faced with an on-going medical catastrophe, it forces you to take notice of the little things that you may have overlooked when you were dazzled with good health. You recognize that the little moments are not so little. The appreciation of accumulated small little moments can create a happier life.
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Karen Duffy (Backbone: Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One)
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Heaven gives revelation and faith feeds on that revelation to become the backbone of a strong character that climbs and overcomes the obstacles of this world to a desired vision in life.
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JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA
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I am the daughter of a mother who would never change...The refusal to modify her aspect, her habits, her attitudes was strategy for resisting American culture, for fighting it, for maintaining her identity...When my mother returns to Calcutta, she is proud of the fact that, in spite of almost fifty years away from India, she seems like a woman who never left.
I am the opposite. While the refusal to change was my mother's rebellion, the insistence on transforming myself is mine...All my life I've tried to get away from the void of my origin. It was the void that distressed me, that I was fleeing...Writing, I discovered a way of hiding in my characters, of escaping myself. Of undergoing one mutation after another.
One could say that the mechanisms of metamorphosis is the only element of life that never changes. The journey of every individual, every country, every historical epoch, of the entire universe and all it contains, is nothing but a series of changes, at times subtle, at times deep, without which we would stand still. The moments of transitions in which something changes, constitute the backbone of all of us. Whether they are a salvation or a loss, they are moments we tend to remember. They give a structure to our existence. Almost all the rest is oblivion.
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Jhumpa Lahiri (In Other Words)
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Lilichka! (Instead of a letter)"
Tobacco smoke eats the air away.
The room,--
a chapter from Kruchenykh's Inferno.
Recall,--
by the window,
that day,
I caressed you ecstatically, with fervor.
Here you sit now,
with your heart in iron armor.
In a day,
you'll scold me perhaps
and tell me to leave.
Frenzied, the trembling arm in the gloomy parlor
will hardly be able to fit the sleeve.
I'll rush out
and hurl my body into the street,--
distraught,
lashed by despair
and sadness.
There's no need for this,
my darling,
my sweet.
Let's part tonight and end this madness.
Either way,
my love is
an arduous weight,
hanging on you
wherever you flee.
Let me bellow out in the final complaint
all of my heartbroken misery.
A laboring bull, if he had enough,
will leave
and find cool water to lie in.
But for me,
there's no sea
except for your love,--
from which even tears won't earn me some quiet.
If an elephant wants to relax, he'll lie,
pompous, outside in the sun-baked dune,
Except for your love,
there's no sun
in the sky
and I don't even know where you are and with whom.
If you thus tormented another poet,
he
would trade in his love for money and fame.
But
nothing sounds as precious to me
as the ringing sound of your darling name.
I won't drink poison,
or jump to demise,
or pull the trigger to take my own life.
Except for your eyes,
no blade can control me,
no sharpened knife.
Tomorrow you'll forget
that it was I who crowned you,
who burned out the blossoming soul with love
and the days will form a whirling carnival
that will ruffle my manuscripts and lift them above...
Will the dry autumn leaves of my sentences
cause you to pause,
breathing hard?
Let me
pave a path with the final tenderness
for your footsteps as you depart.
(1916)
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Vladimir Mayakovsky (Backbone Flute: Selected Poetry)
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Science prides itself on explaining the parts of our life that can be measured and tested. Objectivity is, rightly so, the backbone of science. But I’d argue that subjectivity is its flesh and blood. Each is necessary but not sufficient alone.
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Helen Thomson (Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own)
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Have you ever wondered how this all began? I don't mean philosophically but simply which of your body parts was first out of the blocks from the moment of egg fertilization? Was it the brain? The heart? The backbone, or even the eyes? In answer, I would ask you to stop being such a poet about it, because the fact is that in that first magical moment you were nothing but an orifice indented on to a cluster of cells. That's right. You started life as an asshole.
Nobody can escape this unfortunate fact. We all kicked off in the same way, and it isn't pretty. The philosophers are allowed back in the room at this point, because of course this begs the question whether certain individuals ever truly developed beyond this point.
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Karan Rajan (This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better)
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O the sad frugality of the middle-income mind. O the humorless neatness of an intellectuality which buys mass-produced candlesticks and carefully puts one at each end of every philosophical mantlepiece! How far it lies from the playfulness of Him who composed such odd and needless variations on the themes of leaf and backbone, eye and nose! A thousand praises that it has only lately managed to lay its cold hand on the wines, the sauces, and the cheeses of the world! A hymn of thanksgiving that it could not reach into the depths of the sea to clamp its grim simplicities over the creatures that swim luminously in the dark! A shout of rejoicing for the fish who wears his eyeballs at the ends of long stalks, and for the jubilant laughter of the God who holds him in life with a daily bravo at the bravura of his being!
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Robert Farrar Capon (The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection (Modern Library Food))
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At the Sandwich Islands, Kaahumanu, the gigantic old dowager queen—a woman of nearly four hundred pounds weight, and who is said to be still living at Mowee—was accustomed, in some of her terrific gusts of temper, to snatch up an ordinary sized man who had offended her, and snap his spine across her knee. Incredible as this may seem, it is a fact. While at Lahainaluna—the residence of this monstrous Jezebel—a humpbacked wretch was pointed out to me, who, some twenty-five years previously, had had the vertebrae of his backbone very seriously discomposed by his gentle mistress. The
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Herman Melville (Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life)
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A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone, even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone. Singleness can give us the kind of backbone - courage, confidence, and leadership skills that an effective Christian must learn.
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Leslie Ludy (When God Writes Your Life Story: Experience the Ultimate Adventure)
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I know because when I offered to help you move in you looked at me like you were just waiting for the punch line to a joke I wasn’t telling. And that’s what bullies do to people. They don’t just hurt you or make you feel bad for five minutes in high school. They create the backbone of every friendship you try to have from then on. They change your life forever.
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Charlotte Stein (Never Sweeter (Dark Obsession, #2))
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Girls aside, the other thing I found in the last few years of being at school, was a quiet, but strong Christian faith – and this touched me profoundly, setting up a relationship or faith that has followed me ever since.
I am so grateful for this. It has provided me with a real anchor to my life and has been the secret strength to so many great adventures since.
But it came to me very simply one day at school, aged only sixteen.
As a young kid, I had always found that a faith in God was so natural. It was a simple comfort to me: unquestioning and personal.
But once I went to school and was forced to sit through somewhere in the region of nine hundred dry, Latin-liturgical, chapel services, listening to stereotypical churchy people droning on, I just thought that I had got the whole faith deal wrong.
Maybe God wasn’t intimate and personal but was much more like chapel was … tedious, judgemental, boring and irrelevant.
The irony was that if chapel was all of those things, a real faith is the opposite. But somehow, and without much thought, I had thrown the beautiful out with the boring. If church stinks, then faith must do, too.
The precious, natural, instinctive faith I had known when I was younger was tossed out with this newly found delusion that because I was growing up, it was time to ‘believe’ like a grown-up.
I mean, what does a child know about faith?
It took a low point at school, when my godfather, Stephen, died, to shake me into searching a bit harder to re-find this faith I had once known.
Life is like that. Sometimes it takes a jolt to make us sit and remember who and what we are really about.
Stephen had been my father’s best friend in the world. And he was like a second father to me. He came on all our family holidays, and spent almost every weekend down with us in the Isle of Wight in the summer, sailing with Dad and me. He died very suddenly and without warning, of a heart attack in Johannesburg.
I was devastated.
I remember sitting up a tree one night at school on my own, and praying the simplest, most heartfelt prayer of my life.
‘Please, God, comfort me.’
Blow me down … He did.
My journey ever since has been trying to make sure I don’t let life or vicars or church over-complicate that simple faith I had found. And the more of the Christian faith I discover, the more I realize that, at heart, it is simple. (What a relief it has been in later life to find that there are some great church communities out there, with honest, loving friendships that help me with all of this stuff.)
To me, my Christian faith is all about being held, comforted, forgiven, strengthened and loved – yet somehow that message gets lost on most of us, and we tend only to remember the religious nutters or the God of endless school assemblies.
This is no one’s fault, it is just life. Our job is to stay open and gentle, so we can hear the knocking on the door of our heart when it comes.
The irony is that I never meet anyone who doesn’t want to be loved or held or forgiven. Yet I meet a lot of folk who hate religion. And I so sympathize. But so did Jesus. In fact, He didn’t just sympathize, He went much further. It seems more like this Jesus came to destroy religion and to bring life.
This really is the heart of what I found as a young teenager: Christ comes to make us free, to bring us life in all its fullness. He is there to forgive us where we have messed up (and who hasn’t), and to be the backbone in our being.
Faith in Christ has been the great empowering presence in my life, helping me walk strong when so often I feel so weak. It is no wonder I felt I had stumbled on something remarkable that night up that tree.
I had found a calling for my life.
”
”
Bear Grylls (Mud, Sweat and Tears)
“
Listen, pouty man bear,” Hazel said. “I don’t have the energy for round two with you. Can you please point us in the direction of laundry detergent, any clothing you might have, and snacks? Then we’ll be delighted to get out of your hair.” Zoey’s eyebrows lifted. “Look who’s rediscovering her backbone.” “It’s easier to be mean to him because he’s a jerk and won’t take offense,” Hazel explained.
”
”
Lucy Score (Story of My Life (Story Lake #1))
“
Mucus is made from giant molecules called mucins, each consisting of a central protein backbone with thousands of sugar molecules branching off it. These sugars allow individual mucins to become entangled, forming a dense, nearly impenetrable thicket – a Great Wall of Mucus that stops wayward microbes from penetrating deeper into the body. And if that wasn’t deterrent enough, the wall is manned by viruses.
”
”
Ed Yong (I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life)
“
Perls, on the other hand, feels it is essential for people to understand the power of their own roles in creation. He wants to make us aware that we can change our realities, and in fact are responsible for doing so. No one else can do it for us. Once we realize that perception is the backbone of reality, each of us is forced to take responsibility for the life we create and the way we choose to view the world.
”
”
Nigel C. Benson (The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained)
“
Sonnet of Superpowers
Poet's superpower is their pain,
Philosopher's superpower is reason.
Scientist's superpower is their brain,
Artist's superpower is their vision.
Janitor's superpower is cleanliness,
Hooker's superpower is practical piety.
Bartender's superpower is resilience,
Teacher's superpower is curiosity.
Entrepreneur's superpower is stubbornness,
Engineer's superpower is "unsliding caliber".
Copper's superpower oughta be unbent backbone,
Astronaut's superpower is conquest of fear.
Humankind's superpower is diversity.
Life's superpower is plasticity.
”
”
Abhijit Naskar
“
There are three different types of men in this world: There are weak men—men who run and hide when life slaps them in the ass. Then there are men—men who have a backbone, yet occasionally, when life slaps them in the ass, will rely on others. And then there are real men—men who don’t cry or complain, who don’t just have a backbone, they are the backbone. Men who make their own decisions and live with the consequences and who accept responsibility for their actions or words. Men who, when life slaps them in the ass, slap back and move on. Men who live hard and die even harder.
”
”
Madeline Sheehan (Undeniable (Undeniable, #1))
“
In 1976, while involved in research at the New York Public Library, I stumbled upon a strange text entitled Return of the Dove which claimed that there was a man not born of this planet who landed as a baby in the mountains of Croatia in 1856. Raised by “earth parents,” an avatar had arrived for the sole purpose of inaugurating the New Age. By providing humans with a veritable cornucopia of inventions, he had created, in essence, the technological backbone of the modern era.1 His name was Nikola Tesla, and his inventions included the induction motor, the electrical-power distribution system, fluorescent and neon lights, wireless communication, remote control, and robotics.
”
”
Marc J. Seifer (Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla)
“
My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular life in the laboratory. Focusing on artificial life frees us to explore novel chemical systems, but what we learn from these systems helps us to understand possible pathways leading to the origin of life. Our basic design for a synthetic cell involves the encapsulation of a spontaneously replicating nucleic acid, which acts as the genetic material, within a spontaneously replicating membrane vesicle, which provides spatial localization. We are using chemical synthesis to make nucleic acids with modified nucleobases and sugar-phosphate backbones.
”
”
Jack W. Szostak
“
Is that what got under your skin? That I shut you out, or that it was so easy for Tarquin to get in?'
'What got under my skin,' Rhys said, his breathing a bit uneven, 'is that you smiled at him.'
The rest of the world faded to mist as the words sank in. 'You are jealous.'
His shook his head, stalking to the little table against the far wall and knocking back a glass of amber liquid. He braced his hands on the table, the powerful muscles of his back quivering beneath his shirt as the shadow of those wings struggled to take form.
'I heard what you told him,' he said. 'That you thought it would be easy to fall in love with him. You meant it, too.'
'So?' It was the only thing I could think of to say.
'I was jealous- of that. That I'm not... that sort of person. For anyone. The Summer Court has always been neutral; they only showed backbone during those years Under the Mountain. I spared Tarquin's life because I'd heard how he wanted to even out the playing field between High Far and lesser faeries. I've been trying to do that for years. Unsuccessfully, but... I spared him for that alone. And Tarquin, with his neutral court... he will never have to worry about someone walking away because the threat against their life, their children's lives, will always be there. So, yes, I was jealous of him- because it will always be easy for him. And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.
”
”
Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
“
I don’t want to fix you. I like you just as you are. But the places in your life that I know will make you unhappy? I want to be by your side as you take them back. I’m going to cheer you on and tell you to keep going. I think that was always my destiny, but my road just got all broken up in the middle and I lost my way for a while. No more talk of leaving. As I’m getting back on my feet, I’m realizing something. You came in when I couldn’t stand at all, and you were my spine. You made me feel safe and confident while I learned to stand on my own again. Do you know how important that is? Do you know how special it is to be a backbone for someone? For this, and a hundred other reasons, you have my loyalty. My devotion. For this, and a hundred other reasons, you have me for always.
”
”
T.S. Joyce (Tarian Protector (New Tarian Pride, #4))
“
When The Nation Regresses (Sonnet 2210)
Letter to the rest of the world -
for the first time in over 200 years,
US is proudly regressing to its primitive origins,
now is the time to take stock of your strengths within -
your domestic brains, your domestic backbones,
and wield, empower and apply them most vehemently -
now is the time you fly higher than ever, without sam,
because big brother has turned into a drunken uncle.
And to those living within these shores of liberty,
who still have their sanity intact, I say -
you might not have had the honor to fight nazis,
but now is the time you resist with your life.
It's not a free country, it's a free jungle,
where predators roam free abusing the marginalized.
If you don't stand up now on the right side of life,
not human, not alive, you are undead - uncivilized.
”
”
Abhijit Naskar (Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper)
“
Whatever the future may bring, I beg and pray all Magyars worthy of that name, whether living in silence under foreign overlords or in exile far from their homes, to hold together, to forget party strife, and to keep before their eyes a single purpose: the restoration of Hungary’s freedom. Let us remember,
lest their sacrifice was in vain, all those who gave their lives for their fatherland and those prisoners of war who have not yet returned home. The Hungarian
people, and especially the Magyar peasants, are noble-minded. If the peasantry, the backbone of our nation, can succeed in retaining its well-tried, centuries-old national sense, its moral integrity, its martial courage and its joy in labour, even in times of terror and subjugation, if it refuses to heed those political agitators who preach class hatred and kindle the passions of the multitude, then, one day, Hungary will regain her freedom. To her defence and protection I dedicated my life.
”
”
Miklós Horthy (A Life for Hungary: Memoirs)
“
Statement on Hamas (October 10th, 2023)
When Israel strikes, it's "national security" - when Palestine strikes back, it's "terrorism". Just like over two hundred years ago when native americans resisted their homeland being stolen, it was called "Indian Attack". Or like over a hundred years ago when Indian soldiers in the British Army revolted against the empire, in defense of their homeland, it was called "Sepoy Mutiny".
The narrative never changes - when the colonizer terrorizes the world, it's given glorious sounding names like "exploration" and "conquest", but if the oppressed so much as utters a word in resistance, it is branded as attack, mutiny and terrorism - so that, the real terrorists can keep on colonizing as the self-appointed ruler of land, life and morality, without ever being held accountable for violating the rights of what they deem second rate lifeforms, such as the arabs, indians, latinos and so on.
After all this, some apes will still only be interested in one stupid question. Do I support Hamas? To which I say this. Until you've spent a lifetime under an oppressive regime, you are not qualified to ask that question. An ape can ask anything its puny brain fancies, but it's up to the human to decide whether the ape is worthy of a response. What do you think, by the way - colonizers can just keep coming as they please, to wipe their filthy feet on us like doormat, and we should do nothing - just stay quiet! For creatures who call themselves civilized, you guys have a weird sense of morality.
Yet all these might not get through your thick binary skull, so let me put it to you bluntly.
I don't stand with Hamas, I am Hamas, just like, I don't stand with Ukraine, I am Ukraine. Russia stops fighting, war ends - Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Israel ends invasion, war ends - Palestine ends resistance, Palestine ends.
However, I do have one problem here. Why do civilians have to die, if that is indeed the case - which I have no way of confirming, because news reports are not like reputed scientific data, that a scientist can naively trust. During humankind's gravest conflicts news outlets have always peddled a narrative benefiting the occupier and demonizing the resistance, either consciously or subconsciously. So never go by news reports, particularly on exception circumstances like this.
No matter the cause, no civilian must die, that is my one unimpeachable law. But the hard and horrific fact of the matter is, only the occupier can put an end to the death and destruction peacefully - the resistance does not have that luxury.
”
”
Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
“
Say the planet is born at midnight and it runs for one day. First there is nothing. Two hours are lost to lava and meteors. Life doesn’t show up until three or four a.m. Even then, it’s just the barest self-copying bits and pieces. From dawn to late morning—a million million years of branching—nothing more exists than lean and simple cells. Then there is everything. Something wild happens, not long after noon. One kind of simple cell enslaves a couple of others. Nuclei get membranes. Cells evolve organelles. What was once a solo campsite grows into a town. The day is two-thirds done when animals and plants part ways. And still life is only single cells. Dusk falls before compound life takes hold. Every large living thing is a latecomer, showing up after dark. Nine p.m. brings jellyfish and worms. Later that hour comes the breakout—backbones, cartilage, an explosion of body forms. From one instant to the next, countless new stems and twigs in the spreading crown burst open and run. Plants make it up on land just before ten. Then insects, who instantly take to the air. Moments later, tetrapods crawl up from the tidal muck, carrying around on their skin and in their guts whole worlds of earlier creatures. By eleven, dinosaurs have shot their bolt, leaving the mammals and birds in charge for an hour. Somewhere in that last sixty minutes, high up in the phylogenetic canopy, life grows aware. Creatures start to speculate. Animals
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”
Richard Powers (The Overstory)
“
Moore’s Law, the rule of thumb in the technology industry, tells us that processor chips—the small circuit boards that form the backbone of every computing device—double in speed every eighteen months. That means a computer in 2025 will be sixty-four times faster than it is in 2013. Another predictive law, this one of photonics (regarding the transmission of information), tells us that the amount of data coming out of fiber-optic cables, the fastest form of connectivity, doubles roughly every nine months. Even if these laws have natural limits, the promise of exponential growth unleashes possibilities in graphics and virtual reality that will make the online experience as real as real life, or perhaps even better. Imagine having the holodeck from the world of Star Trek, which was a fully immersive virtual-reality environment for those aboard a ship, but this one is able to both project a beach landscape and re-create a famous Elvis Presley performance in front of your eyes. Indeed, the next moments in our technological evolution promise to turn a host of popular science-fiction concepts into science facts: driverless cars, thought-controlled robotic motion, artificial intelligence (AI) and fully integrated augmented reality, which promises a visual overlay of digital information onto our physical environment. Such developments will join with and enhance elements of our natural world. This is our future, and these remarkable things are already beginning to take shape. That is what makes working in the technology industry so exciting today. It’s not just because we have a chance to invent and build amazing new devices or because of the scale of technological and intellectual challenges we will try to conquer; it’s because of what these developments will mean for the world.
”
”
Eric Schmidt (The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business)
“
When Israel strikes, it's "national security" - when Palestine strikes back, it's "terrorism". Just like over two hundred years ago when native americans resisted their homeland being stolen, it was called "Indian Attack". Or like over a hundred years ago when Indian soldiers in the British Army revolted against the empire, in defense of their homeland, it was called "Sepoy Mutiny".
The narrative never changes - when the colonizer terrorizes the world, it's given glorious sounding names like "exploration" and "conquest", but if the oppressed so much as utters a word in resistance, it is branded as attack, mutiny and terrorism - so that, the real terrorists can keep on colonizing as the self-appointed ruler of land, life and morality, without ever being held accountable for violating the rights of what they deem second rate lifeforms, such as the arabs, indians, latinos and so on.
After all this, some apes will still only be interested in one stupid question. Do I support Hamas? To which I say this. Until you've spent a lifetime under an oppressive regime, you are not qualified to ask that question. An ape can ask anything its puny brain fancies, but it's up to the human to decide whether the ape is worthy of a response. What do you think, by the way - colonizers can just keep coming as they please, to wipe their filthy feet on us like doormat, and we should do nothing - just stay quiet! For creatures who call themselves civilized, you guys have a weird sense of morality.
Yet all these might not get through your thick binary skull, so let me put it to you bluntly.
I don't stand with Hamas, I am Hamas, just like, I don't stand with Ukraine, I am Ukraine. Russia stops fighting, war ends - Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Israel ends invasion, war ends - Palestine ends resistance, Palestine ends.
”
”
Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
“
Beginner's Guide to The East
(Naskaristana 2758-2760)
Even when the west does embrace the east, it ends up drawing from superstitious fringes, and rebrands it as self awareness and spirituality - thus catholic guilt gets replaced with chakra cleansing, and christian afterlife is substituted with karmic justice -
for once in your life grow the brain and backbone to look at life as a living being, not as shape shifting vegetable, trading one gullibility for another, one fanaticism for another, one dogma for another -
there's no point in denouncing domestic dogma, if you end up importing your prejudices and blind faith from elsewhere.
Problem is, the race of apes have a stronger affinity to superstition than common sense, no matter the country or culture - westerners are drawn to eastern superstitions, just like easterners are drawn to western superstitions like ultraindividualism.
However, there is one little caveat here, while western ultraindividualism is rather straightforward and easy to detect, superstitions of the east, or in fact, any of the civilizations of global south, are often too complex for western comprehension -
so be very careful while calling out superstitions of the global south, in fact, put your caucasian cleverness aside, and take your cues from actual native thinkers, otherwise chances are, you'd be continuing your filthy ancestral habits of calling the natives savages, brainwashed by your subconscious colonial mindset, while believing yourself to be the voice of reason, not unlike how many of the brilliant militant atheists behave.
Remember one thing, the entire colonial terrorist lot not only believed that God was on their side, they also thought they were the voice of reason - so no matter how sure you are about your sense of truth, dehumanization always comes bearing the badge of religion, and waving the flag of reason.
”
”
Abhijit Naskar (Nazmahal: Palace of Grace)
“
Pity those who are punished. Alas! Who are we, after all? Who am I who
speak to you now? Who are you, listening to me? Where do we come from?
And is it quite certain we did nothing before we were born? The earth is not
without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows whether man is not a
previous offender against divine justice?
Take a close look at life. It is so organized that everywhere there is a
sense of punishment.
Are you what is called a happy man? Well, you are sad every day. Every
day has its great sorrow or petty anxiety. Yesterday you were trembling for
the health of someone dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow
it will be financial worries, the next day some back-biter’s slander, the day
after that a friend’s misfortune. Then the weather, then something broken or
lost, then a pleasure that your conscience and your backbone begrudge you.
Another time, what is going on in the world. Not to mention heartache. And
so on and so forth. One cloud clears, another forms. Hardly one day in a
hundred that is entirely joyous, entirely sunny. And you are one of that
small number who are happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnant night is
upon them.
Reflective minds rarely use those terms, ‘the happy’ and ‘the unhappy’.
In this world, the antechamber to another, of course, no one is happy.
The real human division is this: the enlightened and the benighted.
To reduce the numbers of the benighted, to increase the numbers of the
enlightened, that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! Science! To
teach someone to read is to light a fire! Every spelled-out syllable sparkles!
And he who says ‘light’ does not necessarily say ‘joy’. People suffer in
the light. An excess of it burns. The flame is enemy to the wing. To burn
without ceasing to fly, that is the marvel of genius.
Even if you have knowledge and even if you have love, you will still
suffer. Each day begins with tears. The enlightened weep, if only for the
benighted.
”
”
Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
“
As long as there have been humans, we have searched for our place in the Cosmos. In the childhood of our species (when our ancestors gazed a little idly at the stars), among the Ionian scientists of ancient Greece, and in our own age, we have been transfixed by this question: Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost between two spiral arms in the outskirts of a galaxy which is a member of a sparse cluster of galaxies, tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. This perspective is a courageous continuation of our penchant for constructing and testing mental models of the skies; the Sun as a red-hot stone, the stars as celestial flame, the Galaxy as the backbone of night.
Since Aristarchus, every step in our quest has moved us farther from center stage in the cosmic drama. There has not been much time to assimilate these new findings. The discoveries of Shapley and Hubble were made within the lifetimes of many people still alive today. There are those who secretly deplore these great discoveries, who consider every step a demotion, who in their heart of hearts still pine for a universe whose center, focus and fulcrum is the Earth. But if we are to deal with the Cosmos we must first understand it, even if our hopes for some unearned preferential status are, in the process, contravened. Understanding where we live is an essential precondition for improving the neighborhood. Knowing what other neighborhoods are like also helps. If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
We embarked on our cosmic voyage with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each generation asked anew with undiminished wonder: What are the stars? Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
”
”
Carl Sagan (Cosmos)
“
He felt it. Misery, we must insist, had been good to him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, is so far magnificent that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty strips the material life entirely bare, and makes it hideous; thence arise inexpressible yearnings towards the ideal life. The rich young man has a hundred brilliant and coarse amusements, racing, hunting, dogs, cigars, gaming, feasting, and the rest; busying the lower portions of the soul at the expense of its higher and delicate portions. The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing more but reverie. He goes free to the play which God gives; he beholds the sky, space, the stars, the flowers, the children, the humanity in which he suffers, the creation in which he shines. He looks at humanity so much that he sees the soul, he looks at creation so much that he sees God. He dreams, he feels that he is great; he dreams again, and he feels that he is tender. From the egotism of the suffering man, he passes to the compassion of the contemplating man. A wonderful feeling springs up within him, forgetfulness of self, and pity for all. In thinking of the numberless enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and gives lavishly to open souls, and refuses to closed souls, he, a millionaire of intelligence, comes to grieve for the millionaires of money. All hatred goes out of his heart in proportion as all light enters his mind. And then is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never miserable. The first lad you meet, poor as he may be, with his health, his strength, his quick step, his shining eyes, his blood which circulates warmly, his black locks, his fresh cheeks, his rosy lips, his white teeth, his pure breath, will always be envied by an old emperor. And then every morning he sets about earning his bread; and while his hands are earning his living, his backbone is gaining firmness, his brain is gaining ideas. When his work is done, he returns to ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joy; he sees his feet in difficulties, in obstacle, on the pavement, in thorns, sometimes in the mire; his head is in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, benevolent; and he blesses God for having given him these two estates which many of the rich are without; labour which makes him free, and thought which makes him noble. This is what had taken place in Marius.
”
”
Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
“
Living things do not inherit skulls, backbones, or cell layers from their ancestors—they inherit the processes to build them.
”
”
Neil Shubin (Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA)
“
What is love" was the most searched phrase on Google in 2012, according to the company. In an attempt to get to the bottom of the question once and for all, the Guardian has gathered writers from the fields of science, literature, religion and philosophy to give their definition of the much-pondered word.
카톡☎ppt33☎ 〓 라인☎pxp32☎ 홈피는 친추로 연락주세요
The physicist: 'Love is chemistry'
팔팔정처방,팔팔정구입,팔팔정구매,팔팔정판매,팔팔정가격,팔팔정구입방법,팔팔정구매방법,팔팔정복용법,팔팔정부작용,팔팔정약효,팔팔정효과
I am so grateful about the things I have, such as the love from my parents and my friends. They always stand by my side when I have troubles. So I can grow up as a strong and positive girl. Some children take what they own as the certain thing, but I think we should be grateful to life and return something to those who love us.
아무런 말없이 한번만 찾아주신다면 뒤로는 계속 단골될 그런 자신 있습니다.저희쪽 서비스가 아니라 제품에대해서 자신있다는겁니다
팔팔정,구구정,네노마정,프릴리지,비맥스,비그알엑스,엠빅스,비닉스,센트립 등 많은 제품 취급합니다
확실한 제품만 취급하는곳이라 언제든 연락주세요
Almost every child will complain about their parents sometimes. It is natural, because when people stay together for a long time, they will start to have argument. But ignore about the unhappy time, our parents love us all the time. No matter what happen to us, they will stand by our sides. We should be grateful to them and try to understand them.
Nowadays, more and more middle-aged people are suffering from insomnia, as life for the middle-aged is stressful indeed. For one thing, as they are the backbones of their companies, they have plenty of things to do at work. And they usually have to work overtime. For another, they have to take great responsibilities at home, for their aged parents need to be supported and their little children need to be brought up. That's why they don't have enough time to have a good rest.
”
”
팔팔정구입방법 cia2.co.to 카톡:ppt33 팔팔정판매 팔팔정구매 팔팔정구입방법 팔팔정구매방법
“
You have grown a backbone where your wishbone used to be. You have learned how to say no, you have learned how to walk away. Do you remember when they broke you? It felt like life as you knew it was over. It felt like your rib cage cracked apart. You have rebuilt yourself; you have stitched loss into gain, sadness into joy.
”
”
Kirsten Robinson (Evergreen)
“
Basically each religion has certain practices that form the essence of vedic dharma. Yegyes, literally meaning ‘to offer’, forms the backbone of the vedic absolute knowledge. Traditionally, a ritualistic fire ceremony in which various herbs, clarified butter (ghee), specific wood, etc. are offered to the fire with predetermined mantras (charged with vibrations) chanted by predetermined people (priests, host, pandits etc.) with a resolve or sankalpa, a Yegyes has far-reaching effects that encompass physical, soul, social, spiritual and ecological spheres, causing purification at all these levels.
A devout householder is supposed to perform five Yegyes on daily basis>
1. Brahma Egyes = Daily jap, daily meditation, daily yoga, offering into the interior fires of prana, mind, intellect and consciousness
2. Deva-Egyes = Worship offering to the Divinities, God, the Sun, Devi and Devtas through fire in the Vedic times, through watering and Pooja, flowers, fruits rituals.
3. Pitr-Egyes = Offerings to ancestors, manes, and daily worshipful service to one’s living parents and elders
4. Atithi-Egyes = Worship offering to guests the word Atithi means one who comes without making a date hospitality is not a social act but a worship.
5. Offering-Egyes = offering to God, Goddess, Devi, Devtas and Bhagawan, beings, spreading knowledge putting aside the first food for the wandering cows or other animals as well as putting aside daily before cooking similarly like some uncooked rice, daal, grain, flour, for giving away to the temple, church, gumba, gurudwar, priest, monk, beggar or orphanage nowadays.
The philosophy of Egyes, which essentially is: make yourself into a worshipful offering and pour yourself into the divine fire of knowledge, the immortal soul of knowledge. The fire offering you witnessed is an embodiment of all this teaching and the participants are actually very conscious of it.
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”
Shreeom Surye shiva devkota
“
exercises and good nutrition is the mother of good health, good posture and longevity with good quality of life.
”
”
S.ELIA (GIRLS’ SCOLIOSIS:WHY MORE GIRLS ARE AFFECTED THAN BOYS? THE CAUSE, PREVENTION AND TREATMENTS: ~TAKE CARE OF YOUR SPINE, IT IS THE BACKBONE OF GOOD HEALTH, BEARING AND SPLENDOR)
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REMEMBERING THE WORDS OF MY LATE FATHER
The time is 03.16 am the UK time and I have been thinking of you lately, nyana kaBhixa, Mngwevu, Tshangisa, Zulu, Skhomo, Mhlatyana, Rudulu. I listen and hear nothing but the echoes of your words of wisdom and encouragement in my daily life. Your priceless love for me and my late sister was the most solid foundation for our lives and the most nourishment of our souls which is still the pillar of the unbeatable strength that helps me stand tall against all odds.
You always told us that life is a double-edged sword, it’s beautiful and enjoyable but there are times when it stings like a bee and the best thing to do is to take a cautious approach and remember that there will always be some victories along the way. Here are some of your words that continue to give me the ability to navigate throughout the challenges of life:
. Know who you are,never compromise and sell yourself short
. Stay authentic and never change because authenticity stiffens your backbone.
. Always stand up for the truth no matter how high is the cost
. Never eat like there is no tomorrow because you will not be able to survive in the times of famine.
. Never sit too close to the fire because not every place is always has that kind of comfort.
. Be aware of your surroundings and make it the part of your daily routine.
. Always try to pull yourself together and remember that there are places where your tears will mean nothing to certain people.
. Always remember that you were created to overcome every obstacle and to rise above every challenge. And never keep silent in the presence of your adversaries.
. Always remember to share the little you have with those who are in need.
. Never be afraid to say no when you have to say so.
I give God all the glory for the choice He made before the foundation of the earth for choosing you to be my earthly father and I’m grateful for the years He allowed us to spend together on this planet. Thank you so much Tata for being a good and faithful steward of my life and thank you for the spirit of resilience that runs through the veins of every Xhosa heart. Lala ngoxolo Tshangisa. Love you so much.
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Euginia Herlihy
“
Time to Defect (The Sonnet)
It's time to defect, my friend -
from the side of passport to the side of heartport,
from the side of prison to the side of reason,
from the side of nationality to the side of sanity,
from the side of myopia to the side of motion,
from the side of crutches to the side of conscience,
from the side of coffins to the side of character,
from the side of bombs to the side of backbone,
from the side of barbwire to the side of brainwire,
from the side of flag to the side of fervor,
from the side of parasites to the side of paragons,
from the side of pacemakers to the side of peacemakers,
from the side of ideology to the side of illumination.
It's time to defect, my friend -
from the side of caves to the side of kind,
from the side of tribe to the side of life.
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Abhijit Naskar (Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth)
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Waste not the life on measuring your waist,
All waist is waste if the backbone is malnourished.
Fitness is fiction when shallowness runs rampant,
All curves are filth if the being remains prejudiced.
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Abhijit Naskar (Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament)
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I don't make plans, I make purpose, then the purpose plans me.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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Even if I accept your bogus excuses for war, today we have the technology to fight wars without actually killing people - only reason we don't, is because it's not economical. Life is not economical, death is - peace is not economical, war is. It's far cheaper to kill enemy soldiers than take them prisoner, at the expense of the taxpayer. One bullet costs half a dollar, whereas one prisoner costs thousands per year. So, naturally, preserving life is not the priority, neither is peace. Besides, think of the rush of pride the primitive taxpayers get, from the headlines - "our nations' gallant forces took down several enemy soldiers in a bone-chilling surgical strike!" And more the primitives of a nation are exposed to this kind of blood-boiling headlines, more they get conditioned to believe, that in every war, they are on the right side of justice. World calls it Geopolitics - I call it Pavlovian Conditioning of Patriotism - where the citizen canines of a state are made to believe even the worst of stately atrocity to be just and righteous, by repeated exposure of a patriotic narrative. As I once said, whoever controls the narrative, controls the people. And fear is at the root of it all. Once the citizens conquer their fear and prejudice, and grow up into civilized thinking humans, that'll be the end of state, war and geopolitical tribalism.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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Once we realize that perception is the backbone of reality, each of us is forced to take responsibility for the life we create and the way we choose to view the world.
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Nigel C. Benson (The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained)
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Memphis was honest about her doubts. With Drake. With me. She told me how much she missed her confidence, but it was there. It had always been there. A woman without a backbone of steel wouldn’t have moved across the country. She wouldn’t have hit the reset button on her life. One of these days, she’d realize it too. Until then, I’d cover the gap.
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Devney Perry (Juniper Hill (The Edens, #2))
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I depend on him more than any girl should depend on a boy, but he’s been the backbone of my life. Without him, I will fall. “Hey.” He gathers my face in his hands. His glassy eyes bring me back to reality. To the fact that he feels my pain just as I feel his. That’s the problem. We hurt so much for each other that it’s hard to say no. It’s hard to take away the vice that will numb the agony of the day. “I’m here,” he says, a silent tear dripping down his cheek. “We’re going to beat this together.
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Krista Ritchie (Addicted for Now (Addicted #3))
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Backbone responsible is antidote to malice.
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Abhijit Naskar (Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations)
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One heart, one brain, one backbone -
that's all it takes to change the world.
When all three boil with vigor of life,
you can barely sit still avoiding effort.
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Abhijit Naskar (Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect)
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The city loved labels, so there was mine. I was a cab driver. I would drive you safely to wherever you needed to be. I was underrated but essential, the backbone to all that was thriving, and the people needed me...
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Priya Guns (Your Driver Is Waiting)
“
Visvavitamin (The Sonnet)
It's a sad state of affairs when
you get used to the sight of blood,
glorifying aggression as bravehearted.
It's a sad state of affairs when
you feel good dressing up for gala,
while children are being bombed to death.
Sometimes aggression may be our last resort,
but never normalize it as civilized way of life.
The beast in me knows well to crush bones,
but the reformer I am, works to preserve life.
It's a sad state of affairs when
prejudice is glorified as piety,
and curiosity is branded blasphemy,
when lies are honored as liberty,
and empathy is declared unholy.
Bandaid to the broken, backbone to the fallen.
Vital to world-light, we are Visvavitamin.
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Abhijit Naskar (World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets)
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I’M JUST A country kid who got lucky. I got the best friend the world had to offer and a world that offered us everything; the parental backbone that never wavered in its support, a mother who invested me with her dreams and through whom I have lived vicariously; and a God who allowed me to make mistakes and redeem myself.
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Bernie Taupin (Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me)
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December 11
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me. Democritus Every enemy has the capability to disrupt your life, some in a small way and others to a much larger capacity, but not many of them go to the effort to cause you harm. The fact that you don’t openly see enemies attacking you physically, verbally or discreetly behind your back, doesn’t mean that you do not have any enemies. It simply means that your enemies are not malevolent enough or energetic enough to make the effort to cause you harm, but their lack of effort should not be mistaken for a lack of malevolence toward you. As Democritus taught, just because a man does you no harm, it doesn’t mean he is not your enemy. You have to look deeper than that. You have to read between the lines. Your enemy is not only the man who wrongs you, but also the man who longs to see you wronged. He is the man who is happy when you are hit with misfortune, the man who celebrates your downfall. Your enemy is the person who wishes you calamity, even if he doesn’t have the courage to openly state the fact or to actually try to act on it. Be careful who you trust. You don’t always know who your enemies are. They are not always those who openly oppose you. The enemies of a good man are usually not men of character and backbone. They are more likely to be men of low character who lack the courage to openly come against you. Instead, they find it easier to simply sit back and think malicious thoughts of your ruin. Be wise and learn to read people’s spirits. Be careful who you trust. I always guard myself well. No enemy can hurt me!
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Bohdi Sanders (BUSHIDO: The Way of the Warrior)
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A true definition of equality is the 'Carbon Sugars' that bind DNA together within every Carbon lifeform on Earth. DNA would not exist without its sugar-phosphate backbone.
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Kim Perrier
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He had heard but one of Walter's lectures, yet that was enough to realise for him the kind of thing which henceforth he disliked and distrusted. Egremont, it seemed to him, had sought to make working men priggish and effeminate, whereas what they wanted was back-bone and consciousness of the bard facts of life.
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George Gissing (Thyrza)
“
This is My Country [Verse]
They say they're taking our rights, trying to clip our wings,
Taking aim at the heartland, changing all our things,
But I'll stand my ground, with my boots in the dirt,
For the sweat on my brow, and this worn-out shirt.
[Verse 2]
They're chasing my plow and meddling with my land,
Trying to break the backbone of the hard-working man,
But over my shoulder, there's a flag flying high,
For every valley, every mountain, and the wide open sky.
[Chorus]
This is my country, where I'm proud to stand,
With the rifle in my hand, and I’ll defend this land,
They can try to take it, but they'll never break me,
In the land of the free, I'll always be.
[Verse 3]
They don't understand the veins in this soil,
Each drop of blood, each tear, and each toil,
But I'll say my piece, in every whistle and chime,
'Cause this life's been mine since the start of time.
[Verse 4]
From sunup to sundown, in the fields I roam,
They won't replace the essence of my home,
For every stream and every tree that's grown,
They can't take the spirit that's deeply sown.
[Chorus]
This is my country, where I'm proud to stand,
With the rifle in my hand, and I’ll defend this land,
They can try to take it, but they'll never break me,
In the land of the free, I'll always be.
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James Hilton-Cowboy
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Sales is the backbone of almost everything we do in the world, whether it is monetary or not and when done ethically it is the single biggest factor for any kind of success. If you know you can provide value to someone or solve a big problem of theirs, it is your duty to sell it to them and it is your right to be rewarded fairly for it.
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Anubhav Srivastava (UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life (The Zeromniverse Archives Book 1))
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Jimmy produced Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers—every Stones record through Goats Head Soup in 1973, the backbone stuff. But the best thing we ever did with Jimmy Miller was “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” That song and “Street Fighting Man” came out of the very first sessions with Jimmy at Olympic Studios for what would become Beggars Banquet, in the spring of 1968—the May of street fighting in Paris. Suddenly between us this whole new idea started to blossom, this new second wind. And it just became more and more fun.
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Keith Richards (Life)
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Life comprises a blend of challenges and achievements. The lessons derived from the challenges form the backbone of personal growth and development.
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Janani Srikanth (QUESTION THE ANSWERS: A Toolkit for Personal Transformation)
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And I think if I have a shot at being able to find … the evidence, I think it’s only fair that we put duty off the table,” Aria said. She didn’t even know where she was finding this backbone to make demands. This wasn’t her. She’d never asked for anything in her life.
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Sam Crescent (Blackmailed Marriage)
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To afford food is employment, to afford principles is success.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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How come Hitler is a bigger villain than the British monarchy, when Hitler invaded only 11 countries, while the British empire invaded 90 percent of the globe, that is, over 170 countries, and caused multiple times the massacre than the Nazis did! And while modern Germans are well aware of the nation's horrific past, and try their best to right the wrongs, like civilized, conscientious humans ought to, in barbarian britain however, over half the population still stand proudly behind the monarchy, let alone recognize the animal filth it represents, which till this day is unparalleled by any other animal regime.
Now to the reason why Hitler is officially a villain, but not the British monarchy. Hitler invaded white countries, while the British empire invaded mostly colored countries - and since colored life is cheap, but white life is priceless, Hitler is branded a villain, while the Brits are designated "explorers" and "bringers of civilization", a tradition which has been proudly inherited by the modern day British Empire - the United States of America.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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Thousand Naskars (The Sonnet)
When one Naskar dies in body,
Thousand Naskars will take his place.
Cowards seek comfort in reincarnation,
While the brave step in to fill the void.
Don't you dare make a cult of me,
Waiting for yet another second coming!
Reclaim your life from the land of myths,
Wishful inaction is most unbecoming.
Charge up your mind with facts and reason,
Charge up your heart with love and vision.
Backbone alive repels cowardly inaction,
Even if peddled by thousand year tradition.
When one Naskar dies in body,
Thousand Naskars will take his place.
Naskar the person died a long time ago,
What speaks to you is Naskar the oneness.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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Naskar is made by Naskar alone, not an industry or benefactor.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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Sweat today, savor tomorrow!
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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Stock. Stock is the backbone of good cooking. You need it and you don't have it. I have the luxury of 30-quart stockpots, a willing prep crew, readily available bones and plenty of refrigeration space. Does this mean you should subject your guests to a sauce made from nasty commercial bases or salty canned broth? Make stock already! It's easy! Just roast some bones, roast some vegetables, put them in a big pot with water and reduce and reduce and reduce. Make a few months' worth, and when it's reduced enough strain it and freeze it in small containers so you can pull it from the freezer as needed. Life without stock is barely worth living, and you will never attain demi-glace without it.
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Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly)
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Sapiosultan (The Sonnet)
They ask me, do I believe in destiny?
Sure, I do - you are looking at it.
I am destiny - of you - of the world,
I am the destiny of entire humanity.
I am the bridge - between everything -
science, poetry, philosophy - everything.
Between everything and everyone -
I am the bridge between hearts still beating.
I am not a servant to the field,
I am a servant to the valley -
the valley of life and light -
beyond the squabbles of dead sanity.
Who am I - or better yet, what am I?
I am but a spark of reason tempered by warmth,
I am but a spark of boldness tempered by humility,
I am but a spark of justice tempered by conscience.
I am neither man nor woman,
I am neither mind nor machine,
I am neither head nor heart,
I am neither spine nor spleen.
I am but that - that one ceaseless truth,
aspiring across all fallacies untrue.
I am but that - that one untainted light,
shining as proof of time yet to come true.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
“
Topnut, DOD Sonnet
Take a fancy celebrity,
put them in military uniform,
suddenly everybody is a patriot.
That's how primitive this world is,
everybody yells about world peace,
while living in militarist gutter.
The best propaganda is one that,
does not feel like propaganda;
Best way to legally recruit terrorists,
is to portray terrorism as valor.
Best way to sustain the revenues of war,
is to showcase war as peace-intervention.
Till you grow up and denounce all militarism,
don't you dare call yourself a civilized human!
We scientists, doctors, nurses and teachers,
forget self-preservation for life-preservation,
while primitive civilians of a primitive planet,
throw all that away, hypnotized by patriotism.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
“
Take my Bible, Koran & Vedas,
Take my Origin of Species.
Throw me to the fires of hell,
My life will still smell of roses.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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When you lose touch with "love thy neighbor", you end up with christian nationalism.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
“
Naskar is made by Naskar alone, not an industry or benefactor - or more importantly, by family wealth. I had a roof over my head, food on the table, and clothes on my back - that was more than enough.
I started writing with literally zero dollar in my pocket. Let me tell you how it began, because for some reason, I completely forgot a crucial event of my life when I wrote my memoir Love, God & Neurons.
I once met an American tourist at a local train in Calcutta. The first thing he asked me was, had I lived in the States? I said, no. Then how come you have an American accent - he asked. Watching movies - I said. We got chatting and he told me about a book he had recently published, a memoir. I believe, this was the cosmic event that planted the thought of writing my own books in my head - I had already started my self-education in Neurology and Psychology, and I was all determined to publish research papers on my ideas, but not books. Meeting the person somehow subconsciously shifted my focus from research papers to books.
So the journey began. And for the first few years, I made no real money from my books. Occasionally some of my books would climb the bestsellers list on amazon, like my very first book did, and that would keep the bills paid for several months. Then the invitations for talks started coming, but they too were not paid in the beginning. The organizers made all the travel arrangements, and I gave the talks for free. It's ironic and super confusing really - I remember flying business class, but I didn't have enough money to even afford a one way flight ticket, because I had already used up my royalties on other expenses.
Today I can pick and choose which speaking invitations to accept, but back then I didn't have that luxury - I was grateful for any speaking gig and interview request I received, paid or not. One time, I gave an interview to this moderately popular journalist for her personal youtube channel, only to find out, she never released the video publicly - she posted an interview with a dog owner instead - whose dog videos had gained quite a following on social media. You could say, this was the first time I realized first hand, what white privilege was.
Anyway, the point is this.
Did I doubt myself? Often. Did I consider quitting? Occasionally. But did I actually quit? Never. And because I didn't quit, the world received a vast never-before seen multicultural humanitarian legacy, that you know me for today.
There is no such thing as overnight success. If you have a dream, you gotta work at it day in, day out - night after night - spoiling sleep, ruining rest, forgetting fun. Persist, persist, and persist, that's the only secret - there is no other. Remember this - the size of your pocket does not determine your destiny, the size of your dedication does.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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Persist, persist, and persist, that's the only secret - there is no other.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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The size of your pocket does not determine your destiny, the size of your dedication does.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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One day my memories will fade, but the world's memory of me will never fade - that's how I've lived my life.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat
(Pani, Agua, Water Sonnet)
In some circles, I am called a genius,
Yet the only genius I know of is service.
In other circles, I am branded fraud,
Yet the only fraud I know of is prejudice.
Saying, you've explored my work,
after spending an evening scrolling
through a few quotes, is like saying,
you've climbed Mount Everest,
after spending an evening scrolling
through pictures of the Himalayas.
Yet I can tell you who I am,
I don't need a million lines but one.
Iman insaniyat, mazhab muhabbat*;
Pani, agua, water, it's all one.
Take my Bible, Koran & Vedas,
Take my Origin of Species.
Throw me to the fires of hell,
My life will still smell of roses.
(*faith humanity, religion love)
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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Wield, I do, my conscience as compass.
Wear, I do, my backbone as battery.
Bouts of tragedy only amplifies my thunder,
Nature's bare mockery makes miracle of me.
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Abhijit Naskar (World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets)
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Self-Respect is about knowing that nothing is more important than your dignity.
It’s about not letting others get away with treating you horribly. If you are being treated like you are a nobody then even the highest amount of money you get in the job won’t change the fact that in the eyes of your employer, you are a commodity, not a person.
If you are always being belittled, insulted or abused, whether emotionally or physically by someone who says they love you, then no matter what they claim, the truth is in their eyes you are nothing more than a toy over which they think they have complete power.
Do you really think you can be happy in such kind of a life, where your very existence becomes that of a thing, not an individual?
Take a stand, let people know you have had enough and you will not let them use you anymore. Once you develop a backbone, not only will you start respecting yourself, others will start giving you the respect you deserve as well.
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Anubhav Srivastava (UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life (The Zeromniverse Archives Book 1))
“
Lockheed, who used our drawings and specifications to build the C-5A that is still the backbone of the U.S.’s heavy lift air transports system. In 1955, Douglas began a furious design program to build a large commercial jet transport. It
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William Mills Tompkins (Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs, think-tanks, and Nordic secretaries)
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The cycle of fear and falsehood can be broken only when we develop a moral backbone. You no longer view your life from the point-of-view of what will benefit you as an individual, but factor in the impact of your actions on others.
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Eric Tayem Tangumonkem (Coming to America: A Journey of Faith)
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Okay, Chace,” she whispered immediately.
“Good,” he kept growling, “we got that down. Now we’ll get this straight and not mixed. You know my shit’s f**ked up. I’m workin’ on that. You popped up with bad timing once and surprised me another time. I didn’t handle either of those well. The shit I’m workin’ through, I cannot promise I’ll do any better. What I can promise is I like the way you dress. I like the sound of your voice. I like the way you smell. I like that your hair feels the way it looks, like silk. I like the way you taste. I like that you got a backbone. I like it when you get scared of me. I like it when you stand up to me. I like it that you care as much as you do for a kid you don’t know jack about. I like it that you have no clue how to kiss but still, the two kisses I’ve shared with you are the best I’ve ever had. By far. I like all of that more than is healthy for me but especially for you. But I like it so much, I’m gonna ignore that and hope like f**k this doesn’t get jacked like everything else in my life has a tendency to do. I like it so much I’m willin’ to take that risk. I like it so much that I’ve decided you’re gonna take that risk with me. And I’ll make that straight too. I’m not asking you to take that risk, I’m tellin’ you you’re doin’ it. That means I’ll be at your place at seven with pizza, beer, a sleeping bag and food for our kid.
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Kristen Ashley (Breathe (Colorado Mountain, #4))
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Seeing created faith, strengthened their backbone, and filled them with the courage to face every enemy, even torture and death.
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Paul Tsika (The Overcomer's Edge: Strategies for Victorious Living in 13 Key Areas of Life)
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Sex is to physics, foreplay is to chemistry, and cuddling is to maths. That's why maths is the backbone of physics to understand the true pleasure.
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Shivam Chaudhary (An Intellectual ( Part 1 ))
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Artifact
As long as I can remember you kept the rifle--
your grandfather's an antique you called it-
in your study, propped against the tall shelves
that held your many books. Upright,
beside those hard-worn spins, it was another
backbone of your pas, a remnant I studied
as if it might unlock-- like the skeleton key
its long body resembled-- some door i had yet
to find. Peering into the dark muzzle, I imagined a bullet
as you described: spiraling through the bore
and spinning straight for its target. It did not hit me
then: the rifle I'd inherited showing me
how one life is bound to another, that hardship
endures. For years I admired its slender profile,
until-- late one night, somber with drink--you told me
it still worked, that you kept it loaded just in case,
and I saw the rifle for what it is; a relic
sharp as sorrow, the barrel hollow as regret.
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Natasha Trethewey (Thrall)
“
You can feel what's right around the corner for us, right? You can sense how consuming and desperate and explosive it will be if we both just take one step forward. I'm not saying it's not ridiculously dangerous to be with me. To be the partner of someone who lives the kind of life I lead. But you...if there's anyone in this world with enough backbone and stubbornness to survive it, it's you. And you'd more than survive here, Sophia. You'd flourish.
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Callie Hart (Rogue (Dead Man's Ink, #2))
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Patience Is The Backbone For World-Builders. Be Patient.
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Wesam Fawzi
“
You need to understand that sometimes things can be so totally fucked up that all you can hope for is to find a way stay in the fight just a little while longer. Entire goddamn wars have been won just because some grim, stubborn son of a bitch had enough grit in his gizzard and iron in his backbone to keep fighting for just a little while longer. And, goddamn it, if that’s all you’ve fucking got, then that’s what you fucking do. Maybe you can’t see a road out of the valley of the shadow of death, but so long as you’ve got life in your body and defiance in your heart, you have not been beaten.
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H. Paul Honsinger (Deadly Nightshade (Man of War, #0.1))
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Life without discipline is just like a body without a backbone.
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Utkarsh Sharma
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Know the bondage and attachments from inside and from root to be free.
Don't waste time on leaves of life, Awake and cut the root of all web of illusions.
Awake and the karma breaks.
Awake and the illusion breaks.
Awake and the fate breaks.
Knowledge is fake and worthless if it can not erase and wipe away false knowledge and free you from illusion of knowledge.
Awake and librate from Web of illusions don't catch one after another. Don't control things in you. Know them and let be, witness each of them.
The only sin in this world is,
Not sowing Seed of Awakening.
Rest are just your actions and perceptions in sleep and illusion.
Only your own attainment of knowledge and truth can give you liberation not of somebody elses. Knowledge of somebody else will only give illusion of knowledge.
If you are believing in mine or anyone's beliefs and thoughts then you are imprisoned by illusions of freedom, thought and Bondages. You are only free when you believe by your own experiences.
Know ego, Let your body fall.
Let your mind fall, know soul.
Know spirit, let your soul fall.
Let illusion fall, know consciousness.
Know consciousness & let your spirit fall.
Egoless, greedless & desireless state of consciousness can liberate soul.
Love and Meditation are two Main gates of Awakening and Liberation.
Witness everything and awake from the sleep of illusions of world and liberate.
Wars in the world will never come to an end until the war inside the mind is perished.
Transformation of soul and consciousness will start with the Awakening fire inside, and burn the negativity and remove the darkness.
illusion of knowledge, play of words, blind faith, and superstitious beliefs, kill your journey of self discovery of self transformation of Awakening.
The whole world has been slaved into union on basis of thoughts, beliefs, Faith, religions, caste, creed, regions and other worthless words. One will achieve freedom only when, one gave up the illusion of words created by mind, people, and World, else one will be always bound to words and it's prison.
Let go words and knowledge, Know the silence, be the silence, and you will free from illusion of words and knowledge.
Enslavement of words and illusion of words will be one day responsible for the destruction of the world.
All prisons are in mind and due to mind. If mind is enslaved one cannot be free. Freedom is a inner state of mind and consciousness into silence and bliss.
Where Perception of Death is Lost and Life is Known As It is, Salvation is Achieved.
Faith is backbone of all religions. Let the faith fall and start the process transformation of the Awakening.
Truth can be only Know by rejecting the Blind faith and beliefs. Only then can be the path of Truth can be achieved.
Truth is pathless, because it is right here. Path is a outward thing, inner process of knowing oneself is a different thing.
Religion can only take place in an Awakened consciousness.
Service to needy must be done intentionlessly else it is worthless.
Every act done unconsciously is act of sleep. Awake and be Aware.
Transforming broken situations of life in act of facing, withstanding and winning is guide by master.
If you let love kill you inside you have not known love as it is.
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Harsh Ranga Neo
“
One could say that the mechanism of metamorphosis is the only element of life that never changes. The journey of every individual, every country, every historical epoch, of the entire universe and all it contains, is nothing but a series of changes, constitute the backbone of all of us. Whether they are a salvation or a loss, they are moments that we tend to remember. They give a structure to our existence. Almost all the rest is oblivion. I think that the power of art is the power to wake us up, strike us to our depths, change us. What are we searching for when we read a novel, see a film, listen to a piece of music? We are searching, through a work of art, for something that alters us, that we weren't aware of before. We want to transform ourselves.
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Jhumpa Lahiri (In Other Words)
“
She was lovely, but she was draining. Sometimes I just wanted to shake her and shout, ‘Get a backbone, woman!’ Of course, I didn’t do that. That wouldn’t have been nice.
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Louise Watson (Stop Making Your Life a Misery)
“
Draw a line in the sand As you get going, keep in mind why you’re doing what you’re doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you’re willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world. A strong stand is how you attract superfans. They point to you and defend you. And they spread the word further, wider, and more passionately than any advertising could. Strong opinions aren’t free. You’ll turn some people off. They’ll accuse you of being arrogant and aloof. That’s life. For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate you. If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough. (And you’re probably boring, too.) Lots of people hate us because our products do less than the competition’s. They’re insulted when we refuse to include their pet feature. But we’re just as proud of what our products don’t do as we are of what they do. We design them to be simple because we believe most software is too complex: too many features, too many buttons, too much confusion. So we build software that’s the opposite of that. If what we make isn’t right for everyone, that’s OK. We’re willing to lose some customers if it means that others love our products intensely. That’s our line in the sand. When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious. For example, Whole Foods stands for selling the highest quality natural and organic products available. They don’t waste time deciding over and over again what’s appropriate. No one asks, “Should we sell this product that has artificial flavors?” There’s no debate. The answer is clear. That’s why you can’t buy a Coke or a Snickers there. This belief means the food is more expensive at Whole Foods. Some haters even call it Whole Paycheck and make fun of those who shop there. But so what? Whole Foods is doing pretty damn well. Another example is Vinnie’s Sub Shop, just down the street from our office in Chicago. They put this homemade basil oil on subs that’s just perfect. You better show up on time, though. Ask when they close and the woman behind the counter will respond, “We close when the bread runs out.” Really? “Yeah. We get our bread from the bakery down the street early in the morning, when it’s the freshest. Once we run out (usually around two or three p.m.), we close up shop. We could get more bread later in the day, but it’s not as good as the fresh-baked bread in the morning. There’s no point in selling a few more sandwiches if the bread isn’t good. A few bucks isn’t going to make up for selling food we can’t be proud of.” Wouldn’t you rather eat at a place like that instead of some generic sandwich chain?
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Jason Fried (ReWork)
“
Jobs had tried to hire Rashid, then a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, but Rashid turned him down. He was reluctant to join the hurly-burly life of a corporation. His Mach research had been almost wholly funded by government grants; an agency of the Pentagon, his principal backer, saw Mach as crucial to unleashing the vast power of multiprocessor computers, inherently cheap machines that would someday replace pricey supercomputers as the backbone of the nation’s military and intelligence-gathering networks. Besides, Rashid was an academic purist. He seemed sincerely devoted to pursuing knowledge about software for its own sake. This was rare, even among academics, because software was such a remunerative field that the brightest researchers found themselves inexorably pulled into commerce: The money was too good. After
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G. Pascal Zachary (Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft)
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It takes backbone to lead the life you want, Frank.
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Revolutionary Road (Movie)
“
He commissioned you to demonstrate the will of God, “on earth as it is in heaven,” transforming this planet into a place radiant and saturated with His power and presence. This is the very backbone of the Great Commission, and it should define your life and mine.
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Bill Johnson (The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind: Access to a Life of Miracles)
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Two key leadership excellence values worth focusing on separately are being principle-centred and being consistent. The complimentary construction of these leadership fibres can easily be misconstrued for unreasonable stubbornness, yet they form the backbone of strong, effective transformational leadership. In building the legacy advocated for, in leadership excellence brands, you must sharpen the practice of these leadership values in every area of your life.
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Archibald Marwizi (Making Success Deliberate)
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The economy of the three countries was of course dependent on local conditions. In most places agriculture was the backbone of the economy, but the life of a Danish farmer was very different from that of a farmer in northern Scandinavia, where crops were much less important and people’s livelihood (mainly sheep and cattle) was often heavily supplemented by fishing and hunting reindeer, elk, birds and animals for their pelts. Seals, walruses and whales were also hunted, and natural resources such as iron deposits, or certain types of stone suitable for making cooking-pots, whetstones and querns, were another source of wealth.
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Else Roesdahl (The Vikings)
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Our planet is about ... billions of years old. So far, the earliest finds of modern human skeletons come from Africa, which date to nearly 200,000 years ago. We have made such an advanced technological progress, but here we are today, still condemning women based on their sexuality and celebrate it every year.
This very 'social' movement is the enemy of women and humanity in general for it is feeding the labels, categorizations, divisions, and inequalities for somewhat 100 years now.
Since its inception somewhere in the early 1900s, women were finally given(external) 'rights' allowing us to work and even vote. There used to be and quite outrageously still is a huge inequality in the functions/roles of men and women in homes, workplaces and in civil society. Women were then seen as inferior and still are today, mainly because economic achievement has become one of the most important foundation and determinant in the worthiness/value of an individual.
"Womens day" pretends to celebrate women but the opposite is true. Through its systematized, preplanned and preconstructed feminist surrogate, women have been slowly but steadily stripped off a secure, nurturing sacred and honoured image as wives, mothers, but above all as procreating human beings representing life and its backbone, are turned into cheap, brainless, sexual objects and hostages of the economy.
And whenever the tyranny of materialism and capitalism ends, and we the people as a whole recognize the inherent, deep rootedness and nature of human beings, will the female sex be liberated from feminism.
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Nadja Sam
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Richard Ryan and his colleague Edward Deci are two of the most cited researchers in the world on the drivers of human behavior. Their “self-determination theory” is widely regarded as the backbone of psychological well-being, and countless studies have supported their conclusions since they began research in the 1970s. Just as the human body requires three macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates, and fat) to run properly, Ryan and Deci proposed the human psyche needs three things to flourish: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. When the body is starved, it elicits hunger pangs; when the psyche is undernourished, it produces anxiety, restlessness, and other symptoms that something is missing. When kids aren’t getting the psychological nutrients they need, self-determination theory explains why they might overdo unhealthy behaviors, such as spending too much time in front of screens. Ryan believes the cause has less to do with the devices and more to do with why certain kids are susceptible to distraction in the first place.
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Nir Eyal (Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life)
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Curves, Clothes, Character (The Sonnet)
Your abs won't last, your racks won't last,
Eventually everything ends up in wrinkle.
Polish the outside all you want but,
All curves are crookery if the heart is wrinkled.
Slimness is not the same as fitness,
Skinship is not the same as kinship.
Etiquettes don't elevate the world,
Apparels don't bring liberty and leadership.
Waste not the life on measuring your waist,
All waist is waste if the backbone is malnourished.
Fitness is fiction when shallowness runs rampant,
All curves are filth if the being remains prejudiced.
Curves and clothes have no bearing on character whatsoever.
Better a character out of shape, than a shape without character.
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Abhijit Naskar (Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament)
“
We forget we are making history whether or not we think we are worthy of being remembered.
We are here.
History books are always being written.
The flood is here, and there are countless lifeless bodies in the current.
The flood does not give a shit. It just floods.
Every day there is a new strain, a new disaster, or a new reason to stop fighting. Still,
we are here.
Fighting to survive is not new.
But, let us not forget
that evolution has
always
been a function of extinction.
Life must go on, somehow.
Overwhelming loss suffocates us just as much as the pollution.
But, every time there is another reason to not fight,
we must remember:
Those of us who fight the hardest,
who evolve despite,
are those of us
who shape the backbones
of those who are to follow us.
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Belle Townsend (Push and Pull)
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Tea was the backbone of the working class. It was brewed and drunk on every occasion—good or bad. Whether a death or a birth, an anniversary or a funeral, a fight or a reconciliation, tea was the great calmer
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Ann Brough (The Bitter Sweet Life of Annie Jenkins)
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I had planned to write the great American novel, having the Standard Oil Company as a backbone!
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Ron Chernow (Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.)
“
Such an intermediate form between egg and adult that is capable of independent life is known as a larva. All insects except the most simple and primitive pass through such a stage of development during their lives and often exploit it by drawing upon two different food sources during the course of their lives, one as a larva and the other as an adult. Amphibians are the only group of backboned animals to have such a stage in their life history. Interestingly, the newly hatched larvae of salamanders are indistinguishable to the naked eye from the hatchlings of the Queensland lungfish.
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David Attenborough (Life in Cold Blood)
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Good women are the backbone of countries, counties, and communities. You can easily count on them.
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Gift Gugu Mona (Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman)
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Pain is what nourishes the backbone, while absence of pain turns a human into haribo.
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Abhijit Naskar (Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission)
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Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 16
Hope is nature's defibrillator that,
Electrifies the heart to unsubmission.
Hope rescues us from the depths of despair,
Hope drags the being even out of cremation.
Hope lights the way when clouds convene,
Hope brings sight when smog sets in.
Hope is the bird that heralds the dawn,
Hope is the answer to all things disheartening.
Never let intellect trod on the sapling of hope,
When things get rough intellect is first to scarper.
The brain needs backbone to trudge through hardship,
Without hope, backbone is first to lose its caper.
But again, most times inaction sets in, disguised as hope.
Real hope sets you on fire, it doesn't make you mellow.
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Abhijit Naskar (Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission)
“
A change of lifestyle becomes vital for the correction of any dehydration-produced disorder. The backbone of The Water Cure program is, simply, sufficient water and salt intake; regular exercise; a balanced, mineral-rich diet that includes lots of fruits and vegetables and the essential fats needed to create cell membranes, hormones, and nerve insulation; exclusion of caffeine and alcohol; and meditation to solve and detoxify stressful thoughts. Exclusion of artificial sweeteners from the diet is an absolute must for better health.
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F. Batmanghelidj (Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty!)
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No Compromise (The Sonnet)
Only cowards make compromise,
When it comes to affairs of humanity.
Beings of conscience and character,
Prefer revolution over indignity.
Only bugs bow before oppression,
Driven by insecurity and indifference.
Creatures called the homo sapiens,
Choose annihilation before compliance.
Only wild animals of the cruel jungle,
Accept self-preservation as the norm.
For advanced organism such as humans,
Inclusion is life in joy and in storm.
Those with backbone stand up for humanity.
Unarmed and unbending we'll conquer inhumanity.
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Abhijit Naskar (Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law)
“
100 Questions of Life
6. What is perfection?
Perfection is imperfections we've made peace with.
...
13. What is nature?
Nature is order within chaos.
14. What is order?
Order is but friendship with chaos.
15. What is chaos?
Chaos is order we are yet to understand.
...
21. What is knowledge?
Knowledge is ignorance we've chosen to correct.
22. What is choice?
Choice is the fulcrum of freedom.
23. What is freedom?
Freedom is the fulcrum of responsibility.
24. What is responsibility?
Responsibility is the act of backbone.
25. What is backbone?
Backbone is more than a stick to hang your head.
26. What is the head?
Head is the mightiest carrier of progress.
27. What is progress?
Progress is much more than mere functioning of nuts
and bolts.
28. What are nuts and bolts?
Nuts and bolts are our greatest defense against
unforeseen terrors of nature, on earth and beyond.
...
53. What is heritage?
Heritage, in moderation, is an aid to growth,
unmoderated, poison.
...
57. What is death?
Death is but the fear of life.
58. What is fear?
Fear is but memory of our animal past.
59. What is memory?
Memory is the fabric of time.
60. What is time?
Time is the meaning behind moments.
...
78. What is curiosity?
Curiosity is a challenge to superstition.
79. What is superstition?
Superstition is nature's antidote to the insecurity of
the unknown.
80. What is insecurity?
Insecurity is wisdom of the jungle against possible
predatory attack.
81. What is wisdom?
Wisdom is the result of travel in mind, not in time or
space.
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Abhijit Naskar (Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science (Caretaker Diaries))
“
Ain’t No Sinner (The Sonnet)
When we think ourselves weak,
We become weak.
When we think ourselves sinner,
We become sinner most meek.
Yes we are fundamentally cruel and divisionistic,
Yes the evil in us is stronger than our good.
That's because our ancestors survived through cruelty,
They didn't have much scope to practice their good.
But we ain’t our ancestors in our way of life,
We don’t have to watch out for predators in every bush.
Then why do we still behave like predators ourselves,
Why don’t we break this tribalistic tradition of ambush!
No more cruelty either on ourselves or on those around!
Embolden your backbone into a fountain of kinship unbound.
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Abhijit Naskar (The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work)
“
When men are out of touch with their King, they allow their work to be the centerpiece. Younger men will often put their relationship or their entertainment in the center. If we get ill and don’t have our King, our body and its crisis becomes the center. Loud bullshit like money trouble, divorce, and work disasters will push their way into the center if the King loses his seat for a minute. Man, if you get this point, your life will change. Your King is the one who keeps your true purpose and vision in the middle, like the hub of a wheel. Then you always know what your next right action is – or at least your next right direction. This is the path to deep happiness and True Power. If you don’t know your purpose, if you don’t know what’s supposed to be in the center, there is no limit to the number of things that will make their way in there.
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David H. Wagner (Backbone: The Modern Man's Ultimate Guide to Purpose, Passion and Power)
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In the extra innings phase, you can learn from your life and live with vigor and generosity and gratitude. There is the belief that when you lose one sense, the other senses make up for it and become sharper. . . Maybe in extra innings, we discover new skills, such as patience and resilience, even as we accept that what we lost won't come back.
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Karen Duffy (Backbone: Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One)
“
Heart, brain and backbone,
if you have these three,
you have everything to succeed.
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Abhijit Naskar (Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat)
“
Every spine holds a backbone,
But peer pressure turns it into jello.
Every body holds a conscientious being,
But society conditions it to be callow.
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Abhijit Naskar (Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım)
“
And for Roosevelt, life threw a lot at him: He lost a wife and his mother in rapid succession, he faced powerful, entrenched political enemies who despised his progressive agenda, was dealt defeat in elections, the nation was embroiled in foreign wars, and he survived nearly fatal assassination attempts. But he was equipped for it all because of his early training and because he kept at it every single day. Are you similarly prepared? Could you actually handle yourself if things suddenly got worse? We take weakness for granted. We assume that the way we’re born is the way we simply are, that our disadvantages are permanent. And then we atrophy from there. That’s not necessarily the best recipe for the difficulties of life. Not everyone accepts their bad start in life. They remake their bodies and their lives with activities and exercise. They prepare themselves for the hard road. Do they hope they never have to walk it? Sure. But they are prepared for it in any case. Are you? Nobody is born with a steel backbone. We have to forge that ourselves. We craft our spiritual strength through physical exercise, and our physical hardiness through mental practice (mens sana in corpore sano—sound mind in a strong body).
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Ryan Holiday (The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph)
“
We are all more than just our bodies, but also our thoughts, emotions, and spirituality, which combine to determine our health.”
“Our bodies have a natural wisdom with intrinsic knowledge of how to grow, heal, balance, and regenerate.”
“We have the ability to change our own genetic blueprints for ourselves and for our children.”
“Your body is more than the sum of its parts; it has an energy, or life force, that goes beyond the mere physical nature of your body or your generation.”
“Human health is intricately and inextricably connected to planetary health.”
“Water is the life source and most essential component of each cell of your body.”
“Learn to live in the moment and tune in to mindful breathing while engaging all of your senses to soak in the universe around you.”
“Healthy sleep habits will help you learn faster, get stronger and more fit, and protect yourself from diseases.”
“Spiritual awakening is important for the state of consciousness with which you meet the world.”
“If you don’t make self-care a priority in your life, you will pay a high price as your health declines.”
“Balance is not something you are born with, nor is it something you find. Rather, it is something you must create”
“If your body is balanced, your mind will be at peace and your spirit will soar!”
“Resilience to injury is not an inborn trait; it must be nurtured and acquired.”
“Excessive fear of injury takes away the joy of living.”
“Allow nature to nurture a child’s backbone, literally and figuratively.”
“Dig deep and find the foundation of your own core to prepare you for all adversity, sustain your health and wellness through all your endeavors, and build the home of your dreams for your mind-body-spirit.”
“The shared challenges of despair, hardship, and adversity promote collaboration, and collaboration fortifies the collective consciousness of the international community.”
“Learn to live your life from your core, and harness and embrace your unlimited potential for strength, health, and growth.”
“Hang loose and fly like a butterfly to withstand all the perturbations and punches life brings your way.”
“Get back in touch with your primitive animal spirit and pop some pandiculation into your day”
“Cultivating body awareness will help you stand taller, look slimmer, and find your grace against gravity.”
“Exercise, outlook, diet, and lifestyle choices actually change the way your DNA is expressed within your body to help you avoid injury, fight disease, and thrive.”
“When you substitute negative beliefs with positive ones, you will begin to notice positive results.”
“Find what floats your boat and enjoy the journey!”
“Do not fear the storm, for you will learn to sail your ship through wind and wave.
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Bohdanna Zazulak (Master Your Core: A Science-Based Guide to Achieve Peak Performance and Resilience to Injury)
“
In the land of the free, I'll always be.
September 3, 2024 at 8:46 AM
They say they're taking our rights, trying to clip our wings,
Taking aim at the heartland, changing all our things,
But I'll stand my ground, with my boots in the dirt,
For the sweat on my brow, and this worn-out shirt.
[Verse 2]
They're chasing my plow and meddling with my land,
Trying to break the backbone of the hard-working man,
But over my shoulder, there's a flag flying high,
For every valley, every mountain, and the wide open sky.
[Chorus]
This is my country, where I'm proud to stand,
With the rifle in my hand, and I’ll defend this land,
They can try to take it, but they'll never break me,
In the land of the free, I'll always be.
[Verse 3]
They don't understand the veins in this soil,
Each drop of blood, each tear, and each toil,
But I'll say my piece, in every whistle and chime,
'Cause this life's been mine since the start of time.
[Verse 4]
From sunup to sundown, in the fields I roam,
They won't replace the essence of my home,
For every stream and every tree that's grown,
They can't take the spirit that's deeply sown.
[Chorus]
This is my country, where I'm proud to stand,
With the rifle in my hand, and I’ll defend this land,
They can try to take it, but they'll never break me,
In the land of the free, I'll always be.
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James Hilton-Cowboy
“
I like this side of my wife. She deserves to have some backbone at some point in her life. Too bad she’ll learn that those times will have consequences.
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Shantel Tessier (The Sacrifice (L.O.R.D.S., #3))
“
All of Her is Holy Site
(Boys Be Men, Sonnet)
Way to a woman's heart is through
her eyes, not between her legs.
All of her is holy site, to wander
unwelcome even with eyes is sickness.
First be her sanctuary, her safe haven,
then be the filthiest beast you can be.
Slave to her kinks between the sheets,
and in society be her shameless shield.
Anybody can stay the night,
takes backbone to stay the life.
Penetration of flesh is animal affair,
human miracle is to touch the mind.
Boys be Men! Lift your brain above your belt.
In monsoon be her brolly, in drought be her rain.
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Abhijit Naskar (Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat)
“
Anybody can stay the night, takes backbone to stay the life.
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Abhijit Naskar (Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat)
“
If you can be paid to do something wrong or to defend someone in their wrongdoings, then you have no value in life. You are the most useless, shameless, rejected, and disposable human being. Those who pay you see you as a fool who is weak, has no backbone, morals, values, ethics, or principles. You are only useful to them because they know you would sell your own mother for your next meal. Your greed will consume you one day
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De philosopher DJ Kyos
“
After all, as Mr Mackenzie said, it was odd that three men, each of whom possessed many of those things that are supposed to make life worth living -- health, sufficient means, and position, etc. -- should from their own pleasure start out upon a wild-goose chase, from which the chances were they never would return. But then that is what Englishmen are, adventurers to the backbone; and all our magnificent muster-roll of colonies, each of which will in time become a great nation, testify to the extraordinary value of the spirit of adventure which at first sight looks like a mild form of lunacy. 'Adventurer' -- he that goes out to meet whatever may come.
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H. Rider Haggard (Allan Quatermain)
“
Wishy-Washy Wimps are passive-aggressive individuals who are spineless wonders, lacking guts and backbone. They bend in whatever direction the wind is blowing and have difficulty making any decision.
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Lillian Glass (Toxic People: 10 Ways Of Dealing With People Who Make Your Life Miserable)
“
Fear and shame are the backbone of my self-control. They are my source of inspiration, my insurance against becoming entirely unacceptable. They help me do the right thing. And I am terrified of what I would be without them. Because I suspect that, left to my own devices, I would completely lose control of my life.
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Allie Brosh (Hyperbole and a Half)
“
Keatsian odes or reflective elegies which had formed the backbone of his early work (‘At Grass’, ‘Church Going’, ‘An Arundel Tomb’, ‘The Whitsun Weddings’, ‘Here’, ‘Dockery and Son’). Now he resumed the sequence, and over the next six years would complete four more, all focused directly or indirectly on the theme of death: ‘The Building’, ‘The Old Fools’, ‘Show Saturday’ and finally ‘Aubade’.
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James Booth (Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love)
“
38. No One Cares How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care
My SAS patrol sergeant Chris Carter was the living embodiment of this advice, and if you are ever in a position of leading a team or managing people, following his selfless example will help you become a better leader and enable your team to achieve more.
Can you imagine how I felt after Chris had let me drink his last drops of water? Gratitude doesn’t come close.
One of the regiment’s toughest, most hardened of soldiers was showing that he was looking out for me way beyond the call of duty. And once I had been shown how much he cared, I knew that, in return, I would never let him, or the regiment, down.
That simple act of kindness, of caring, is always at the heart of great brotherhoods. Call it what you will: camaraderie, shared purpose. The end product was that here was a man I would work my guts out for. And that made us all stronger.
Ditto, on a mountain: the most important bit of kit or resource on any expedition is always the human asset. When valued and empowered, humans have proved they can truly overcome the impossible and scale the unconquerable. But first we have to be valued and empowered.
The real value of a team is never in the flash hi-tech equipment or branded sponsors. It’s the people and the relationships between them.
As a leader, in whatever field, it is one thing for your team to see how much you know, but that knowledge isn’t what will make your team great. What makes the critical difference is how you use that knowledge.
Do you use it to empower and support those around you? Do you value others above yourself?
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
If you let people know, through your words and actions, that they really matter, that their work matters, that their wellbeing matters to you, then they will go to the ends of the Earth for you. Why? Because they know they can trust you to use all your knowledge, skills and power to support and encourage them.
You see, no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Bear Grylls (A Survival Guide for Life: How to Achieve Your Goals, Thrive in Adversity, and Grow in Character)
“
People forget that saffron is the backbone of a flower," he said, still sniffing. "They get so preoccupied with saffron's cost that they forget what saffron really is."
"My boyfriend used to study crocuses in college," I said, unsure where the conversation was going, but determined to set it on stable ground. 'He harvested the strands for a pilot dining hall program, but gave me the best ones to cook with."
"A match made in heaven."
"Yeah," I said. "He's great..." But we weren't here to discuss my love life. What were we here to discuss?
"And what did you make with the saffron?" Michael Saltz asked.
"My specialty is a rice stew with ginger and flounder." He had brought the conversation back to food and I felt more at ease.
"Like a paella?"
"No, not like a paella. I don't use shellfish, because..."
"Oh, right, allergic! Yes, how could I forget?"
He had an excellent memory. Or maybe just for me.
"It has an Asian flair," I continued. "The saffron adds a taste of the sun. You have the pillowy sea element of the flounder and the earthiness of the rice, and I think the farminess of the saffron- that rustic, rough flavor- brings the dish together.
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Jessica Tom (Food Whore)
“
Instead, finding a faith should help you to be freer, more full of life, more filled with joy, peace and love than you would ever imagine. And those qualities, in abundance, will only make you stronger and more capable of living a wild and adventurous life.
And what is even cooler is that Jesus turns out to be so much more than just a guide or a pointer of the way. He is also a backbone, a companion and a friend. When I look at my own heroes, I realize there aren’t many leaders who haven’t at some time quietly bent their knee and looked upwards for strength, resolve and peace.
Great men and women know their own frailty and have the humility to accept help to empower them to greatness. Be among their number.
Pioneers always take bold steps to explore new territory - you never know what you might find.
By the way, it is also good to know that faith isn’t one-sided. As Christ said: ‘I have come to seek and save.’
He is out looking for us, too.
So be brave and let Him do his side of the bargain. I call it the quest to be found.
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
¹ I really recommend the book
The Jesus I Never Knew
by Philip Yancey to help get a better picture of this guy who hit Earth promising life in abundance. I mean, what the heck is that all about?!
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Bear Grylls (A Survival Guide for Life: How to Achieve Your Goals, Thrive in Adversity, and Grow in Character)
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There was a feeling about this hard to uncover, for he was not a self-analyzing man, never one to dig deeply into the source of his emotions. Facing this range, its good thick layer of fertility and its length and breadth, he came as close to it as he ever would come. It was a strength in his chest and in his muscles. The amber color of the short, nutritious suncured grass, sweeping on like a tawny and thick-napped carpet, had a meaning; the round green spots here and there in that tawniness, indicating water, had a meaning. The sunshine pouring down upon it and the shadows creased into occasional ridges, the wild, sweet smell of the land, the stillness, the free sweep, the quick wheel of cowbirds in the foreground and the faint blot of faraway cattle—all this had meaning. Beneath this grass was a generous, fecund earth. A man had to translate this richness into terms of cattle. But it wasn’t only cattle. Behind the cattle lay something else. Maybe a sense of personal growth, of pride, of something fought for and won, of large-handedness. It stiffened a man’s backbone and made him look at the world differently than other men looked at it. In his world certain things stood out; weather and water and grass and cattle; and himself against all the odds the range put against a lone man. He had his thoughts. They carried him at once into the past and presently he sent his glance all across the flats to the Lost Hills where, ten years before, he had started his married life with Lila. He remembered that one year vividly, as he remembered everything vividly that had to do with her; and he said to himself, “She should have lived to see this. Maybe it might have made a difference to her.” He slanted across the valley and rode up the narrow length of his older range, reaching home-quarters in the middle of the afternoon. As soon as he left the saddle old Mose gave him the latest news: Hack Breathitt had been pulled into a fight at War Pass, killing Liard Connor. Now Hack was hiding in the hills with Sheriff Nickum on his trail. Somebody had said, Mose added, that Herendeen had sent out a party under McGeen also to hunt Breathitt. Of that, Mose qualified, he wasn’t sure, but it sounded in the nature of the Three Pines beast. “I’m going to town,” decided Morgan at once, “and ought to be back around eight.” Old Mose said: “The way things are now, I wouldn’t skylark on the trail after dark. I’ve lived through a
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Ernest Haycox (Saddle and Ride)
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We must not forget that humans also have relationships with the landscapes around them. Fully functional residential landscapes must meet the physical, cultural, and aesthetic needs of humans while generating ecosystem services required by diverse other species. We may use ferns even though they contribute little to local food webs because they provide cover for wildlife, are beautiful, are durable ground covers, help replenish atmospheric oxygen, aid in hydrologic recharge, and can be the vegetational backbone of soil ecosystems. We may use splashes of colorful plants even if they are not indigenous to our region because they are beautiful and they will draw us into our gardens to experience the life around us. And we will not skimp on the core group of plants that support most of the biodiversity vital to ecosystem function.
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Rick Darke (The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden)
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To survive in life, you need three bones: a wishbone (gimme that turkey, you bitch), a backbone (like assholes, everyone has one), and a funny bone (I’m freaking hilarious).
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Celia Kyle (Mating Instinct (Ridgeville, #1-10))
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I am the daughter of a mother who would never change...The refusal to modify her aspect, her habits, her attitudes was strategy for resisting American culture, for fighting it, for maintaining her identity...When my mother returns to Calcutta, she is proud of the fact that, in spite of almost fifty years away from India, she seems like a woman who never left.
I am the opposite. While the refusal to change was my mother's rebellion, the insistence on transforming myself is mine...All my life I've tried to get away from the void of my origin. It was the void that distressed me, that I was fleeing...Writing, I discovered a way of hiding in my characters, of escaping myself. Of undergoing one mutation after another.
One could say that the mechanisms of metamorphosis is the only element of life that never changes. The journey of every individual, every country, every historical epoch, of the entire universe and all it contains, is nothing but a series of changes, at times subtle, at times deep, without which we would stand still. The moments of transitions in which something changes, constitute the backbone of all of us. Whether they are a salvation or a loss, they are moments we tend to remember. They give a structure to our existence. Almost all the rest is oblivion.
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Jhumpa Lahiri (In Other Words)
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Let’s not relegate womanhood to the edges of life and use the fact of our humanness to try to rise above it. Rather, let’s reclaim and enjoy what we are and all that flows from it in Christ: holiness, meekness, a backbone of steel, fearlessness, love, giving life, strength, weakness, obedience, and much more. All of this comes from what we are: Christian women.
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Abigail Dodds ((A)Typical Woman: Free, Whole, and Called in Christ)
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One could say that the mechanism of metamorphosis is the only element of life that never changes. The journey of every individual, every country, every historical epoch, of the entire universe and all it contains, is nothing but a series of changes, at times subtle, at times deep, without which we would stand still. The moments of transition, in which something changes, constitute the backbone of all of us. Whether they are a salvation or a loss, they are moments that we tend to remember. They give a structure to our existence. Almost all the rest is oblivion.
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Jhumpa Lahiri (In Other Words)
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A nation with a strong base in science and technology is a nation with a strong backbone.
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A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (My Life: An Illustrated Biography: An Illustrated Autobiography)
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Red pepper is the theme, but there's no sign of it in the noodles or broth.
Does that one little dollop of paste on the side really have the oomph to compensate for that?"
"It's harissa, a seasoning blend said to have originated in Northern Africa. The ingredients generally include paprika, caraway seeds, lemon juice and garlic, among other things.
But the biggest is a ton of peppers, which are mashed into a paste and blended with those other spices."
Oh! That's the same thing Dad made when he visited the dorm. I think I remember him saying it came from somewhere in Africa.
"The ramen's broth is based on Chicken Muamba, another African recipe, where chicken and nuts are stewed together with tomatoes and chilies. This broth forms a solid backbone for the entire dish. Its zesty flavor amplifies the super-spicy harissa to explosive proportions!"
"That's gotta be sooo spicy!
Whoa! Are you sure it's a good idea to dump that much of it in all at once?!"
"Hoooo!Thanks to the mellow, full-bodied and ever-so-slight astringency of that mountain of peanuts he infused into the broth...
... adding the harissa just makes the spiciness and richness of the overall dish grow deeper and more complex with each drop!
Extra-thick cuts of Char Siu Pork, rubbed with homemade peanut butter before simmering! And the slightly thicker-than-usual wavy noodles! They soak up the broth and envelop the ultra-spiciness of the harissa... all together, it's addicting!
Its deliciousness so intense that my body cries out from its heat!
African Ramen... how very intriguing! A dish that never before existed anywhere in the world, but he's brought it to vibrant life!
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Yūto Tsukuda (食戟のソーマ 27 [Shokugeki no Souma 27] (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma, #27))
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most of life, you can be weak inside and get through by putting on a tough outer shell. But if you work in hospice, you have to stay soft on the outside. So in order to stand up straight, you have to have a spine of steel. Two ways to go through the world, two ways to deal with the loss that is an inevitable experience in life—with a hard shell or with a rock-solid backbone.
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Kerry Egan (On Living)
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Nowadays, more and more middle-aged people are suffering from insomnia, as life for the middle-aged is stressful indeed. For one thing, as they are the backbones of their companies, they have plenty of things to do at work. And they usually have to work overtime. For another, they have to take great responsibilities at home, for their aged parents need to be supported and their little children need to be brought up. That's why they don't have enough time to have a good rest.
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구구정판매,구구정파는곳,구구정구입방법,구구정구매방법,구구정구입사이트,구구정구매사이트,구구정지속시간,구구정복용법
비아그라약효,시알리스약효,팔팔정약효,엠빅스약효,비맥스약효,네노마정약효,프릴리지약효,요힘비약효
I have a dream. When I grow up, I want to be an actor. Being an actor can play many roles and experience different lifestyles. It is so cool. What’s more, I can make a lot of money and then travel around the world. I have passion in performance and have joined many dramas. I hope someday I can realize my dream.
The physicist: 'Love is chemistry'
Biologically, love is a powerful neurological condition like hunger or thirst, only more permanent. We talk about love being blind or unconditional, in the sense that we have no control over it. But then, that is not so surprising since love is basically chemistry. While lust is a temporary passionate sexual desire involving the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and oestrogen, in true love, or attachment and bonding, the brain can release a whole set of chemicals: pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin and vasopressin. However, from an evolutionary perspective, love can be viewed as a survival tool – a mechanism we have evolved to promote long-term relationships, mutual defense and parental support of children and to promote feelings of safety and security.
The philosopher: 'Love is a passionate commitment'
The answer remains elusive in part because love is not one thing. Love for parents, partners, children, country, neighbor, God and so on all have different qualities. Each has its variants – blind, one-sided, tragic, steadfast, fickle, reciprocated, misguided, and unconditional. At its best, however, all love is a kind a passionate commitment that we nurture and develop, even though it usually arrives in our lives unbidden. That's why it is more than just a powerful feeling. Without the commitment, it is mere infatuation. Without the passion, it is mere dedication. Without nurturing, even the best can wither and die.
The romantic novelist: 'Love drives all great stories
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Almost every child will complain about their parents sometimes. It is natural, because when people stay together for a long time, they will start to have argument. But ignore about the unhappy time, our parents love us all the time. No matter what happen to us, they will stand by our sides. We should be grateful to them and try to understand them.
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Nowadays, more and more middle-aged people are suffering from insomnia, as life for the middle-aged is stressful indeed. For one thing, as they are the backbones of their companies, they have plenty of things to do at work. And they usually have to work overtime. For another, they have to take great responsibilities at home, for their aged parents need to be supported and their little children need to be brought up. That's why they don't have enough time to have a good rest.
비맥스판매,비맥스파는곳,비맥스구입방법,비맥스구매방법,비맥스구입사이트,비맥스구매사이트,비맥스판매사이트,비맥스후기
I have a dream. When I grow up, I want to be an actor. Being an actor can play many roles and experience different lifestyles. It is so cool. What’s more, I can make a lot of money and then travel around the world. I have passion in performance and have joined many dramas. I hope someday I can realize my dream.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
We're here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
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Almost every child will complain about their parents sometimes. It is natural, because when people stay together for a long time, they will start to have argument. But ignore about the unhappy time, our parents love us all the time. No matter what happen to us, they will stand by our sides. We should be grateful to them and try to understand them.
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Nowadays, more and more middle-aged people are suffering from insomnia, as life for the middle-aged is stressful indeed. For one thing, as they are the backbones of their companies, they have plenty of things to do at work. And they usually have to work overtime. For another, they have to take great responsibilities at home, for their aged parents need to be supported and their little children need to be brought up. That's why they don't have enough time to have a good rest.
네노마정처방,네노마정판매,네노마정구매,네노마정구입방법,네노마정구매방법,프릴리지처방,프릴리지판매,프릴리지구매,프릴리지구입방법,프릴리지구매방법
I have a dream. When I grow up, I want to be an actor. Being an actor can play many roles and experience different lifestyles. It is so cool. What’s more, I can make a lot of money and then travel around the world. I have passion in performance and have joined many dramas. I hope someday I can realize my dream.
Here are several reasons why you should train yourself for success like a champion boxer!
You don’t practice in the arena, that’s where your skills and your abilities are evaluated. This also means that you don’t practice solving problems and developing yourself when problems occur, you prepare yourself to face them long before you actually face them.
Talent is good but training is even better. Back in college, one of my classmates in Political Science did not bring any textbook or notebook in our classes; he just listened and participated in discussions. What I didn’t understand was how he became a magna cum laude! Apparently, he was gifted with a great memory and analytical skills. In short, he was talented.
If you are talented, you probably need less preparation and training time in facing life’s challenges. But for people who are endowed with talent, training and learning becomes even important. Avoid the lazy person’s maxim: “If it isn’t broken, why fix it?” Why wait for your roof to leak in the rainy season when you can fix it right away.
Training enables you to gain intuition and reflexes. Malcolm Glad well, in his book Outliers, said those artists, athletes and anyone who wants to be successful, need 10,000 hours of practice to become really great. With constant practice and training, you hone your body, your mind and your heart and gain the intuition and reflexes of a champion. Same thing is true in life.
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I feel, the love that Osho talks about, maybe is a kind of pure love beyond the mundane world, which is full of divinity and caritas, and overflows with Buddhist allegorical words and gestures,
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but, it seems that I cannot see through its true meaning forever...
팔팔정구입방법,팔팔정구매방법,팔팔정구입처,팔팔정구매처,팔팔정판매처,팔팔정지속시간,팔팔정복용법,팔팔정후기,팔팔정효과
비아그라판매,시알리스판매,레비트라판매,구구정판매,파워이렉트판매,비닉스판매,센트립판매,센돔판매,엠빅스판매
Maybe, I do not just “absorb” your love; but because the love overpowers me and I am unable to
dispute and refuse it...
Do you know? It’s you who light up my life! And I stubbornly believe that such love can only be experienced once in my life.
Because of love, we won’t be lonely anymore; because of yearning, we taste more loneliness.
Nowadays, more and more middle-aged people are suffering from insomnia, as life for the middle-aged is stressful indeed. For one thing, as they are the backbones of their companies, they have plenty of things to do at work. And they usually have to work overtime. For another, they have to take great responsibilities at home, for their aged parents need to be supported and their little children need to be brought up. That's why they don't have enough time to have a good rest.
I have a dream. When I grow up, I want to be an actor. Being an actor can play many roles and experience different lifestyles. It is so cool. What’s more, I can make a lot of money and then travel around the world. I have passion in performance and have joined many dramas. I hope someday I can realize my dream.
”
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팔팔정팝니다 via2.co.to 카톡:ppt33 팔팔정구입방법 팔팔정구매방법 팔팔정복용법 팔팔정지속시간 팔팔정약효
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
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I want to put a ding in the universe.
아드레닌파는곳,아드레닌판매,아드레닌가격,아드레닌구매,아드레닌구입,아드레닌팝니다,아드레닌구입방법,아드레닌구매방법,아드레닌지속시간
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is better than two doubles.
아무런 말없이 한번만 찾아주신다면 뒤로는 계속 단골될 그런 자신 있습니다.저희쪽 서비스가 아니라 제품에대해서 자신있다는겁니다
팔팔정,구구정,네노마정,프릴리지,비맥스,비그알엑스,엠빅스,비닉스,센트립 등 많은 제품 취급합니다
확실한 제품만 취급하는곳이라 언제든 연락주세요
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
비아그라가격,시알리스가격,레비트라가격,팔팔정가격,구구정가격,엠빅스가격,비닉스가격,센트립가격,센돔가격,네노마정가격,프릴리지가격
When I do well in the exam, I will show my paper to my parents, they are so happy to see me do well in the exam. I want to be happy all the time. But I have put so much pressure on myself. One day, my parents tell me that they don’t care how I do well in the exam, they just want me to be happy. I know I should relax myself and be happy.
Almost every child will complain about their parents sometimes. It is natural, because when people stay together for a long time, they will start to have argument. But ignore about the unhappy time, our parents love us all the time. No matter what happen to us, they will stand by our sides. We should be grateful to them and try to understand them.
Nowadays, more and more middle-aged people are suffering from insomnia, as life for the middle-aged is stressful indeed. For one thing, as they are the backbones of their companies, they have plenty of things to do at work. And they usually have to work overtime. For another, they have to take great responsibilities at home, for their aged parents need to be supported and their little children need to be brought up. That's why they don't have enough time to have a good rest.
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If as daughters our umbilical cord is connected to male values (our father's or mother's or both), then in adult life we think our very survival depends upon obeisance to patriarchal standards. We have to be 36-24-36, we have to measure up, we have to have backbone. Unconsciously, we are driven to fulfill expectations that may have little to do with who we are. So unconscious is the driving voice in these complexes that our bodies may have to break down before we recognize that we are slaves to an inner dictator.
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Marion Woodman (Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity)
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To stay the night and to stay the life, are two different things. Any ape with an active libido can stay the night, takes a human with active backbone to stay the life.
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Abhijit Naskar (Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience)
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Without backbone u can't stand and without father life can't stand
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Rangala Anji
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Someone with this mindset might say, “The man didn’t touch my heart at all.” Another may say, “He was all heart and no head. I like a man to preach to my intellect.” Or, “He appeals too much to the will. He doesn’t give enough importance to the doctrine of election.” Or, again, “There is no backbone in his preaching. He doesn’t stress doctrine sufficiently.” Or, “He’s not eloquent.” Such complaints go on and on. You can find hundreds of such faultfinders among professed Christians, but all their criticism won’t lead a single soul to Christ.
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Dwight L. Moody (A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like)
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Understanding the Role of Liquid Temperature Indicators
Transformers are the backbone of modern electrical systems, facilitating the safe and efficient transmission of electrical power. To ensure the longevity and reliability of these critical assets, it is essential to monitor and maintain their health consistently. One key element in transformer monitoring is the use of liquid temperature indicators, which play a crucial role in preventing damage, enhancing performance, and optimizing maintenance efforts.
What are Liquid Temperature Indicators?
Liquid Temperature Indicators (LTIs) are devices installed in transformers to monitor and display the temperature of the insulating oil or liquid coolant inside the transformer. Insulating oil, typically used in oil-immersed transformers, helps dissipate the heat generated during transformer operation. The temperature of this oil directly correlates with the overall operating condition of the transformer. An LTI typically provides real-time temperature readings, which can be displayed on a dial or electronically, allowing operators to track the temperature fluctuations over time. At Precimeasure, we manufacture dial type, bimetallic, and digital liquid temperature indicators suitable for all power and distribution transformers.
The Importance of Monitoring Transformer Oil Temperature
Temperature is one of the most critical factors influencing the performance and lifespan of transformers. As transformers operate, electrical energy is converted into heat due to losses within the transformer windings and core. If the heat generated is not effectively dissipated, it can cause the oil temperature to rise, leading to potential damage to both the insulating oil and the transformer's internal components.
Excessive oil temperatures can lead to:
1. Degradation of Insulating Oil: Elevated temperatures cause the insulating oil to break down over time, reducing its dielectric strength. This degradation can lead to insulation failure, which may result in a short circuit or transformer failure.
2. Winding Damage: The transformer windings are typically made of copper or aluminum and are insulated using the transformer oil. If the temperature exceeds certain thresholds, the insulation on the windings may degrade, causing winding faults that could result in catastrophic transformer failure.
3. Overheating of the Core: If the temperature continues to rise unchecked, the transformer's magnetic core can also become damaged. Overheating the core can reduce its efficiency and may lead to transformer malfunction.
The Role of Liquid Temperature Indicators
Liquid temperature indicators serve as an early warning system for transformer operators, providing real-time data on the temperature of the transformer’s insulating oil. This data is invaluable for a number of reasons:
1. Prevention of Overheating: By continuously monitoring the oil temperature, operators can quickly identify if the temperature rises beyond safe operating limits. In such cases, corrective measures can be taken promptly, such as adjusting the load or initiating cooling systems, preventing further damage.
2. Enhanced Maintenance Planning: Regular temperature readings enable operators to detect trends and identify if a transformer is experiencing abnormal heating patterns. By tracking these fluctuations, maintenance teams can plan for more efficient, proactive maintenance, addressing issues before they escalate into expensive repairs or downtime.
3. Improving Transformer Life: Keeping the temperature of the insulating oil within optimal ranges is essential for extending the lifespan of the transformer. Liquid temperature indicators help in maintaining this by providing data to manage transformer operation and cooling efficiently.
Conclusion
In the world of electrical transformers, where uptime and reliability are crucial, maintaining the health of the transformer is non-negotiable. Liquid temperature indicator
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Honesty is the cornerstone of integrity, the foundation upon which all other aspects of your character will be built. But honesty alone is not sufficient to be a person of integrity. Integrity requires action. To be known as men and women of integrity you must demonstrate your moral backbone. You must be confronted with an ethical dilemma—a choice between one road that is rocky, steep, and treacherous and the other that is smooth, flat, and comfortable. One road tests your fortitude, the other provides an easy path. One is filled with temporary hardships and pain, the other is quick and easy. But in the end, if you choose the harder path less traveled, the path where the virtuous have walked, the journey will make you stronger, more resilient, and more capable of conquering the other steep climbs on your way to the top. While the second path, the easy way, will leave you unprepared for the future challenges of life.
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William H. McRaven (The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived)
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Here are to be seen distorted, grimacing faces, half-hairless skulls, gaping sides, showing through the ribs, as through a grate, lungs like dried and withered sponges; here the flesh is reduced to dust, and the bones are coming through: there the skin, no longer sustained by the fibres of the cell-tissue, but turned to the consistency of parchment, floats about the skeleton like a second shroud. None of the heads has the impassive calm set by death as its supreme seal upon all that it touches; their mouths open in a horrid yawn, as if convulsed by the immeasurable weariness of eternity, or wear the sardonic sneer of nothingness mocking at life; their jaws are out of joint, the muscles of their necks are swollen; their fists are clenched in fury, their backbones are bent in the contortions of despair.
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Théophile Gautier
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Agra Etawah Toll Road – Driving Through India’s Best Highway Infrastructure
If there’s one road that defines India’s progress in modern transportation, it’s the Agra Etawah Toll Road. Every stretch of this expressway tells a story of precision, technology, and unmatched comfort. Built and maintained by Modern Road Makers, this project stands tall as a symbol of India’s Best Highway Infrastructure — blending innovation with reliability.
#modernroadmakers #indiasbesthighwayinfrastructure
A Journey of Speed and Smoothness
The Agra Etawah Toll Road forms a crucial 124-kilometer section of the Agra–Lucknow Expressway, connecting two of Uttar Pradesh’s most significant cities — Agra and Etawah. Designed as a six-lane, access-controlled expressway, it allows travelers to experience uninterrupted driving at high speeds while maintaining the utmost safety.
For frequent travelers, business commuters, and tourists like me, this route is more than just a connection between destinations — it’s a symbol of India’s growth story. The journey that once took hours through congested roads now feels seamless and peaceful.
Modern Road Makers: The Backbone of Excellence
Behind the success of this world-class expressway stands Modern Road Makers, a name synonymous with engineering perfection. Their contribution to the Agra Etawah Toll Road Project goes beyond construction — it’s about vision. Using cutting-edge technology, premium road materials, and sustainable techniques, they’ve created a masterpiece that redefines quality and endurance.
Their approach to highway development focuses on long-term performance and user comfort. Every detail — from lane markings to toll systems — has been executed with precision. This commitment is what makes Modern Road Makers a trusted name in creating India’s Best Highway Infrastructure.
#agraetawahtollroadproject
Highlights That Make It Stand Out
Driving on this toll road feels like a premium experience. Here are a few features that make it truly special:
Seamless Connectivity: It forms a vital link between Delhi, Agra, Etawah, and Lucknow, boosting trade and tourism.
Intelligent Traffic Management: CCTV surveillance and patrol systems ensure driver safety 24/7.
Eco-Conscious Construction: Solar-powered lighting and eco-friendly design help reduce the project’s carbon footprint.
Travel Comfort: Rest zones, emergency support, and service areas enhance convenience for travelers.
Such features have transformed road travel in northern India, bringing world-class standards to the heart of the country.
A Traveler’s Experience on the Highway
As someone who loves exploring by road, my drive along the Agra Etawah Toll Road was unforgettable. The wide lanes, smooth turns, and beautiful countryside views make the trip feel both relaxing and inspiring. You can truly sense the difference that expert planning and top-tier construction make.
Whether you’re traveling for work or leisure, this expressway gives a taste of what #indiasbesthighwayinfrastructure looks like in real life — safe, efficient, and scenic.
The Future of Indian Highways
Projects like the Agra Etawah Toll Road are shaping the future of India’s transport network. With companies like Modern Road Makers leading the way, our highways are no longer just routes; they’re lifelines of economic growth and travel comfort.
The success of this expressway proves that with strong vision, smart technology, and dedication to excellence, India is ready to compete with the best in global infrastructure development.
Conclusion
The Agra Etawah Toll Road Project is not merely a construction achievement — it’s a statement of how far India has come in creating world-class infrastructure. For travelers like me, every kilometer reaffirms the pride of driving through India’s Best Highway Infrastructure, crafted with care and precision by Modern Road Makers. #modernroadmakers #agraetawahtollroadproject #indiasbesthighwayinfrastructure
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shivaniblogger
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Agra Etawah Toll Road – Driving Through India’s Best Highway Infrastructure
If there’s one road that defines India’s progress in modern transportation, it’s the Agra Etawah Toll Road. Every stretch of this expressway tells a story of precision, technology, and unmatched comfort. Built and maintained by Modern Road Makers, this project stands tall as a symbol of India’s Best Highway Infrastructure — blending innovation with reliability.
#modernroadmakers #indiasbesthighwayinfrastructure
A Journey of Speed and Smoothness
The Agra Etawah Toll Road forms a crucial 124-kilometer section of the Agra–Lucknow Expressway, connecting two of Uttar Pradesh’s most significant cities — Agra and Etawah. Designed as a six-lane, access-controlled expressway, it allows travelers to experience uninterrupted driving at high speeds while maintaining the utmost safety.
For frequent travelers, business commuters, and tourists like me, this route is more than just a connection between destinations — it’s a symbol of India’s growth story. The journey that once took hours through congested roads now feels seamless and peaceful.
Modern Road Makers: The Backbone of Excellence
Behind the success of this world-class expressway stands Modern Road Makers, a name synonymous with engineering perfection. Their contribution to the Agra Etawah Toll Road Project goes beyond construction — it’s about vision. Using cutting-edge technology, premium road materials, and sustainable techniques, they’ve created a masterpiece that redefines quality and endurance.
Their approach to highway development focuses on long-term performance and user comfort. Every detail — from lane markings to toll systems — has been executed with precision. This commitment is what makes Modern Road Makers a trusted name in creating India’s Best Highway Infrastructure.
#agraetawahtollroadproject
Highlights That Make It Stand Out
Driving on this toll road feels like a premium experience. Here are a few features that make it truly special:
Seamless Connectivity: It forms a vital link between Delhi, Agra, Etawah, and Lucknow, boosting trade and tourism.
Intelligent Traffic Management: CCTV surveillance and patrol systems ensure driver safety 24/7.
Eco-Conscious Construction: Solar-powered lighting and eco-friendly design help reduce the project’s carbon footprint.
Travel Comfort: Rest zones, emergency support, and service areas enhance convenience for travelers.
Such features have transformed road travel in northern India, bringing world-class standards to the heart of the country.
A Traveler’s Experience on the Highway
As someone who loves exploring by road, my drive along the Agra Etawah Toll Road was unforgettable. The wide lanes, smooth turns, and beautiful countryside views make the trip feel both relaxing and inspiring. You can truly sense the difference that expert planning and top-tier construction make.
Whether you’re traveling for work or leisure, this expressway gives a taste of what #indiasbesthighwayinfrastructure looks like in real life — safe, efficient, and scenic.
The Future of Indian Highways
Projects like the Agra Etawah Toll Road are shaping the future of India’s transport network. With companies like Modern Road Makers leading the way, our highways are no longer just routes; they’re lifelines of economic growth and travel comfort.
The success of this expressway proves that with strong vision, smart technology, and dedication to excellence, India is ready to compete with the best in global infrastructure development.
Conclusion
The Agra Etawah Toll Road Project is not merely a construction achievement — it’s a statement of how far India has come in creating world-class infrastructure. For travelers like me, every kilometer reaffirms the pride of driving through India’s Best Highway Infrastructure, crafted with care and precision by Modern Road Makers. #modernroadmakers #agraetawahtollroadproject #indiasbesthighwayinfrastructure
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Ritublogger
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The octopus is the most intelligent animal on the planet without a backbone.
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Emma Knight (The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus)
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The Story: A Deeper Dive into "The Wife They Broke"
My husband and son were pathologically obsessed with me, constantly testing my love by showering attention on another woman, Kassandra. My jealousy and misery were their proof of my devotion.
Then came the car accident. My hand, the one that wrote award-winning film scores, was severely crushed. But Jacob and Anton chose to prioritize Kassandra's minor head injury, leaving my career in ruins.
They watched me, waiting for tears, anger, jealousy. They got nothing. I was a statue, my face a placid mask. My silence unsettled them. They continued their cruel game, celebrating Kassandra's birthday lavishly, while I sat in a secluded corner, watching them.
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The Power of "The Wife They Broke"
In the novel The Wife They Broke, the main character is a woman caught in a tug-of-war between love and suffering. Her husband and son, in a strange act of affection, test her devotion by showering attention on another woman, Kassandra. This is not just a story about love—it is about manipulation, obsession, and the ultimate destruction of the human spirit.
The protagonist’s journey of emotional endurance becomes the backbone of the novel. It’s a story that challenges the boundaries of loyalty and identity, leaving readers wondering how far one can be pushed before breaking.
The Emotional and Psychological Impact: Understanding the Characters of "The Wife They Broke
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Every moment with you feels like a beautiful dream I never want to wake up from. You're the love I never knew I needed, and now I can't imagine my life without you. Thank you for coming back to us.
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Tate James (You're Next (Devil's Backbone, #3))