Jarvis Quotes

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...The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?" "Aye. The greatest treasure in Egyptโ€”a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Mara, Daughter of the Nile)
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Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Mara, Daughter of the Nile)
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I shall not waste any more words on you," she said coldly. "Your mind is too closed to hear them.
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Robin Jarvis (The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2))
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Blue-Eyed One, never again shall you cover your shoulders. I declare your scars to be medals of gallantry great than any I could bestow, and it is my will that all the Black Land look upon them, and learn the nature of courage.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Mara, Daughter of the Nile)
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Sheftu,โ€ she whispered, โ€œit's all over.โ€ โ€œNay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Mara, Daughter of the Nile)
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One doesnโ€™t just chuck away the story of oneโ€™s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Greensleeves)
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What if instead of reading, you wrote? Instead of watching TV, you made videos? Instead of listening to music, you learned how to play guitar?
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Paul Jarvis (Everything I Know)
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I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing. ~ Michelle Jarvis
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Gregg Olsen (If Loving You is Wrong)
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Memorization is not as vital a discipline as fulfilling curiosity with research and reasoning.....Internet and Google literacy should be taught to help students vet facts and judge reliability.
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Jeff Jarvis (What Would Google Do?)
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The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. โ€”Eugene Jarvis, creator of Defender
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Ernest Cline (Armada)
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Jon didnโ€™t deliver, then Jarvis would. Even with his demotion, he was still my eyes and ears within Evaโ€™s
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Malorie Blackman (Endgame: The final book in the groundbreaking series, Noughts & Crosses (Noughts and Crosses 6))
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And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe.
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Jarvis Cocker
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss. Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But we've never lost an astronaut in flight. We've never had a tragedy like this. And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle. But they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe. We mourn their loss as a nation together. For the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, "Give me a challenge, and I'll meet it with joy." They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us. We've grown used to wonders in this century. It's hard to dazzle us. But for twenty-five years the United States space program has been doing just that. We've grown used to the idea of space, and, perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. We're still pioneers. They, the members of the Challenger crew, were pioneers. And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's take-off. I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them. I've always had great faith in and respect for our space program. And what happened today does nothing to diminish it. We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute. We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue. I want to add that I wish I could talk to every man and woman who works for NASA, or who worked on this mission and tell them: "Your dedication and professionalism have moved and impressed us for decades. And we know of your anguish. We share it." There's a coincidence today. On this day three hundred and ninety years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, "He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it." Well, today, we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake's, complete. The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God." Thank you.
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Ronald Reagan
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You shouldn't pay attention to things that don't grab your attention. If you do, you're being a pretentious douchebag.
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Paul Jarvis (Everything I Know)
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Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.
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Jeff Jarvis (What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World)
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There is no evil in the darkness, it's just an absence of light.
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Robin Jarvis (Dancing Jax (Dancing Jax #1))
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Because the idea that a culture could reveal more of itself through its throwaway items than through its supposedly revered artefacts was fascinating to me. Still is.
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Jarvis Cocker (Good Pop, Bad Pop)
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Mrs. Jarvis, as she came out of the Rectory gate, saw him coming, and her Newfoundland dog, Nero, slowly swept his tail from side to side.
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Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)
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A large part of choosing your path is figuring out which values will determine your worth. Once thatโ€™s clear, itโ€™s much easier to decide if the work youโ€™re doing will increase or decrease your feelings of worth.
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Paul Jarvis (Everything I Know)
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Then the stars went out, for the bark of Ra, in fiery splendor, burst out of the East. Sunshine flooded the wide desert and the long, green valley of the Nile. The night was over; a new day had dawned for the land of Egypt.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Mara, Daughter of the Nile)
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We no longer need companies, institutions, or government to organize us. We now have the tools to organize ourselves. We can find each other and coalesce around political causes or bad companies or talent or business or ideas.
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Jeff Jarvis (What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World)
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The โ€œNo bullshitโ€ version of who you are can work with a compass. Your ego needs a map because it does not quite understand the wise words of Paul Jarvis, "Nobody is successful because they took somebody else's roadmap and copied it.
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Srinivas Rao (The Art of Being Unmistakable)
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Indeed, education is one of the institutions most deserving of disruption--and with the greatest opportunities to come of it.
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Jeff Jarvis (What Would Google Do?)
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The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.
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Jeff Jarvis
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Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.
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Jeff Jarvis (What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World)
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Your company is the company it keeps.
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Jeff Jarvis
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If we don't let our weirdness rise to the surface, we donโ€™t let our work stand out.
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Paul Jarvis (Everything I Know)
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Put bluntly, too many of us spend years, even decades, in pursuit of someone elseโ€™s plan for our one precious life.
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Chase Jarvis (Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life)
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Itโ€™s never very clear what youโ€™re supposed to do insteadโ€”only that pursuing creativity is lofty, selfish, or even naive.
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Chase Jarvis (Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life)
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Weโ€™ve been trained to avoid creative obstacles rather than risk trying to surmount them.
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Chase Jarvis (Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life)
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This is one of the biggest secrets of the most creative, happy, successful people: Just start.
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Chase Jarvis (Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life)
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Writing in Library Journal, Ben Vershbow of the Institute for the Future of Book envisioned a digital ecology in which "parts of books will reference parts of other books. Books will be woven toghether out of components in remote databases and servers." Kevin Kelly wrote in The New York times Magagzine: "In the the new world of books, every bit informs another; every page reads all the other pages.
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Jeff Jarvis (What Would Google Do?)
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The foolish face of praise,โ€™โ€ Uncle Frosty quoted. โ€œโ€˜.ย .ย . the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us.โ€™โ€ โ€œWho wrote that?โ€ I asked in astonishment. โ€œEmerson.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Greensleeves)
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The path of life is strewn with many perils and the folly of knowledge is one of the greatest dangers. Wisdom is a treacherous weapon, little master, for it is sundered from compassion. All too often the end of the journey gains more import than it should and the wise become blind to the road and the method of their passing.
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Robin Jarvis (Thomas (The Deptford Histories, #3))
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Dr. Edmonds smiled and shrugged. โ€œItโ€™s a bit harsh, perhaps, but Ezra Pound once said, โ€˜Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing; the rest is mere sheepherding.โ€™ I think he was right. I seem to have spent my life with the sheep.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Greensleeves)
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doubtful whether their rays have even yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shadows of the night were broad and black. All through the cold and restless interval, until dawn, they once more whispered in the ears of Mr. Jarvis Lorryโ€”sitting opposite the buried man who had been dug out, and wondering what
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Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)
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All the honey in the world is nothing without the confirmation of the bees.
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Jarvis Price (Poems in the Key of Price)
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The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.
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Robin Jarvis (Whortle's Hope (Mouselets of Deptford))
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Yours is a true heart, Vespertilio. Beware of it, for it is surely too large for thy chest to contain.
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Robin Jarvis (The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2))
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Sometimes, in order to stay true to yourself and your values, you need to innovate through change. And sometimes that means stopping and stepping back for a while.
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Paul Jarvis (Everything I Know)
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Curious how even a little time can alter so much.
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Robin Jarvis (The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2))
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Gamboling is happiness in motion.
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Joan Jarvis Ellison (Shepherdess: Notes from the Field)
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In saying no to anything that doesnโ€™t fit, you leave room to say yes to those rare opportunities that do fitโ€”opportunities that align with the values and ideas of your business.
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Paul Jarvis (Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business)
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It was then that he discovered he had no more tears to cry.
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Robin Jarvis (The Fatal Strand (Tales from the Wyrd Museum, #3))
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Have no fear," the voice told her, "for in thee lies the hope of all. Only thou can deliver the land from darkness." "How can I?" she asked. "I am just one against so many." The eyes gleamed behind the dappling leaves. "Yet the smallest acorn may become the tallest oak," came the answer.
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Robin Jarvis (The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2))
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Most reasons to delay are invalid if you get right to the core: no time, no money, no audience. These are all future concerns, which make it hard to start anything. Worry about those things later or not at all. Make small decisions at first, and start moving in a direction that feels right.
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Paul Jarvis (Everything I Know)
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Why, you'll be 'changed, m'dear. We'll just swap you for a human child who'll make a good servant to the Band. Half Humans never work out 'mongst the Folk. No, never do." "But--I'm half Folk too... What if I never work out 'mongst the humans?" "Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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A funny thing happens when you focus on work that you love; more soon starts to appear. Like attracts like. Plus, that intersection between enjoying what you do and getting paid to do it is the sweetest place of all.
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Paul Jarvis (Everything I Know)
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The time is come," he spoke quietly. "Now, when lesser folk would wither, thou must be true to the blood of thine ancestors. Much greatness is bred in thee; accept now this terrible mantle and take a step nearer thy destiny.
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Robin Jarvis (The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2))
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This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from some of the dynamics of an economy built on mass and scarcity. Google has its own economy.
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Jeff Jarvis (What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World)
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From an evolutionary point of view it is explainable why we wanted to gather more and more: with more food, more water, more protection against predators, we may be less likely to die. But today, growth feeds our ego and social standing.
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Paul Jarvis (Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business)
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I used to feel I could hide inside my practice, that I could simply sit and contemplate the raging anger of a place like this, seeking inner peace through prayers of compassion. But now I believe love and compassion are things to extend to others. It's a dangerous adventure to share them in a place like S.Q. Yet I see now that we become better people if we can touch a hardened soul, bring joy into someone's life, or just be an example for others, instead of hiding behind our silence.
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Jarvis Jay Masters (Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row)
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Creators create. Action is identity. You become what you do. You donโ€™t need permission from anybody to call yourself a writer, entrepreneur, or musician. You just need to write, build a business, or make music. Youโ€™ve got to do the verb to be the noun.
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Chase Jarvis (Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life)
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Can any of us pinpoint the moment when we've lost our younger selves, lost joy in the simple things, stopped celebrating life? For years-decades-we work, raise a family, plant begonias. Then one day we wake up to chemotherapy and eulogies and nursing home visits and the realization that we haven't had a real vacation in years. And all we can do is ask: how did life get so hard?
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Cheryl Jarvis (The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives)
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Youโ€™ve heard poets talk about, poems flowing out of their bodies; painters, they get on a roll. You all have seen the musician, when they are in that state, the guitar, the piano, whatever instrument just becomes part of their body, their ego is completely gone and it is just their connection to the art, their connection to the emotions they are trying to share with the audience- that is pure flow.
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Chase Jarvis
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For the first time the Doctor felt, now, that his suffering was strength and power. For the first time he felt that in that sharp fire, he had slowly forged the iron which could break the prison door of his daughter's husband, and deliver him. "It all tended to a good end, my friend; it was not mere waste and ruin. As my beloved child was helpful in restoring me to myself, I will be helpful now in restoring the dearest part of herself to her; by the aid of Heaven I will do it!" Thus, Doctor Manette. And when Jarvis Lorry saw the kindled eyes, the resolute face, the calm strong look and bearing of the man whose life always seemed to him to have been stopped, like a clock, for so many years, and then set going again with an energy which had lain dormant during the cessation of its usefulness, he believed.
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Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)
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The most important part of finishing anything is saying no. If Iโ€™m working on an idea, I say โ€œnoโ€ to almost everything: new projects, new clients, social engagementsโ€”basically anything that would take my focus away from what Iโ€™m doing. I take breaks, but thereโ€™s a difference between breaks and things that cut into my ability to get the work done. I say no so I can say yes to what Iโ€™m currently doing โ€“ or I say yes to what I want to pursue.
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Paul Jarvis (Everything I Know)
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The new obstacle is figuring out which dream to pursue and then cultivating and applying the necessary energy to engage in that pursuit. The internet provides access to all the worldโ€™s libraries, but it also provides access to World of Warcraftโ€”limitless knowledge but also limitless distraction.
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Chase Jarvis (Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life)
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I had accepted beatings, loneliness, and near-starvation as normal because those things had helped me to survive. Now when these women undressed me, it felt like they were removing a shield that had become a part of me. As they peeled off layer after layer, I began to feel my age and started crying. With my tears I shed each fiber of responsibility I had in caring for my sisters and brother. I was finally being cared for as a child, and so the child inside me opened wide.
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Jarvis Jay Masters (That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row)
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In the past, Pracilla had always thought that the smarter and more successful you were, the more you didn't need other people, the more you could do it all yourself. Pracilla had never asked anyone for anything. Now she was starting to think differently. Maybe the smarter you were, the sooner you recognised you were in trouble and asked for help.
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Cheryl Jarvis (The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives)
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Your house, Regan, your murder. from Buying Murder
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Nancy Lynn Jarvis
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...women have endurance, I'll say they have. Built like Angora kittens, and with the constitutions of beef critters.
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Jarvis Hall (Across the Mesa)
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One should never worry. One should always plan.
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J.A.R.V.I.S.
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Tread not into the fearsome night But pull the covers high, Step not into the wild dark wood For the Hobbers are dancing nigh
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Robin Jarvis (The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2))
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The moles came bearing their lamps and then the most ancient and magical creature that ever danced beneath the moon was lost in darkness once more.
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Robin Jarvis (The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2))
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Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.
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Robin Jarvis (The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2))
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There are many things in this unhappy world we cannot alter. We must learn to live with our lot and find peace with ourselves.
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Robin Jarvis (The Final Reckoning (The Deptford Mice, #3))
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Whereas workers in 'doing' roles can be replaced by robots or even by other workers, the role of creatively solving difficult problems is more dependent on an irreplaceable individual.
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Paul Jarvis (Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business)
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You got lucky with the moon. Tonight there won't be one, or it'll be so new that you'll still have all the darkness you want. Because right now you're thinking two words: unlawful entry.
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Michael Jarvis (Field of Vision)
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Jarvis had to keep avoiding the increasing numbers of both rioters and fleeing citizens as well as a number of people in cars with the same idea. He was surprised to feel annoyed. Here was the first honest-to-goodness miracle he was witness to in his entire life as a clergyman and he wasnโ€™t able to see it because he had to keep his eyes on the road. Why were the mysteries of faith so inscrutable?
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Patrick Ness (The Crash of Hennington)
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When you focus on solving problems or on making a difference, passion may follow, because youโ€™re actually involved in the work youโ€™re doing instead of just dreaming that you might be passionate about something.
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Paul Jarvis (Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business)
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Whatโ€™s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what theyโ€™d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us
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Jeff Jarvis (Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live)
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Nine bright stars from out the void shining up on high whose banished soul do they call back and augur in the sky? Despoiler of the ancient lands, who baked the deserts dry. Scarophion, Scarophion - the demon is close by.
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Robin Jarvis (Thomas (The Deptford Histories, #3))
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Irrelevantโ€™ Chris Fogle turns a page. Howard Cardwell turns a page. Ken Wax turns a page. Matt Redgate turns a page. โ€˜Groovyโ€™ Bruce Channing attaches a form to a file. Ann Williams turns a page. Anand Singh turns two pages at once by mistake and turns one back which makes a slightly different sound. David Cusk turns a page. Sandra Pounder turns a page. Robert Atkins turns two separate pages of two separate files at the same time. Ken Wax turns a page. Lane Dean Jr. turns a page. Olive Borden turns a page. Chris Acquistipace turns a page. David Cusk turns a page. Rosellen Brown turns a page. Matt Redgate turns a page. R. Jarvis Brown turns a page. Ann Williams sniffs slightly and turns a page. Meredith Rand does something to a cuticle. โ€˜Irrelevantโ€™ Chris Fogle turns a page. Ken Wax turns a page. Howard Cardwell turns a page. Kenneth โ€˜Type of Thingโ€™ Hindle detaches a Memo 402-C(1) from a file. โ€˜Second-Knuckleโ€™ Bob McKenzie looks up briefly while turning a page. David Cusk turns a page. A yawn proceeds across one Chalkโ€™s row by unconscious influence. Ryne Hobratschk turns a page. Latrice Theakston turns a page. Rotes Group Room 2 hushed and brightly lit, half a football field in length. Howard Cardwell shifts slightly in his chair and turns a page. Lane Dean Jr. traces his jawโ€™s outline with his ring finger. Ed Shackleford turns a page. Elpidia Carter turns a page. Ken Wax attaches a Memo 20 to a file. Anand Singh turns a page. Jay Landauer and Ann Williams turn a page almost precisely in sync although they are in different rows and cannot see each other. Boris Kratz bobs with a slight Hassidic motion as he crosschecks a page with a column of figures. Ken Wax turns a page. Harriet Candelaria turns a page. Matt Redgate turns a page. Ambient room temperature 80ยฐ F. Sandra Pounder makes a minute adjustment to a file so that the page she is looking at is at a slightly different angle to her. โ€˜Irrelevantโ€™ Chris Fogle turns a page. David Cusk turns a page. Each Tingleโ€™s two-tiered hemisphere of boxes. โ€˜Groovyโ€™ Bruce Channing turns a page. Ken Wax turns a page. Six wigglers per Chalk, four Chalks per Team, six Teams per group. Latrice Theakston turns a page. Olive Borden turns a page. Plus administration and support. Bob McKenzie turns a page. Anand Singh turns a page and then almost instantly turns another page. Ken Wax turns a page. Chris โ€˜The Maestroโ€™ Acquistipace turns a page. David Cusk turns a page. Harriet Candelaria turns a page. Boris Kratz turns a page. Robert Atkins turns two separate pages. Anand Singh turns a page. R. Jarvis Brown uncrosses his legs and turns a page. Latrice Theakston turns a page. The slow squeak of the cart boyโ€™s cart at the back of the room. Ken Wax places a file on top of the stack in the Cart-Out box to his upper right. Jay Landauer turns a page. Ryne Hobratschk turns a page and then folds over the page of a computer printout thatโ€™s lined up next to the original file he just turned a page of. Ken Wax turns a page. Bob Mc-Kenzie turns a page. Ellis Ross turns a page. Joe โ€˜The Bastardโ€™ Biron-Maint turns a page. Ed Shackleford opens a drawer and takes a moment to select just the right paperclip. Olive Borden turns a page. Sandra Pounder turns a page. Matt Redgate turns a page and then almost instantly turns another page. Latrice Theakston turns a page. Paul Howe turns a page and then sniffs circumspectly at the green rubber sock on his pinkieโ€™s tip. Olive Borden turns a page. Rosellen Brown turns a page. Ken Wax turns a page. Devils are actually angels. Elpidia Carter and Harriet Candelaria reach up to their Cart-In boxes at exactly the same time. R. Jarvis Brown turns a page. Ryne Hobratschk turns a page. โ€˜Type of Thingโ€™ Ken Hindle looks up a routing code. Some with their chin in their hand. Robert Atkins turns a page even as heโ€™s crosschecking something on that page. Ann Williams turns a page. Ed Shackleford searches a file for a supporting document. Joe Biron-Maint turns a page. Ken Wax turns a page.
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David Foster Wallace (The Pale King)
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Hesitating at the last instant, she gazed back at Vesper, and tears brimmed in her eyes as she murmured in a meek voice, "Good-bye, my love." Then she returned to the enchanted device and called out, "May this new vessel serve you well!
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Robin Jarvis (The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2))
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We are happy to observe an increasing frequency of these pedestrian tours: to walk, is, beyond all comparison, the most independent and advantageous mode of travelling; Smelfungus and Mundungus may pursue their journey as they please; but it grieves one to see a man of taste at the mercy of a postilion.' For the 'man of taste' to be actively recommended the pedestrian alternative indeed shows that a decisive reversal of educated attitudes has taken place, and within a relatively narrow span of years.
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Robin Jarvis (Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel)
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I didnโ€™t like the people who just wanted to hear about the terrible things that had happened to me. But the friends who wanted to bask in my fondest memories of the Prockses made me feel special, inviting me into my own sense of knowing a right from a wrong.
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Jarvis Jay Masters (That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row)
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Your work can be great enough. Great enough means youโ€™ve sweated out every bit of inspiration possible. Great enough means youโ€™ve left it all on the stage. Great enough means you can push your work to the finish line. Great enough isnโ€™t settling; itโ€™s launching.
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Paul Jarvis (Everything I Know)
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I love your body 'cause I've lost my mind If you want someone to talk to, you're wasting your time If you want someone to share your life, you need someone who's alive And if every relationship is a two-way street, I have been screwing in the back whilst you drive I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow I never said I was big, I never said that I was clever And if you're waiting to find what's going on in my mind, you could be waiting forever Forever and ever I can dance you to the end of the night 'cause I'm afraid of the dark I have to confess: I'm out of my depth You're going over my head and straight through my heart Some girls like to play it dirty, some girls want to be your mum Me, I disrespected you whilst we were waiting for the taxi to come My morality is shabby, my behaviour unacceptable No, I'm not looking for a relationship, just a willing receptacle I never said I was... I never said I was... I never said I was... I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow Oh, yeah. I never said I was big, I never said that I was clever And if you're waiting to find what's going on in my mind, you could be waiting forever Forever and ever
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Jarvis Cocker
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Achieving mastery, as I use the term here, doesnโ€™t mean you know it all, only that you know how to navigate the material. You know what you know and what you donโ€™t. At the beginning, itโ€™s hard to enter a subject because you have to draw a mental map as you explore the territory. Once youโ€™ve mastered the rudiments, youโ€™ve drawn the mental map; you donโ€™t know everything, but you know where everything goes, how it fits together, and why. Your learning accelerates. And the flywheel begins to spin. Masters know this. Now you do, too.
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Chase Jarvis (Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life)
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As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everything, it gradually developed as distinct a superstition as I ever heard, and not without poetry and pathos. How long it was since the voice had been heard first, nobody could tell with certainty. Jarvis's opinion was that his father, who had been coachman at Brentwood before him, had never heard anything about it, and that the whole thing had arisen within the last ten years, since the complete dismantling of the old house: which was a wonderfully modern date for a tale so well authenticated. According to these witnesses, and to several whom I questioned afterwards, and who were all in perfect agreement, it was only in the months of November and December that "the visitation" occurred. During these months, the darkest of the year, scarcely a night passed without the recurrence of these inexplicable cries. Nothing, it was said, had ever been seen - at least nothing that could be identified. Some people, bolder or more imaginative than the others, had seen the darkness moving, Mrs Jarvis said with unconscious poetry. ("The Open Door")
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Mrs. Oliphant (The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies)
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Israel was thinking of warm beer, and muffins, and Wensleydale cheese, and Wallace and Gromit, and the music of Elgar, and the Clash, and the Beatles, and Jarvis Cocker, and the white cliffs of Dover, and Big Bend, and the West End, and Stonehenge, and Alton Towers, and the Last Night of the Proms, and Glastonbury, and William Hogarth, and William Blake, and Just William, and Winston Churchill, and the North Circular Road, and Grodzinski's for coffee, and rubbish, and potholes, and a slice of Stilton and a pickled onion, and George Orwell. And Gloria, of course. He was almost home to Gloria. G-L-O-R-I-A.
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Ian Sansom (The Book Stops Here (Mobile Library Mystery, #3))
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Pedestrianism, [William Bingley] claims, is the most 'useful' mode of travel, 'if health and strength are not wanting.' 'To a naturalist, it is evidently so; since, by this means, he is enabled to examine the country as he goes along; and when he sees occasion, he can also strike out of the road, amongst the mountains or morasses, in a manner completely independent of all those obstacles that inevitably attend the bringing of carriages or horses.' Bingley has a specific reason here for valuing the combination of freedom and intimacy with one's surroundings enjoyed by the pedestrian, but his rationale is generalisable to other travellers.
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Robin Jarvis (Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel)
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[William] Coxe expresses...both the pedestrian's advantage of complete freedom of movement, and the inspiring effect of the combination of continual change of scene with maximum time for appreciation that characterises the mobile gaze of the pedestrian traveller. If not a peripatetic by profession, Coxe is clearly one by choice.
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Robin Jarvis (Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel)
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My princess," began Mara, then found she could not speak the crushing phrases. "His Highness sends his warmest regards," she finished. She had the satisfaction of seeing Ianni's face come back to life; the great dark eyes lost their look of suffering and turned hopefully toward the king. Mara turned to him too, well-pleased with her merciful little lie. But one look at his startled face froze the blood in her veins. What a fool she was! Of course, he had understood every word she said. "Son of Pharaoh, live forever!" she gasped. "I crave pardon-- I could not believe you meant to wound this princess, however lowly--" "You mean you forgot that I could understand," retorted Thutmose.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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I believe the internet could prove to be as momentous an invention, as profound a platform. This is why we must protect the net from the control of governments and corporations โ€” especially because they are the objects of the disruption technology enables. Only if it remains as open as the printing press for anyone โ€” no, everyone โ€” to use can the net.
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Jeff Jarvis (Gutenberg the Geek)
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Play it, Eddie, don't be foolish;' she urges. 'Now's the time, break the spell once and for all, prove to yourself that it can't hurt you. If you don't do it now, you'll never get over the idea. It'll stay with you all your life. Go ahead. I'll dance it just like I am.' 'Okay,' he says. He taps. It's been quite some time, but he can rely on his outfit. Slow and low like thunder far away, coming nearer. Boom-putta-putta-boom! Judy whirls out behind him, lets out the first preliminary screech, Eeyaeeya! She hears a commotion in back of her and stops as suddenly as she began. Eddie Bloch's fallen flat on his face and doesn't move again after that. They all know, somehow. There's an inertness, a finality about it that tells them. The dancers wait a minute, mill about, then melt away in a hush. Judy Jarvis doesn't scream, doesn't cry, just stands there staring, wondering. That last thought - did it come from inside his own mind just now - or outside? Was it two months on its way, from the other side of the grave, looking for him, looking for him, until it found him tonight when he played the Chant once more and laid his mind open to Africa? No policeman, no detective, no doctor, no scientist, will ever be able to tell her. Did it come from inside or from outside? All she says is: 'Stand close to me, boys - real close to me, I'm afraid of the dark.' ("Papa Benjamin" aka "Dark Melody Of Madness")
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Cornell Woolrich (The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich (Alternatives SF Series))
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As he spoke, he turned and looked at me, with such complete comprehension in his eyes that I felt we'd somehow discussed the subject exhaustively. In fact, for just a second I was irrationally convinced that in some previous conversation I couldn't quite remember we'd talked about everything on earth . . . It was a queer sensation aโ€•kind of flash of recognition
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Greensleeves (Nancy Pearl's Book Crush Rediscoveries))
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We took enough depth charge damage that I decided we had no choice but to go up and fight him with our deck gun.โ€ Jarvis grinned, โ€œOur skipper likes to do that too. Charge into battle with guns blazing.โ€ Williams and the Admiral smiled, but Turner noted that neither of the S-52 officers did. Waters only lit a cigarette and inhaled deeply before continuing. โ€œYeah, but youโ€™ve got a fancy new fleet boat,โ€ Waters replied to Jarvis, sounding a little miffed. โ€œWeโ€™re in an old pig boat with a single four-inch. I sent my Exec and COB up top with gun crews and machine gunners to harass the destroyer. He cut us up pretty bad before a lucky shot from our deck gun hit his fantail and detonated the ashcans thereโ€ฆ sunk the bastard,
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Scott Cook (Tokyo Express: A WWII Submarine Adventure Novel (USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller series Book 4))
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I guess I'm like Grandfather Street was in his religion. He thought the Baptists were wonderful until he joined them and then the Presbyterians looked more interesting to him. After he'd been with them a while he couldn't see how anybody could be a Presbyterian, so he joined the Unitarians. People thought he was a turncoat, but he wasn't - he was just a sort of religious Mormon. One church wasn't enough for him.
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Jarvis Hall (Across the Mesa)
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The time had finally come when she would have to accept the full power of the Starwife. No longer could she be just Ysabelle. Now she had a land to govern and all the daunting responsibilities that that entailed. The liberty she had experienced since the night she had escaped from the Ring of Banbha seemed to vanish. She was left stripped of her freedom, and only long years of a lonely reign stretched out before her.
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Robin Jarvis (The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2))
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One day as we were doing our bookwork, a teacher suddenly asked us to help him remove all the desks and chairs from the center of the classroom. Then he sat us all down in a circle, brought out his guitar, and sang songs. We recognized the lyricsโ€”the poems and stories we ourselves had written! After that I wrote more, searching dictionaries for new words to express myself. Every day we walked out of class believing that what we did mattered.
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Jarvis Jay Masters (That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row)
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Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur...These factors--the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies of mobility, the pleasure of travel free from necessity, the notion that travel signifies autonomy and is a means for demonstrating what one 'really' is independent of one context or set of defining associations--remain the characteristics of the modern conception of travel. Eric Leed
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Robin Jarvis (Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel)
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I hope that the examples I have given have gone some way towards demonstrating that pedestrian touring in the later 1780s and the 1790s was not a matter of a few 'isolated affairs', but was a practice of rapidly growing popularity among the professional, educated classes, with the texts it generated being consumed and reviewed in the same way as other travel literature: compared, criticised for inaccuracies, assessed for topographical or antiquarian interest, and so on.
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Robin Jarvis (Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel)
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[Robert] Newell's recommendation of walking is also interesting: 'The best way undoubtedly of seeing a country is on foot. It is the safest, and most suited to every variety of road; it will often enable you to take a shorter track, and visit scenes (the finest perhaps) not otherwise accessible; it is healthy, and, with a little practice, easy; it is economical: a pedestrian is content with almost any accommodations; he, of all travellers, wants but little, 'Nor wants that little long'. And last, though not least, it is perfectly independent.' Newell cites independence, as do a number of the 'first generation' of Romantic walkers I have already surveyed; more striking are his commendation of walking as the safest option, which reflects a very altered perception of the security of travel from that which prevailed in the eighteenth century, and his advocacy of the practical and health benefits of pedestrianism, which against suggests its institutionalisation as a form of tourism and its extension to lower reaches of the middle classes.
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Robin Jarvis (Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel)
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The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia.[9] St Andrew's Methodist Church now holds the International Mother's Day Shrine.[10] Her campaign to make Mother's Day a recognized holiday in the United States began in 1905, the year her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died. Ann Jarvis had been a peace activist who cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War, and created Mother's Day Work Clubs to address public health issues. She and another peace activist and suffragette Julia Ward Howe had been urging for the creation of a Motherโ€™s Day dedicated to peace. 40 years before it became an official holiday, Ward Howe had made her Motherโ€™s Day Proclamation in 1870, which called upon mothers of all nationalities to band together to promote the โ€œamicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.โ€[11] Anna Jarvis wanted to honor this and to set aside a day to honor all mothers because she believed a mother is "the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world" Ghb๊ตฌ๋งค,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ์ž…,Ghb ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,์ˆ˜๋ฉด์ œํŒ๋งค,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•ํšจ๋Šฅ,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,ghb๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•ํŒ๋งค์ฒ˜,์ˆ˜๋ฉด์ œํŒ”์•„์š” ์นดํ†กใ€AKR331ใ€‘๋ผ์ธใ€SPR331ใ€‘์œ„์ปคใ€SPR705ใ€‘ํ…”๋ ˆใ€GEM705ใ€‘ ์ฒซ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”๋ถ„๋“ค ์‹ค๋ ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ณ„๋กœ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ‘์ง€์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋‹จํ•˜๋‚˜ ํŒ๋งค๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์•ˆ์ „์€ ๋”์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” *๋ฌผ๋ฝ•์ด๋ž€ ์•Œ๊ณ ์‹ถ์ฃ ? ์•ก์ฒด ์ƒํƒœ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ˆ  ๋“ฑ์— ํƒ€์„œ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์†์นญ '๋ฌผ๋ฝ•'์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋Ÿ‰ ๋ณต์šฉ์‹œ ํ•„๋ฆ„์ด ๋Š๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ฆ์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํฅ๋ถ„์ž‘์šฉ์„ ์ผ์œผ์ผœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ Š์€ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์†์—์„œ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ด์šฉํ•ด '๋ฐ์ดํŠธ์‹œ ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„ํ•  ๋•Œ ์“ฐ๋Š” ์•ฝ'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์˜ '๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ๋ ˆ์ดํ”„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๊ทธ(date rape drug)'๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋“ฑ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ๋Š” GHB๊ฐ€ ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ž‘์—…์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ค‘์—์„œ ๋ฐ€๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๋˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋‹ค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” 2013๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญFDA์—์„œ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ๋ฐ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฒ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•(GHB)์•ฝ๋ฌผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ด์•ฝ๋ฌผ์ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ณต์šฉํ›„ 30๋ถ„์•ˆ์— ์•ฝํšจ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ 6~7์‹œ๊ฐ„์ •๋„ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ชธ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค์ฆ˜์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜น์€ ๋•€์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ถ€ ๋น ์ ธ๋‚˜๊ฐ„๋‹ค๋Š”๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ค์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„์„ ๋‹นํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ฒญ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค 2๋ฒˆ์˜์žฌํŒ๋์— ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๋‹น๊ตญ๊ณผ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์€ ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋„ ์–ป์„์ˆ˜์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜น์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด ๋ณต์šฉํ• ๊ฒฝ์šฐ 30๋ถ„์ด๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ์ข‹์•„์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ํ‰์†Œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ํ„ฐ์น˜๋‚˜ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ์‹œ์„ ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๋˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด๊ทธ๋…€๋‹ต์ง€์•Š์€ ์Šคํ‚จ์‰ฝ์œผ๋กœ 30๋ถ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์„œ ์•ฝ๋ฐœ์ด ์˜ค๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๊ฑธ์–ด๋„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋น ์ ธ๋“ค๊ฒŒํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์„ฑ์˜ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์ด๋‹ค ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ง„ํ’ˆ์„์‚ด๋•Œ๋งŒ์ด ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋Š”๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋”๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ๊ฒƒ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์นดํ†กใ€AKR331ใ€‘๋ผ์ธใ€SPR331ใ€‘์œ„์ปคใ€SPR705ใ€‘ํ…”๋ ˆใ€GEM705ใ€‘๋กœ ๋ฌธ์˜์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. In 1908, the U.S. Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother's Day an official holiday, joking that they would also have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day". However, owing to the efforts of Anna Jarvis, by 1911 all U.S. states observed the holiday, with some of them officially recognizing Mother's Day as a local holiday (the first being West Virginia, Jarvis' home state, in 1910). In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, held on the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers.
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I walked slowly on, without envying my companions on horseback: for I could sit down upon an inviting spot, climb to the edge of a precipice, or trace a torrent by its sound. I descended at length into the Rheinthal, or Valley of the Rhine; the mountains of Tyrol, which yielded neither in height or in cragginess to those of Appenzel, rising before me. And here I found a remarkable difference: for although the ascending and descending was a work of some labor; yet the variety of the scenes had given me spirits, and I was not sensible of the least fatigue. But in the plain, notwithstanding the scenery was still beautiful and picturesque, I saw at once the whole way stretching before me, and had no room for fresh expectations: I was not therefore displeased when I arrived at Oberried, after a walk of about twelve miles, my coat flung upon my shoulder like a peripatetic by profession. -William Coxe
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Robin Jarvis (Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel)
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...I shall let [Anne] Wallace put the case herself, at what I think is necessary length: 'As travel in general becomes physically easier, faster, and less expensive, more people want and are able to arrive at more destinations with less unpleasant awareness of their travel process. At the same time the availability of an increasing range of options in conveyance, speed, price, and so forth actually encouraged comparisons of these different modes...and so an increasingly positive awareness of process that even permitted semi-nostalgic glances back at the bad old days...Then, too, although local insularity was more and more threatened...people also quite literally became more accustomed to travel and travellers, less fearful of 'foreign' ways, so that they gradually became able to regard travel as an acceptable recreation. Finally, as speeds increased and costs decreased, it simply ceased to be true that the mass of people were confined to that circle of a day's walk: they could afford both the time and the money to travel by various means and for purely recreational purposes...And as walking became a matter of choice, it became a possible positive choice: since the common person need not necessarily be poor. Thus, as awareness of process became regarded as advantageous, 'economic necessity' became only one possible reading (although still sometimes a correct one) in a field of peripatetic meanings that included 'aesthetic choice'.' It sounds a persuasive case. It is certainly possible that something like the shift in consciousness that Wallace describes may have taken place by the 'end' (as conventionally conceived) of the Romantic period, and influenced the spread of pedestrianism in the 1820s and 1830s; even more likely that such a shift was instrumental in shaping the attitudes of Victorian writing in the railway age, and helped generate the apostolic fervour with which writers like Leslie Stephen and Robert Louis Stevenson treated the walking tour. But it fails to account for the rise of pedestrianism as I have narrated it.
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Robin Jarvis (Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel)
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...moderate social deviance or class non-conformism I have imputed to the first generation of pedestrians. Improved roads, after all, were one of the principal means by which the country was building a national communications network that would underpin the huge commercial and industrial expansion of the nineteenth century; changing the landscape of the country to produce the arterial interconnection of the modern state in place of a geography of more or less self-enclosed local communities; consolidating the administrative structures of the state and facilitating political hegemony over a rapidly growing and potentially unstable population; and promulgating a 'national' culture in the face of regional diversity and independence. With the main roads such powerful instruments of change, the walker's decision to exploit his freedom to resist the imperative of destination and explore instead by lanes, by-roads and fieldpaths, could well be interpreted as an act of denial, flight or dissent vis-a-vis the forces that were ineradicably transforming British society.
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Robin Jarvis (Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel)