P.e Quotes

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

Hey, I'm like Aretha Franklin, I don't get no R -S -P -E -C -T around here!

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

It was something I couldn't put my finger on or define clearly, but a whole mishmash of words and incidents, all rolling quickly and building, like a snowball down a hill, to gather strength and bulk to flatten me. It wasn't what they said, or even just the looks they exchanged when they asked me how school was that day and I just mumbled fine with my mouth full, glancing wistfully over at Scarlett's, where I was sure she was eating alone, in front of the TV, without having to answer to anyone. There had been a time, once, when my mother would have been the first I'd tell about Macon Faulkner, and what P.E. had become to me. But now I only saw her rigid neck, the tight, thin line of her lips as she sat across from me, reminding me to do my homework, no I couldn't go to Scarlett's it was a school night, don't forget to do the dishes and take the trash out. All she'd said to me for years. Only now they all seemed loaded with something else, something that fell between us on the table, blocking any further conversation.

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

My birthday is coming up. I was born on March 5th, 1982. Humans have come a long way since then—nearly 30 years, if my math is good. And my math better be good, because if my math’s no good, what’s that leave? I mean aside from English, art, science, social studies, history, geography, P.E., recess, and of course, lunch.


I feel like a house-elf," grumbled Ron [general cleaning of Black's house] "Well, now that you understand what dreadful lives they lead, perhaps you'll be a bit more active in S.P.E.W!" ... "You know, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to show people exactly how horrible it is to clean all the time -- we could do a sponsored scrub of Gryffindor common room, all proceeds to S.P.E.W, it would raise awareness as well as funds --" "I'll sponsor you to shut up about spew," Ron muttered irritably.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!!

The stock is selling at a p/e of 30, while the most optimistic projections of earnings growth are 15–20 percent for the next two years.

We're not saints, and we're not screwups. We're just...people.

We must play from the soul, not like trained birds.

أذا كنا نحيا دون ان نكتشف تفردنا فإننا لا نحيا بالفعل أعتقد أن قلب الله ينكسر عندما لا يدرك أولاده الطاقة التى وضعها فى داخلهم

Love is pain. You can’t have one without the other. There’s no picking and choosing experiences. The good comes with the bad.

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

It was like his entire body was having a conversation with Justin's body, though they were barely touching.

Moody limped around the table and bent down; Harry thought he was reading the S.P.E.W. notebook, until he muttered, ‘Nice Cloak, Potter.’ Harry stared at him in amazement. The large chunk missing from Moody’s nose was particularly obvious at a few inches’ distance. Moody grinned. ‘Can your eye – I mean, can you –?’ ‘Yeah, it can see through Invisibility Cloaks,’ Moody said quietly. ‘And it’s come in useful at times, I can tell you.

S-P-E-W!” said Hermione hotly. “I was going to put Stop the Outrageous Abuse of Our Fellow Magical Creatures and Campaign for a Change in Their Legal Status — but it wouldn’t fit. So that’s the heading of our manifesto.

لا يهم إذا كانت حياتك لم تصل بعد إالى القطعة الفنية الرائعة التى يريدها الله. فالفن العظيم يحتاج وقتاً

He held his hands up again. "Subject dropped," he repeated. "I dropped it — look, there it goes, rolling across the floor.

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved.

And then, from the other room, we could hear Fudge singing himself to sleep. “M-a-i-n-e spells Maine. F-u-d-g-e spells Fudgie. P-e-t-e-r spells Pee-tah. B-e-e-r spells whiskey.

We know that Donald Trump loves S.C.A.P.E.G.O.A.T.S. Now he has stooped to new lows - Separating Children And Parents Entering Gateways Of America Truly Sucks !

Pamela Anderson: 'He called and called, leaving about twenty messages, just drunk dialing. One of them was him singing his version of the Oscar Mayer theme song: "My baloney has a first name, it's L-A-R-G-E. My baloney has a second name, it's P-E-N-I-S. I like to use it every day and if you ask me why, I'll saaay, 'Cuz my Large Penis has a way with P-U-S-S-Y today!" Actually that was the message that got me interested.

Words of wisdom, the meaning of life, p e r h a p s even the answer sought by Borges's librarians—all of these may wash over us every day, but they can do little for us unless we savor them, engage with them, question them, improve them, and connect them to our lives

☆So, uh, ima go..I’ll be back, i have P.E. And then reading, and the .. math, I’ll be back then, until then, this is powered off, I won’t be on ‘cause break is being stupid as fuck and I’m pulling my hair out ☆ Laughs in OCD. ☆I love you dad- and Ellie, and..idk. Love y’all <3 ☆

Dan's voice rose on the air: "Oh, bring some soap, why don't you!" The reply was Italian. Dan resumed: "Soap, you know—soap. That is what I want—soap. S-o-a-p, soap; s-o-p-e, soap; s-o-u-p, soap. Hurry up! I don't know how you Irish spell it, but I want it. Spell it to suit yourself, but fetch it. I'm freezing.

Perplexed, Dr. Dressler pulled out the file of Duane Scrod Jr. It showed that the boy had been held back two years in elementary school and later was expelled from a public middle school for fighting with his P.E. teacher. During that scuffle, the teacher lost three teeth and the tip of his right pinkie finger,

We were also alternately inspired by and jealous of P.E.’s “It Takes a Nation of Millions,” which Yauch played on the boomin’ system in his Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham D’elegance, because it made us question whether what we were making was even worthwhile. “Damn, they did it! We will never make anything this good.

If the p/e of Coca-Cola is 15, you’d expect the company to be growing at about 15 percent a year, etc. But if the p/e ratio is less than the growth rate, you may have found yourself a bargain. A company, say, with a growth rate of 12 percent a year (also known as a “12-percent grower”) and a p/e ratio of 6 is a very attractive prospect.

you can't spell happiness without p-e-n-i-s, Stay slutty my friends

Pulsaciones - 1,500 Oración de conflicto. B. ojo de águila, 50 = 1,500 T. R. A. C. P. E. M.

Lest we forget that Shakespeare spelled his surname in five different ways. None of them was S H A K E S P E A R E.

Behavior is a function of the Person in their Environment, or B = f (P,E).3

But I found it wasn't so easy to just turn off a crush when I wanted to. I vaguely remembered some quote I'd read in English class about the flesh being willing, even when the spirit wasn't.

إنني شاكر كثيراً لأولئك الذين ساعدوني لأستبدل حياتي المتخبطة الفوضوية بحياة واضحة وواثقة فى حق الله . وبينما كان العالم يصرخ فيَّ لأبدو مثل الآخرين وأحيا حياتهم , علا صوت الله فوق كل ضجيج برسالة واضحة "كن أنت

S-A-T-O-R A-R-E-P-O T-E-N-E-T O-P-E-R-A R-O-T-A-S The palindrome means something like “The farmer Arepo works with his plow,” with rotas, literally “wheels,” referring to the back-and-forth motion that plows make as they till. This “magic square” has delighted enigmatologists for centuries ... The magic square also reportedly kept away the devil, who traditionally (so said the church) got confused when he read palindromes.

What, in fact, do we know about the peak experience? Well, to begin with, we know one thing that puts us several steps ahead of the most penetrating thinkers of the 19th century: that P.E’.s are not a matter of pure good luck or grace. They don’t come and go as they please, leaving ‘this dim, vast vale of tears vacant and desolate’. Like rainbows, peak experiences are governed by definite laws. They are ‘intentional’. And that statement suddenly gains in significance when we remember Thorndike’s discovery that the effect of positive stimuli is far more powerful and far reaching than that of negative stimuli. His first statement of the law of effect was simply that situations that elicit positive reactions tend to produce continuance of positive reactions, while situations that elicit negative or avoidance reactions tend to produce continuance of these. It was later that he came to realise that positive reactions build-up stronger response patterns than negative ones. In other words, positive responses are more intentional than negative ones. Which is another way of saying that if you want a positive reaction (or a peak experience), your best chance of obtaining it is by putting yourself into an active, purposive frame of mind. The opposite of the peak experience—sudden depression, fatigue, even the ‘panic fear’ that swept William James to the edge of insanity—is the outcome of passivity. This cannot be overemphasised. Depression—or neurosis—need not have a positive cause (childhood traumas, etc.). It is the natural outcome of negative passivity. The peak experience is the outcome of an intentional attitude. ‘Feedback’ from my activities depends upon the degree of deliberately calculated purpose I put into them, not upon some occult law connected with the activity itself. . . . A healthy, perfectly adjusted human being would slide smoothly into gear, perform whatever has to be done with perfect economy of energy, then recover lost energy in a state of serene relaxation. Most human beings are not healthy or well adjusted. Their activity is full of strain and nervous tension, and their relaxation hovers on the edge of anxiety. They fail to put enough effort—enough seriousness—into their activity, and they fail to withdraw enough effort from their relaxation. Moods of serenity descend upon them—if at all—by chance; perhaps after some crisis, or in peaceful surroundings with pleasant associations. Their main trouble is that they have no idea of what can be achieved by a certain kind of mental effort. And this is perhaps the place to point out that although mystical contemplation is as old as religion, it is only in the past two centuries that it has played a major role in European culture. It was the group of writers we call the romantics who discovered that a man contemplating a waterfall or a mountain peak can suddenly feel ‘godlike’, as if the soul had expanded. The world is seen from a ‘bird’s eye view’ instead of a worm’s eye view: there is a sense of power, detachment, serenity. The romantics—Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Goethe, Schiller—were the first to raise the question of whether there are ‘higher ceilings of human nature’. But, lacking the concepts for analysing the problem, they left it unsolved. And the romantics in general accepted that the ‘godlike moments’ cannot be sustained, and certainly cannot be re-created at will. This produced the climate of despair that has continued down to our own time. (The major writers of the 20th century—Proust, Eliot, Joyce, Musil—are direct descendants of the romantics, as Edmund Wilson pointed out in Axel’s Castle.) Thus it can be seen that Maslow’s importance extends far beyond the field of psychology. William James had asserted that ‘mystical’ experiences are not mystical at all, but are a perfectly normal potential of human consciousness; but there is no mention of such experiences in Principles of Psychology (or only in passing).

Q&As covered my fave color (purple), my fave shows (Family Ties and Cosby), my height (5′ 7″), weight (130 pounds) and eye color (hazel). They also printed false information. One said my parents were a psychologist and a newspaper reporter. Sure, my television parents held those careers—my real parents were a math/P.E. teacher and a housewife/manager (of me). I was supposed to be the coolest kid on the planet, but no one knew what a dork I was.

A stock selling at $100 per share with earnings of $10 per share would have the same P/E multiple (10) as a stock selling at $40 with earnings of $4 per share. It is the P/E multiple, not the price, that really tells you how a stock is valued in the market.

I have come to conclusion that there are two types of women, those who always take and never think of it, those who never take and are proud of it; and where do I fit in, well I would like to describe myself as too proud to say yes, but not stupid enough to say no.

That's when she noticed that Serena, Jimena, and Vanessa each wore matching silver charms. Corrine caught what she was staring at. "They never take them off," she whispered. "Not in P.E., not for dances. Never. They had another friend, Catty, who wore the same amulet, but she's gone now. Someday when we're alone, I'll tell you what happened to her." Tianna looked at the face of the moon etched in the metal on the charms. Sparkling in the morning light, the charms didn't seem silver but more like a strange stone that reflected a rainbow of colors.

Jade: The Devil goes to God and says, "you think Job is your faithful servant, but if you took away all the gifts you've given him, he'll abandon you." So God does it... He takes away all of Job's blessings. His family dies, he gets sick, everything just starts to suck for him... but he never turns his back on God. Ike: Everyone knows this story. But I've always had a problem with it, myself. Jade: You mean like, why does God let him suffer? Ike: No, I assume God couldn't care less about the poor fuck. No, what I wonder is... what is God doing entertaining an audience with the Devil?

1. The world is everything that is the case. 2. What is the case (a fact) is the existence of states of affairs. 3. A logical picture of facts is a thought. 4. A thought is a proposition with a sense. 5. A proposition is a truth-function of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.) 6. The general form of a proposition is the general form of a truth function, which is: [p, E, N(E)]. This is the general form of a proposition. 7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

13. Fear Fear can be real or imaginary. Fear makes people do strange things. It primarily comes from a lack of understanding. To live in fear is to live in an emotional prison. Fear paralyses and immobilises people. Fear results in insecurity, lack of confidence and procrastination. Fear destroys our potential and ability. We cannot think straight. Fear ruins relationships and health. Some common fears are:    • Fear of failing    • Fear of the unknown    • Fear of being unprepared    • Fear of making the wrong decision    • Fear of rejection Some fears can be described, others can only be felt. Fear leads to anxiety which in turn leads to irrational thinking and this actually sabotages our ability to solve the problem. The normal response to fear is escape. Escape puts us in a comfort zone and reduces the impact of fear temporarily while the cause remains. Imaginary fears magnify the problem. Fear can get out of hand and destroy happiness and relationships. Think of fear as meaning: F     A     L     S      E E     V     I      D     E     N     C     E A     P     P     E     A     R      I      N      G      R     E     A     L Fear of failure is often worse than failure itself. Failure is not the worst thing that can happen to someone. People who don’t try have failed even before attempting. When infants learn to walk, they keep falling; but to them it is not failing, it is learning. If they became disheartened, they would never walk.

In those days, the pursuit of music was perceived in a pair of dichotomies. Listeners were divided into amateurs and connoisseurs, performers into dilettanti and virtuosi. As in C. P. E. Bach’s keyboard sonatas for Kenner und Liebhaber, composers generally wrote with those divisions in mind. In 1782, Mozart wrote his father about his new concertos, “[H]ere and there connoisseurs alone can derive satisfaction; the non-connoisseurs cannot fail to be pleased, though without knowing why.”35 That defined the essentially populist attitude of what came to be called the Classical style: composers should provide something for everybody, at the same time gearing each work for its setting, whether it was the more intimate and complex chamber music played by enthusiasts in private homes, or public pieces for theater and larger concerts, which were written in a more straightforward style.

Since I entered the business world, conglomerates have enjoyed several periods of extreme popularity, the silliest of which occurred in the late 1960s. The drill for conglomerate CEOs then was simple: By personality, promotion or dubious accounting — and often by all three — these managers drove a fledgling conglomerate’s stock to, say, 20 times earnings and then issued shares as fast as possible to acquire another business selling at ten-or-so times earnings. They immediately applied “pooling” accounting to the acquisition, which — with not a dime’s worth of change in the underlying businesses — automatically increased per-share earnings, and used the rise as proof of managerial genius. They next explained to investors that this sort of talent justified the maintenance, or even the enhancement, of the acquirer’s p/e multiple. And, finally, they promised to endlessly repeat this procedure and thereby create ever-increasing per-share earnings.

A company can be a giant, or it can deserve a giant P/E ratio, but both together are incompossible.

When the P/E of a company hits a 5-year low, many analysts will recommend the stock as a "cheap stock.

Don't ever expect to find good stocks in the bargain bin— unless perhaps you are at the end of a multi-year bear market. Even then, you are often better off buying a higher-quality company that has a higher P/E.

Ignore the high P/E.

You can see how the stock price has performed over a variety of periods, the company’s earnings per share (EPS), how earnings compare to the stock price (the P/E, or price-to-earnings ratio), historical dividend payments, and much more.

Oggi che siamo alla metà del mese sono rimasto colpito della difficoltà che offre il nostro calendario ad una regolare e ordinata risoluzione. Nessun mese è uguale all’altro. Per rilevare meglio la propria risoluzione si vorrebbe finire di fumare insieme a qualche cosa d’altro, il mese p.e. Ma salvo il Luglio e Agosto e il Dicembre e il Gennaio non vi sono altri mesi che si susseguano e facciano il paio in quanto a quantità di giorni. Un vero disordine nel tempo!

In 1931 German psychologist Kurt Lewin proposed what would come to be known as Lewin’s equation: B = f (P, E)—that is, human behavior is a function of a person and his or her environment. This

Until you become an advanced investor, don't ever buy a stock with a P/E of 10 or less.

In the 1960s, helping professionals began actively promoting a child-rearing philosophy which holds that parent and child are equals-not in theory, mind you, but in fact. According to psychologist Thomas Gordon, one of the chief architects of the democratic family movement and author of Parent Effectiveness Training (1970), or P.E. T, one of the all-time best-sellers in the parenting field, parents should treat children as they would treat adult friends.

Companies that are growing their revenues or earnings quickly ("growth stocks") tend to have P/E's above 25. So, for example, today Microsoft has a P/E of 27.70 and Amazon has a P/E of 79. Companies that are in trouble often have P/E's below 10. So for example, today Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) has a P/E of 7.

P/E is a company’s “price to earnings ratio.” Let's say that a company's stock trades for $100 and that the company has earnings per share (EPS) of $6.50 over the last 12 months. We can calculate a trailing ("last 12 months") P/E ratio for that stock by simply dividing the stock price ("P") by the EPS ("E"), so 100/6.50 equals about 15. We can say that this stock has a TTM P/E (trailing 12 months price to earnings ratio) of 15. Historically that is a pretty good average P/E for a stock or for the stock market as a whole.

hopeless. Such a pretty word, for what it means. h o p e l e s s n e s s. I let the word drift in my mind, like an unmoored canoe on a slow-running river.

p e r b u q s

In light of this analysis, it is evident that the would-be investor misinterpreted the answer. What the magnate meant was this: It is best to buy a stock only if it is selling at the lower end of its P/E range relative to your best estimate of earnings. Then the probability of price appreciation as the future unfolds is greater than

In sum, investors trying to decide what P/E to pay for a stock, or at what P/E to sell the stock, can look at: (1) the company’s historical P/Es, (2) comparable companies’ P/Es and (3) relative P/Es, as a guide. They should also look at broad market trends to see if P/Es in general are rising or falling. By comparing past conditions with current conditions, investors will often have a good basis for determining an appropriate price/earnings ratio today. The next three sections will look at the three types of P/E analyses listed

Katrina opened a window that allowed us to peer into the real America, but as soon as the disruptive event was over, that window closed, and the country’s consciousness went back to its usual state of ignoring the fact that black people, especially low-income black people, are daily denied democracy and equality in this country.

This ignorance of the lives of others is what allows gentrification to happen. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts points out in her book Harlem Is Nowhere that whenever a neighborhood gentrifies, you hear white people and the media using phrases such as “People are starting to move to that neighborhood,” or “No one used to go there, but that’s changing.” The implication is that before these places gentrified, no one lived there, or at least no one of importance.

H.O.P.E. — Help One Person Everyday.

at eleven years old the doctor weighed me & afterward, my mother told me i was too fat & that i needed to go on a diet immediately. for an entire. year, food barely passed through my lips. i did not even allow myself to take a sip of water because i wanted to be so thin that i could blow away with the slightest breeze- d i s a p p e a r . i dropped sixty pounds in a few short months & i had to wear long sleeves to cover up my only catharsis. - everybody told me how good i looked, though

at eleven years old the doctor weighed me & afterward, my mother told me i was too fat & that i needed to go on a diet immediately. for an entire year, food barely passed through my lips. i did not even allow myself to take a sip of water because i wanted to be so thin that i could blow away with the slightest breeze- d i s a p p e a r . i dropped sixty pounds in a few short months & i had to wear long sleeves to cover up my only catharsis. - everybody told me how good i looked, though

R, E, P, E, N, T. Highlight the P and the T. Because I'm about to use them relatively to creatively articulate some neat verbal imagery. Yeah. P as in "pie" and T as in "try." Welcome to the bakery. Anyone who's hungry can get a free piece of repentance "pie" to "try." There's a new appetite in every bite. So just rearrange. Open up wide, and be filled with, thrilled by a change on the inside. Delicious and nutritious.

Behavior is a function of the Person in their Environment, or B = f (P,E). It didn’t take long

P/E ratio is less a measure of static value and more a measure of the marketplace's current assessment of a company's forward earnings stream.

Jessica's head is in Feather's lap. She is stroking her long blonde locks that look stunning as always. Her legs are bent at the knees, and she is still wearing her T-shirt and shorts from P.E. On the television Rory Calhoun is playing a malarial big game hunter who has set his rifle's target on a skinny castaway in a red shirt. Jessica has tried to introduce Feather to the joys of the Flashback Channel, but it doesn't seem to be sticking.

People are just tired. They’ve fought, and they’ve sometimes won, but they’re tired, she said. Developers don’t get tired. Money doesn’t get tired.

The central cause [of gentrification] is that we’ve turned cities into capital-producing machines, and city governments have become addicted to this capital to function.

The focus had been entirely on characteristics of the person. Life situations had been ignored. I recalled the first principle of social psychology, laid out by the field’s founder, Kurt Lewin, in a simple formula: B = f(P, E): Behavior is a function of a Person in his or her Environment. Characteristics of a person—things like genes and personality—stay the same.5 Environments change. Both must be considered together for a full explanation.

I'd rather play with my kids than agonize over market movements, P/E ratios, and what the Dow did today.

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It may be necessary to premise that the critic considers J. S. Bach as the fountain-head of instrumental music, and ascribes its further and gradual development to C. P. E. Bach, J. Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, Cramer, Pleyel, until the art attained its climax under Beethoven at the beginning of the present century.—"Beethoven

I may have flipped off the P.E. teacher for forcing me to wear my too-short and too-tight uniform. I may have also suggested Coach Taylor was a pervert for insisting on required activewear for adolescent minors that showcased the female form. While

For once in her life, Mina was thankful for the pixie’s interference. Now, if she could only interfere and find a way for Mina to get out of her Tuesday/Thursday P.E. class.

It is a complete mystery to me, that I may carry you all. With all my love, Petra Hermans

P-E-P-S-I pleases, you. But not for me. No.

Ari who? Ari-S-P-E-C-T!

one approach is to screen for companies that have lower P/E, P/B, and FCF yields than the overall stock market, an ROE that is consistently above 15%, and a performance over the past year that is at or above the level of the overall market.

Questions to ask when analyzing a business Business - How does the company make money? - Does it seem like it should be a good business? Is it competitive? Do suppliers have too much power? Do customers value the product? Are there substitutes? - Without looking at financials, how does the company seem like it has done against competitors in its industry in terms of executing on its vision? - What reputation does the management team have? Do they seem honest? Straightforward? Valuation - What is the company's P/E multiple? Is it high or low for its industry? For the overall market right now? Why might the stock be trading at this valuation? - What is the company's free-cash flow yield? Is this a relevant metric given the stage the company is in? How does it compare to similar companies? - Is the company growing faster or more slowly than other companies with similar multiples? - Based on the number alone, does the company seem to have a rich valuation or a cheap valuation? Why might this be the case? Financials - What has been the trajectory of revenue growth over the past ten years? Why? What is it expected to do in the future? - How has the company's industry been growing? Is the company gaining or losing share in its industry? - What is the company’s level of profit margins? How does it compare to other companies in its industry? - How have margins varied over the past ten years? Why? - What percentage  of the company's costs are fixed costs versus variable costs? - What is the company's historical return on capital? Why is it high/low? What does this say about the quality of the business? - What is the trend in returns on capital? Why? What does this say about the returns the company will have to make on its future investments? - What is the company's dividend policy? Why? If they are paying no dividend or a small dividend, is there a danger that the company's management will waste shareholder's money? Technical - How have the company's shares performed against the overall market and its industry over the past twelve months? - What seems to be driving this under/over performance? - What key news events are likely to impact the stock in the future? - Do mutual funds and other large institutional investors seem to be buying or selling the shares? Sentiment and Expectations - What are the consensus earnings estimates for the next quarter and year? Do they seem aggressive or conservative? - Does consensus opinion seem overly bullish or bearish about the company's future prospects? - What insight do you have that the market might be missing that will cause the shares to appreciate?

You can find relative P/E statistics in Value Line, among other places.

Mina olen mõtelnud: olgu Jumalaga kuidas tahes - isamaaga ei lase ma ennast häirida. Sest ma olen ju näinud, mis t ä i e l i k isamaateenimine kaasa toob. Iga o s a l i n e isamaateenimine oleks ülejäänud osas kuritöö. Aga täielik, tõeline, Timo-taoline isamaateenimine oleks ju hullus. Või on siiski veel mingi vahepealne võimalus olemas? Või on ehk kõik võimalused üldse ainult v a h e p e a l s e d?

ar rezuma fără rest l a un flux continuu de senzaţii şi nici o cunoaştere bazată pe concept, pe regulă, pe cauzalitate nu a r fi c u putinţă. Pentru c a s ă s e poată explica existenţa ştiinţei, p entru ca o înţelegere raţională a lumi i s ă fie l e g i t imă - crede Aristotel, pr in urmare -, pentru c a nu orice opinie şi orice închipuire s ă fie la fel de valabile ş i de egal îndreptăţite la numele de "adevăr", trebuie să existe Fiinţă. Numai că aici apar două probleme: 1) Cum se poate demon­ stra existenţa Fiinţei ? 2 ) Ş i unde anume, în cuprinsul realităţii, se regăseşte efectiv F i i nţ a ? Există Fiinţă ? Aristotel ştie însă că nu poate demonstra ca atare existenţa Fiinţei. Totuşi, el crede că poate respinge eficient afirmaţiile celor care îi contestă existenţa. Mai întâi, el presupune, în Cartea Gamma - ceea ce nu este deloc absolut evident, dar era aproape o evidenţă p e ntru filozofia antică -, c ă realitatea interioară, a reprezentărilor mentale, corespunde structural realităţii exte­ rioare, "obi e c t ive " . Cu a l t e cuvinte, dacă lumea e s t e de tip heraclitic, în curgere continuă, lipsită de orice constanţă - adică lipsită de Fiinţă -, şi lumea mentală va fi l a fel de inconstantă, contradictorie, trăsătură proprie - zice Aristotel - viziunii relativiste şi iraţio­ naliste a lui Protagoras. Acesta suprimase distincţia dintre apa­ renţă şi esenţă, dintre intrinsec ş i contextual, sau, de fapt, redusese totul la aparenţă şi la relaţie (în chipul postmodernilor de azi), exact l a fel după cum anumiţi filozofi ai na tur i i e l iminaseră r epausul ş i s t abi l i t atea, păstrând numa i m i ş carea. Rezultatul ar fi că nu s - a r mai putea face, în mod consistent, afirmaţii adevărate sau false despre un anumit lucru : falsul s-ar metamorfoza îndată în adevăr, adevărul ar deveni fals, în funcţie de perspectivă şi de dorinţa celui care j u d ecă : celebra sentinţă a lui Protagoras : "omul este măsura tuturor luc ru r i l o r " , este interpretată de Aristotel ( c a şi de Platon) în cheie pur relati­ vistă: adevărul ş i falsul se pot afirma concomitent despre acelaşi

subiect, ceea ce de fapt conduce la suprimarea principiului noncon­ tradicţiei. " La modul general - spune Aristotel --'- cei care contestă pr inc ipiul noncontradicţiei suprimă Fiinţa. Căci este necesar ca ei să pretindă că toate cele sunt contexte, sau relaţii contextuale, şi că nu există ceva ce omul s au anima lul sunt intrinsec." Trebuie s ă spunem totuşi că legătura dintre relativismul epistemologie ş i negarea principiului noncontradicţiei nu este chi a r atât d e necesară log i c pe cât i s e părea l u i Aristotel : ma i înt â i afirmaţia lui Protagoras poa t e fi înţeleasă nu numai i n d i ­ vidua l - subi ectiv ( o r i c e o m e măsura tuturor lucrurilor), ci ş i specific-kantian ( omu l în general dă măsura lucrurilor). Ap o i p r i n c i p i u l noncontradicţiei nu p e rmi t e să se facă afirmaţii contradictorii despre acelaşi subiect şi sub acelaşi rapo rt ; or, a afirma, de pi ldă , că toate propoziţiile sunt adevărate poate însemna, eventual, că "toate propoziţiile sunt adevărate doar sub un anume aspect, diferit însă de la caz la caz, ceea nu contra­ zice neapărat pr inc ipiul noncontradicţiei. Totuşi este de netăgăduit că, filozofic vorbind, există o legă­ tură între relativismul ontologic ş i cel epistemologie, pe de -o parte, şi sofistică, pe de a l t ă parte, şi că Aristotel nu greşea foarte mult asociindu-le. Aşadar, să admitem că, dacă se suprimă Fiinţa, în final, s e suprimă principiul noncontradicţiei. Rămâne atunci de arătat doar că principiul noncontradicţiei nu poate fi suprimat, p e ntru a arăta că suprimarea Fiinţei este inacceptabi l ă . O bună pa r t e a Că r ţ i i Gamma e s t e dedi c a t ă tocma i acestei chestiuni : să se arate că principiul noncontradicţiei nu poate fi suprimat. Fi reşte, în sine, principiul noncontradicţiei, fiind o axiomă, nu poate f i demonstrat, iar cei care încearcă s-o facă se înşală - explică Aristotel. Dar se poate foarte b i n e arăta, în s ch i m b , că negarea lui este impos i b i l ă pentru o persoană care vrea s ă gândească coerent şi să comunice limpede gândul s ău. Es t e ceea ce s-a numit metoda " r e sping e r i i " (refutatio ) . Într-adevăr, spune Aristotel, dacă am putea face afirmaţii contradictorii despre acelaşi subiect ş i în acelaşi moment, n-am mai pu tea nici gândi, nici comunica nimic determinat; astfel încât nimic, nici măcar această teză - anume că principiul

c e , I treat " c o m m u n i s m" as a t a g for s i x featur e s o f o u r c urre n t s e ttin g : 1 . A s pe cific i m ag e o f t h e So v i e t U ni o n a n d i t s c o ll ap s e; 2 . A pre s e n t , i n c re a s ingly p owe 1ful force ; 3 . T h e s o ve r e i g n t y o f t h e p e o p l e ; 4. T h e c ommo n a n d t h e c ommo n s ; 5 . T h e egalit arian a n d u n i ve rs al i s t d e s i re t h a t c uts through t h e c i rc uits and practic e s i n whi c h we are t rapp e d ; 6 . T h e p arty.

o e s i t ma k e s e n s e t o c o n ti n u e t o emp h as i z e t h e pro­ l e t ariat? I argue that it d o e s not, not i f by " p ro l etatiat" o n e h as in mi n d an emp i ri c al s o c i al c lass . Mo re u s e fu l i s t h e i d e a of pro l etaria n i z a t i o n as a p ro c e s s of e x p l o i ­ t at i o n , d i s p o s s e s s i o n , a n d i m m i s eratio n t h a t pro d u c e s t h e v e ry ri c h a s t h e pri v il e g e d c la s s t h at l i v e s off t h e res t of us . I o ffer t h e n o t i o n o f " t h e p e o p l e as t h e res t o f u s , " t h e p e o p l e as a d i v i d e d and d i vi s i v e force , as an

t h e p a�ty i s a c omp l e x , adap t i v e s y s t em. Its e n d i s pro l et arian r e v o ­ l u ti o n , t hat i s , t h e d e s t ru c ti o n o f t h e c ap italis t s y s t em of e x p lo itati o n and e x p ro p r i a ti o n , o f proletari aniza t i on, a n d t h e c r e at i o n o f a mo d e of pro d uc ti o n and dis tr i b u ­ t i o n wh e r e t h e free d e v e l o pme n t o f e a ch i s c omp at i b l e w i th t h e free d e v e l o pme n t o f all. We d o n ' t y e t k n ow h ow we w i l l s truc t u re o u r c ommu n i s t p aity-i n p a1t b e c ause we s t o p p e d thi n k i n g abou t i t, g i v i n g way i n st e ad t o the transi e n c e of i s s ue s , ease o f o n e - clic k n e tworked pol i ti c s , and t h e i l l u s i o n t h a t o u r i n d i v id ual a c ti v i ti e s w o u l d i mman e ntly c o n verge in a p lurality o f p o s t- c ap i talis t prac tic e s of c re at i ng a n d s h aring. B ut we k now t h at we n e e d t o find a mo d e of s truggle that c an s c al e , e n d ure, and c ul ti v ate t h e c o l le c t i v e d e s i re for c o l l e c t i v

Imagin i n g i t s e lf i n t h e e y e s o f t h e S o v i e t s , t h e U S n e v e r s ee m ed e qual e n o u g h . S e gregatio n , J i m C row, and s e ve re p o v e rty a p p e ared all the more s hame fu l w h e n p u t i n r e l i e f again s t t h e So vi e t s y s tem's proj e c t o f c o l l ec t i v e own e rs h i p a n d avowal o f e q u ality. O u r b i g g e s t riv al s e e m e d t o b e d o i n g b etter b y i ts c i ti ze n s than w e we r e d o i ng by ours . A k e y i mp u l s e to pro ­ gres s i n c i v i l rig h t s and s o c i al w elfare, t h e n , s temme d from t h e U S gov e rn m e n t's d e s i re n o t to loo k bad w h e n c omp ar e d t o t h e U S S R .

You have the freedom to be who you should be, not some man’s ego boost, not your children’s lifeline, not your parents’ keeper. You have the freedom to work anywhere you dream, date whomever you wish, experience anything you desire. I’m locked in now, Willow. T. R. A. P. P. E. D.” “You don’t like being a mother?” “Being a mother is who I was meant to be, Willow. I don’t regret a second of being a mother. My point is, that until you become a mother or take over the responsibilities of your family, you’re free. You have no debt: financial, familial, or emotional.” “Willow,” I say sharply to gain her attention. “Don’t shit on the freedom I’m giving you.

M S S S T S C P U E S A L L I A E C E E G P N L D D M Q A C I G U A Q P D T U D S A C C A E U A A Q F L T E I E A P N A E C L S E U A H 0 E E I E E E O O A N P P A A N P X E P S A A E E R E E U E L A N R U E E U N E I U R E R S N R U L E O S N T O O R N I A U S N U I 0 R U S P T N U R E E E M D P C T E T R R S A S R A R R E M I R E E S X T E T M T C A E U T D U M C E I T E T S 0 B R T E T P E C E E E A T E D S G S N B D E M R R A T E T C T E R L T R T 0 E T S E I S L L E E I O T E E E E T E R H S E E O 0 R E A T E I E E N R T S U E E T I 0 E S L R E B E R S R R 0 E U U E U E 0 C R S C 0 T T 0 I I 0 B B 0 L L 0 E E

bacon.” No, I do not bring home the bacon. At best, I bring home imitation bacon bits. “Fry it up in a pan.” When I announce that it is time to eat, my family doesn’t come to the table. They get into the car. “And never let him forget he’s a man.” No problem here. He won’t let me forget. I’m confused. Commercials on TV are telling me one thing while Aretha Franklin says I need r-e-s-p-e-c-t. Then I’ll feel like a natural woman. At least Mary Chapin Carpenter is honest when she sings, “Sometimes you’re the windshield and sometimes you’re the bug.

S H A K E S P E A R E' S U N I VE R S A L I S M T he a n swer to the que s t ion "Why Shakespeare?" must b e "Who e l s e i s there

Codex Leningradensis B 19a, used by R. Kittel and P.E. Kahle as the basis for the third edition of Biblia Hebraica and for the edition by A. Dotan. It has been corrected by a second hand, responsible for many erasures and changes in order to make the text conform more closely to bA, although it still preserves some bN readings. Its colophon bears the date 1008/09, and according to the scribe it was a copy of a manuscript vocalized by Aaron Ben-Asher, who also provided the masorah. It is the manuscript which approximates most closely to the Aleppo Codex, although it differs occasionally in vocalization and accents. Its masorah is later and sometimes contradicts the text.

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And being mean? It takes energy. As in, you wake up in the morning and you've got only so much energy for the day, and being mean just sucks it right out of you. It's exhausting.

Do you know what it's like to absolutely, positively, and wholeheartedly hate yourself? Let me say something nice (for a change): I hope not.