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I began to cry.
Barrons looked horrified. "Stop that immediately, Ms. Lane."
"I can't." I sniffeled into my cup pf cocoa so he couldn't see my face.
"Try harder!"
I gave a great sniff and shudder, and turned it off.
"I have not been her lover for...some time," he offered, watching me carefully.
"Oh, get over yourself!
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Karen Marie Moning (Faefever (Fever, #3))
“
Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.
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Sigurd F. Olson
“
It always surprised Valkyrie whenever she realized just how close the weird and the wonderful, and the fierce and the frightening, lived to the rest pf the non-magical, mortal world.
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Derek Landy (Mortal Coil (Skulduggery Pleasant, #5))
“
According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it.
Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount.
Reasons enough," Adams said.
What can be your reasons?"
Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I can.
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David McCullough (John Adams)
“
My toes curled against the soft leather sofa pf my flip-flops and my throat felt scratchy as i forced the words out. "I'm...I'm new."
There! I did it. I spoke.
Take that, everyone! Words were totally my bitch.
”
”
Jennifer L. Armentrout (The Problem with Forever)
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It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth of the day's sun. At first there were only occasional sparkles, but as it got darker Chuck was lost in a daze pf delight as a galaxy of fireflies twinkled on and off, flinging upward in a blaze of light, dropping earthward like falling stars, moving in contiuous effervescent dance.
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Madeleine L'Engle (A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3))
“
Many of the great world religions teach that God demands a particular faith and form of worship. It should not be surprising that SOME of the people who take these teachings seriously should sincerely regard these divine commands as incomparably more important than any merely secular virtues like tolerance or compassion or reason.
Across Asia and Africa the forces of religious enthusiasm are gathering strength, and reasom and tolerance are not safe even in the secular states of the West. The historian Huge Trevor-Roper has said that it was the spread of the spirit of science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that finally ended the burning pf the witches in Europe. We may need to rely again on the influence of science to preserve a sane wolrd.It's not the certainty of the scientific knowledge that fits it for this role, but its UNCERTAINTY. Seeing scientists change their minds again and again about the matters that can be studied directly in laboratory experiments, how can one take seriously the claims of religious traditions or sacred writings to certain knowledge about matters beyond human experience
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”
Steven Weinberg
“
Carey was one of those appalling people who wake refreshed and ready for anything every morning about an hour before everyone else, and then bounce around whistling happily, avoiding death only because they move faster than the people who want to kill them.
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P.F. Chisholm (A Season of Knives (Sir Robert Carey, #2))
“
The estate grounds, like the surrounding farmland, were beautifully maintained, with deep mature hedges and old stone walls covered with climbing roses and soft, fluttery bursts pf purple wisteria. Jasmine and honeysuckle perfumed the air where the carriages came to a slow halt in front of the portico.
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Lisa Kleypas (Devil's Daughter (The Ravenels, #5))
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We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.
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P.F. Bresee
“
Happiness has no history and the story tellers of all lands have understood this so well that the words "they are happy" are the end pf every love tale.
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Honoré de Balzac
“
Once again I repeat: the aim pf physics at its most fundamental level is not just to describe the world but ti explain why it is the way it is.
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Steven Weinberg (Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature)
“
De tijd die je denkt, kan niet op klokken
worden weggetikt. Wie denkt, staat stil. Die laat de wereld even lopen. Men is er even niet. En zolang men er niet is, kan er niets gebeuren.
”
”
P.F. Thomése (De onderwaterzwemmer)
“
…anyway it wasn’t your reading that started this. It was the laugher, the carefree laughter, the three dimensional Coca Cola advertisement that you were, the try-anything-once friends, the imperviousness to all that came before you, the chain phone calls, the in-jokes, the instant success, the beach houses, the white lace underwear, the private dancing, the good-graced acceptance pf part-time shift work, the apparent absence of expectations, the ever-changing disposable cults of the rural, the family, the eastern, the modern, the postmodern, the impoverished, the sleekly deregulated, the orgasm, the feminine, the feminist, and then the way you canceled with the air of one making a salad
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Elliot Perlman
“
Hoop is een taai goed. Je hakt het af en het groeit weer aan. Er wordt iets afgenomen, afgesloten, vernietigd en precies op die plek begint de hoop opnieuw te groeien.
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P.F. Thomése (Schaduwkind)
“
Sebastian, the Duke of Kingston, radiated the cool confidence of a man who had been born to privilege. Unlike most British peers, who were disappointingly average, Kingston was dashing and ungodly handsome, with the taut, slim physique pf a man half his age. Known for his shrewd mind and caustic wit, he oversaw a labyrinthine financial empire that included, of all things, a gentlemen's gaming club. If his fellow noblemen expressed private distaste for the vulgarity of owning such an enterprise, none dared criticize him publicly. He was the holder of too many debts, the possessor of too many ruinous secrets. With a few words or strokes of a pen, Kingston could have reduced nearly any proud aristocratic scion to beggary.
Unexpectedly, rather sweetly, the duke seemed more than little enamored of his own wife. One of his hands lingered idly at the small of her back, his enjoyment in touching her covert but unmistakable. One could hardly blame him. Evangeline, the duchess, was a spectacularly voluptuous woman with apricot-red hair, and merry blue eyes set in a lightly freckled complexion. She looked warm and radiant, as if she'd been steeped in a long autumn sunset.
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”
Lisa Kleypas (Devil's Daughter (The Ravenels, #5))
“
In some ways the goals of teaching and writing are the same. You hope to connect to someone else, to make them care about what you care about. So that the things which matter, the things that matter to you, matter to them.
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P.F. Kluge (Gone Tomorrow)
“
The transience of human feeling is nothing short of ludicrous. My mercurial fluctuations in the course of a single evening made me feel as if I had a character made pf chewing gum. I had fallen into the ugly depths of self-pity, a terrain just above the even more hideous lowlands of despair. Then, easily distracted twit that I am, I had, soon after, found myself on maternal heights, where I had practically swooned with pleasure as I bobbed and fondled the borrowed homunculus next door. I had eaten well, drunk too much wine, and embraced a young woman I hardly knew. In short, I had thoroughly enjoyed myself and had every intention of doing so again. [p. 59]
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Siri Hustvedt (The Summer Without Men)
“
So who told you that you had a chip on your shoulder?"
"Never mind." I shoved a piece of lasagna int my mouth so I couldn't answer.
"It was a cute guy, wasn't it?" Kelly said. "Those types pf statements only bother you if cute guys say them."
I didn't answer, and I didn't look at them.
"Must have been a really cute guy." Aleeta said.
Kelly leaned forward. "Who was it, and do you like him?"
I took another bite of lasagna.
"She likes him." Aleeta said with a smile.
"Ryan Geno?" Kelly asked. "Arnold Carrillo?"
"Colton Taft." Aleeta said as though sure she was right.
Kelly nodded. "Which means we're really talking about Bryant, aren't we?"
Aleeta leaned closer to the table and lowered her voice. "Charlotte likes Bryant?"
"No," I said quickly.
"No," Kelly repeated, "She doesn't like him, which is why Colton thinks she has a chip on her shoulder." She turned to me then, wearing a triumphant smile. "I'm right, aren't I?"
I shuffled pieces of lasagna around my plate. "I should stop hanging out with smart people.
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Janette Rallison (It's a Mall World After All)
“
But Philippa was hardly listening. "It's a riddle," she declared finally, pointing to the card in the strange little round window. "I think that if we answer the riddle we can get in. Listen 'The beginning of eternity. The end of time and space. The beginning of every end. And the end pf everyplace."
John shrugged. "I don't get it."
"No, but I do," Philippa said triumphantly. "The answer is the letter e. E is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of everyplace.
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”
P.B. Kerr
“
Solemnity has its limits, it invites derision. But irony is corrosive, it never ends.
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”
P.F. Kluge (Gone Tomorrow)
“
Er is niets, maar iets anders is er niet
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P.F. Thomése (De onderwaterzwemmer)
“
They've youth; they'll walk it out like a favorite pair pf trainers.
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Alan Warner (The Sopranos)
“
The 'human' sense of life, so typical of the modern West, confirms its plebeian and lower aspect. That which some were ashamed of – 'man' – others took pride in. The ancient world elevated the individual to God, made every effort to unbind him from passion, to adapt him to transcendence, with free air of heights in contemplation as well as in action; it knew traditions of non-human heroes and of men of divine blood. The Semiticised world not only deprived the 'creature' of the divine, but finally reduced God to a human figure. Bringing back to life the demonism of a Pelasgian substratum, it substituted the pure Olympian regions, vertiginous in their radiant perfection, with the terrorist viewpoints of its apocalypses, of hells, of predestination, of perdition. God was no longer the aristocratic god of the Romans, the god pf patricians, to whom one prays standing, in the light of the fire, head up high and which is carried at the head of the victorious legions [...]
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Julius Evola
“
But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the naturally selfish and exploitative tendencies of nature.We can do it.Probably no other species of animal or plant can. We can do it because our brains (admittedly given to us by natural selection for reasons pf short-term Darwinian gain) are big enough to see into the future and plot long-term consequences.
”
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Richard Dawkins (Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist)
“
There can hardly be a plainer proof of the lowness of our nature, until we have laid hold of the higher nature that belongs to us by birthright, than this, that even a just anger tends to make us unjust and unkind.
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George MacDonald (Mary Marston)
“
We could begin to allow the history of science to curb scientific awe by imposing a rating system, like those used with movies and television. Any scientific claim that lasts longer than a millennium, we'll rate "GC" for "Getting Close." For claims that stand for five hundred years, we'll rate "KP," for "Kinda Probable;" for a century, "PF" for Probably False;" for fifty years, "ACF" for "Almost Certainly False;" for twenty years and less, "TLA," for "Treat Like Astrology.
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”
Douglas M. Jones III
“
Even as a child, In-hye had possessed the innate strength of a character necessary to make one's own way in life. As a daughter, as an older sister, as a wife and as a mother, as the owner of a shop, even as an underground passenger on the briefest of journeys, she had always done her best. Through the sheer inertia pf a life lived in this way, she would have been able to conquer everything, even time. If only Yeong-hye hadn't suddenly disappeared last March. If only she hadn't been discovered in the forest that rainy night. If only all of her symptoms hadn't suddenly got worse.
”
”
Han Kang, The Vegetarian
“
I loved getting lost in the fictional worlds pf the author´s creations, It took away the pain from my own. My way of escaping. My book friends. Where I was loved, cared for, and cherished. Where there´s always a happily ever after and the hero always ends up with the heroine. Those were my kind of stories.
”
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M. Robinson (The Good Ol’ Boys (The Good Ol' Boys, #1-4))
“
The chief - almost only - attraction pf the young woman's face was its mobility. When she looked down sideways to the girl she became pretty, and even handsome, particularly that in the action her features caught slantwise the rays of the strongly coloured sun, which made transparencies of her eyelids and nostrils and set fire on her lips. When she plodded on in the shade of the hedge, silently thinking, she had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of Time and Chance except, perhaps, fair play. The first phase was the work of Nature, the second probably of civilization.
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Thomas Hardy (The Mayor of Casterbridge)
“
Niet alleen de lezer, ook de schrijver moet kunnen vergeten wie hij is. Vergeten dat hij iemand is. Schrijven is immers niet: jezelf uitdrukken. Het is geen 'zelfexpressie'. Het is: afwezig zijn en de woorden tevoorschijn dromen, ze vervolgens hun gang laten gaan. Het is verdwalen in het huis dat je blijkt te bouwen.
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”
P.F. Thomése (Verzameld nachtwerk)
“
Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe.
In South Africa, no one doubts that Wednesday's elections will be free and fair. While there is an unacceptable degree of government corruption, there is no evidence of the wholesale kleptocracy of Robert Mugabe's elite. While there has been the abuse of the organs of state by the ruling ANC, there is not the state terror of Mugabe's Zanu-PF. And while there is a clear left bias to Zuma's ANC, there is no suggestion of the kind of voluntarist experimentation that has brought Zimbabwe to its knees.
”
”
Mark Gevisser
“
He hoped no one would wake him because burying people took time and was a lot of effort.
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”
P.F. Chisholm (A Chorus of Innocents (Sir Robert Carey #7))
“
between a woman who has once let a man see her desire and that man the atmosphere is charged with mysterious, dangerous tension.
”
”
Stefan Zweig (Beware of Pity)
“
Cuvant lipsă: Unei femei care-și îngroapă soțul i se spune văduvă, unui bărbat ramas fără soție, văduv. Un copil fără parinți e orfan. Dar cum se numesc tatăl și mama unui copil care a murit?
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”
P.F. Thomése (Schaduwkind)
“
Creativity is closely correlated with personality factors of dominance, introversion, and ego strength. So I wouldn’t try to measure creativity by using a test of creativity per se, but rather by measuring personality factors that correlate highly with it. It has been shown that intelligence is also a precondition for creativity in any socially useful sense. So I would test for creativity with the 16 PF [Personality Factors] Test and a culture-fair intelligence test.
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”
Raymond B. Cattell
“
Men telde drie verschijningen: de storm, de walvis en de heilige op de hondenkar. Volgens sommigen echter waren het er vier: de storm, de walvis, de heilige en de overstroming. Anderen kwamen tot vijf of zes of zeven -- en zo viel de waarheid in veelheid uiteen.
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”
P.F. Thomése (Zuidland (Dutch Edition))
“
-- by Michelle Obama
1. “When they go low, we go high.”
2. “Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
3. “Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
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Pf Felix (THE RENNINGTON CHRONICLES: The Night Professor)
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Carey was shaking his head. “No. It’s the transfer of the duty of revenge to the Queen. It’s the officers of the Crown avenging a man’s murder, not the man’s father or the family. Without law what you have is feud, tangling between themselves, and murder repaying murder
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P.F. Chisholm (A Famine of Horses (Sir Robert Carey #1))
“
PF: I’m not an optimist. Am I a pessimist? When I look out it’s bleak, I’m not sure where we’re heading. I’ve never conceived of a worldwide antagonism between Muslims and other religions. That was something that happened in the Middle Ages. I never foresaw that. I never could conceive of that. The number of kids that don’t finish high school and don’t want to go to college or don’t finish college—those are all bad signs. I started acting about twelve years after I graduated from high school. What I was doing in the interval, I don’t know! Oh, I was posing as an efficiency expert. But I do know this. Even I, as an off-Broadway actor in Greenwich Village, New York who was not a big
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Peter Falk (Interview with Peter Falk)
“
I know my family's faults more, better, than anyone. But I . . . I'm still one of them, Morty. I might hate them sometimes - more often than not, even - but they're still mine. My blood. This isn't just about me. I have to factor their best interests in, too."
"Like hell you do," he shot back, rounding on me. "The very last thing you have to do in this life is pander to toxic people. Keep catering to them even as they do their very best to damage you, keep you small and controlled. Caged in the box they built for you. You can certainly choose to do that, but, Nina, listen - this is not you. It's not who you are, what you stand for. From everything I've seen pf you, I know you're better than this. Stronger, wiser. So much kinder and more compassionate.
”
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Lana Harper (Back in a Spell (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #3))
“
Now I’m just driving past office parks and outlet malls, feeling excited and oddly patriotic. Lana Del Rey plays on the speakers and I see beauty everywhere. There’s that line in Grey Gardens when Little Edie is digging through a pile of what looks like garbage and mutters, This is all art. She says it quietly and it doesn’t appear on the transcript PDF of the film I’ve read over a hundred times on my laptop, but I’m positive she says it. And now I’m repeating This is all art to myself like a schizophrenic mantra while watching an American flag wave perkily above a P.F. Chang’s.
”
”
Anna Dorn (Perfume & Pain)
“
We let our ship blow and drift as it will. But it sweeps up and up, with the swiftness of light. In less time than it takes a flower to open, we are carried to the parapets of ancient Heaven. We find our great-leaved, heavy-fruited Amaranth Vine, climbing up over the closed gates and high wall-towers of Heaven and winding a long way into the old forest that has overgrown the streets. We find the new all conquering Springfield vine, spreading branches through the forest like a banyan tree.
As this Amaranth from our little earthly village grows thicker, we see by its light a bit pf what the ancient Heaven has been. And it is still a solid place of soil and rock and metal. Where the Springfield Amaranth blooms thickest, shedding luminous glory from the petals in the starlight, this Heaven is shown to be an autumn forest, yet with the cedars of Lebanon, and sandalwood thickets, and the million tropic trees whose seeds have blown here from strange zones of the'planets, and whose patterns are not the patterns of those of our world. Among these, vineclad pillars and walls are still standing, roofed palaces, so gigantic that, when our boat glides down the great streets between them, they overhang our masts.
And from branches above us these strange manners of fruits tumble upon our decks for our feasting and delight. And there are beneath our ship, as it sails on as it will, little fields long cleared in the forest, where grows weedy ungathered grain.
Through hours and hours of the night our boat goes on, whether we will or no, through starlight and through storm-clouds and through flower-light. And the red star at the masthead and the sight of the proud face of Avanel keeps laughter in my bosom, and the heavenly breeze that blows on the flowers still sings to our hearts: “Springfield Awake, Springfield Aflame.”
Out of the storm now, three great rocks . appear, giving forth white light there on the far horizon, and this light burns on and on. At last our ship approaches. We see the great rocks are three empty thrones.
These are the thrones of the Trinity, empty for these many years, just as the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy of Holies were bereft of the Presence, when Israel sinned.
”
”
Vachel Lindsay (The Golden Book of Springfield (Lost Utopias Series))
“
Demonstrating for peace to promote war was nothing new.
Totalitarianism always requires a tangible enemy.
To the ancient Greeks, a holocaust was simply a burnt sacrifice.
Khrushchev wanted to go down in history as the Soviet leader who exported communism to the American continent. In 1959 he was able to install the Castro brothers in Havana and soon my foreign intelligence service became involved in helping Cuba's new communist rulers to export revolution throughout South America. At that point it did not work. In the 1950s and 1960s most Latin Americans were poor, religious peasants who had accepted the status quo.
A black version of liberation theology began growing in a few radical-leftist black churches in the US where Marxist thought is predicated on a system pf oppressor class ( white ) versus victim class ( black ) and it sees just one solution: the destruction of the enemy.
In the 1950s UNESCO was perceived by many as a platform for communists to attack the West and the KGB used it to place agents around the world.
Che Guevara's diaries, with an introduction by Fidel Castro, were produced by the Kremlin's dezinformatsiya machine.
Changing minds is what Soviet communism was all about.
Khrushchev's political necrophagy ( = blaming and condemning one's predecessor in office. It is a dangerous game. It hurts the country's national pride and it usually turns against its own user ) evolved from the Soviet tradition of sanctifying the supreme ruler. Although the communists publicly proclaimed the decisive role of the people in history, the Kremlin and its KGB believed that only the leader counted. Change the public image of the leader and you change history, I heard over and over from Khrushchev's lips.
Khrushchev was certainly the most controversial Soviet to reign in the Kremlin. He unmasked Stalin's crimes, but he made political assassination a main instrument of his own foreign policy; he authored a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West but he pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war; he repaired Moscow's relationships with Yugoslavia's Tito, but he destroyed the unity of the communist world. His close association with Stalin's killings made him aware of what political crime could accomplish and gave him a taste for the simple criminal solution. His total ignorance about the civilized world, together with his irrational hatred of the "bourgeoisie" and his propensity to offend people, made him believe that disinformation and threats were the most efficient and dignified way for a Soviet leader to deal with "bourgeois" governments.
As that very clever master of deception Yuri Andropov once told me, if a good piece of disinformation is repeated over and over, after a while it will take on a life of its own and will, all by itself, generate a horde or unwitting but passionate advocates.
When I was working for Ceausescu, I always tried to find a way to help him reach a decision on his own, rather than telling him directly what I thought he should do about something. That way both of us were happy. From our KGB advisors, I had learned that the best way to ut over a deception was to let the target see something for himself, with his own eyes.
By 1999, President Yeltsin's ill-conceived privatization had enabled a small clique of predatory insiders to plunder Russia's most valuable assets. The corruption generated by this widespread looting penetrated every corner of the country and it eventually created a Mafia-style economic system that threatened the stability of Russia itself.
During the old Cold War, the KGB was a state within a state. In Putin's time, the KGB now rechristened FSB, is the state. The Soviet Union had one KGB officer for every 428 citizens. In 2004, Putin's Russia had one FSB officer for every 297 citizens.
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Ion Mihai Pacepa (Disinformation)
“
If I talk about my handkerchief, I can, perhaps, produce the object I am referring to out of my pocket. I can't produce the meaning of the expression, " my handkerchief ", out of my pocket. Because Russell confused meaning with mentioning, he thought that if there were any expressions having a uniquely referring use, which were what they seemed (i.e. logical subjects) and not something else in disguise, their meaning must be the particular object which they were used to refer to. Hence the troublesome mythology of the logically proper name.
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Peter Frederick Strawson (Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar)
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Goodwill has 2,900 stores. The shops collect and sell donated clothing and household goods and use the proceeds for work training, job placement services and other community-based programs. If the breach at Goodwill is confirmed, it will be the sixth major retail chain - after Target, P.F. Chang's, Neiman Marcus, Michaels and Sally Beauty - to acknowledge that its systems were recently compromised. In those cases, criminals installed malware on retailers' systems, which fed customers' payment details back to their computer servers.
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Anonymous
“
Het enige wat de schrijver kan, is schrijven. Hierin onderscheidt hij zich, en verder nergens in. Hierin toont hij zijn onaangepastheid, zijn verzet tegen de eeuwige herhaling van dezelfde frasen. Het enige wat hij te bieden heeft, is zijn vermogen om de dingen anders op te schrijven dan de meeste mensen het zouden doen.
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P.F. Thomése (Verzameld nachtwerk)
“
Elizabeth was trying not to laugh. How did you get the sons of reivers to read books? Well, you told them they couldn’t have them and let nature take its course.
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P.F. Chisholm (A Chorus of Innocents (Sir Robert Carey #7))
“
Some Tomorrows Never Come. I opened my eyes. I cried. I walked. Then stumbled. Then walked some more. I learned to read. Did homework. Complained. Fought with my parents. Went to college after losing the fight. My friend Randy came to college with me. I did homework. Complained. Met Marcia. Smiled. Understood my parents had been right. Didn’t tell them. Marcia betrayed me. Randy betrayed me. I never actually said goodbye to either one. I figured they didn’t deserve even that. Dropped out of school. "For a while," I said. Cancer took Dad quickly. I never told him he had been right all along. I realized I should at least tell Mom. I didn’t. Went back to college. Graduated. Got a job. Got fired. My boss didn’t like me. There was nothing I could do. I wasted a year. I wanted to prove to them that I wouldn’t be affected by losing my job. I got another job. I left that job to start a business with Ed. We were successful. Ed never respected me like I deserved. I sold my share. His loss, I told myself. I married Pam. We were happy. Pam and I had Elisa. She was happy. I didn’t hurt for the need of money. But Pam still wanted me to go back to work. We weren’t happy. She didn’t respect me like I deserved. Pam and I divorced. She expected me to do all the work when it came to seeing Elisa. I resented her for it. I was not going to let her force me into things anymore. I didn’t see Elisa that often. Mom died. I never did have that conversation with her. I grew old. I didn’t have that much money anymore. Maybe Pam wasn’t entirely wrong. She seemed pretty happy with George. I heard Elisa call him “Dad” one day. Cancer came for me quickly. “I’m sorry, I can’t get over to the hospital after all, something came up. Maybe this weekend?” Elisa said. She had no idea how far away that weekend really was to me. It might as well have been an eternity. From a certain perspective, it was. She hung up without saying goodbye. Later, it was hard to breathe. I looked around the empty room. Oh, God, I wish I hadn’t carried the anger with me. I closed my eyes.
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P.F. McGrail (50 Shades of Purple: And Other Horror Stories (Haunted Library))
“
Father is an animal the moment he loves his public reputation more than his children but the father becomes a father of his children, the moment he loves his children more than his public reputation. Fathers who are addicted to their public reputation than their children are plenty whereas transparent and sincere fathers who loves their children than their reputation are few. And that requires sacrifice that proves you are worthy of being a father pf your child!
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Fahad Basheer
“
O Amor? Pf... Mas que vem a ser o amor? Uma necessidade orgânica, nada mais. Para obrar, podemo-nos servir de um vaso de loiça; para amar precisamos de um recipiente de carne...
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Mário de Sá-Carneiro (Loucura...)
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Nuclear weapons ought to put the governing elites and mass publics of nations which are potential victims in fear for their lives. And we shall assume that they do. But the reader should be aware that we have by way of proof for this assertions very little and contradictory evidence. We know much less that we should.
We do not know that nuclear weapons will generate sufficient fear to deflect the aggressor from his course. We do not know how to establish a priori the point at which damage will be thought by the potential victim to have reached unacceptable proportions. We do not have firm evidence that terrorizing potential victims does deflect them, as it is alleged to, from their aggression; very different conclusions can be drawn from evidence than those propose by the proponents of deterrence theory.
This last matter is particularly serious, and the answer to the question is raises strikes at the heart pf the belief that nuclear blackmail works
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A.F.K. Organski (The War Ledger)
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At 8.30 p.m. that evening,
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P.F. Ford (Slater & Norman Mysteries Boxed Set 4 (Slater & Norman Mysteries Boxed Sets))
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I lived my life in compartments, a chapter at a time, with no overlaps, no connections.
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P.F. Kluge (Eddie and the Cruisers)
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Nevertheless, they wake us
at cold midnight,
small timid voices we can't locate,
small watches ticking away,
cheap ones; small tin mememtoes:
late, late, late, late,
somewhere in the bedsheets,
in the bedsprings, in the ear,
the hordes pf the starved dead
come back as out heartbeats.
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Margaret Atwood
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[...] it's part pf what humour is about: finding the light side of tragedy; being able to laugh in the face of life's horrors. Even when we are powerless, it gives us the illusion of power.
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Richard Herring (Can I Have My Ball Back? - A Memoir of Masculinity, Mortality and My Right Testicle)
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Wittgenstein insightfully noted that doubt presupposes the mastery of a language, its procedures and rules. Doubt cannot be so radical that it calls into question the very meanings of the words used to express it; to doubt a sentence, you need first to understand what is meant by the sentence. Thus, 'if you are not certain of any fact, you cannot be certain of the meaning of your words either.' So also, a reasonable suspicion about some assertion requires specific-not just imaginable-grounds. One could always imagine that what is described in some indicative sentence, p, is actually the contrary, not-p; yet doubting p would be idle unless a concrete reason against p could be offered, Therefore, the very activity of doubting requires a context of accepted beliefs; one can doubt only if he first has learned to handle a language and to use some judgements to call other judgements into question. Learning precedes doubt, and learning precludes doubting everything; to get on with learning, the student must not doubt certain things. 'For how can a child immediately doubt what it is taught? That could mean only that he was incapable pf learning certain language games.' These observations have important epistemological consequences. 'The child learns by believing the adult. Doubt comes after belief. Also 'doubt itself rests only on what is beyond doubt. Thus, 'a doubt that doubted everything would not be a doubt.; In short, Wittgenstein has shown universal doubt to be impossible. Doubt requires the testing of assertions, but testing comes to and end and thus assumes something which is not tested; therefore, 'the questions that we raise and our doubts depend on the fact that some propositions are exempt from doubt, are as it were like hinges on which those turn. Wittgenstein's conclusion on this point is surely one with which we should agree: 'If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubt itself presupposes certainty.
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Greg L. Bahnsen
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If you think you'll be ashamed of what you're going to do, or if you think you're not going to be proud pf it, then don't do it.
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Alex Gonzaga (Dear Alex, Break Na Kami. Paano?! Love, Catherine)
P.F. Ford (Death in the River (Slater & Norman Mystery #7))
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P.F. Ford (The Red Telephone Box (DS Dave Slater, #5))
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Voor altijd nooit meer. Overal nergens meer te vinden.
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P.F. Thomése
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Even though I was born and grew up in a country far removed from the horrors of the Holocaust, I have lived with its images for my entire life. My mother, Lilly (Frischmann) Kellermann, was a fully functioning and loving mother, and told me very little about her traumatic experiences. But her Holocaust trauma has painfully permeated my inner life. Imagining the Holocaust comes almost automatically to me. It’s as if I have been there and have seen that before. Gruesome Holocaust associations fill my waking, and sleeping life and human suffering is a constant companion. As have so many other children of survivors, I have apparently absorbed some of the psychological burdens of my parents and share their grief and terror as if I have experienced it myself. It is no coincidence that I became a psychologist and a psychodramatist and that much of my professional interest has focused on individual (Kellermann & Hudgins, 2000) and collective trauma (Kellermann, 2007). Because, like a nuclear bomb that disperses its radioactive fallout in distant places even a long time after the actual explosion, any major psychological trauma continues to contaminate those who were exposed to it in one way or another in the first, second, and subsequent generations.
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Natan P.F. Kellermann (Holocaust Trauma)
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قضى أكابر مجرمي قريش في التخطيط، ليجمعوا على محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وكانوا على ثقة ويقيــــــــن جازم من نجاح مؤامرة يضربونه بها ضربة رجل واحد. ولكن الله هو الواحد الغالب، قادر على كل شيء وبيده كل شيء فأوحى الله تعالى إلى رسوله وأمره بالخروج من بيته. ومع استعداد قريش لتنفيذ الخطة، قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لعلي عليه السلام بأن ينام على فراشه وهذا ما حدث فعلاً. نام علي بن أبي طالب على فراش رسول الله في برده الأخضر، وخرج رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأخذ حفنة التراب يذرها على رؤوس الفتيان وهو يتلو: " وَجَعَلْنَا مِن بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ سَدًّا وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ سَدًّا فَأَغْشَيْنَاهُمْ فَهُمْ لاَ يُبْصِرُونَ". يس 9 -
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Hibatullah Jawhar
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Atzmon, G, Hao, L, Pe’er, I, Velez, C, Pearlman, A, Palamara, PF, et al. Abraham’s children in the genome era: major Jewish diaspora populations comprise distinct genetic clusters with shared Middle Eastern Ancestry. Am J Hum Genet 86:850–859, 2010.
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Harry Ostrer (Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People)
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Despite over a hundred years pf psychoanalytic speculation, there is no evidence to support the suggestion that nature of parenting or early childhood experiences play any role in the formation of a person's homosexual or heterosexual orientation. It seems that sexual orientation is biological in nature, and determined by a complex interplay of genetic factors and early uterine environment. Sexual orientation is, therefore, not a choice, though sexual behavior is. Royal College of Psychiatrists. S submission to the Church of England's listening exercise on human sexuality. Environment and sexual orientation; 2007: 6.
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Royal College of Psychiatricts
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Carl Rollyson (A Private Life of Michael Foot)
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Anonymous
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Alisa Marie Fleming (Smart School Time Recipes)
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Anonymous
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... because happiness was the greatest agent pf purification.
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Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
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O pobre que apoiou Bolsonaro é aquele que acreditou que se Bolsonaro ganhasse, ele poderia xingar as pessoas sem consequências, como Bolsonaro sempre fez, agredir a mulher como defesa da honra. O que ele esquece de considerar: Bolsonaro tem poder, e consegue ou pagar as multas ou achar brechas nas leis usando um exército de advogados. Os golpistas estão presos, 17 anos de jaula. No caso do Bolsonaro, depois de meses de investigação da PF, ainda assim dizem: precismos ir com calma, vamos esperar.
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Jorge Guerra
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Pfizer, was racing Merck neck and neck with its own anti-viral pill, PF-07321332,82 an ivermectin knockoff that is so similar to IVM (except, of course, in price point) that critics call it “Pfizermectin.”83 Like IVM, it is also a protease-inhibiting anti-parasitic.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health)
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When my mother and I had first fled to Austin, we didn’t live anywhere near this lake. Instead, we settled in Pflugerville, a suburb just north of the city limits. It was a town of graveyards, white flight, and SUVs with stickers of Caitlin or Grant above a soccer ball or baseball bat on the rear window. It was a land of unnecessary “pf”s to show pride in the town name. Strip malls
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Claire Feeney (Killer Delivery (Dana Capone Mysteries, #1))
P.F. Ford (Death in Wild Boar Woods (Slater & Norman Mystery #6))
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Psychologically sophisticated abusers who have mastered the methods of mind control know how to induce psychobiological state changes, how to elaborate and encapsulate them, how to provide the cues to trigger them, how to tap into and alter the victim's motivational and belief systems, and how to layer amnesias within a personality. In this way a polyfragmented dissociative individual can appear to lead the life of a normal hardworking citizen, yet can function undetected (by himself or by others) as a mind-controlled operative and remain available for service to individual perpetrators or groups.
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Harvey L. Schwartz (The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep: A Relational Approach to Internalized Perpetration for Complex Trauma Survivors)
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All brains are remarkable, but yours is more remarkable than most and I think you should just focus on what tat brain pf yours is capable of and not get hung up on labels and names.
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Lisa Jewell (Watching You)
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mamabashiirah
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Well, he did make an impression. Unfortunately for Rodney Rogers, the impression Slater got was that he was a prize tit.
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P.F. Ford (Slater & Norman Mysteries: Death of a Temptress / Just a Coincidence / Florence / The Wrong Man (Slater & Norman Mystery #1-4))
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We start with the negative [non-Aristotelian] premise that words are not the un-speakable objective level, such as the actual objects outside of our skin and our personal feelings inside our skin. It follows that the only link between the objective and the verbal world is exclusively structural, necessitating the conclusion that the only content of all 'knowledge' is structural. Now structure can be considered as a complex pf relations, and ultimately as multi-dimensional order.
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Alfred Korzybski (Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics)
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We humans love telling each other stories. . . we've done just that in caves, and in amphitheaters, and in the Globe, and in kitchens around campfires, and in the trenches. Every culture, every country, every type pf person in the world tell stories. They've been whispered and sung and written down on scraps of paper and they always, always been an indelible part of our very humanity.
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Brianna Labuskes (The Librarian of Burned Books)
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Success is a product of focus. Focus comes from having a purpose. Having a purpose comes from being needed. Being needed comes from serving others.
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P.F. Barry (Smokebreaker: A 90 day guide to free you from cigarettes forever)
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Seventy-seven pf the ninety children who sailed on the City of Benares did not return home. How they must have wondered, in their final moments, why they were being made to die. How might any of us answer their question, then or now? Our adult wars are incomprehensible from anything but the stratospheric vantage point. There, where the grotesque detail of war's human impact--the blitzed nursery, the mother's hysterical phone calls, the lifeboats filled with slipper-less corpses--can no longer be made out, a war can be viewed as a conflict of ideas. Close up, however, war is senseless.
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Simon Parkin (A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II)
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There is power in the unknown. One could argue—given the vastness of our own world and the endlessness of the heavens above—that there is more power in the unknown than the known. What sort of secrets lie in the mysteries of this ever-infinite universe? What hidden fonts of potential linger beyond the mere dregs of our understanding? Man has largely mastered himself and the material, the physical laws of our world. But beyond that, what have we managed to harness? What have we managed to control? Perhaps one day the stories we tell our children of magics and wonders will be our reality. Perhaps one day we will hold the reins to mystery, having mastered everything from the inconsequential details of the mundane to the secrets of our very dreams and nightmares…” -A Study of Modern Advancement, Terean Bord, 992p.f.
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Bryce O'Connor (A Mark of Kings (The Shattered Reigns, #1))
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Babyhoney Harpercelery."
The honey, a percolating bubble full of flowers and citrus, bursts wide open when the sea pf celery- the only vegetable I know that comes pre-salted- washes in. An unexpectedly pleasurable combination of flavors that made me wobbly in the knees.
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Monique Truong (Bitter in the Mouth)
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I moved the knife and carved off another sliver of his penis, quickly dropping it onto the hot plate with a satisfying sizzle.
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P.F. McGrail (Your Dreams Taste Like Candy)
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This is usual and always accompanies reproach for him - he divests himself pf responsibility or choice in all past, current or future situations at the beginning of any conversations we have. He means to head off any blame I might be ready with. He doesn't know I always empty my pockets of that stuff before I pass the threshold of his house, that even once I am inside, I know a different kind of door remains closed in front of me.
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Avni Doshi (Burnt Sugar)
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In mocking the modern business of art, including historical scholar ship, Wilde was striking back, as Nietzsche had done almost thirty years earlier, against the great accumulated pile of writing that loaded the burden of the past on the back of the present. The weight of learning in 1890 seems light when one struggles today, deep in the stacks of of an art-history library housing half a millions volumes, to part the mobile shelves creaking on their runners. Wilde's solution was economical. Both the judgment of value in the present and the shaping of a narrative pf the past would be entrusted to the critic. Historiography is reborn inside the critic's project, and so redeemed.
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Christopher S. Wood (A History of Art History)
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David Zientara (Learn pfSense 2.4: Get up and running with Pfsense and all the core concepts to build firewall and routing solutions)
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For many pf us the great obstale to charity lies not in our luxurious living or desire for money, but in our fear- fear of insecurity
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C.S. Lewis
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I know neither who I am nor what I want, but others say they know on my behalf, others who define me, link me up, make me speak, interpret what I say, and enroll me. Whether I am a storm, a rat, a lake, a lion, a child, a worker, a gene, a slave, the unconscious, or a virus, they whisper to me, they suggest, they impose an interpretation of what I am and what I could be” (PF 192).
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Adam S. Miller (Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology)
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But that’s just wrong.’ ‘Of course it’s wrong. And I’m not trying to defend it. But to the company it’s not about right or wrong, it’s about profit. And
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P.F. Ford (Slater & Norman Mysteries: Death of a Temptress / Just a Coincidence / Florence / The Wrong Man (Slater & Norman Mystery #1-4))
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PF0 is written from the low bit to the high bit of the upper nybble (half-byte), PF1 is written from the high bit to the low bit, and PF2 is written from the low bit to the high bit. This method simplified the chip’s circuit design,
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Nick Montfort (Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies))
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The unequal power of one contestant is the product of the tendency toward centralization of power in the processes of a technical civilization. The power is a social and historical accretion; and the community must decide whether it is in the interest of justice to reduce monopolistic control artificially for the sake of reestablishing the old pattern of “fair competition,” or whether it is wiser to allow the process pf centralization of economic power to continue until the monopolistic centers have destroyed all competition. But, if the second alternative is chosen, the community faces the new problem of bringing the centralized economic power under communal control.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense)
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INSPIRED BY P.F. CHANG’S® HAND-FOLDED CRAB WONTONS CRISPY CRAB RANGOON My husband loved the appetizers we had at P.F. Chang’s so much, I was determined to make them at home. After several more trips to that restaurant to taste them again, I had them perfected. I often prepare the filling earlier in the day to save time later. —Cathy Blankman, Warroad, MN TAKES: 30 MIN. • MAKES: 16 APPETIZERS 3 oz. cream cheese, softened 2 green onions, finely chopped ¼ cup finely chopped imitation crabmeat 1 tsp. minced garlic 16 wonton wrappers Oil for frying Sweet-and-sour sauce 1. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Stir in onions, crab and garlic. 2. Place about 1 ½ tsp. in the center of a wonton wrapper. (Keep remaining wrappers covered with a damp paper towel until ready to use.) Moisten edges with water; fold opposite corners over filling and press to seal. Repeat. 3. In an electric skillet, heat 1 in. oil to 375°. Fry wontons, in batches, until golden brown, about 1 minute on each side. Drain on paper towels. Serve with sweet-and-sour sauce. 1 rangoon: 61 cal., 4g fat (1g sat. fat), 6mg chol., 77mg sod., 5g carb. (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 1g pro.
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Taste of Home (Taste of Home Copycat Favorites Volume 2: Enjoy your favorite restaurant foods, snacks and more at home!)
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That day when she was wary of holding on to me, I had scolded her. She held my shoulder firmly as I realised how her touch felt different than it used to years ago. It was strange. We were the same people we used to be, yet we weren't. She was conscious pf her femininity and I, of the secret of my heart.
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Suranya Sengupta (Protidaan: The Reciprocation)