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The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.
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Stephen Fry
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Is that so? Then if you like it, in the future, come over whenever you want. The doors of PuQi Shrine will always open for you.
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Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù
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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Henry Kissinger (On China)
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Chess teaches the Clausewitzian concepts of “center of gravity” and the “decisive point”—the game usually beginning as a struggle for the center of the board. Wei qi teaches the art of strategic encirclement.
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Henry Kissinger (On China)
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Nangong Jingnu and Qi Yan were truly a fine match. It was just a shame that the element for Qiyan Agula, the Prince of the grass plains, was a life of heavenly river water. Water and fire cannot coexist. There is no rest until death...
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请君莫笑 (泾渭情殇 [Jīng Wèi Qíng Shāng])
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...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.
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Stephen Fry
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There are times when I'm doing QI and I'm going, 'Ha ha, yeah, yeah,' and inside I'm going 'I want to fucking die. I … want … to … fucking … die.'
(Source : RHLSTP #18 - @87min32s)
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Stephen Fry
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It is complete loose stool water. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind. - About "The Da Vinci Code
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Stephen Fry
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Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machine gun to kill a hedgehog.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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There is no such thing as magic. It is a word. A silly, foolish, overused word. There is only your aura...or the Chinese have a better word for it: qi. A life force. An energy. This is the energy that flows within you. It can be shaped, molded, directed.
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Michael Scott (The Warlock (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #5))
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In the 1950s, to allow babies of students at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to enter the premises, they were re-defined as cats.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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How far she could accompany Nangong Jingnu on this road, would be how far.
Even if Qi Yan had already designed the ending. Even if Qi Yan knew what was separating them. But when Nangong Jingnu needed comfort, Qi Yan would still gently open her arms for her.
Even though she did not know how long this tenderness could continue for either...
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请君莫笑 (泾渭情殇 [Jīng Wèi Qíng Shāng])
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The jet-black sky behind him was reflected in this smile, and under the soft candlelight, it seemed to radiate with the brilliance of the whole universe.
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Tang Qi Gong Zi (To the Sky Kingdom)
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Nangong Jingnu pulled out her hand, then she caressed Qi Yan’s cheek gently: “And then, we’ll be buried together. We’ll be together for the next life too. Life after life, world after world… we will always be together.
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请君莫笑 (泾渭情殇 [Jīng Wèi Qíng Shāng])
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The spectrum of possibilities is vast and our souls long to incorporate as many as they can... We are in a constant process of learning how to think, behave, or act understanding the manifestations of Tao, the manifestation of Qi within us.
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Nataša Pantović (A-Ma Alchemy of Love (AoL Mindfulness, #1))
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Body practice is the root of spiritual practice. When we calm the body, the mind can expand without limit.
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Kenneth S. Cohen (The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing)
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James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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That was how it was when you loved someone: their well-being was all you thought about, if they were fine, you felt fine. That was the amazing thing about love too: when you held someone in your heart, any hardship or wrong you experienced felt like nothing but a sweet torment. Si
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Tang Qi Gong Zi (To the Sky Kingdom)
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Desire is the cause of all suffering. All Zhu had ever desired was to live. Now she felt the pure strength of that desire inside her, as inseparable as her breath or qi, and knew she would suffer from it. She couldn’t even begin to imagine the awful magnitude of the suffering that would be required to achieve greatness in the chaotic, violent world outside.
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Shelley Parker-Chan (She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1))
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J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, Rudyard Kipling and P. G. Wodehouse.
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John Lloyd (1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways)
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The clearest and simplest definition of 气 (qi) is that it is the interchange of Yin and Yang.
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Zhang Yu Huan (A Brief History of Qi)
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It’s that pot of ‘Love for All Seasons’ stew,” Xie Lian replied warmly. “I’m heating it up.” Hua Cheng applauded quietly at this. “What a good name.” Qi Rong screeched, “YOU GAVE THAT FUCKING SHIT A NAME?! STOP!
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Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù (Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 3)
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I pretend to be stupid to reveal your cockiness,
I pretend to be helpless to reveal your selfishness,
I pretend to be annoying to reveal your patience,
I pretend to be vulnerable to reveal your kindliness,
Every action I take has a purpose,
Every action you take divulges what you truly are.
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Phan Qi Xiang
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From 1934 to 1948, the motto of the BBC was Quaecunque, Latin for ‘Whatever’.
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John Lloyd (1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways)
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The Dyslexia Research Centre is in Reading.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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She had already gotten too carried away with her performance. She feared that even she herself would not be able to tell the truth from illusion on day. But when Qi Yan saw how Nangong Jingnu's expression gradually turned cold, her chest felt clogged up for no reason.
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请君莫笑 (泾渭情殇 [Jīng Wèi Qíng Shāng])
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Qi Yan struggled for a period of time, then she decided to respect Nangong Jingnu's choice. How far she could accompany Nangong Jingnu on this road, would be how far.
Even if Qi Yan had already designed the ending. Even if Qi Yan knew what was separating them. But when Nangong Jingnu needed comfort, Qi Yan would still gently open her arms for her.
Even though she did not know how long this tenderness could continue for either...
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请君莫笑 (泾渭情殇 [Jīng Wèi Qíng Shāng])
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Tingllim
Hjek keq por sё kthej te ti. Qe, lot`t i tera.
Mbas tashit nji pikё lodje sё derdh pёr ty.
S’ke mbet veç ti, ka edhe varza tjera,
por nuk mё kan bamun dritё der’sot kёta sy.
Kangёt qi t’i kndova ka me i tretun era.
Emni i yt nё zembёr t’eme ka me u shlye.
Ti duej ke tё duesh tash qi ka dalё prendvera.
Se na lidh ma gja. U zgjidh, u zgjidh ky nye.
Pertrihet nё ket stinё tё bukur marё natyra,
dhe shpirti i em nё kto dit ka m’u pёrtri.
E krejt jetёs s’eme do t’i ndrrojё, po, ftyra.
Mbas tashit ti nё daç mё duej e nё daç mos mё duej,
por lulet qi shpёrthejn sivjet nё kёt shtёpi,
nuk çilin ma pёr ty. Janё tё tjetёrkuej.
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Ernest Koliqi
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Where do you keep your memories of love, past lovers?” QiRia looked at her. “In my head, of course.” He looked away. “There are not so many of those, anyway,” he said, voice a little quieter. “Loving becomes harder, the longer you live, and I have lived a very long time indeed.” He fixed his gaze on her again. “I’m sure it varies across species – some seem to do quite well with no idea of love at all – but you soon enough come to realise that love generally comes from a need within ourselves, and that the behaviour, the… expression of love is what is most important to us, not the identity, not the personality of the one who is loved.
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Iain M. Banks (The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture, #10))
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The Wars of the Roses weren’t called that. Sir Walter Scott invented the name four centuries after the conflict.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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In 1997, 39 people in the UK found themselves in hospital with tea-cosy-related injuries.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 billion.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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Margaret Thatcher was part of the team that invented Mr Whippy ice cream.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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In May 2014, the Moon had faster broadband than most of rural Britain.
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John Lloyd (1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless)
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Jangan merajut mimpi berdasarkan cerita orang lain
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Li Qi (Travel In Love)
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In 1917, John D. Rockefeller could have paid off the whole US public debt on his own. Today, Bill Gates’s entire fortune would barely cover two months’ interest.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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In ancient Greek the word ‘idiot’ meant anyone who wasn’t a politician.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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Kummerspeck (‘grief bacon’) is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. TIGER WOODS
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John Lloyd (QI: Advanced Banter)
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Noggin is a protein that forms the skull.
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John Lloyd (1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted (Quite Interesting))
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Không thể nói tình yêu của người khác không giống với tình yêu của mình thì tình yêu của người khác không được coi là tình yêu.
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唐七公子 (Tam Sinh Tam Thế - Chẩm Thượng Thư)
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René Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women.
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John Lloyd (1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways)
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To be in the Qi flow is the key to return to oneness with the Tao.
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Ricardo B Serrano (Six healing Qigong sounds with Mantras)
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Zhou,” her voice was just a whisper, “they have not hurt me physically, they have damaged and drained my Qi. I need to rest and recover
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G.R. Matthews (The Blue Mountain (The Forbidden List, #2))
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o ponto de vista vale oitenta pontos de QI” —
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Brad Stone (A loja de tudo: Jeff Bezos e a era da Amazon)
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Viking names included ‘desirous of beer’, ‘squat-wiggle’, ‘lust-hostage’, ‘short penis’, ‘able to fill a bay with fish by magic’, ‘the man who mixes his drinks’ and ‘the man without trousers’.
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John Lloyd (1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways)
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So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33but pwhoever denies me before men, qI also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Shkodra në mëngjese
Kendojnë bashkë në mengjese pesë kumbonare,
kendojnë në ajri mbi Shkoder ende fjetë:
mbi Maranaj qet vetllen kureshtare
agimi e hjedh në liqe synin e qetë.
Perhapë lajmin e zgjimit rrezja e parë
të parat përshëndetje dridhen në heshti të letë,
e shpejt në at lavdi dielli, qi e veshë fare
Shkodra kumbon me zane, zhurmë e jetë.
E ai diell prendvere i ri shprazet në shtepija
udha e lulishta tue ngjallë ngjyra e shkendija,
tue mbshtjellë gjithshka si nji tis ari, i hollë:
skaj në skaj si lum gzimi tue rreshqitë
në syt e vashave, qeshë, e mbush me dritë
kaçurrelat e tyne kur shkojnë në shkollë.
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Ernest Koliqi
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23And oI will set up over them one shepherd, pmy servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. 24And qI, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them.
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Anonymous (ESV Classic Reference Bible)
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The Universe is like a great ocean of Qi in which we are as rivers that drain into it. In a given moment, we may believe that we are only individual rivers, but when we join it, we realize that we were never separated from the ocean. Some of us emerge as wide and turbulent rivers. Others, as tranquil or as weak streams, but we’re never alone in our path. Whatever affects the ocean, affects the river and what affects the river, impacts the ocean.
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Ivan Figueroa-Otero
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Hatred could not be the basis of her resolution to fight. It provided no access to her own qi, her vital spirit. That was the deepest truth she knew about fighting. It’s what she learned from her father and Sensei: fight from the peaceful place inside, from her father’s place.
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Jacques Antoine
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I give you "The Human Hymn" for the times when you feel depleted, desolate and defeated.
I am the Vedanta, I am the Bible,
I am the Quran, I am the God Cell.
I am the Torah, I am the Suttas,
I am the Hadith, I am Humanitas.
I am the Son, I am Jehovah,
I am the Qi, I am Bismillah.
I am the Vivek, I am the Ananda,
I am the Bodhi, I am the Sattva.
I am the Sat, I am the Shri,
I am Akaal, I am Brahmasmi.
I am the Prophet, I am Aminah,
I am the Mother, I am the Krishna.
I am the Beginning, I am the Anth,
I am the Journey, I am Ananth.
I am Creation, I am the Ravager,
I am Qayamat, I am the Creator.
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Abhijit Naskar (All For Acceptance)
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Above the thighs in the abdomen there are two rows of five points on each side. They are henggu (K11), dahe (K12), qixue (K13), siman (K14), and zhongzhu (K15); wailing (ST26), daju (ST27), shuidao (ST28), guilai (ST29), and qichong (ST30). This is the pathway transversed by the kidney qi, therefore referred to as the thoroughfare of the kidneys. The liver, kidney, and spleen channels converge on the inside of the leg. The kidney channel counts six points on each leg, collectively called taichong, or the great thoroughfare. They consist of dazhong (K4), zhaohai (K6), fuliu (K7), jiaoxin (K8), zhubin
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Maoshing Ni (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary)
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Schopenhauer-i thote: "Grate nuk mund te jene gjeniale, por vetem te talentueme, sepse intelekti i tyne asht i pazoti per me zotnuem mbi vullnetin".
Edhe mue keshtu me duket. Po qysh kure me duket keshtu? Qysh se mbarova se lexuemi fjalet e tija. Perpara se te lexojshem kto, une nuk e dijshem ket te vertete. Pra per mue ajo s'ishte e tille.
Keshtu na zakonisht s'bajme tjeter vecse me pervetsuem te vertetat e te tjervet. Ato mbesin te hueja edhe kur na bine pershtat: si rroba t'uhajtuna qi veshim e cveshim.
Njoftja e se vertetes qindron ne njoftjen objektive te vetvetes e jo n'ate te te tjervet, qofshin kta edhe filozfet ma te permendum.
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Bedi Pipa
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When filled with qi, the body is like a tree branch filled with sap; it can bend and flow with the breeze, but it does not snap or lose its connection with the root. On the other hand, a stiff, dead branch is easily broken. Thus the adage of Lao Zi, "Concentrate the qi and you will achieve the utmost suppleness... Suppleness is the essence of life.
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Kenneth S. Cohen (The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing)
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He washed gold his entire life and remained poor his entire life.
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Shouhua Qi (The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China)
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Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
DAVE BARRY
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John Lloyd (QI: Advanced Banter)
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Women look their oldest at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesdays.
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John Lloyd (1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop)
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Astronauts’ helmets contain a small piece of Velcro so they can scratch their noses.
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John Lloyd (1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop)
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In March 2014, an Australian python swallowed a chihuahua and found itself chained to a kennel.
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John Lloyd (1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless)
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If you could fold a piece of paper 51 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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Pedants should be aware that the English name for the world’s highest mountain should be spoken aloud as EEV-uh-rest, not EV-uh-rest.
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John Lloyd (QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance)
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What is literally the most misused word in the English language? The word ‘literally’ has been used to mean its opposite for over 200 years.
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John Lloyd (QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance (Qi: Book of General Ignorance))
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Misophonia n. Irrational rage and terror caused by the sound of people eating.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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The Roman name for Paris was Lutetia, which translates into English as ‘Slough’.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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The boa constrictor is the only living animal whose common name is exactly the same as its scientific name.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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These are my confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it is because I have nothing to say.
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John Lloyd (QI: The Book of the Dead)
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Britons are 16 times more likely to understand the rules of Quidditch than the rules of croquet.
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John Lloyd (1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless)
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The Republic of Ireland didn’t have postcodes until 2015.
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John Lloyd (1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless)
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The one who is not dead still has a chance.
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John Lloyd (QI: The Book of the Dead)
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he thinks there are only three important things in life: ‘The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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John Lloyd (QI: The Book of the Dead)
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The world’s population spends 500,000 hours a day typing Internet security codes.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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Portugal is the only country in the world where all drugs are legal.
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John Lloyd (1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless)
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There is more information in one edition of the New York Times than the average person in 17th-century England would have come across in a lifetime.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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Just like humans, British cows moo in accents specific to their region.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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Caffeine is made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen: the same as cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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Children called Joseph, Cameron, William and Jake are naughtier than those called Jacob, Daniel, Thomas and James.
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John Lloyd (1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless)
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She sighed and softly said, 'I hope you’re willing to stop one day and look at the scenery along the way. This universe has an end no matter how enormous it is, but ambition has no limits.
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Qi Peijia (The Legendary Mechanic (The Legendary Mechanic, #10))
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meridians of acupuncture) through which the life force known as prana (the Chinese chi or qi) flows to heat and cool the organism respectively. This prana is to the microcosm what the Pravaha Vayu is to the cosmos, and knowing how the one moves can give an astute observer knowledge of the movement of the other. The best astrologers literally feel the music of the spheres within their own bodies.
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Robert E. Svoboda (The Greatness of Saturn: A Therapeutic Myth)
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Aged teas are prized for the increased energy (cha-qi) that they possess, and for their ability to connect with and increase the level of internal bodily energy (qi) in those sipping these teas. This marriage of cha-qi and qi generates strong feelings of contentment and peacefulness within the tea drinker and is an anticipated and esteemed trait that is especially powerful and prevalent in aged teas.
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Mary Lou Heiss (The Tea Enthusiast's Handbook: A Guide to the World's Best Teas)
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Quantum physics findings show that consciousness itself created order - or indeed in some way created the world - this suggested much more capacity in the human being than was currently understood. It also suggested some revolutionary notions about humans in relation to their world and the relation between all living things. What they were asking was how far our bodies extended. Did they end with what we always thought of as our own isolated persona, or ‘extend out’ so that the demarcation between us and our world was less clear-cut? Did living consciousness possess some quantum field like properties, enabling it to extend its influence out into the world? If so, was it possible to do more than simply observe? How strong was our influence? It was only a small step in logic to conclude that in our act of participation as an observer in the quantum world, we might also be an influencer, a creator. Did we not only stop the butterfly at a certain point in its flight, but also influence the path it will take - nudging it in a particular direction?
This explains action at a distance, what scientists call non locality. The theory that two subatomic particles once in close proximity seemingly communicate over any distance after they are separated.
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Lynne McTaggart (The Field)
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I’ve done you a disservice,” he said at last. “It’s only fair to let you know, but you won’t have a normal life span.”
I bit my lip. “Have you come to take my soul, then?”
“I told you that’s not my jurisdiction. But you’re not going to die soon. In fact, you won’t die for a long time, far longer than I initially thought, I’m afraid. Nor will you age normally.”
“Because I took your qi?”
He inclined his head. “I should have stopped you sooner.”
I thought of the empty years that stretched ahead of me, years of solitude long after everyone I loved had died. Though I might have children or grandchildren. But perhaps they might comment on my strange youthfulness and shun me as unnatural. Whisper of sorcery, like those Javanese women who inserted gold needles in their faces and ate children. In the Chinese tradition, nothing was better than dying old and full of years, a treasure in the bosom of one’s family. To outlive descendants and endure a long span of widowhood could hardly be construed as lucky. Tears filled my eyes, and for some reason this seemed to agitate Er Lang, for he turned away. In profile, he was even more handsome, if that was possible, though I was quite sure he was aware of it.
“It isn’t necessarily a good thing, but you’ll see all of the next century, and I think it will be an interesting one.”
“That’s what Tian Bai said,” I said bitterly. “How long will I outlive him?”
“Long enough,” he said. Then more gently, “You may have a happy marriage, though.”
“I wasn’t thinking about him,” I said. “I was thinking about my mother. By the time I die, she’ll have long since gone on to the courts for reincarnation. I shall never see her again.” I burst into sobs, realizing how much I’d clung to that hope, despite the fact that it might be better for my mother to leave the Plains of the Dead. But then we would never meet in this lifetime. Her memories would be erased and her spirit lost to me in this form.
“Don’t cry.” I felt his arms around me, and I buried my face in his chest. The rain began to fall again, so dense it was like a curtain around us. Yet I did not get wet.
“Listen,” he said. “When everyone around you has died and it becomes too hard to go on pretending, I shall come for you.”
“Do you mean that?” A strange happiness was beginning to grow, twining and tightening around my heart.
“I’ve never lied to you.”
“Can’t I go with you now?”
He shook his head. “Aren’t you getting married? Besides, I’ve always preferred older women. In about fifty years’ time, you should be just right.”
I glared at him. “What if I’d rather not wait?”
He narrowed his eyes. “Do you mean that you don’t want to marry Tian Bai?”
I dropped my gaze.
“If you go with me, it won’t be easy for you,” he said warningly. “It will bring you closer to the spirit world and you won’t be able to lead a normal life. My work is incognito, so I can’t keep you in style. It will be a little house in some strange town. I shan’t be available most of the time, and you’d have to be ready to move at a moment’s notice.”
I listened with increasing bewilderment. “Are you asking me to be your mistress or an indentured servant?”
His mouth twitched. “I don’t keep mistresses; it’s far too much trouble. I’m offering to marry you, although I might regret it. And if you think the Lim family disapproved of your marriage, wait until you meet mine.”
I tightened my arms around him.
“Speechless at last,” Er Lang said. “Think about your options. Frankly, if I were a woman, I’d take the first one. I wouldn’t underestimate the importance of family.”
“But what would you do for fifty years?”
He was about to speak when I heard a faint call, and through the heavy downpour, saw Yan Hong’s blurred figure emerge between the trees, Tian Bai running beside her. “Give me your answer in a fortnight,” said Er Lang. Then he was gone.
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Yangsze Choo (The Ghost Bride)
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The phrase “cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey” is often said to refer to a metallic grid with circular holes in it, set under a pyramid of cannonballs on a ship’s deck to keep it stable. When this “brass monkey” got cold enough, the metal contracted and the cannonballs all popped out. In fact, the phrase means exactly what it says; the fake nautical euphemism is an attempt to make its rude humor more acceptable.
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John Lloyd (QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance)
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Qi is the Chinese word for "life energy". According to Chinese medicine, qi is the animating power that flows through all living things. A living being is filled with it. A dead person has no more qi. A healthy individual has more qi than one who is ill. However health is more than an abundance of qi. Health implies that the qi in our bodies is clear, rather than polluted and turbid, and flowing smoothly, liek a stream, not blocked or stagnant.
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Kenneth S. Cohen (The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing)
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Han was in space. He could hardly believe it. He’d always thought it would be dark and black. Instead it was as bright as day, and he could see everything from the hull of the shuttle to Qi’ra’s face to Corellia’s nearest moon in bright relief and perfect detail. The planet grew distant, becoming a tiny shining dot. Unlike the planet, the sun Corell didn’t seem any smaller from here, just whiter. Maybe brighter. Space, it turned out, was huge. A man could have a lot of room all to himself out here.
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Rae Carson (Most Wanted (Star Wars))
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Fire is a strange and dangerous thing. Can you recall your first trip to the spirit realm? You passed through the other realms, one of those being fire. We use it to cook, to keep us warm, but it is conduit, a gate to that realm. Nothing can come through unbidden, but it weakens the barrier between here and there. That is what makes folks tired and why it hypnotises them. The fire realm is pulling at them, feeding them energy but taking their Qi in return. The more you focus, the more it can feed upon you.
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G.R. Matthews (The Blue Mountain (The Forbidden List, #2))
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British moths include the Uncertain, the Confused, the Magpie, the Lackey, the Drinker, the Streak, the Ruddy Highflyer, the Buff Arches, the Figure of Eighty, the Anomalous, the Dark Dagger, the Lettuce Shark, the Isabelline Tiger, the Waved Tabby and the Mother Shipton.
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John Lloyd (1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off)
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Go therefore and k make disciples of l all nations, j baptizing them m in [2] n the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them o to observe all that p I have commanded you. And behold, q I am with you always, to r the end of the age.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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Babbage was a brilliant mathematician but found human beings difficult to deal with. His intolerance of street musicians led to an organized campaign against him: his London home in Portland Place was bombarded by noise at all hours and abusive signs were hung in local shops.
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John Lloyd (QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance)
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The Darkness of the black night is commencing over the white wobbling flowers at the bay of the stream whose water is sparkling and is running down from those earthly mountains to surrender into your arms full of happiness and love....
It cherishes your existence and so do i do...
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AashiQi
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It's kind of weird," she told Qi. "Gilly doesn't run up and kiss people. She doesn't dance. Se's usually so quiet. I mean, it's cool as hell, but for Gilly, it's weird."
"Part of it is Maggie," Qi said. "She has a talent for making people fall in love with her."
Sam started to nod, then she remembered she was talking to a witch. "So is Gilly like... under like..."
"A spell?" A hint of a smile crossed Qi's face. "Don't worry. Maggie just loves everybody, finds something good in everybody. And when people see the way she sees them, they tend to fall in love right back.
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Kristopher Reisz (Tripping to Somewhere)
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I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am starting to realize that it can be delightful too, if I let it. My love is not diminished if I let go of sorrow. I almost believe that.
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Jenny Qi
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Kanga e përndimit
Kangë Pëmdimi, kangë njeriu të dehun nga besimi në vete
Kanga e tij një fe tjetër, me tempuj të tjerë, me meshë solemne,
ku prej mëngjesit deri në mbramje shkrihen ndjesitë tmtë njerzore
n'apoteozën e hekurit; shpirtënt përshkohen në tymore,
të cilat në fishkllim i përqeshen zotit të vjetër edhe qiellit
e me re të ndyt' tymi të dendun ndriçimin ia vrasin diellit.
Fe tjetër, fe e çmendun e Pëmdimit të mrekullueshëm...
1 ekzaltuem shklet njeriu në delirium të pakuptueshëm.
Dëgjon zanin q'i thotë feja. Plagos qiellën, e shpon tokën,
i shkyn horizontet e bardhë, zhvesh natyrën - ia heq kotllën.
Kult' i tij - kult i zhveshun! Nuk ia bren ma trutë enigmi -
e varros, mbi varr ia vë një shej përbuzje o nderimi.
Kangë Pëmdimi, kangë njeriu të dehun nga besimi në vete
Kanga e tij shpres' e bukur, me flatra të një tjetërjete
në të cilën dielli do ndrrojë udhën: ka për t'u lindë nga Pëmdimi
- por deh! nga lumnia tash humb kokën rruzullimi.
Me një "tango" qejfi tash ia ngatrron fijet zotit të vjetër
ka me ia skandalizue të birtë besnikë në planetë të tjeter,
Kanga Pëmdimi, kangë njeriu të dehun nga besimi në vete...
Le të dëgjojmë kangën që mshtillet në shllung' avulli në pika djerse.
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Migjeni
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What you need is some time and effort to work on your remedies and the problems will be overcome as a matter of course. Our chi kung training gives us the mental clarity and a lot of energy to perform the remedies well.
The same principles apply to countless people who remain miserable because of their problems.
They remain miserable because of the following three reasons:
1. They do not have solutions to their problems.
2. They do not believe the solutions will solve their problems.
3. They do not have the abilities to carry out the solutions.
If they can overcome the above three factors, they will find their problems are actually opportunities for improvement
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Wong Kiew Kit (The Shaolin Arts: Shaolin Kungfu, Tai Chi Chuan, Chi Kung, Zen (Master Answers Series))
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12He who is ha hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and ileaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and jscatters them. 13He flees because khe is a hired hand and lcares nothing for the sheep. 14 mI am the good shepherd. nI know my own and omy own know me, 15 pjust as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and qI lay down my life for the sheep. 16And rI have other sheep that are not of this fold. sI must bring them also, and tthey will listen to my voice. So there will be uone flock, vone shepherd. 17 wFor this reason the Father loves me, xbecause yI lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 zNo one takes it from me, but yI lay it down aof my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and bI have authority to take it up again. cThis charge I have received from my Father.
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Anonymous (ESV Classic Reference Bible)
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Vallja e Yjeve
Yjtë-e ndezur si fingjill, Që vërtiten palë-palë, Prej mosgjëje zunë fill Plot me jetë-e mall të valë.
Zunë fill me dashuri Që kur bota zu të ngjizet, Pa sikush për shok të ti Përvëlohet edhe ndizet.
Ndizet ças edhe për ças, E si kurrë s'ka të shuar, Pa pushim i vete pas Me një sulm të llaftaruar.
E si kurrë nuku mund Ylli yllin që t'a kapë Rrotull qiejve pa fund Venë-e-vinë-e-venë prapë...
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Do të venë fluturim Kudo janë-e kudo s'janë, Nëpër qjell që s'ka mbarim, As fillim, as fund, as anë.
Kur mi të, kur nënë të, Kur me hire-e kur pa hire, Do përëajnë gjithënjë Hapësirë...shkretëtire...
Ata ikin varg-e-varg Me një etje të pashuar: Sesà fellë-e sesà larg Shoq me shoq u pat larguar!...
Kùsh j-u fali-aq dëshërim, Dh'aqë zjarr e aqë flakë, Dh'i gatoj me aq durim Yjtë-e lum e varfanjakë?
Se do një, si për çudi, Ku prej syresh rreh të ftohet, Shoq i vet, nga mall'i ti, Më me zjarr zë përvëlohet...
Dh'i vjen qark më me vërtik E me dhembje më të nxehtë, E si ik...si gjithë ik... E pushton me zjarr të vetë:
Sa më pak e shmbëllen: Aq më shumë-e ndjek dëshira... Pa nga malli që s'e gjen, Dridhet gjithë hapësira.
...Kur po ja! Se që përtej Ndriten erërat nga pakë: Yll-i çdukur nëpër qiej Vetëtiu e mori flakë:
J-a pat shtënë me një ças, Mun në mes në kraharuar, Shoq' i vet q'i sillej pàs Me një sulm të llaftaruar;
Q'e kish flakën mun në gji, Q'e zhuritte dashurija, që çkëlqente me zili Rrotull rrezeve të tija.
Yll i mjerë e yll i lum! Yll i lum e yll i mjerë! Sapo drita t'u përgjum, Sheh një shoq nëpër skëterë;
Ay vin... e gjith vin..., Gjith më pranë... -e gjith më pranë...- Sesà ndrin e vetëtin!... Sesà ndjen një gas pa anë!...
Sesa ndritesh përsëri! Sesì ndizesh përsëpari! Sesì djek me dashuri Posi yll margaritari!...
Dashuri! Heu! Mall i ri! Dashuri! këng' e durimit! Ti liri! Ti robëri! Ti valim i shkrepëtimit!
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Lasgush Poradeci
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Black holes generate sound. There’s one in the Perseus cluster of galaxies, 250 million light-years away. The signal was detected in 2003 in the form of X-rays (which will happily travel anywhere) by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite. No one will ever hear it, though. It’s 57 octaves lower than middle C: over a million billion times deeper than the limits of human hearing. It’s the deepest note ever detected from any object anywhere in the universe and it makes a noise in the pitch of B flat—the same as a vuvuzela.
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John Lloyd (QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance)
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In the past, people practiced the Tao, the Way of Life. They understood the principle of balance as represented by the transformations of the energies of the universe. They formulated exercises to promote energy flow to harmonize themselves within the universe. They ate a balanced diet at regular times, arose and retired at regular hours, avoided over stressing their bodies and minds, and refrained from overindulgence of all kinds. They maintained well-being of body and mind; thus, it is not surprising that they lived over one hundred years.“These days, people have changed their way of life. They drink wine as though it were water, indulge excessively in destructive activities, drain their jing – the body’s essence that is stored in the Kidneys – and deplete their qi. They do not know the secret of conserving their energy and vitality. Seeking emotional excitement and momentary pleasures, people disregard the natural rhythm of the universe. They fail to regulate their lifestyle and diet, and sleep improperly. So it is not surprising that they look old at fifty and die soon after.
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Maoshing Ni (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary)
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Why two (or whole groups) of people can come up with the same story or idea at the same time, even when across the world from each-other:
"A field is a region of influence, where a force will influence objects at a distance with nothing in between. We and our universe live in a Quantum sea of light. Scientists have found that the real currency of the universe is an exchange of energy. Life radiates light, even when grown in the dark. Creation takes place amidst a background sea of energy, which metaphysics might call the Force, and scientists call the "Field." (Officially the Zero Point Field) There is no empty space, even the darkest empty space is actually a cauldron of energies. Matter is simply concentrations of this energy (particles are just little knots of energy.) All life is energy (light) interacting. The universe is self-regenreating and eternal, constantly refreshing itself and in touch with every other part of itself instantaneously. Everything in it is giving, exchanging and interacting with energy, coming in and out of existence at every level. The self has a field of influence on the world and visa versa based on this energy.
Biology has more and more been determined a quantum process, and consciousness as well, functions at the quantum level (connected to a universe of energy that underlies and connects everything). Scientist Walter Schempp's showed that long and short term memory is stored not in our brain but in this "Field" of energy or light that pervades and creates the universe and world we live in.
A number of scientists since him would go on to argue that the brain is simply the retrieval and read-out mechanism of the ultimate storage medium - the Field. Associates from Japan would hypothesize that what we think of as memory is simply a coherent emission of signals from the "Field," and that longer memories are a structured grouping of this wave information. If this were true, it would explain why one tiny association often triggers a riot of sights, sounds and smells. It would also explain why, with long-term memory in particular, recall is instantaneous and doesn't require any scanning mechanism to sift through years and years of memory.
If they are correct, our brain is not a storage medium but a receiving mechanism in every sense, and memory is simply a distant cousin of perception.
Some scientists went as far as to suggest that all of our higher cognitive processes result from an interaction with the Field. This kind of constant interaction might account for intuition or creativity - and how ideas come to us in bursts of insight, sometimes in fragments but often as a miraculous whole. An intuitive leap might simply be a sudden coalescence of coherence in the Field.
The fact that the human body was exchanging information with a mutable field of quantum fluctuation suggested something profound about the world. It hinted at human capabilities for knowledge and communication far deeper and more extended than we presently understand. It also blurred the boundary lines of our individuality - our very sense of separateness. If living things boil down to charged particles interacting with a Field and sending out and receiving quantum information, where did we end and the rest of the world began? Where was consciousness-encased inside our bodies or out there in the Field?
Indeed, there was no more 'out there' if we and the rest of the world were so intrinsically interconnected. In ignoring the effect of the "Field" modern physicists set mankind back, by eliminating the possibility of interconnectedness and obscuring a scientific explanation for many kinds of miracles. In re-normalizing their equations (to leave this part out) what they'd been doing was a little like subtracting God.
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Lynne McTaggart (The Field)
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Nehemiah’s Prayer 4As soon as I heard these words I i sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the j God of heaven. 5And I said, “O LORD God of heaven, k the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 6 l let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, m confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even n I and my father’s house have sinned. 7 o We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules p that you commanded your servant Moses. 8Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, q I will scatter you among the peoples, 9 r but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, s though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them t to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’ 10 u They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. 11O Lord, l let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))