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L.G.B.T.Q.I.P.O.Z.A.A.C.V………….”
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Adam Scott Huerta (Motive Black (Motive Black Series, #1))
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Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated.
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Maria V. Snyder (Fire Study (Study, #3))
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In what world
To live?
What love
To give?
Is it worthy?
Or will it break
My heart?
Everyone
Seems to be
Secretly evil
And to try
To disguise
The truth
With lies;
It’s disappointing
But still
I see
Something different
In you;
I find hope
And I fall
In love
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
Fear can be a big motivator.
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Maria V. Snyder (Outside In (Insider, #2))
“
Dream is like an Art.
Faith is like a Color.
Failure is like a Water.
If u drop a water on a art,it will affect the art not the color.
Never lose it.Life has to go on
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V.S. Saravanan
“
Who am I to know my own motives. But I did foolhardy things.
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Thomas Pynchon (V.)
“
Being men of a particular world, you’d think love wouldn’t play a part in it.
Love is weakness.
Love is a target.
Though if you ask anyone in the mafioso, they will say they’re motivated by only love.
It is about the power, war and money, sure.
But love plays a huge part in this life.
Coveting it.
Protecting it.
Using it, in some cases.
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V. Theia (Manhattan Target (From Manhattan #6))
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For an early morning I had so much fucking pep in my step.
Lust was a great motivator.
I was spending time with Tom Cohen.
A Tsunami could sweep through the city and I’d still think I was having a great week.
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V. Theia (Manhattan Bet (From Manhattan #2))
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In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark—Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V—had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself.
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Dan Simmons (The Terror)
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The day of apocalypse came;
Everyone knows the truth now;
Everyone sees now;
Except of the ignorants of technology;
Humanity screams change
For a fairer tomorrow
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
When I close my eyes
I see the light:
A Universe within my spark;
When I open my eyes
I see the dark:
A Universe out of sight
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
Negative people are great motivators because they make you determined to prove them wrong.
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Marie Guillaume
“
People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning of Chicago or a Presidential election in our day.
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Edward Payson Roe (Works of E. P. Roe, The: V4)
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English: "We can't be happy in an unhappy world, so we need to change our surroundings."
Česky: „V nešťastném světě nebudeme šťastní,
tak musíme měnit okolí vlastní.
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Sebastián Wortys
“
My father said unmarked hands were a sign of a man who had not worked for his achievements. He was most likely referring to a future husband, but I decided that it was a standard I wished to hold myself to as well.
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I.V. Ophelia (The Poisoner (The Poisoner #1))
“
They cover
Those they want;
Themselves of course
And other criminals
Like them;
They sell an idealized lie
To earn something
And they throw
The others:
The innocents;
The pure;
The vulnerable;
The different;
They are not justice:
They are a clique
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact that someone is willing to pay to read what we write assures us that we have indeed written.
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M.V. Carey
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Lectures IV and V - The Religion Of Healthy Mindedness If we were to ask the question: "What is human life's chief concern?" one of the answers we should receive would be: "It is happiness." How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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William James (The Varieties of Religious Experience)
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They are all criminals
But can you catch them?
They catch their victims instead;
Innocents are weak
And moral
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
Hate rose
And any hope
Became blue;
How to reverse the lies?
How to love again
In the fake sunset?
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
I can’t live anymore
In this world;
No one is fair
No one truly cares
And I can’t find my love
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
I still live
And I feel
That I will never die
All my life
An infinite time
Both an eternity
And a prison
But perhaps these two are one
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
Being Human is not easy for all Humans.
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C.V. Singh (Motivational: Self Confidence)
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Dreaming of being on Moon cannot get you there. It requires a focused & intelligent effort to achieve what you Dream.
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Neelesh V. Sakhardande
“
Everyone is entitled to making bad decisions from time to time, but the true test is in how you handle things after those decisions have been made.
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Alicia T. Bowens (L.O.V.E. for Teen Moms: You Can Still Have Lives of Vision & Empowerment)
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Life is a journey, a ride of endless means and emotions.
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Mary V. Pate (Now I Have the Best Job in the World: How God helped me through Sabotage in the Workplace)
“
find a way or make your own
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Victoria Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)
“
Words turn to anagrams;
Temples get burnt;
Songs contain threats;
What is happening in the world?
World War III is in the air;
Have we realized it yet?
Madonna came to pray;
Have we woken up?
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
VALENTINE'S DAY POEM:
What earth is to sky.. on the horizon..
What moon is to night.. no matter start studded ocean!
What Love is to life.. above all give and take..
that you are to me.. a rhythm that soulful music would make!
*
Let's surrender to each other..
for a dream to be woven together!!
You're my weakness and my strength..
wanna live with you till the end!! .. and beyond.. ;)!!!
*
Even a dent in the universe..
can't express my Love for you!
My life is yours forever..
O girl, O girl..
O girl.. you be mine!!
Not just for this time..
Everyday beyond.. Valentine,
O O my heart, be my.. Valentine!
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Guru with Guitar)
“
This world is no paradise;
People try to disguise;
People care about lies
And love is dying
This world wasn’t meant to unite;
It’s all a construction
For every kingdom’s strategy;
There is no place for love
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
I grew up listening to my mother scoff at all the T.V shows and books that I watched or read. She told me how it was all 'rubbish' and 'garbage'. But the thing is, I think somehow, watching along the show I also grew up. I know everyone says that, like when Good Luck Charlie ended everyone was upset and was like 'I grew up now its gone!' Or 'Aww. My childhood gone' But its not like that with me. I actually grow and learn more things about myself. And some of the shows or books I watched/read, motivated me. They were always there. So if that is the definition of 'rubbish' and 'garbage' than please. Cover me in filth.
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Trisscar
“
TEDDY DAY POEM:
A bear hug for you,
and I would make you forget your sorrows!
I’ll be there with you forever,
in your today and all tomorrows!!
..
The moment I am not there..
Close your eyes and you'll see me..
You're there in my heart,
and yours, I always would be;
so just be fine!
..
O girl, O girl, O.. O.. girl.. you be mine..
You're my buddy and I am your teddy..
O sweety, you be my.. Valentine.
..
Just be mine.. O O.. be my Valentine!!!
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Guru with Guitar)
“
Protests and looting naturally capture attention. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment. It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn’t have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures, and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations. White rage recurs in American history. It exploded after the Civil War, erupted again to undermine the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, and took on its latest incarnation with Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House. For every action of African American advancement, there’s a reaction, a backlash. The
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Jesmyn Ward (The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race)
“
In a sense, we here at the FSRI are like giant wizards at the controls of an incredible machine, operating levers and buttons from behind a great tapestry to provide you with the level of motivation and direction necessary for you to succeed!
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Martin Fossum (Faking Smart!: Get Hired, Get Promoted and Become a V.P. in Six Short Weeks)
“
There is no time machine
To see
What happened
In the past;
If you can
Invent it;
But all they invent
Is lies
And fake evidence;
There are no crimes
Reasoning is easy when no one can know
Justice Is A Joke (Time Machine) / Apocalypse Revolution
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
Forbes was highly motivated by Noynoy's words: "...Therefore in order to make this country better, you don't need grandiose platforms, all you have to do is to do your job, and do it well, rightly, and in accordance with the principled objective.
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Wilfrido V. Villacorta (Noynoy: Triumph of a People's Campaign)
“
CHOCOLATE DAY POEM:
"Chocolate, dark or light..
Makes me smile bright.
Chocolate, whether speak or not..
If it’s love, it conveys a lot.
But when you’re.. not there with me..
It’s just a piece.. of sugar candy.
It’s you, who makes it sweeter..
I love it with you, even if it’s bitter.
So be there always.. stay forever..
I can’t think of life.. without you ever.
..
O girl, O girl, O.. O.. girl.. you be mine..
You are my choco-life..
You be my.. Valentine.
..
Just be mine.. O O.. Valentine!!!
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Guru with Guitar)
“
What renders you incapable of such a rudeness, is nothing but a regard to the general rules of civility and hospitality, which prohibit it. … But if without regard to these general rules, even the duties of politeness, which are so easily observed, and which one can scarce have any serious motive to violate, would yet be so frequently violated, that what would become of the duties of justice, of truth, of chastity, of fidelity, which it is often so difficult to observe, and which there may be so many strong motives to violate? But upon the tolerable observance of these duties, depends the very existence of human society, which would crumble into nothing if mankind were not generally impressed with a reverence for those important rules of conduct.
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Adam Smith (Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: Ii. Astronomical Inquiries; Iii. Formation of Languages; Iv. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and ... the External Senses; Ix. English and Ita)
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So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and double for sandals, Faust's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they.
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Thomas Pynchon (V.)
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(...) his (Adam Smith's) theory of sympathy rejected self-love as the basic motive for behaviour. He also defined virtue as consisting of three elements: propriety, prudence and benevolence. By this he meant propriety or the appropriate control and directing of our affections; prudence or the judicious pursuit of our private interests; and benevolence or the exercise of only those affections that encourage the happiness of others. How poor Adam Smith got stuck with disciples like the market economists and the neo-conservatives is hard to imagine. He is in profound disagreement with their view of society.
(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
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John Ralston Saul (The Unconscious Civilization)
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We are starting to slide when we start to judge our brother’s motives by whether or not he experiences the same gut response of reactive compassion to the outrage we are assigned to deal with. But a Christian nurse in Romania who has dedicated herself to caring for abandoned orphans with birth defects may never have heard of Roe v. Wade. She doesn’t need to.
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Douglas Wilson (Skin and Blood)
“
HUG DAY POEM:
Wrap me in your hug..
make me feel happy!
Hold me tight and close..
not like a pillow or a teddy!!
My heart needs you..
for you touched my soul,
believe me things shall go fine.
Walk me to my Dreams..
and take me to divine!!
My life is yours forever..
O girl, O girl, O.. O.. girl.. you be mine.
Let the hearts embrace..
Sugar you be my.. Valentine.
Just be mine..
O O.. my Valentine!
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Guru with Guitar)
“
ROSE DAY POEM:
Rose.. if it is..
for the one whom you miss..
and you want to say a lot..
till now that you have not!
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Then just go and dare to say..
for that moment is today..
beyond the earth and sky above..
Give it to the one whom you love!!
-
And sing your heart out..
to the universe aloud..
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O girl, O girl, O.. O.. girl.. you be mine..
You are more than this rose to me..
You be my.. Valentine.
Just be mine.. O O.. Valentine!!!
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Guru with Guitar)
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The conventions of hedonism and of utility can, in fact, be extremely elaborate. Its motives, however, though perhaps wholly free of greed, remain strictly those of need. Goodness remains reducible to utility, rightness to prudence, beauty to aesthetic enjoyment. The point of reference is individual preference, not the generically human vision of a moral sense of life. What is missing is the recognition of intrinsic beauty, rightness, goodness.
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Erazim V. Kohák (The Embers and the Stars: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Moral Sense of Nature)
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Broad as the power of Congress is under the Enforcement Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, RFRA contradicts vital principles necessary to maintain separation of powers and the federal balance.” The Rehnquist Court majority used similar interpretations of Section 5 and of the Commerce Clause to overturn other statutes, including the Violence Against Women Act, which permitted women who were victims of gender-motivated violence to sue their attackers in federal court (United States v.
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Linda Greenhouse (The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions))
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PROPOSE DAY POEM:
Austerity..
If.. I were to define..
it’s you.. yoo hoo!
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Happiness is what..
that makes me feel divine..
smiling you.. yoo hoo!!
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What rose is in flowers..
What moon is in stars..
That you are to me..
You and I will be we..
You’re my life.. I.. I..
You’re my life.. I.. I..
I love you.. yoo hoo
I love you.. yoo hoo
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O girl, O girl, O.. O.. girl..
you be mine..
I love you..
I love you..
I love you.. yoo hoo..
You be my..
Valentine.
-
Just be mine..
I love you..
O O Valentine!!!
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Guru with Guitar)
“
So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals, Faust's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they.
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Thomas Pynchon (V.)
“
So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and nebulae for sandals, Fausto's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the "practical" half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they.
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Thomas Pynchon (V.)
“
When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African American male. But that has it precisely backward. What we've actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless.
Protests and looting naturally capture attention. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment. It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn't have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures, and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations.
White rage recurs in American history. It exploded after the Civil War, erupted again to undermine the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, and took on its latest incarnation with Barack Obama's ascent to the White House. For every action of African American advancements, there's a reaction, a backlash.
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Carol Anderson (The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race)
“
PROMISE DAY POEM:
I don't promise that I will bring the moon for you,
but.. I shall stand by you in sun!
I don't promise that I will not fight with you ever,
but.. We shall be together, forever;
and distances or differences shall be none!!
I don't promise that life will be so easy, and cheesy,
but.. when you are with me,
I'll make sure it's always fun!!!
I just promise one thing; I'll never make you cry,
I'll never let you go, so all I need is you to be with me..
Let's make it happen.. and let our destiny shine.
My life is yours forever..
..
O girl, O girl, O.. O.. girl.. you be mine..
Love is more than just promises..
Hey honey you be my.. Valentine.
Just be mine..
O O.. my Valentine!
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Guru with Guitar)
“
Reading this book, you will probably get motivated to take a major faith step, but life can stare you back in the face and tell you that you are stupid to believe that God will answer your prayer. The bottom line is, GOD CAN DO IT, and He will do it if you let Him. Numbers, 23:19 states, “God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?” Your entrepreneurial dream may seem impossible, but God can do it. Your finances might be in the worst shape that you have ever experienced in your life, but God can fix it. You might not have the education or the skill that you know is required to follow through on your dream, but God can supplement it. Will you trust Him to do it?
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V.L. Thompson (CEO - The Christian Entrepreneur's Outlook)
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The assumptions that propagandists are rational, in the sense that they follow their own propaganda theories in their choice of communications, and that the meanings of propagandists' communications may differ for different people reoriented the FCC* analysts from a concept of "content as shared" (Berelson would later say "manifest") to conditions that could explain the motivations of particular communicators and the interests they might serve.
The notion of "preparatory propaganda" became an especially useful key for the analysts in their effort to infer the intents of broadcasts with political content. In order to ensure popular support for planned military actions, the Axis leaders had to inform; emotionally arouse, and otherwise prepare their countrymen and women to accept those actions; the FCC analysts discovered that they could learn a great deal about the enemy's intended actions by recognizing such preparatory efforts in the domestic press and broadcasts. They were able to predict several major military and political campaigns and to assess Nazi elites' perceptions of their situation, political changes within the Nazi governing group, and shifts in relations among Axis countries.
Among the more outstanding predictions that British analysts were able to make was the date of deployment of German V weapons against Great Britain. The analysts monitored the speeches delivered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels and inferred from the content of those speeches what had interfered with the weapons' production and when. They then used this information to predict the launch date of the weapons, and their prediction was accurate within a few weeks.
*FCC - Federal Communications Commission
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Klaus H. Krippendorff (Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology)
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It should be said that all these years, in all the Special Camps, orthodox Soviet citizens, without even consulting each other, unanimously condemned the massacre of the stoolies, or any attempt by prisoners to fight for their rights. We need not put this down to sordid motives (though quite a few of the orthodox were compromised by their work for the godfather) since we can fully explain it by their theoretical views. They accepted all forms of repression and extermination, even wholesale, provided they came from above—as a manifestation of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Even impulsive and uncoordinated actions of the same kind but from below were regarded as banditry, and what is more, in its "Banderist" form (among the loyalists you would never get one to admit the right of the Ukraine to secede, because to do so was bourgeois nationalism). The refusal of the katorzhane to be slave laborers, their indignation about window bars and shootings, depressed and frightened the docile camp Communists.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII)
“
Summing Up • Because Paul speaks of same-sex eroticism as “impurity” in Romans 1: 24-27, an exploration of the moral logic underpinning these verses must grapple with the notions of purity and impurity. • The Old Testament defines purity in three broad ways: conforming to the structures of the original created order; safeguarding the processes by which life is stewarded; and emphasizing Israel’s distinctness from the surrounding nations. • In the New Testament we see three movements with respect to the Old Testament purity laws: ° away from defining purity externally toward defining purity in terms of the motives and dispositions of the heart and will; ° away from defensiveness and separation toward confidence and mission, empowered by the Holy Spirit; ° away from the attempt to replicate the original creation, to a forward-looking expectation of a new creation that fulfills but also transforms the old creation in surprising ways. • These movements clarify that, for Paul, the core form of moral logic underlying his characterization of sexual misconduct as “impurity” focuses on internal attitudes and dispositions, particularly lust (excessive desire) and licentiousness (lack of restraint). • Because Paul characterizes the same-sex eroticism of Romans 1: 24-27 as “impurity,” and therefore understands it as characterized by excessive passion and a lack of restraint, it raises the question concerning whether committed gay and lesbian unions, which seek to discipline passion and desire by means of lifelong commitment, should still be characterized as “impurity.
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James V. Brownson (Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships)
“
The most popular origin story of Christian nationalism today, shared by many critics and supporters alike, explains that the movement was born one day in 1973, when the Supreme Court unilaterally shredded Christian morality and made abortion ‘on demand’ a constitutional right. At that instant, the story goes, the flock of believers arose in protest and through their support to the party of ‘Life’ now known as the Republican Party. The implication is that the movement, in its current form, finds its principal motivation in the desire to protect fetuses against the women who would refuse to carry them to term.
This story is worse than myth. It is false as history and incorrect as analysis. Christian nationalism drew its inspiration from a set of concerns that long predated the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade and had little to do with abortion. The movement settled on abortion as its litmus test sometime after that decision for reasons that had more to do with politics than embryos. It then set about changing the religion of many people in the country in order to serve its new political ambitions. From the beginning, the ‘abortion issue’ has never been just about abortion. It has also been about dividing and uniting to mobilize votes for the sake of amassing political power.
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Katherine Stewart (The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism)
“
We cannot teach effectively what we do not practice and we cannot give what we do not have.
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Dr. Peter Tan-Chi (M.O.T.I.V.A.T.E Updated Edition: 8 Secrets of Successful Parenting)
“
If you don’t give me
My dreams
I will be negative -
If you give me
My dreams
I will be positive +
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
Date: 27th of Feb, 2021
What is Love ?
Is it something you feel, vibe or exhibit ?
Or is it in caring, sharing or sacrifices
L.O.V.E
Love is in small details, everywhere around, the sun loves the sky amidst it colours, the sky loves the clouds inspite of its darkness, the darkness loves the light inspite of its own capabilities to lighten,
Love is not something that can be talked or explained, but then what am i trying to do so?? Weird.
Despite the running thoughts right now i have to share what i feel before that thought would never strike again
(Ps: You are a constant thought that runs in my mind)
For me what love really is !
For me, love is a gift, that feeling is magical, being in that feeling is lucky,
Love is not something you fall for, how can u fall in love, when you feel embraced and butterflies, in your stomach you are actually lifted in love, you are actually strong when you love.
You admire the person with all its possibilities to be with her and its goodness and makeup your mind about the righteous of the person and imagine and day dreaming of being with them.
That's the first sip.
Love is true, when you demand no change and when u accept her the way she is with all her negativity and positivity, with her moods and habits, accepting and going with her choices, supporting her beyond the support you expect from her, pushing yourself to make efforts to see her smile, taking her stand in public, respecting her thoughts despite having different opinions.
love is not about being right every time about everything, its about making her feel right about things that are not, its about sacrificing your thoughts to hear hers, its about sacrificing your last bite to look her smile, its about starring into your partner eyes and talk without a word, holding hands until you go home, hold her mood until she's back, and being insecured about her safety until she's home
This is the only feeling that makes me feel special, its the only feeling that helps me finds happiness in sacrificing too,
That's the only feeling that lifts my mood by seeing her or motivating her when i m having a bad day, its tough though sometimes, love can make you think for possibilities and impossibilities that may never occur and give you a hard time, sometimes you push yourself and them away. But cannot really stay away, then why do we do that,
Sharing of emotions will be the best part of the journey of love
You don't shy accepting, being in love, coz not everybody is lucky to have it,
You embrace it,
You love being in Love ❤️
but then why do they not talk about love
Its a complex simple feeling.
05:19 AM (the moon was still so pretty)
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Aagam Haran
“
Ηate rose
And any hope
Became blue;
How to reverse
The lies?
How to love again
In the fake sunset?
The blessed
Must not get cursed;
Who will be left
To push humans
Towards evolution?
What joy
can ever be calm
When all there is
Is harm?
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
“
I live as if
today is my last day, and
that I will live forever.
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Ram V. Iyer
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English: "Don't like the world? So change your role in its ambiguity."
Česky: „Nelíbí se ti svět? Tak změň svou roli v jeho mnohoznačnosti.
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Sebastián Wortys
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Where motivation was concerned, there was hardly any difference between a caveman and a civilised human.
The desire to live, and live as well as the next man, was common to all.
The point at which virtually all of mankind began to develop a sense of discontent was when it discovered the hiatus between desire and capability.
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P.V. Narasimha Rao
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I. você vai passar em meio às pessoas que simplesmente não podem esperar para ver você fracassar.
II. existirão muitas vezes nas quais você fracassará (miseravelmente).
III. mas suas derrotas são apenas o que aconteceu... elas não têm que ser quem você é.
IV. tudo o que você pode fazer é pegar aqueles erros & usá-los como fertilizantes que ajudem você a crescer.
V. você tem que continuar indo em frente não importa o que as vozes delas digam.
– a vida ainda vale ser vivida.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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In the South during the civil rights era, Brown v. Board of Education prompted the racially motivated firings of tens of thousands of black teachers, as the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations looked the other way. Then, at the height of the Black Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s, it was inner-city white teachers who were vilified, for failing to embrace parental control of schools and Afrocentric pedagogical theories.
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Dana Goldstein (The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession)
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There are a lot of mysteries in the universe, but there are no miracles. Miracles are said to be impossible events which become possible. Even for a change the Sun and Moon do not think of rising or setting in the opposite direction. The planets do not stop their revolution. If such a thing happens we can certainly call it a Miracle. We hear about so many miracles like dumb and deaf started speaking or some diseases getting cured miraculously. But do we hear about a person who lost his limbs in accident got it grown back? All so-called miracle happenings are physical and material possibilities. People do not go beyond reading the news in media. That’s why they become easy pray to those who make claims with ulterior motives. None of our five senses are fully reliable. They can be cheated. That’s why we are able to enjoy a Magician’s performance. But we can certainly trust our common-sense, in case if we have it. Universe is full of mysteries. Man has unravelled many mysteries through scientific enquiries and he continue to unravel mysteries. It is wiser to consider mysteries as mysteries instead of colouring or shadowing with some supernatural beliefs.
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V.A. Menon
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It don't matter where you're at 'cause you ain't there yet.
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Andrew V. Barber
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In this life, we get broken fingers,
torn knee ligaments,
scars in the back of our heads,
broken hearts,
broken spirits... none of us make it into heaven without a limp.
But the only thing we will truly regret, is not the pain we EXPERIENCED, but the pain we AVOIDED.
Never settle for anything short of greatness!
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Michael V. Ivanov
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Variations on a Summer Day"
I
Say of the gulls that they are flying
In light blue air over dark blue sea.
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A music more than a breath, but less
Than the wind, sub-music like sub-speech,
A repetition of unconscious things,
Letters of rock and water, words
Of the visible elements and of ours.
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The rocks of the cliffs are the heads of dogs
That turn into fishes and leap
Into the sea.
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Star over Monhegan, Atlantic star,
Lantern without a bearer, you drift,
You, too, are drifting, in spite of your course;
Unless in the darkness, brightly-crowned
You are the will, if there is a will,
Or the portent of a will that was,
One of the portents of the will that was.
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The leaves of the sea are shaken and shaken.
There was a tree that was a father.
We sat beneath it and sang our songs.
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It is cold to be forever young,
To come to tragic shores and flow,
In sapphire, round the sun-bleached stones,
Being, for old men, time of their time.
VII
One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls,
When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops.
He mocks the guineas, challenges
The crow, inciting various modes.
The sparrow requites one, without intent.
VIII
An exercise in viewing the world.
On the motive! But one looks at the sea
As one improvises, on the piano.
IX
This cloudy world, by aid of land and sea,
Night and day, wind and quiet, produces
More nights, more days, more clouds, more worlds.
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To change nature, not merely to change ideas,
To escape from the body, so to feel
Those feelings that the body balks,
The feelings of the natures round us here:
As a boat feels when it cuts blue water.
XI
Now, the timothy at Pemaquid
That rolled in heat is silver-tipped
And cold. The moon follows the sun like a French
Translation of a Russian poet.
XII
Everywhere the spruce trees bury soldiers:
Hugh March, a sergeant, a redcoat, killed,
With his men, beyond the barbican.
Everywhere spruce trees bury spruce trees.
XIII
Cover the sea with the sand rose. Fill
The sky with the radiantiana
Of spray. Let all the salt be gone.
XIV
Words add to the senses. The words for the dazzle
Of mica, the dithering of grass,
The Arachne integument of dead trees,
Are the eye grown larger, more intense.
XV
The last island and its inhabitant,
The two alike, distinguish blues,
Until the difference between air
And sea exists by grace alone,
In objects, as white this, white that.
XVI
Round and round goes the bell of the water
And round and round goes the water itself
And that which is the pitch of its motion,
The bell of its dome, the patron of sound.
XVII
Pass through the door and through the walls,
Those bearing balsam, its field fragrance,
Pine-figures bringing sleep to sleep.
XVIII
Low tide, flat water, sultry sun.
One observes profoundest shadows rolling.
Damariscotta dada doo.
XIX
One boy swims under a tub, one sits
On top. Hurroo, the man-boat comes,
In a man-makenesse, neater than Naples.
XX
You could almost see the brass on her gleaming,
Not quite. The mist was to light what red
Is to fire. And her mainmast tapered to nothing,
Without teetering a millimeter's measure.
The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence.
It was not yet the hour to be dauntlessly leaping.
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Wallace Stevens (Parts of a World)
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Katia, Shelby, Tim, Shiro and I are doing our best to play cards in the lounge. Shelby got some adhesive so we can stick them to the coffee table, but it’s still a challenge and some of them escape to float away. We’d be in the Centrifuge Module, but we don’t want to end up, you know, dead. Shiro says, “So, now that we’re on our way, I think it’s time we start getting real. We need to be prepared for what’s out there.” “I think we’re about as prepared as we can get,” Shelby comments, discarding. “In all the training, we never had any discussions about motives.” “Motives?” Tim asks. “Yes,” Shiro says. “For example, look at the crew the aliens chose. With the exception of Jim, all of us are young.” “Well that’s self-explanatory, isn’t it?” says Tim. “Why send older, less physically fit individuals on such a physically rigorous journey? No offense, Jim.” “The females are younger than the males, but all of us are of reproductive age.” He looks up from his cards, “Doesn’t that make you a little curious what they have in mind?” “Shiro! You’re making me uncomfortable,” Shelby says. Looking at Katia, Shiro says, “And you’re the youngest, Katia. Very young, in fact, and intelligent on a scale beyond the reach of the vast majority of humans.” He glances from side to side, “All of us, in fact, are exceptional. With the exception of you, Jim. No offense, of course.” “None taken,” I say. “Full house.” Everyone groans and I collect all the chips we have placed in a Ziploc bag. Tim asks, “Are you suggesting that they intend to keep us as pets and breed us, or something? Because that’s impossible. You know all the men on the crew have been sterilized.” “Yes, I know. But do you think that, if they have the technology to do what they have already done, they might also be able to overcome such a hurdle? They will have our DNA, and three perfectly viable wombs to work with. That should be enough.” Shelby exclaims, “That is enough! Good grief, Shiro. Are you trying to give us nightmares?” “I just want us all to be prepared for all eventualities.” Blinking, her brows furrowed, Shelby says, “How considerate of you. That’s enough preparation for today.” ∆v∆v∆v∆v∆
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B.C. Chase (Pluto's Ghost)
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The Luftwaffe effectively “rented” slave labor from the SS both to build facilities and to operate manufacturing lines making V-2 rockets and other high-tech weaponry. The SS actually charged a per-day fee for each slave worker, set well below the average wage of a regular German citizen, and provided all services, such as guards, food, and so on. Perhaps not surprisingly, the workers used for the programs underwent shockingly brutal treatment, regardless of whether they built V-2 rockets in underground manufacturing facilities or constructed wind tunnels in frigid, windswept alpine valleys in Austria. The SS preferred to spend the least amount possible on their slaves to maximize their profits, feeding the men very little, dressing them in thin rags, and providing no medical treatment. The guards motivated the victims to work with shouting, threats, and constant blows and beatings.
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Charles River Editors (Operation Paperclip: The History of the Secret Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America During and After World War II)
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And to be like me, he had to be sour, bitter, hating everyone, and suspicious of their hidden motives.
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V.C. Andrews (The Flowers in the Attic Series: The Dollangangers)
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Astăzi sunt trist şi tu eşti scuza perfectă pentru tristeţea mea. E surprinzător cât de repede se pot schimba lucrurile. Totul era bine. Se putea simţi atâta fericire. Nu ştiu când s-a rupt destrămat totul. Dintr-odată, într-o dimineaţă m-am trezit fără tine. Fără îmbrăţişările tale ce purtau numele de nu tecare-mi spuneau: nu te îngrijora pentru că totul va fi bine, fără puterea pe care mi-o dădeai ca să înfrunt lumea. Nu înţeleg ce s-a întâmplat. Poate a fost trecerea timpului sau simplul fapt că lucrurile au şi un final. Aveam totul şi acum nu-mi rămân nici măcar cuvintele că o să te aştept dacă ai să te întorci într-o bună zi. Există pe lumea asta persoane care au slăbiciuni. Tu eşti a mea. Sunt sigur că aş lăsa totul dacă drumurile noastre s-are vor intersecta din nou. Amândoi ştim că încă te iubesc. Poate am găsit femeia perfectă, dar îmi lipsesc imperfecţiunile tale, stilul tău de a face lucrurile prost şi zâmbetul tău capabil să repare distrugerile provocate de cuvintele tale. Privirea ta... Cum reuşeai să vorbeşti fără să deschizi gura. Modul de a striga te iubesc în linişte. Poate din toate aceste cauze nu sunt fericit, deşi am nenumărate motive să fiu. Fericirea mea a fost ascunsă mereu sub aşternuturile tale. Nu ştii cât de trist este să dorm cu cineva şi să te visez. Vreau să te uit, dar mereu termin sfârșesc prin a-mi aminti de tine. Nu ştii cum mă simt când caut printre oameni ochii tăi, când mi se pare că te aud şi când inventez mângâieri cu mâinile tale. Chiar şi atunci când cineva sună la uşă, îmi imaginez că eşti tu. Şi când îţi -am deschids îmi spui să lăsăm deoparte orgoliile prosteşti şi să începem de la zero. Dar nu eşti tu. Aş vrea să am suficient curaj să strig că încă te iubesc. Şi că fiecare te iubesc este un glonţ trimis cu speranţa că-ţi va atinge inima şi-ţi vei da seama că mă gândesc la tine. Rămân cu speranţa că, într-o zi, ne vom întâlni şi că trecerea timpului nu ne v-a fi afectat câtuşi de puţin. Şi dacă îţi voi spune că te-am uitat, să nu mă crezi. Inima mea gândeşte invers. Nu ştii de câte ori mă învinovăţesc pentru acea noapte când m-ai rugat să mă întorc la tine. Ar fi trebuit să alerg în braţele tale. Însă, mi-am lăsat permis ca orgoliul meu să iasă triumfătorînvingător. Poate în acel moment am crezut că voi fi capabil să te uit, dar nu. Acum sunt eu cel care nu mai are dreptul să-ţi spună că de când te-am pierdut sunt capabil să mă regăsesc doar în amintirile noastre, în acea iubire ce ar fi trebuit să dureze o veşnicie. Nu ştiu dacă îţi vei mai aduce aminte de mine sau de acea după-amiază în care ţi-am jurat că nu voi înceta să te iubesc. Nu ştiu dacă mai cauţi printre lucrurile tale resturile unei iubiri ce s-a terminat înainte să ne aducă împreună. Poate asta a fost greşeala. M-am speriat când am văzut că sentimentele îmi fug printre degete. Că nu mai puteam controla ce simţeam în preajma ta. Pentru că erai tu erai cea care- îmi dirija paşii. Într-un final a fost teama că într-o zi te voi pierde şi de aceea te-am pierdut. Ne-am pierdut.
Astăzi nu mai am certitudini, dar sper ca atunci când ne vom reîntâlni, să am suficient curaj să-ţi spun că încă te iubesc. Că există iubiri ce vor fi mereu prezente, indiferent dacă vor trece câteva luni, câţiva ani sau o viaţă.
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Corina Savu (Aripi smulse #2)
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KISS DAY POEM:
To start with a kiss..
I'll mark first .. on the top of your head..
just to say that.. I'll be with you.. forever!
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Next two on the eyes..
just to say that.. the world is so beautiful..
as I see with you.. whatever!!
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Then three.. on the nose and cheek..
just to say that.. I am myself..
As I walk with you wherever!!!
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Then a peck on the neck..
just to say that.. you are perfect.
and then.. Final one on the lips..
just to say that.. just to say that..
just to say nothing.
Because our love is beyond the skyline!
My life is yours forever..
O girl, O girl..
O you be my.. Valentine!!!!
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Guru with Guitar)
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careful understanding of the motivations and the constraints of everyone can lead to policies and institutions that are better designed, and less likely to be perverted by corruption or derelication of duty. these changes will be incremental, but they will sustain and build on themselves. they can be the start of a quiet revolution.
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Abhijit V. Banerjee (Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty)
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where there is a Will, there is a Way; else EXCUSES Rule !
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Neelesh V. Sakhardande
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The only person whom I can change and correct is myself
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V Partap Singh Salathia
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Dokonce ještě v osmnáctém století narážíme na zákony, které zakazují kupci přebírat svému konkurentu zákazníky tím, že se bude snažit o přitažlivější vzhled svého krámu, nebo že vychválí své zboží ke škodě druhého obchodníka. Teprve s plným rozvinutím kapitalismu - stejně jako ve starších srovnatelných společenských systémech, například ve starém Římě - se chtivost začala šířit jako hlavní motiv jednání mezi rostoucí počet občanů. Přesto je chtivost - snad vzhledem ke stále živým náboženským tradicím - motivem, k němuž se málokdo přizná přímo. Tento rozpor byl odstraněn tím, že se chtivost začala interpretovat jako sledování vlastního zájmu.
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Erich Fromm (The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness)
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These four things then constitute the program, which I have in mind for this society during my ministry. First, to make it a common meeting ground for all men and women, rich and poor, learned and unlearned, theist and atheist, on the single common basis of religious fellowship; second, to make it a fountain of inspiration for ail scientific social betterment; third, to shift the emphasis of thought from the traditional to the scientific, from the theological to the historical, from the irrational to the rational, from the supernatural to the natural; fourth, to hold before the eyes of men the moral ideal and to place behind human endeavor moral motives. If
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John H. Dietrich (V1 The Life And Teachings of the Father of Modern Humanism: John H. Dietrich (The Life and Teachings of John Hassler Dietrich))
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But when everything is important, no one thing is truly important and efforts, rewards, and motivation suffer.17 Strategy is choice.
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Frank V. Cespedes (Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling)
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I will endorse the Supreme Court's unfairly maligned opinion in Employment Div. v. Smith, and I will argue that there is no constitutional right to harm others simply because the conduct is religiously motivated. The Court's First Amendment doctrine is wise. Legislatures can exempt the religious from some laws, but only where legislators and prosecutors ask the hard questions and where the religious entities have borne the burden of proving that exempting them renders significant harm.
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Marci A. Hamilton (God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty)
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The V.A.M.P.I.R.E. Theoretically, I do not exist. Historically, I am simply a myth. Eternally, I take whomever I want. Vengeance is not my motive. Animosity means little to my mission. Mortals are my lifeline to survival. Perhaps, you should fear me. It’s obvious you do. But Relax while time ticks on, for Eventually, I will have you… Forever.
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Ally Thomas (Vampire Tears)
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Has God Given You a Vision?
‘Write the vision and make it plain … that he may run who reads it.’
Habakkuk 2:2
When God gives you a vision for your life, write it down, keep it before you at all times and run with it. You say, ‘But I see no way for it to come to pass.’ The Bible says, ‘The vision is yet for an appointed time … wait for it; because it will surely come’ (Habakuk 2 v. 3 NKJV). You may not know how to get from where you are right now to where the vision will ultimately take you - but God does. So ask Him to reveal the next step to you. Whether you’re in prison like Joseph, in a soup kitchen in the inner city, or at home taking care of small children, God will fulfil the vision He placed in your heart. The more you see yourself leading in the boardroom, launching your own business, serving in ministry, writing your first book, or helping others through your gifts, the sooner it’ll become a reality.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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That’s it. Keep that edge. Fight like there’s no tomorrow.
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Henry V. O'Neil (Dire Steps (Sim War #3))
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The Government’s repeated response, however, even after October 1938, was to continue to attack his motives and judgement, and to seek to minimize the importance of his information.
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Martin Gilbert (Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth, 1922–1939 (Volume V) (Churchill Biography Book 5))
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No matter how difficult your situation may be today, no matter how discouraging the news, you can still lean on this: “The Lord has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all” (v. 19). God is enthroned in heaven and in control of everything that happens. Sometimes it may not look like it. If you’re walking by sight, you may wonder if there is a God at all. Or if there is a God, does He care? Or if He cares, can He do anything? The psalmist tells us, “Don’t walk by sight; walk by faith.” God has an army. “Bless the Lord, you His angels, who excel in strength, who do His word, heeding the voice of His word” (v. 20). The angels act at His command. If we read and study the Word of God and obey it, everything in the universe will work with us. If we disobey the Word of God, everything will work against us—just as it did against Jonah, who was running in the wrong direction, going on the wrong ship, with the wrong motive, for the wrong purpose. God finally brought him to a place of obedience. Don’t be like Jonah. Have faith that God is in control and working on you in every situation.
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Warren W. Wiersbe (Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms)
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The Government’s repeated response, however, even after October 1938, was to continue to attack his motives and judgement, and to seek to minimize the importance of his information. ‘No doubt it is not popular to say these things,’ Churchill had written to his wife on 26 September 1935, ‘but I am accustomed to abuse and I expect to have a great deal more of it before I have finished. Somebody has to state the truth.’ During
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Martin Gilbert (Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth, 1922–1939 (Volume V) (Churchill Biography Book 5))
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Viral Code
…I want my dreams
And I want them now;
Give me my dreams;
Only dreams can cure me;
Everyone deserves dreams
Because no one deserves them
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Jazalyn (vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget)
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It takes two to be wise: "the person with the words of wisdom and the person who receives the words of wisdom".
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G. V Burthardt
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If you don't determine your future, fate will do that for you".
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G. V Burthardt
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That it takes a disaster scenario or a war to motivate people to gravitate to a location with the highest wages shows economic incentives on their own are often not sufficient to get people to move.
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Abhijit V. Banerjee (Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems)
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Behavior is the fruit, but the heart is the root.”4 Lasting change happens when the heart is transformed.
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Dr. Peter Tan-Chi (M.O.T.I.V.A.T.E Updated Edition: 8 Secrets of Successful Parenting)
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Remember, your emotions drive your life. If the driver itself is sick no matter how good your car is, you are bound to face accidents.
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Sudhir K.V. (B4 Success…The Revolution Within : Develop Your Magical Instinct)
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The DSM-V offers a comprehensive set of criteria to define narcissism: A. Significant impairments in personality functioning manifest by: 1. Impairments in self functioning (a or b): a. Identity: Excessive reference to others for self-definition and self-esteem regulation; exaggerated self-appraisal may be inflated or deflated, or vacillate between extremes; emotional regulation mirrors fluctuations in self-esteem. b. Self-direction: Goal-setting is based on gaining approval from others; personal standards are unreasonably high in order to see oneself as exceptional, or too low based on a sense of entitlement; often unaware of own motivations. AND 2. Impairments in interpersonal functioning (a or b): a. Empathy: Impaired ability to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others; excessively attuned to reactions of others, but only if perceived as relevant to self; over- or underestimate of own effect on others. b. Intimacy: Relationships largely superficial and exist to serve self-esteem regulation; mutuality constrained by little genuine interest in others experiences and predominance of a need for personal gain. B. Pathological personality traits in the following domain: 1. Antagonism, characterized by: a. Grandiosity: Feelings of entitlement, either overt or covert; self-centeredness; firmly holding to the belief that one is better than others; condescending toward others. b. Attention seeking: Excessive attempts to attract and be the focus of the attention of others; admiration seeking. C. The impairments in personality functioning and the individual’s personality trait expression are relatively stable across time and consistent across situations. D. The impairments in personality functioning and the individual’s personality trait expression are not better understood as normative for the individual’s developmental stage or sociocultural environment. E. The impairments in personality functioning and the individual’s personality trait expression are not solely due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, medication) or a general medical condition (e.g., severe head trauma).7
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Chuck DeGroat (When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse)
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Blank pages are the only things left perfect in this world.
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t_r_a_v_e_l_l_e_r
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But that’s part of being in charge, Jan. Maybe the most important part. You can’t let your people get fucked over. Not if you expect them to follow you.
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Henry V. O'Neil (Orphan Brigade (Sim War #2))
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I was no closer to getting Alma released from house arrest, and my list of suspects, motives, and means was more muddled than the mint for a mojito.
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Raquel V. Reyes (Mango, Mambo, and Murder (A Caribbean Kitchen Mystery, #1))
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The ethnics caught up in the racial struggies oi the post-war period in Chicago were in the unenviable position of people who had the rules changed on them in mid-game. The Poles who settled Calumet Park as Sobieski Park had created their neighborhood enclaves under certain assumptions, all of which got changed when the environmentalist East Coast WASP internationalist establishment took power in 1941. Not only hadn’t they been informed of the rule change, they were doubly vulnerable because compared to their opponents who were further along on the scale of assimilation, they didn’t have a clear sense of themselves as Poles or Catholics or Americans or “white” people.
They also feared the sexual mores of the invading black hordes but could not articulate this fear in polite language. As a result, each attempt to explain their position drove them further beyond the pale of acceptable public discourse. More often than not, the only people who were articulating their position were the American Civil Liberties Union and American Friends Service Committee agents sent into their neighborhoods to spy on them. One AFSC spy reported that fear of intermarriage “caused the intensity of feelings” in Trumbull Park.*
Black attempts to use the community swimming pool were similarly seen in a sexual light. The ACLU agent who was paid to infiltrate bars in South Deering reported that the real motivation behind Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision mandating desegregation of Southern schools, was to move “niggers into every neighborhood” to intermarry and thereby send the “whole white race . . . downhill.”
Deprived of their ethnic designation as Catholic by a Church that was either hostile (as in the case of Catholic intellectuals) or indifferent (as in the case of the bishops and their chancery officials), Chicago ethnics, attempting to be good Americans, chose to become “white” instead, a transformation that not only guaranteed that they would lose their battle in the court of public opinion, but one which also guaranteed that they would go out of existence as well, through the very assimilation process being proposed by their enemies.
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E. Michael Jones (The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing)
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Today was my eighteenth birthday, and I had dedicated a great deal of the intervening years between the age of five and now to trying to understand the motives of human cruelty. I came to a conclusion that there wasn’t always a reason somewhere between eight and ten.
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L.V. Lane (Omega Awakening (The Controllers, #0.5))
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At the suggestion of Congressman Clyburn, I visited J. V. Martin Junior High School, a largely Black public school in the rural town of Dillon in the northeastern section of the state. Part of the building had been constructed in 1896, just thirty years after the Civil War, and if repairs had been made over the decades, you couldn’t tell. Crumbling walls. Busted plumbing. Cracked windows. Dank, unlit halls. A coal furnace in the basement still used to heat the building. Leaving the school, I alternated between feeling downcast and freshly motivated: What message had generations of boys and girls received as they arrived at this school each day except for the certainty that, to those in power, they did not matter; that whatever was meant by the American Dream, it wasn’t meant for them?
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Barack Obama (A Promised Land)
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Draining public swimming pools to avoid integration received the official blessing of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971. The city council in Jackson, Mississippi, had responded to desegregation demands by closing four public pools and leasing the fifth to the YMCA, which operated it for whites only. Black citizens sued, but the Supreme Court, in Palmer v. Thompson, held that a city could choose not to provide a public facility rather than maintain an integrated one, because by robbing the entire public, the white leaders were spreading equal harm. “There was no evidence of state action affecting Negroes differently from white,” wrote Justice Hugo Black. The Court went on to turn a blind eye to the obvious racial animus behind the decision, taking the race neutrality at face value. “Petitioners’ contention that equal protection requirements were violated because the pool-closing decision was motivated by anti-integration considerations must also fail, since courts will not invalidate legislation based solely on asserted illicit motivation by the enacting legislative body.” The d
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Heather McGhee (The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World Essentials))