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The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discrete shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding, indefatigable, and distant past that had crashed intact, though barriers of time, into its own future. I liked it.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Cuando el saqueo es organizado por ley para ganancia de los que hacen la ley, todas las clases saqueadeas tratan de entrar de alguna manera – de forma pacífica o revolucionaria – en la elaboración de leyes.
Speaker: Fréderic BastiatPosted: 23 Dec 2008 at 10:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Act in earnest, and you will become naturally earnest in all you do.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
Speaker: John RayPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
ted we run a startup not a standup
Speaker: John RockefellerSource: Skype in response to Ted's constant jokesPosted: 08 Nov 2012 at 7:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Speaker: Leo BuscagliaPosted: 12 Apr 2011 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s hard to accept, but you can’t change the past. You can’t go back and manipulate things to the way you wanted them to happen. Because life’d be meaningless and boring and just not worth living. But you can change the future and that’s a… beautiful thing about life. Yes, you will make mistakes. And yes, you will have bad days – but as long as you let the past go, you’ll have such a gorgeous and bright future ahead of you. Knowing that things were meant to happen. Knowing that each day you will learn something so that you keep growing to be a better person. Life is like a rope, twined in all its complexities and yet weaved into one marvelous stream that you have the chance you use something amazing from. So grab hold of it.
Speaker: Leah MesserPosted: 11 Jan 2011 at 9:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and – if you’re not careful – those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.
Speaker: LightsongSource: WarbreakerPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
Speaker: Annie LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything popular is wrong.
Speaker: Oscar WildeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Speaker: James M. BarriePosted: 27 Mar 2008 at 10:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s a howl in front of us, a terrible, terrible noise that I don’t want to hear: I can only just tell that it’s Laura’s voice, but I know that it is, and at that moment I want to go to her and offer to become a different person, to remove all trace of what is me, as long as she will let me look after her and try to make her feel better.
When we get out into the light, people crowd around Laura and Jo and Janet, and hug them; I want to do the same, but I don’t see how I can. But Laura sees Liz and me hovering on the fringe of the group, and comes to us, and thanks us for coming, and holds us both for a long time, and when she lets go of me I feel that I don’t need to offer to become a different person: it has happened already.Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
Posted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
La vie est ce que vous dites qu’elle est
Speaker: Paul WatzlawickPosted: 23 Oct 2010 at 2:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As I look back at the best years of my life, I find myself wondering if maybe I wasn’t unconsciously conditioned to exist somewhere in the middle of two better stories, caught between the invention of the recent past and the valor of the coming future.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 5:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Until you can say 'I am my master,’ you cannot say 'I am thy servant.”
Speaker: Stephen R. CoveyPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ninety-nine percent of the failures in life are the people who have the habit of making excuses.
Speaker: George Washington CarverPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 4:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the Gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy – indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
Speaker: William OslerPosted: 04 Feb 2009 at 8:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!