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“In the view of one prominent alienist, she was “a woman of dual personality: a kind and indulgent mother at certain times and at others a demon without fear of God of man or of the law.”
― Harold Schechter, Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

“Put another way, there were thirty-six email chains about topics that could cause “serious” damage to national security and eight that could be expected to cause “exceptionally grave” damage to the security of the United States if released.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“You never know what you can achieve so long as you never stop trying.”
― Stephanie Thornton, The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora

“Alessandro Volta, an Italian count and the inspiration for the eponym “volt,” demonstrated this back around 1800 with a clever experiment. Volta had a number of volunteers form a chain and each pinch the tongue of one neighbor. The two end people then put their fingers on battery leads. Instantly, up and down the line, people tasted each other’s fingers as sour.”
― Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

“All human beings have their hardships to bear, so never swerve away from the path you're on.”
― Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

“The Justice Department Inspector General was investigating Comey’s actions in the Clinton email case.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“Detectives... were widely seen as surreptitious figures who burglarized other peoples secrets. ( The term "to detect" derived from the latin verb " to unroof" and because the devil, according to legend, allowed his henchmen to peer voyeuristically into houses by removing their roofs, detectives were known as 'The devils disciples”
― David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

“I was a library loyalist, paper was always superior, and flipping through the index cards made me feel industrious.”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

“Remember what it was like when you’d be getting ready to jump rope... two people were turning it, and you were waiting for exactly the right moment to jump in? I feel like that all the time.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“To write timelessly about the here and now, a writer must approach the present indirectly. The story has to be about more than it at first seems. Shakespeare used the historical sources of his plays as a scaffolding on which to construct detailed portraits of his own age. The interstices between the secondhand historical plots and Shakespeare’s startlingly original insights into Elizabethan England are what allow his work to speak to us today. Reading Shakespeare, we know what it is like, in any age, to be alive. So it is with Moby-Dick, a novel about a whaling voyage to the Pacific that is also about America racing hell-bent toward the Civil War and so much more. Contained in the pages of Moby-Dick is nothing less than the genetic code of America: all the promises, problems, conflicts, and ideals that contributed to the outbreak of a revolution in 1775 as well as a civil war in 1861 and continue to drive this country’s ever-contentious march into the future. This means that whenever a new crisis grips this country, Moby-Dick becomes newly important. It is why subsequent generations have seen Ahab as Hitler during World War II or as a profit-crazed deep-drilling oil company in 2010 or as a power-crazed Middle Eastern dictator in 2011.”
― Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?

“So much has changed about me since I was that confident, happy girl in high school. In the years since then, I’ve experienced a lot of desperation and self-doubt, but in a way, I’ve come full circle. I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story. I will. I’ll speak and share and fuck and love, and I will never apologize for it. I am amazing for you, not because of you. I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you.”
― Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

“Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.”
― Harold Schechter, Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

“Any investigator or prosecutor who doesn’t have a sense, after nearly a year of investigation, where their case is likely headed, is incompetent.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” Jeff Hammerbacher, an early Facebook engineer, told me. “That sucks.” Silicon”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

“Change is hard, and slow, but he bothered to do it. Sometimes people on the defensive rebound into compassion. Sometimes smart, good people are just a little behind.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“merriment, making certain they understood it was a game where”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade

“You’re told to park at One Rocket Road in Hawthorne, where SpaceX has its HQ. It”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“Frémont failed in his presidential bid, losing the 1856 election to his Democratic opponent, James Buchanan.”
― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

“Пытаясь предусмотреть некоторые трудности будущих переводчиков, я, слово за словом, прошелся по книге с красной ручкой и отметил все каламбуры, и акростихи, все словесные перестановки, и переклички далеких отрывков текста: я объяснил трудноуловимые двойные (или тройные, или четверные, или пятерные) значения и указал отрывки, в которых форма отражает содержание; отметил те места книги, в которых сами особенности типографского набора передают важную информацию, посоветовал, какие затруднительные пассажи могут быть облегчены в переводе, а какие необходимо сохранить, и так далее. С этой кропотливой работой я провозился целый год, но делал ее с любовью; так или иначе, она была необходима, чтобы предотвратить катастрофу."

Праздничное предисловие автора к русскому изданию книги «Гёдель, Эшер, Бах»”
― Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“Humans cover themselves, and protect themselves, and when someone says, “You are pushing my buttons,” it is not exactly true. What is true is that you are touching a wound in his mind, and he reacts because it hurts.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship