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"Quit. Could stay with it. I enjoyed the historical aspects of the depression era, but, the training and boating specifics bored me." — Oct 06, 2016 05:00PM
"Quit. Could stay with it. I enjoyed the historical aspects of the depression era, but, the training and boating specifics bored me." — Oct 06, 2016 05:00PM
“And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
― The Real Thing
― The Real Thing
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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“You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.”
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“Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities and emotions. Therefore I respect you as a person. I will not desecrate your worth by making critical remarks about your intellect, your judgment or your logic. I will seek to understand you and grant you the freedom to think differently from the way I think and to experience emotions that I may not experience." Respect means that you give the other person the freedom to be an individual.”
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