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"These books aren't for me. I really want them to be, since so many people love them, but I'm partway through the third book and I'm just not feeling it. There are so many characters, and they all seem to have 2-3 different titles and names, and also, fighting and intrigue just don't hold my interest. I can see why people think these books are good; I can tell they're good; they're just not for me. for me." — Apr 29, 2016 10:52AM
"These books aren't for me. I really want them to be, since so many people love them, but I'm partway through the third book and I'm just not feeling it. There are so many characters, and they all seem to have 2-3 different titles and names, and also, fighting and intrigue just don't hold my interest. I can see why people think these books are good; I can tell they're good; they're just not for me. for me." — Apr 29, 2016 10:52AM
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""Intellect, especially the sort of intellect a technocratic society favors, is, like all human abilities, far from uniformly distributed. Where there is a social competition which selects such serviceable intellect for reward, we quickly arrive at a meritocracy which winnows out the disadvantaged, the rebellious, the slow starters, the possessors of eccentric or unmarketable talents.”" — May 05, 2014 06:45PM
""Intellect, especially the sort of intellect a technocratic society favors, is, like all human abilities, far from uniformly distributed. Where there is a social competition which selects such serviceable intellect for reward, we quickly arrive at a meritocracy which winnows out the disadvantaged, the rebellious, the slow starters, the possessors of eccentric or unmarketable talents.”" — May 05, 2014 06:45PM
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"‘The oaks and wild-onions yielded to cornfields. The blight took the chestnut-groves that the ax spared. Only men graying at the temples remember the generous spreading trees, and the prickly burr with the sweet little nuts in the velvety pocket. But still, in half the counties from Massachusetts to Carolina, a Chestnut Hill stands as a monument to that brave upland tree.’" — Jan 12, 2019 07:19AM
"‘The oaks and wild-onions yielded to cornfields. The blight took the chestnut-groves that the ax spared. Only men graying at the temples remember the generous spreading trees, and the prickly burr with the sweet little nuts in the velvety pocket. But still, in half the counties from Massachusetts to Carolina, a Chestnut Hill stands as a monument to that brave upland tree.’" — Jan 12, 2019 07:19AM
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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Lolly Willowes
― Lolly Willowes
“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.”
― Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society
― Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society
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