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Parsons and Co. engaged themselves with black masses and devil summoning. This wasn’t because they were satanists but because they were trying to show disrespect towards conventional religion, as was the style at the time.
“The ships, ever bigger, ever more powerful, ever more majestic, were the badge of spirit for mankind.
At least... sailors think so.
For bakers, it's the bread that rises in their ovens that mankind should pay attention to.”
― Ghost Ship
At least... sailors think so.
For bakers, it's the bread that rises in their ovens that mankind should pay attention to.”
― Ghost Ship
“How did the age-old equation that poor equals thin and rich equals fat change so that now our working poor are huge and slow-moving and only the wealthy can afford the personal trainers, liposuction, and extended spa treatments required, it seems, to be thin?”
― The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
― The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
“School is not a place where students come to listen to lectures, fill in worksheets, and endure boredom. Nor is it a place reserved for those who can tolerate the drab and dirty look of many schools.
School is a concept wherein students are welcome to learn and enhance the quality of their lives without fear of intimidation or harm, guided by hospitable and caring people in a clean and orderly environment.”
― THE First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher, 5th Edition
School is a concept wherein students are welcome to learn and enhance the quality of their lives without fear of intimidation or harm, guided by hospitable and caring people in a clean and orderly environment.”
― THE First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher, 5th Edition
“No man is brave that has never walked 100 miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, bitter as medicine and crueler than mirror glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than 100 years of quiet introspection.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“Salome interrupts. We’re not members ! she repeats. We are the women of Molotschna. The entire colony of Molotschna is built on the foundation of patriarchy (translator’s note: Salome didn’t use the word “patriarchy”—I inserted it in the place of Salome’s curse, of mysterious origin, loosely translated as “talking through the flowers”), where the women live out their days as mute, submissive and obedient servants. Animals. Fourteen-year-old boys are expected to give us orders, to determine our fates, to vote on our excommunications, to speak at the burials of our own babies while we remain silent, to interpret the Bible for us, to lead us in worship, to punish us! We are not members, Mariche, we are commodities.”
― Women Talking
― Women Talking
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