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"He's perpetrating a myth that the wife of Alexander Wood, the inventor of the hypodermic needle, died of an injected overdose of morphine. Not true; she survived her husband." — Feb 12, 2019 05:41PM
"He's perpetrating a myth that the wife of Alexander Wood, the inventor of the hypodermic needle, died of an injected overdose of morphine. Not true; she survived her husband." — Feb 12, 2019 05:41PM
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"It's a quick read - the authors are doing a good job of presenting the inner emptiness that impels people with BPD to lash out - a reminder to the rest of us to retain our (sometimes shredded) compassion." — May 16, 2014 03:03PM
"It's a quick read - the authors are doing a good job of presenting the inner emptiness that impels people with BPD to lash out - a reminder to the rest of us to retain our (sometimes shredded) compassion." — May 16, 2014 03:03PM
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"So far, fascinating. Love the Romanov sleuthing, although it is incidental to the main story." — Jan 13, 2019 06:00PM
"So far, fascinating. Love the Romanov sleuthing, although it is incidental to the main story." — Jan 13, 2019 06:00PM
“The impulse is being called reactionary now, but lovers of Middle-earth want to go there. I would myself, like a shot. For in the end it is Middle-earth and its dwellers that we love, not Tolkien’s considerable gifts in showing it to us. I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day’s madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers—thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.”
― The Tolkien Reader
― The Tolkien Reader
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold the principles received by me when I was sane, not mad -- as I am now. Laws and principles are not for times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth -- so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane -- quite insane, with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations are all I have at this hour to stand; there I plant my foot.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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