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“A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.”
“A main reason for our experience of pain is because of our eagerness to bring people we love or care about into our own growth spurts and into our own leaps forward that they are simply not ready to morph into. You could be a tree sprouting new branches left and right or a planetary wonder hurtling space rocks igniting the skies in glowing streaks, then the other person or people are plantlings still forming roots, or, sunbeams that want to stay on bedroom walls. See, that hurts. It hurts to grow alone, it hurts to realise that someone else won't be coming with you.”
“A main street? Depends on its name.”
Source: The New Land
“A main thing it says to our age ought to be plain. Its great opposed symbols are the tempest of Prospero, which Ariel made as Prospero’s slave, and Ariel’s music, which Ariel made of his own free will. The former is the result of necromantic science or theurgy. The latter is a spontaneous overflow of joy in life. The one creates an opportunity for revenge. The other resolves the situation thus created. What that says to a generation that has used its own science to make an atomic bomb is as illuminating as a flash of lightning by night.”
Source: The Meaning of Shakespeare
“A maior parte das dores são silenciosas.”
“A maior parte das vidas é uma fuga da essência de cada um.”
Source: Children of Dune
“A maior parte do talento musical advém mais da formação do que da inspiração.”
Source: How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
“A maior parte dos interrogadores voltava de mãos vazias dia após dia. “Nenhuma informação obtida da fonte”, era o que os interrogadores informavam todas as semanas. E exatamente como ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ tinha dito, o ■■■■■■■■■■ estava desesperado para fazer os detentos falar. Assim, ■■■■■■■ montou um mini■■■■■■■■■ dentro da organização maior. Essa força-tarefa, que englobava gente do Exército, da Marinha, dos Fuzileiros Navais e civis, tinha como missão arrancar informações dos detentos. A operação foi cercada de máximo sigilo. ■■■■■■■■■■ era um personagem de destaque nesse subgrupo ■■■■■■ . Embora ■■■■■■■ fosse uma pessoa inteligente, davam a ele o serviço mais sujo da ilha e, por meio de uma espantosa lavagem cerebral, o levavam a crer que estava fazendo a coisa certa. ■■■■■■ estava sempre envolto num uniforme que o cobria da cabeça aos pés, porque ■■■■■■■■■ tinha consciência de que ele estava cometendo crimes de guerra contra detentos indefesos. ■■■■■■■■■■■■ era A Coruja da Noite, O Adorador do Diabo, O Homem da Música Alta, o Cara da Antirreligião, o interrogador por excelência. Cada um desses apelidos se justificava. ■■■■■■ tinha por hábito “entreter” os detentos que não estavam autorizados a dormir. Privou-me de sono durante cerca de dois meses, ao longo dos quais tentou subjugar minha resistência mental, sem sucesso. Para me manter acordado, ele resfriava ao máximo a temperatura de onde eu me achava, me obrigava a escrever todo tipo de coisa sobre minha vida, me dava água sem parar e às vezes me fazia ficar a noite inteira de pé. Um dia, me deixou pelado com ajuda de um carcereiro ■■■■■■■■■ para me humilhar. Outra noite, me pôs numa sala gelada cheia de fotos propagandísticas dos Estados Unidos, inclusive uma foto de George W. Bush, e me fez ouvir mil vezes o hino nacional americano.
■■■■■■ cuidava de diversos detentos ao mesmo tempo. Eu ouvia muitas portas batendo, música alta e detentos indo e vindo, o barulho das pesadas correntes denunciando sua presença. ■■■■■ punha os detentos numa sala escura com imagens que supostamente representavam demônios. Fazia os detentos ouvir música de ódio e fúria, e a música “Let the Bodies hit the Floor” mil vezes, a noite inteira, na sala escura. Ele era muito explícito sobre seu ódio ao islã, e proibia terminantemente qualquer prática islâmica, inclusive as orações e a recitação do Corão.”
Source: Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
“A maioria das pessoas acha inspirador perceber como o mundo realmente é. A maioria das pessoas está ansiosa por começar a aprender. Testar o seu conhecimento, se for feito de uma maneira humilde, pode libertar uma avalanche de curiosidade e novas compreensões.”
Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“A maioria das pessoas admite haver racismo no Brasil, mas quase ninguém se assume como racista. Pelo contrário, o primeiro impulso de muita gente é recuar enfaticamente a hipótese”
Source: Pequeno Manual Antirracista
“A maioria das pessoas não ultrapassa a profundidade da tigela com água que ofereço a meu cão.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“A maioria dos líderes políticos e dos magnatas do mundo dos negócios está permanentemente com pressa. Porém, se queremos estudar um tema a fundo, precisamos de muito tempo e, em especial, do luxo de poder desperdiçar tempo. (…) Se não podemos dar-nos ao luxo de desperdiçar tempo, nunca encontraremos a verdade. Pior ainda, o poder em grande quantidade distorce a verdade inevitavelmente. O poder prende-se com a mudança da realidade, não com vê-la como ela é. (…) Se temos muito poder, todas as pessoas que vemos tentam lisonjear-nos, agradar-nos ou pedir-nos algo. (…) Se queremos realmente a verdade, então temos de nos afastar do buraco negro do poder e permitir a nós próprios gastar muito tempo a vaguear na periferia. O conhecimento revolucionário raramente chega ao centro, pois o centro está alicerçado no conhecimento já existente.”
Source: 21 lições para o século 21
“A mais premente necessidade de um ser humano era tornar-se um ser humano.”
Source: An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“A mais sutil oscilação de cada coisa chegava até mim, até que eu me tornasse cada coisa.”
Source: No olho da Ilha
“A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.”
“A major argument against voting is that it makes no difference, and if that’s the case, let me explain that the person’s vote does make a difference.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.”
Source: The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality
“A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was followed by a second crash, another boom from 1932 to 1937, and a third crash. Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play. There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion. In the real world, we never know when the story is over.”
“A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.”
“A major challenge of this movement is to do the work that will create more humane, habitable environments for people in prison without bolstering the permanence of the prison system. How, then, do we accomplish this balancing act of passionately attending to the needs of prisoners- calling for less violent conditions, an end to state sexual assault, improved physical and mental health care, greater access to drug programs, better educational work opportunities, unionization of prison labor, more connections with families and communities, shorter or alternative sentencing- and at the same time call for alternatives to sentencing altogether, no more prison construction, and abolitionist strategies that question the place of prison in our future?”
“A major change is afoot as we combine both WPZ and Access into the large scale natural gas infrastructure MLP. And the team here at WPZ is very energized right now as we're on the verge of a major $1 billion boost in our annual cash flows that we expect to come from three major projects Geismar, Gulfstar and the Keathley Canyon Connector all of which have reached the commissioning stage here in the fourth quarter.”
“A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.”
“A major component of health and wellness, gratitude helps us to appreciate the blessings we already have and sparks the anticipatory pleasure of blessings to come.”
“A major consequence of being psychologically asleep is the psychological and spiritual blindness which results from it. This results in action not from conscious awareness and true intelligence but from self-righteousness, which leads individuals and society as a whole into an abysmal pit.”
Source: The Awakening of Perception: A Collection of Talks and Articles
“A major contributor to the genesis of many diseases... is an overload of stress induced by unconscious beliefs. If we would heal, it is essential to begin the painfully incremental task of reversing the biology of belief we adopted very early in life. Whatever external treatment is administered, the healing agent lies within. The internal milieu must be changed. To find health, and to know it fully, necessitates a quest, a journey to the center of our own biology of belief. That means rethinking and recognizing—re-cognizing: literally, to “know again”—our lives.”
Source: When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
“A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud.”
Source: The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality
“A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.”
Source: A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
“A major danger for us Europeans: We must demonstrate that those who have this view of us are mistaken, that we can come to agreement, that we as a community of democratic and free nations are economically successful and are gaining political influence. To do so, we must learn to project our power.”
“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.”
“A major difference between spiritual and material beings, is that material beings, humans, for example, cannot change the form that they are in when they are born into this world.”
Source: Sick Of The Palsy
“A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.”
“A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.”
Source: Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred
“A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership
“A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.”
“A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically.”
Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of Script
“A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.”
Source: Killosophy
“A major goal of polygyny in divine marriage is to eliminate the potential exploitation of women and other negatives that can occur under a monogamy-only policy with a preponderance of women.”
Source: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves, Polygyny~Copartnering: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative
“A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.”
“A major institutional reform is the move away from merely planning, to transforming India. The setting up of NITI Aayog, is a step in this direction.”
“A major investigation, once it gets underway, is as exciting as watching reruns of Big Brother, although possibly involving less sex and violence.”
Source: Midnight Riot
“A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.'”
“A major issue with modern society and its mainstream culture is that it propagates a distorted idea of what it means to be human and what brings us true happiness. Through mass media, entertainment, advertising, and other cultural elements, we have been indoctrinated to believe that the sole purpose of life is to chase amusement and endless distractions. We have been sold the notion that satisfying our most basic instincts is an admirable goal. That unbridled promiscuity and unrestrained sexuality lead to fulfillment and that accumulating material possessions and wealth guarantees both success and happiness.”
Source: THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being
“A major key to knowing what your gifting or calling is, is what you do without knowing that is passing”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.”
“A major loss can suck everything else in with it.”
Source: In Limbo
“A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.”
“A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.”
Source: At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability
“A major part of wealth is liquidity. Yes, It’s important to have valuable assets with big price tags. But it’s also important that your assets are doing more than inflating your net worth. Those assets should be providing continuous, substantial and endless streams of money for you.
You should always be able to access the money you need to do the things you need to do and like to do. There is power in liquidity.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.”
“A major problem with many codependency/recovery books is the belief that going back to childhood to find the why's of present feelings and behavior and even to find where patterns developed will bring relief and transformation.”
Source: 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependecy/Recovery Heresies