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“If you disagree with something, it's easier to say 'you suck' than to figure out and explain exactly what you disagree with. You're also safe that way from refutation. In this respect trolling is a lot like graffiti. Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world.”

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Author:Paul Graham
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“Oh, noble child, everything is severing the mind. As for the mind, it is severing pride. There is nothing whatsoever that is not included in pride. If one simply understands that it is merely the production of pride, then, for example, one is like a thief in an empty house: by simply recognizing [the situation], grasping is impossible. Having correctly understood, there is no practice with an intentional objective. Because it crushes any hesitations (mi phod), it is explained as Chöd.”

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Book:Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition
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“When I was small my mother tried to teach me the colors. "Blue," she said, pointing to the sky. And "blue" again, the second time pointing to the water. She told me I shook my head because I could see that sky blue was not always the same as water blue. It took me a long time-until I lived in Oria- to use the same word for all the shades of a color... Love has different shades. Like the way I loved Cassia when I thought she'd never love me. The way I loved her on The Hill. The way I love her now that she came into the canyon for me. It's different. Deeper. I thought I loved her and wanted her before, but as we walk through the canyon together I realize this could be more than a new shade. A whole new color.”

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Book:Crossed
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“He stopped the flyers And by his rare example made the coward Turn terror into sport. As weeds before A vessel under sail, so men obeyed And fell below his stem. His sword, Death's stamp, Where it did mark, it took; from face to foot He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. Alone he entered The mortal gate o' th' city, which he painted With shunless destiny; aidless came off And with a sudden reinforcement struck Corioles like a planet. Now all's his, When by and by the dim of war gan pierce His ready sense; then straight his doubled spirit Requickened what in flesh was fatigate, And to the battle came he, where he did Run reeking o'er the lives of men as if 'Twere a perpetual spoil; and till we called Both field and city ours, he never stood To ease his breast with panting.”

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Book:Coriolanus
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“After a few days of rain, the seedlings will push through the soil and unfold their tiny leaves. Two weeks later, if the rain is still good, we then carefully apply the first round of fertilizer, because each seedling requires love and attention like any living thing if it's going to grow up strong.”

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Book:The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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“They were contemplating moving into another house or, more exactly, loudly saying to each other, so as to be overheard by anyone who might be listening, that they were contemplating moving, when all at once the fiend was gone, as happens with the moskovett, that bitter blast, that colossus of cold air that blows on our eastern shores throughout March, and then one morning you hear the birds, and the flags hang flaccid, and the outlines of the world are again in place.”

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Book:Pale fire
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“ডাক্তার উৎসাহিত হয়ে আরো কি যেন বলতে যাচ্ছিলেন এমন সময় আস্তে আস্তে দরজা খুলে ঘরে ঢুকলেন এক সুন্দরী- হ্যাঁ, সুন্দরী বটে। এক লহমায় আমি নর্থ সীর ঘন নীল জল, দক্ষিণ ইটালির সোনালি রোদে রূপালি প্রজাপতি, ডানয়ুবের শান্ত-প্রশান্ত ছবি, সেই ডানয়ুবেরই লজ্জাশীল দেহচ্ছন্দ, রাইনল্যান্ডের শ্যামলিয়া মোহনীয়া ইন্দ্রজাল সব কিছুই দেখতে পেলুম। আর সে কী লাজুক হাসি হেসে আমার দিকে তিনি হাত বাড়ালেন। আমি মাথা নীচু করে ফরাসিস কায়দায় তাঁর চম্পক করাঙ্গুলিপ্রান্তে ওষ্ঠ স্পর্শ করে মনে মনে বললুম, বেঁচে থাকো সর্দি-কাশি চিরজীবী হয়ে তুমি।”

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Book:চাচা কাহিনী
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“The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.”

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Book:Healology
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“I was wary of my sister's cooking, which invariably consisted of a tubular pasta and economy cheese, charred black on the surface, with either tinned tuna or lardy mince lurking beneath the molten crust ... So that evening, in a tiny flat in Tooting, I was pushed into the tiny kitchen where sixteen people sat crammed around a tiny trestle table designed for pasting wallpaper, one of my sister's notorious pasta bakes smouldering in its centre like a meteorite, smelling of toasted cat food.”

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Author:David Nicholls
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