«Pelear no es cuestión de saber hacerlo, sino de decidir hacerlo.»
The typical Greek myth goes something like this: innocent shepherd boy is minding his own business, an overflying god spies him and gets a hard-on, swoops down and rapes him silly; while the victim is...
Extremely dangerous drug-related occupations for which decoy served as a paid audition of sorts. A start weapons system was a wise investment. The
Couple of dozen CDs in it, mostly albums by American woman singer-songwriters of the offbeat, misunderstood, highly intelligent but intensely emotional school, getting rich selling music to consumers...
A scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings
What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem and enumerated all of the dissastisfactions in your life? He would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; t...
To this point it probably looks like I am setting this up as a slam-dunk case for ambulating while working, and getting ready to lambaste treadmill-resistant managers as insensitive and tragically sho...
Tav started it, Aïda said. He ate his own leg. Soft cannibalism, he called it. Legs are of no use in space. He blogged it. Then it went viral.
Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking and thrilling.—Time
Show some fucking adaptability!
Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge...
If you did enough traveling, you'd never feel at home anywhere.
If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules
A long fall. Dinah had ceased to even think in terms of up and down. The concept of falling had become meaningless to her.
Battering
Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort,...
This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result,...
They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.
The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of money.I hadn't known that, I said. I always tend to assume there's...
The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.