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I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this “condition” affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.

Caucasia

I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her.

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly?

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future generations.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.

Chaos: Making a New Science

Humanity's relationship with the Divine is one of mutual give and take, and we mutually opted to part ways. But this perpetuation - setting up a way of thinking, and just letting it run - it doesn't always yield good results.

City of Stairs

The creative mind seeks chance and accident while everyone else seeks control and order. Rod Judkins ‘Change Your Mind

Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self

Ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure...it is what we call a license to harm: a permit issued by a government to an industry so that it may dispense sickness, destruction, and death at an "acceptable" rate.

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Maybe calling it being hitched ain’t the prettiest way to say you’re married, but it’s the truth to my mind and true in a good way, because you’re working together and depending on each other, and you’re sharing the load.

The Cove

I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.

Dragonfly in Amber

Love is often confused with attraction. Love is an action, it’s a choice. We can choose to love someone. Attraction, however, is a feeling, it’s an emotion, it’s temporary.

Dear Guys: A New Way To Date

The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We didn’t impose it on the Universe. That’s the way the Universe is. If this is reductionism, so be it.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to do things the wrong way, we can never learn how to do them the right way.

Dylan's Prize

I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or loved one. I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.

Divergent

Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.

Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Library

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

The best teacher you'll ever have is yourself. I'm not your teacher! I'm here only to show you the way towards what you already know, and also, show you a way to find out what you don't know but feel that it exists.

Full Circle