Ellen Emerson White · 204 pages
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“I feel rather a fool writing down my thoughts”
― Ellen Emerson White, quote from Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
“I tried to make each half sandwich last for three full bites, though I could easily have popped them into my mouth whole.”
― Ellen Emerson White, quote from Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
“Mrs. Carstairs is terribly excited about being aboard this particular ship, as it is the Titanic's maiden voyage, and she is suppose to be the largest ever built.”
― Ellen Emerson White, quote from Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
“These are hard memories, and I will save the rest of the story for another time.”
― Ellen Emerson White, quote from Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
“It is my last night here, and I suddenly feel quite tearful, sitting up in my usual window.”
― Ellen Emerson White, quote from Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
“Here I am, in a lovely hotel room, with my own bathroom. I have never experienced such incredible luxury.”
― Ellen Emerson White, quote from Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
“Then, all of a sudden, there was a great black hull, stretching farther than my eye could see.”
― Ellen Emerson White, quote from Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
Ellen Emerson White
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“After listening for almost twenty-five years to the stories my patients tell me about sociopaths who have invaded and injured their lives, when I am asked, “How can I tell whom not to trust?” the answer I give usually surprises people. The natural expectation is that I will describe some sinister-sounding detail of behavior or snippet of body language or threatening use of language that is the subtle giveaway. Instead, I take people aback by assuring them that the tip-off is none of these things, for none of these things is reliably present. Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.”
― Martha Stout, quote from The Sociopath Next Door
“For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch needs a watchmaker, just as a world needs a world-maker—God. Yet both Wallace and Paley might have heeded the lesson from Voltaire's Candide (1759), in which Dr. Pangloss, a professor of "metaphysico-theology-cosmolonigology," through reason, logic, and analogy "proved" that this is the best of all possible worlds: '"Tis demonstrated that things cannot be otherwise; for, since everything is made for an end, everything is necessarily for the best end. Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches" (1985, p. 238). The absurdity of this argument was intended on the part of the author, for Voltaire firmly rejected the Panglossian paradigm that all is best in the best of all possible worlds. Nature is not perfectly designed, nor is this the best of all possible worlds. It is simply the world we have, quirky, contingent, and flawed as it may be.”
― Michael Shermer, quote from Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
“Against anything human, more than one round to the head would be overkill: When the merely mortal goes up against the supernatural, there's no such thing as overkill”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files
“[…] en esta totalidad apenas es ya posible la distinción conceptual entre los negocios y la política, el beneficio y el prestigio, las necesidades y la publicidad. Se exporta un “modo de vida”, o se exporta a sí mismo en la dinámica de la totalidad. Con el capital, los ordenadores y el saber-vivir, llegan los restantes “valores”: relaciones libidinosas con la mercancía, con los artefactos motorizados agresivos, con la estética falsa del supermercado.”
― Herbert Marcuse, quote from One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
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