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The Dhammapada (Penguin Classics) by Penguin Classics
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-26 | Author:Penguin Classics [Classics, Penguin]

CHAPTER 2 AWARENESS The Pali word translated here as ‘awareness’ is appamāda, the opposite of pamāda, ‘intoxication’, ‘carelessness’, ‘unawareness’. As often in Pali, the negative suffix has a stronger force ...
( Category: Buddhism July 12,2017 )
The Quotable Feynman by Feynman Richard P.; Feynman Michelle
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-06-28 | Author:Feynman, Richard P.; Feynman, Michelle

The Quantum World We physicists are always checking to see if there is something the matter with the theory. That’s the game, because if there is something the matter, it’s ...
( Category: Physics July 9,2017 )
Dorian by Will Self
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Will Self [Self, Will]

12 Once they were in the street Baz wanted to make conversation, the way normal people do when they leave a dinner party, but Dorian was having none of this. ...
( Category: Personal Transformation June 28,2017 )
The Hardest Goodbyes
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Roan DL [DL, Roan]

Chapter Eleven “It’s time.” Daniel paused in front of the mirror, one hand holding his razor against his cheek, the other clutching the phone in a death grip as he ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense June 22,2017 )
Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes by Clifton Fadiman & Andre Bernard
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-09-20 | Author:Clifton Fadiman & Andre Bernard

LYAUTEY, Louis Hubert Gonzalve (1854–1934), French general. 1 After the war was over, Lyautey asked his gardener to plant a tree in a particular part of his estate. The gardener ...
( Category: Quotations June 20,2017 )
The Wheel of Time: The Shamans of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life Death & the Universe by Carlos Castaneda
epub |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Carlos Castaneda [Castaneda, Carlos]

Human beings are perceivers, but the world that they perceive is an illusion: an illusion created by the description that was told to them from the moment they were born. ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality June 18,2017 )
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens by Windsor Mann
epub |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Windsor Mann [Mann, Windsor]

“Is nothing sacred?” he asks. “Of course not.” And no Westerner, as Ronald Dworkin pointed out, “has the right not to be offended.” We accept Christopher’s errancies, his recklessnesses, because ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 18,2017 )
QI: Advanced Banter by Lloyd John & Mitchinson John
epub |eng | 2008-11-20 | Author:Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John [Lloyd, John]

The way to get people to build a ship is not to teach them carpentry, assign them tasks, and give them schedules to meet; but to inspire them to long ...
( Category: Quotations June 14,2017 )
The Confusion (Baroque Cycle, #2) by Neal Stephenson
epub | | 2009-08-01 | Author:Neal Stephenson [Stephenson, Neal]

“AMPUTATIONS ARE DICEY THINGS,” remarked Bob Shaftoe some hours later. For a while, he had had that look on his face that warned Eliza he was pondering something, and likely ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy June 8,2017 )
Three Days in January by Bret Baier
epub |eng | 2016-12-12 | Author:Bret Baier

CHAPTER 9 THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 20,2017 )
Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

8. In Search of a Majority: An Address I AM SUPPOSED TO SPEAK THIS evening on the goals of American society as they involve minority rights, but what I am ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2017 )
Aphorisms by Franz Kafka
epub |eng | 2016-11-06 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

86 Ever since Original Sin, we are basically all alike in our ability to know Good and Evil; even so, this is where we seek a particular advantage. Actually, it’s ...
( Category: Existentialism March 15,2017 )
What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations by Knowles Elizabeth
epub |eng | 2006-10-26 | Author:Knowles, Elizabeth [Knowles, Elizabeth]

The line, and its association with Garbo, was clearly well-known by 1930. In that year, the humorous writers W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman published Garden Rubbish. The punning ...
( Category: Reference February 24,2017 )
The Illustrated Walden by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

Ploughing, harrowing, and furrowing, 7 50 Too much. Beans for seed, 3 12½ Potatoes " 1 33 Peas " 0 40 Turnip seed, 0 06 White line for crow fence, ...
( Category: United States January 9,2017 )
Bernie Sanders, In His Own Words by Chamois Holschuh
epub |eng | 2014-11-15 | Author:Chamois Holschuh

* * * “Well, that’s not what America is about. That’s not what people fought and died to create. With that, we have got a fight on our hands. The ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism November 16,2016 )

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