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It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house. ↗
No, no, no, Landemere. This time I'm putting my foot down. I mean it. Don't think you're going to smear syrup on my beard, as we say in Ramaldah. You're not making me change my mind by sweet talking me. I know your tricks, and I won't fall for them. ↗
#no #sayings-in-ramaldah #sweet-talking #talking-tricks #change
What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed paradigm of identity instead of through a scientific view on what we are: a momentary expression of an ever-changing unity with no centre. ↗
In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals. ↗
I need to be a vampire," she said. "and I want one of them to make it happen. Michael will do fine. I don't care who turns me. The important thing is that if I change, I'll be a princess." I was wrong. She was really crazy. ↗
#eve-rosser #michael-glass #miranda #morganville #short-stories
When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed. ↗
Он понимал все сказанные ему слова и не понимал смысла: как может меньшее заступить дорогу большему, как может их маленькая революция помешать его великой, которую он несет меж своих висков, которая над всем над; что они могут, люди, развесившие флаги, кроме как отмстить трем-четырем столетиям и выкликать грядущее - только выкликать? А он - его машина - бросит человечество через века и века вперед. ↗
-Nice concept. -What is? -Retreating. Getting away from the grind. -Oh, you never do. You just change gears. ↗
(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before. ↗
