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I despair at the rise of mode...

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

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Context is to data what water...

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

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As for the depiction of the C...

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

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It no longer matters who cons...

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

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I now understand the need for...

I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

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Life is brutal that way ... t...

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

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The Victorians, they were lik...

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

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Losing our ignorance can be d...

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

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Those who ignore history's le...

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

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We are not the only avatars o...

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

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Religion seems to have always...

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

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War must never be a condition...

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

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Barbarians, we call them, whi...

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

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The best advice that an accom...

The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost every writer that wants a rewarding career, in terms of money and status and number of readers, finally finds a certain genre or certain style that he or she sticks with until reaching a critical mass of readership. And I've violated this from the get-go.

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History viewed from the insid...

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

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I loved almost everything abo...

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

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I loved you backward and forw...

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

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No lifetime is long enough fo...

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

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His imagination was always mo...

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

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Every age fraught with discor...

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Dan Simmons 113 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....