Below you will find a set of texts used on TypeRacer. Certain texts only appear on certain difficulties.
| Rank |
ID |
Text |
Length |
Races |
Difficulty Rating |
Top Score |
Top 100 |
Average |
Active Since |
| 1. |
#595 |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. Out there up ahead. |
389 |
335 |
1.121 |
104.18 — Kenneth (kenesu357) |
72.54 |
58.95 |
September 16, 2018 |
| 2. |
#3620396 |
Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one's life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone. |
401 |
419 |
1.118 |
158.28 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
102.87 |
67.53 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 3. |
#3621082 |
Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid, and some worshiped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from thought and from feeling. |
477 |
186 |
1.115 |
161.63 — thumb space for fun (supere... |
105.30 |
88.48 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 4. |
#3620836 |
And if you haven't got honor and pride, then nothing matters. Only there is something in you that doesn't care about honor and pride yet that lives, that even walks backward for a whole year just to live; that probably even when this is over and there is not even defeat left, will still decline to sit still in the sun and die, but will be out in the woods, moving and seeking where just will and endurance could not move it, grubbing for roots and such - the old mindless sentient undreaming meat that doesn't even know any difference between despair and victory. |
565 |
278 |
1.099 |
160.85 — guy (grayeyes) |
104.84 |
82.30 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 5. |
#439 |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is still rich enough. But one day this soil will be poor and domesticated, and no tall tree will be able to grow in it. Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer shoot the arrow of his longing beyond man, and the string of his bow will have forgotten how to whir. |
393 |
168 |
1.097 |
177.39 — (shazman) |
107.02 |
90.81 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 6. |
#3620889 |
Anyway, it's best not to think about them, as if you do it makes the discussions with the other lawyers, all their advice and all that they do manage to achieve, seem so unpleasant and useless, I had that experience myself, just wanted to throw everything away and lay at home in bed and hear nothing more about it. But that, of course, would be the stupidest thing you could do, and you wouldn't be left in peace in bed for very long either. |
442 |
101 |
1.095 |
161.89 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
100.07 |
99.60 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 7. |
#3620180 |
Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are least willing to allow, for our suffering is acute and we are anxious to see it brought to an end. And then, too, the time which the other heart will need in order to change will have been spent by our own heart in changing itself too, so that when the goal we had set ourselves becomes attainable it will have ceased to be our goal. |
532 |
132 |
1.094 |
177.41 — _(=.=)_ (residober) |
100.49 |
91.93 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 8. |
#594 |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down. And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. Out there up ahead. |
535 |
51 |
1.093 |
160.70 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
116.64 |
116.64 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 9. |
#689 |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and some much larger and uncounted number of lurkers. And right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way of knowing exactly who until you are in there, and the chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even with friends, like sitting in a pitch-dark cellar conversing with people a distance of about fifteen feet. |
392 |
171 |
1.091 |
177.66 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
103.87 |
88.10 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 10. |
#683 |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter how unlikely it seems you will catch your competitor in front of you. Keep pushing until the checkered flag falls. How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mechanical problem with only a few laps to go? You will never be able to take advantage of their problems if you are not close. You have to be close to take advantage of luck. |
406 |
147 |
1.089 |
151.67 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
94.36 |
83.81 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 11. |
#3810905 |
If you're reading this, you've gotten out. And if you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further. You remember the name of the town, don't you? I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels. I'll keep an eye out for you and the chessboard ready. Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well. |
436 |
103 |
1.088 |
153.79 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
95.98 |
94.78 |
May 16, 2017 |
| 12. |
#3811386 |
There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth. |
507 |
115 |
1.086 |
162.04 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.98 |
88.82 |
July 10, 2017 |
| 13. |
#3811273 |
I remember a time, a place, a particular Fourth of July, the things that happened in that decade of war and change. I remember a house like a lot of houses, a yard like a lot of yards, on a street like a lot of other streets. I remember how hard it was growing up among people and places I loved. Most of all I remember how hard it was to leave. And the thing is, after all these years I still look back in wonder. |
414 |
144 |
1.086 |
162.57 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
94.90 |
84.71 |
August 1, 2017 |
| 14. |
#3620266 |
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. |
359 |
132 |
1.086 |
189.48 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
104.88 |
92.82 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 15. |
#584 |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave you with babies and everything. Screaming like this in the hole of sincerity, screaming me over and over and over. I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stains on the carpet, stains on the memory, and songs about happiness murmured in dreams, when we both of us knew how the end always is. |
367 |
393 |
1.086 |
161.67 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
99.54 |
66.91 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 16. |
#331 |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable enough to spend money on and just as hard to separate myself from worn and ragged clothing I had for sentimental reasons. The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die. Once I'd passed through the first few tough decisions, though, the momentum had been built and it was a breeze. |
401 |
360 |
1.085 |
169.69 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
101.02 |
66.91 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 17. |
#3100031 |
There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it. |
409 |
134 |
1.084 |
168.63 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
109.15 |
95.98 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 18. |
#632 |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. We would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world. |
407 |
172 |
1.081 |
168.84 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
107.02 |
88.93 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 19. |
#3620418 |
Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name, when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing. |
404 |
405 |
1.080 |
158.49 — Varsovieee (varsoviee) |
102.00 |
67.57 |
January 7, 2017 |
| 20. |
#73 |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town, waiting for someone or something to show you the way. Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today. And then, one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. |
456 |
170 |
1.079 |
167.60 — ILOVEPALESTINE (iamslow103) |
103.46 |
87.97 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 21. |
#3100063 |
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. |
459 |
136 |
1.079 |
161.44 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
103.25 |
92.90 |
January 7, 2017 |
| 22. |
#445 |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is being loved by the Gods? We speak of something carried and something carrying, of something led and something leading, of something seen and something seeing, and you understand that these things are all different from one another and how they differ? So there is also something loved and - a different thing - something loving. |
430 |
56 |
1.077 |
157.74 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
115.40 |
115.40 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 23. |
#3621195 |
We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one. |
400 |
154 |
1.075 |
159.55 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
103.15 |
87.21 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 24. |
#158 |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve math puzzles, or create poetry. In this way, it works for the rest of the body, like a tractor. But when you can't stop thinking of that math problem or phone number, or when troubling thoughts and memories arise without your intent, it's not your brain working, but your mind wandering. Then the mind controls you; then the tractor has run wild. |
406 |
382 |
1.074 |
154.00 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
100.18 |
66.80 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 25. |
#3811125 |
We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to. |
527 |
186 |
1.073 |
140.68 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
89.68 |
79.20 |
July 26, 2017 |
| 26. |
#3620531 |
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken. |
420 |
171 |
1.072 |
153.33 — lavé (traben) |
97.05 |
83.47 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 27. |
#3620196 |
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity. |
387 |
411 |
1.072 |
134.00 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
91.31 |
63.59 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 28. |
#437 |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every action and decision, seems to aim at some good; hence the good has been well described as that at which everything aims. However, there is an apparent difference among the ends aimed at. For the end is sometimes an activity, sometimes a product beyond the activity; and when there is an end beyond the action, the product is by nature better than the activity. |
416 |
171 |
1.071 |
144.96 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
99.97 |
84.11 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 29. |
#3620357 |
You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us. |
511 |
110 |
1.071 |
149.22 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
95.66 |
92.48 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 30. |
#3811009 |
There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier. |
417 |
82 |
1.071 |
169.18 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
88.12 |
88.12 |
May 8, 2017 |
| 31. |
#3811467 |
When you type faster than usual, it forces you to start looking ahead at the words that are coming up so you can figure out where to place your fingers in anticipation. So, if you see that the next four letters will all be typed with fingers on your left hand, you can move the correct finger on your right hand into place for the fifth letter ahead. Tests on the best typists have shown that their speeds are closely related to how far ahead they look at upcoming letters while they type. |
489 |
123 |
1.070 |
165.64 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
94.59 |
88.55 |
July 17, 2017 |
| 32. |
#3811056 |
I don't know if I will have the time to write any more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school, and you helped me. Even if you didn't know what I was talking about or know someone who's gone through it, you made me not feel alone. |
374 |
118 |
1.068 |
150.63 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
88.09 |
82.00 |
May 15, 2017 |
| 33. |
#3811097 |
Looking back I know of one opportunity where an engineer came to me with an idea for a computer that would be used in the home. Of course it wasn't yet called a personal computer. And while he felt very strongly about it, the only example of what it was good for that he could come up with was the housewife could keep her recipes on it. And I couldn't imagine my wife with her recipes on a computer in the kitchen. It just didn't seem like it had any practical application at all, so Intel didn't pursue that idea. |
515 |
79 |
1.066 |
141.02 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
91.40 |
91.40 |
July 11, 2017 |
| 34. |
#3811356 |
One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom... energies that could ultimately hurl us to other worlds in... in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space will be able to find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world and to cure their diseases. They will be able to find a way to give each man hope and a common future. And those are the days worth living for. |
429 |
93 |
1.066 |
161.57 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
89.71 |
89.71 |
July 16, 2017 |
| 35. |
#3810226 |
In choosing life, I realized that my dreams of being a writer wouldn't just come true; I had to do the work. And as I wrote about my life, I relived it, and whatever I didn't like, I rearranged. I made a commitment to finish my story, even if I had to write in the basement in the middle of the night while everyone else was asleep. But the more I wrote, the more I understood myself and why I had made the choices I made, and that was the real jackpot. |
453 |
173 |
1.063 |
158.79 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
96.76 |
83.22 |
May 24, 2017 |
| 36. |
#448 |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while because she wouldn't take her kings out of the back row. But I didn't kid her much though. You never wanted to kid Jane too much. I think I really like it best when you can kid the pants off a girl when the opportunity arises, but it's a funny thing. The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kidding. Sometimes I think they'd like it if you kidded them - in fact I know they would - but it's hard to get started, once you've known them a pretty long time and never kidded them. |
550 |
77 |
1.063 |
156.26 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
107.30 |
107.30 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 37. |
#3621295 |
There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. |
554 |
118 |
1.063 |
157.07 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
104.26 |
98.09 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 38. |
#3550100 |
I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try. But there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention. You have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. |
473 |
109 |
1.063 |
164.86 — chillin (slekap) |
100.16 |
96.92 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 39. |
#133 |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox. |
437 |
434 |
1.062 |
160.53 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
110.03 |
68.18 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 40. |
#3811072 |
You're gonna stay here if I have to go inside and call your chief of police and have him remind you of what he told you to do. But I don't think I have to do that, you see? No, because you're so damn smart. You're smarter than any white man. You're just gonna stay here and show us all. You've got such a big head that you could never live with yourself unless you could put us all to shame. You wanna know something, Virgil? I don't think that you could let an opportunity like that pass by. |
492 |
98 |
1.062 |
158.16 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
95.23 |
95.23 |
May 27, 2017 |
| 41. |
#3620562 |
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be! |
483 |
174 |
1.062 |
174.85 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
95.36 |
81.92 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 42. |
#456 |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of tea. Underneath the floor boards is the famous river Thames. I hope for your sakes you can hold your breath for as long as it takes to boil that kettle. After that, I am going to ask you a question, one question. You are going to give me a name and if it's the right name, I send you home warm and dry in a fresh set of clothes. If it's the wrong name, you'll be fed to the crayfish. |
487 |
69 |
1.060 |
158.95 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
111.05 |
111.05 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 43. |
#3621461 |
I'll tell you why. I think you're a lonely person. I drive by this place a lot and I see you here. I see a lot of people around you. And I see all these phones and all this stuff on your desk. It means nothing. Then when I came inside and I met you, I saw in your eyes and I saw the way you carried yourself that you're not a happy person. And I think you need something. And if you want to call it a friend, you can call it a friend. |
434 |
155 |
1.060 |
149.08 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
106.18 |
92.28 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 44. |
#3620023 |
So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot. |
412 |
426 |
1.059 |
144.97 — lavé (traben) |
94.72 |
63.40 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 45. |
#3640949 |
In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So Death created time to grow the things that it would kill, and you are reborn, but into the same life that you've always been born into. I mean, how many times have we had this conversation, detectives? Well, who knows? When you can't remember your lives, you can't change your lives, and that is the terrible and the secret fate of all life. You're trapped by that nightmare you keep waking up into. |
494 |
77 |
1.058 |
166.23 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
99.71 |
99.71 |
May 6, 2017 |
| 46. |
#3620230 |
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing. |
538 |
124 |
1.058 |
158.87 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
104.88 |
96.76 |
December 29, 2016 |
| 47. |
#3810763 |
You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place. |
548 |
94 |
1.058 |
177.88 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
97.91 |
97.91 |
May 5, 2017 |
| 48. |
#3100064 |
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. |
459 |
144 |
1.058 |
145.05 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
99.88 |
88.08 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 49. |
#3621468 |
I would say he has quite a few problems. His energy seems to go in the wrong places. When I walked in and I saw you two sitting there, I could just tell by the way you were both relating that there was no connection whatsoever. And I felt when I walked in that there was something between us. There was an impulse that we were both following. So that gave me the right to come in and talk to you. |
396 |
145 |
1.057 |
157.25 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
101.79 |
86.77 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 50. |
#1710001 |
Right I am going to tell you how this works. You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of tea. Underneath the floor boards is the famous river Thames. I hope for your sakes you can hold your breath for as long as it takes to boil that kettle. After that, I am going to ask you a question, one question. You are going to give me a name and if it's the right name, I send you home warm and dry in a fresh set of clothes. If it's the wrong name, you'll be fed to the crayfish. |
486 |
3,091 |
1.057 |
188.66 — reclaimed (seanwrona) |
136.87 |
61.39 |
December 18, 2010 |
| 51. |
#515 |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. When the world and his wife are on my back again, not enough pleasure too much pain. When the world is too much with me, please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, please leave, just go now. In the sidestreet something's moving look around, look around. All around you walls are tumbling down. Stop staring at the ground. |
397 |
151 |
1.057 |
155.66 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
101.22 |
87.83 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 52. |
#3620878 |
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone. |
427 |
102 |
1.056 |
159.73 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
98.33 |
97.45 |
January 5, 2017 |
| 53. |
#3810657 |
Look, I run a show here. It's a lot of smoke and noise and it's strictly for the suckers. I've been pulling one kind of scam or another since I was your age, and if there's one thing I know it's how to spot the genuine article because that's what you've got to watch out for. Not the cops, you can always get around the cops. But the one thing you can never, ever get around is the genuine article, and you, kid, are the genuine article. |
437 |
101 |
1.056 |
156.77 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
93.56 |
93.15 |
May 8, 2017 |
| 54. |
#3100098 |
Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning they do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, and learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, do not go gentle into that good night. |
541 |
97 |
1.056 |
162.67 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
101.00 |
101.00 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 55. |
#3621250 |
She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to the sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. |
408 |
139 |
1.056 |
180.13 — (shazman) |
101.96 |
88.86 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 56. |
#3621149 |
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again. |
430 |
155 |
1.055 |
143.85 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
95.18 |
83.20 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 57. |
#3640565 |
The dark is generous, and it is patient. It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt. The dark can be patient, because the slightest drop of rain will cause those seeds to sprout. The rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark is the soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light. The dark's patience is infinite. Eventually, even stars burn out. |
502 |
162 |
1.055 |
179.37 — chillin (slekap) |
93.97 |
81.57 |
May 2, 2017 |
| 58. |
#3620020 |
The project, however, ends violently... but the efforts of those involved are not in vain, for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of one of their victims. Imagine a virus - the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon? It is at this point in our story that along comes a spider. |
403 |
364 |
1.055 |
150.10 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
95.74 |
64.42 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 59. |
#3811153 |
Legend has it this bridge was constructed by a young man and woman who lived on opposite sides of the river. The two fell in love and constructed the bridge so they could meet in the middle and share what would be their first kiss. From that day on it would be known appropriately as the kissing bridge and if people had just stuck to the kissing Dr. Brown would have been able to avoid one heck of a crisis. |
408 |
117 |
1.054 |
137.08 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
88.17 |
82.95 |
July 27, 2017 |
| 60. |
#3810770 |
It may sound trite to you but I have found myself again after a number of years. I've been acting a role, maybe all my life, of thinking I've done more, accomplished more, produced more than I have. I've had all the breaks. I have stood on the shoulders of life and I have never got down into the dirt to build, to erect a foundation of my own. I have flown too high on borrowed wings. Everything came too easy. That is why I am here today. |
440 |
105 |
1.054 |
142.07 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
92.81 |
91.03 |
May 8, 2017 |
| 61. |
#3550140 |
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars... everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you'd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being. |
460 |
146 |
1.054 |
168.89 — thumb space for fun (supere... |
104.33 |
88.19 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 62. |
#3550148 |
Both ways set out from the senses and particulars, and rest in the highest generalities; but the difference between them is infinite. For the one just glances at experiment and particulars in passing, the other dwells duly and orderly among them. The one, again, begins at once by establishing certain abstract and useless generalities, the other rises by gradual steps to that which is prior and better known in the order of nature. |
433 |
129 |
1.054 |
166.41 — thumb space for fun (supere... |
103.86 |
95.04 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 63. |
#3811228 |
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Yet there are those who open many eyes. Eyes are the mirror of the soul, someone has said. So we look closely at the eyes to see the nature of the soul. Sometimes when we see the eyes - those horrible times when we see the eyes, eyes that, that have no soul - then we know a darkness, then we wonder: where is the beauty? There is none if the eyes are soulless. |
399 |
132 |
1.053 |
173.35 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
90.47 |
80.49 |
July 10, 2017 |
| 64. |
#3620774 |
I think the knowledge came to him at last - only at the very last. But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. |
394 |
408 |
1.053 |
180.87 — _(=.=)_ (residober) |
99.22 |
64.59 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 65. |
#3620097 |
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me? |
441 |
172 |
1.052 |
140.57 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
97.49 |
83.15 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 66. |
#3621302 |
Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile. |
522 |
108 |
1.052 |
155.73 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
99.56 |
96.63 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 67. |
#145 |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and in the middle, you see the blue center-light pop, and everybody goes ahh... |
371 |
1,178 |
1.052 |
155.82 — (nonquit) |
108.41 |
53.58 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 68. |
#3621177 |
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. |
489 |
156 |
1.051 |
149.48 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
99.26 |
86.03 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 69. |
#3811391 |
Every minute of every day we choose. Who we are. Who we forgive. Who we defend and protect. To choose a side or to walk the line. To play the middle. To straddle the fence between what is and what should be. This was the course I chose. Trying to find the delicate balance of interests that can never exist. Choosing by not choosing. Defending a center which cannot hold. So death chose for me. |
394 |
134 |
1.051 |
153.59 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
87.40 |
78.28 |
July 10, 2017 |
| 70. |
#3620990 |
And I remember in frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood, in other parts of the world, having occasion to talk of lying and false representation. For he argued thus; that the use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts; now if any one said the thing which was not, these ends were defeated. He leaves me worse than in ignorance, for I am led to believe a thing black when it is white, and short when it is long. |
485 |
170 |
1.050 |
153.97 — (shazman) |
100.10 |
85.61 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 71. |
#3620830 |
And so maybe if you could go to someone, the stranger the better, and give them something - a scrap of paper - something, anything, it not to mean anything in itself and them not even to read it or keep it, not even bother to throw it away or destroy it, at least it would be something just because it would have happened, be remembered even if only from passing from one hand to another, one mind to another, and it would be at least a scratch, something, something that might make a mark on something that was once for the reason that it can die someday, while the block of stone can't be is because it never can become was because it can't ever die or perish. |
662 |
26 |
1.049 |
139.43 — Amen [Dvorak-Trainee] (amun) |
110.11 |
110.11 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 72. |
#3100070 |
But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth - firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon. The money is for that. To prevent you from feeling that you can do anything you want as long as it's the right thing and your feelings are pure. |
420 |
94 |
1.049 |
158.62 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
97.55 |
97.55 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 73. |
#3810410 |
I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of strange places, and walk visible under the Sun. |
508 |
87 |
1.049 |
145.45 — Dylan (dr_gammaray) |
91.57 |
91.57 |
May 6, 2017 |
| 74. |
#3100012 |
Very well, gentlemen. This, and maybe other similar things, is what I have to say in my defense. Perhaps one of you might be angry as he recalls that when he himself stood trial on a less dangerous charge, he begged and implored the jurymen with many tears, that he brought his children and many of his friends and family into the court to arouse as much pity as he could, but that I do none of these things, even though I may seem to be running the ultimate risk. |
464 |
118 |
1.049 |
166.98 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
98.78 |
92.76 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 75. |
#3640620 |
All eyes are on you. It's time to show them what you're made of. There's no room for doubt, no room for second guesses, no room for error. This is your night. This is your game. This is your moment. Seize it with everything you've got. Pull out all the stops and lay it all on the line. Fight because you don't know how to die quietly. Win because you don't know how to lose. This king's ruled long enough - it's time to tear his castle down. |
442 |
166 |
1.049 |
142.32 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
94.40 |
81.02 |
May 4, 2017 |
| 76. |
#3640681 |
I think about all the people I've loved, now long gone. I think about my beautiful Jan, and how I lost her so many years ago. I think about all of us walking our own Green Mile, each in our own time. But one thought, more than any other, keeps me awake most nights. If he could make a mouse live so long, how much longer do I have? We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile seems so long. |
430 |
87 |
1.048 |
156.11 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
86.17 |
86.17 |
May 11, 2017 |
| 77. |
#3622168 |
A good cook changes his knife once a year because he cuts. A mediocre cook changes his knife once a month because he hacks. I've had this knife of mine for nineteen years and I've cut up thousands of oxen with it, and yet the blade is as good as though it had just come out of the grindstone. There are spaces between the joints, and the blade of the knife has really no thickness. If you insert what has no thickness into such spaces, then there's plenty of room - more than enough for the blade to play about it. That's why after nineteen years the blade of my knife is still as good as when it first came from the grindstone. |
628 |
57 |
1.048 |
149.80 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
105.74 |
105.74 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 78. |
#3810097 |
Never been near a university, never took a paper or a learned degree, and some of your friends think that's stupid of me, but it's nothing that I care about. Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun, and of mathematics well I want none, and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton, but I know one thing and that's I love you. When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done, you'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton. |
438 |
395 |
1.047 |
129.69 — Rvd. Scott (hulkamaniabrother) |
92.68 |
62.61 |
May 11, 2017 |
| 79. |
#3621139 |
Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? |
615 |
61 |
1.047 |
134.03 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
102.69 |
102.69 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 80. |
#3620394 |
Then, for more than ten days, they did not see the sun again. The ground became soft and damp, like volcanic ash, and the vegetation was thicker and thicker, and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders. |
544 |
245 |
1.047 |
148.65 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
93.67 |
77.18 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 81. |
#3641010 |
He has a life, a real life here. One that keeps him grounded and decent. As you've heard, there are many people who care about Neal, people who see him as more than just a criminal. He's frustrating, I'll admit - he drives me crazy on his best days. I don't always have to know where Neal is or what he's up to, but I do know that he has a good heart and a set of principles that weren't there six years ago when he was just another case file that got dropped on my desk. |
471 |
99 |
1.046 |
147.50 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
92.43 |
92.43 |
May 2, 2017 |
| 82. |
#3810697 |
All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. |
484 |
84 |
1.046 |
165.87 — Kelladry (kelladry) |
84.72 |
84.72 |
May 16, 2017 |
| 83. |
#3640892 |
Alice, sorry about the way things have been lately. I've been through tough times before, and they come on like storms - when you're in the middle of one you don't think the sunlight will break through again. There were some stretches in Texas when the fighting got so bad that it seemed like there was nothing but wounded people wherever I went, that was all I saw, just wounds to be bandaged. This is a hard stretch but we'll pull through all right, and we'll help a lot of people who wouldn't be helped otherwise. I've got a lot of faith in you and the rest of the staff. We'll make do. |
589 |
178 |
1.046 |
160.68 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
99.08 |
82.77 |
May 6, 2017 |
| 84. |
#3620295 |
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you. |
406 |
437 |
1.045 |
144.70 — SCM (smusson) |
98.46 |
63.88 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 85. |
#652 |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on people almost 20 years. The best job I could get after my bust was Cabo Air, which is the worst job you can get in this industry. I make about sixteen thousand, with retirement benefits that ain't worth a damn. And now with this arrest hanging over my head, I'm scared. If I lose my job I gotta start all over again, but I got nothing to start over with. |
411 |
75 |
1.045 |
159.33 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
104.24 |
104.24 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 86. |
#3620059 |
The world's changing out there, there are a lot of new, exciting ideas running around. Some may be right and some may be cockeyed but they're affecting all our lives. I want to know how I stand, where I fit in the picture, what it's all gonna mean to me. I can't find that out sitting behind some desk in an office, so as soon as I get enough money together, I'm going to knock off for a while. |
394 |
123 |
1.045 |
147.58 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
91.48 |
83.22 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 87. |
#3621162 |
Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since - on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. |
511 |
185 |
1.045 |
160.27 — chillin (slekap) |
108.62 |
88.56 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 88. |
#3620909 |
In a town of moderate size, two men lived in neighbouring houses; but they had not been there very long before one man took such a hatred of the other, and envied him so bitterly, that the poor man determined to find another home, hoping that when they no longer met every day his enemy would forget all about him. So he sold his house and the little furniture it contained, and moved into the capital of the country, which was luckily at no great distance. About half a mile from this city he bought a nice little place, with a large garden and a fair-sized court, in the centre of which stood an old well. |
607 |
72 |
1.044 |
145.90 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
107.01 |
107.01 |
December 29, 2016 |
| 89. |
#3620854 |
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come. |
442 |
107 |
1.044 |
154.63 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
92.63 |
90.40 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 90. |
#3810419 |
And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise. |
430 |
145 |
1.043 |
158.82 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
93.98 |
83.65 |
May 6, 2017 |
| 91. |
#3620331 |
I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened. |
607 |
67 |
1.042 |
156.59 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
104.51 |
104.51 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 92. |
#3810572 |
His gaze is from the passing of bars so exhausted that it doesn't hold a thing anymore. For him it's as if there were thousands of bars and behind the thousands of bars no world. The sure stride of lithe, powerful steps that around the smallest of circles turns is like a dance of pure energy about a center in which a great will stands numbed. Only occasionally without a sound do the covers of the eyes slide open. An image rushes in, goes through the tensed silence of the frame, only to vanish forever in the heart. |
519 |
174 |
1.042 |
168.51 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
95.30 |
80.83 |
May 22, 2017 |
| 93. |
#108 |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. They've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler. |
392 |
366 |
1.042 |
147.77 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
96.23 |
64.73 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 94. |
#3621597 |
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away? |
408 |
413 |
1.042 |
164.69 — _(=.=)_ (residober) |
92.35 |
61.96 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 95. |
#3811137 |
I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel. I just sat next to her on that bus and had a conversation all the way to school. Next to Mama, no one ever talked to me or asked me questions. From that day on we was always together. Jenny and me was like peas and carrots. She taught me how to climb, I showed her how to dangle. She helped me learn how to read and I showed her how to swing. Sometimes we'd just sit out and wait for the stars. For some reason Jenny didn't never want to go home. She was my most special friend, my only friend. |
568 |
99 |
1.041 |
186.50 — chillin (slekap) |
85.57 |
85.57 |
July 10, 2017 |
| 96. |
#3810769 |
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. I have deceived my friends and I had millions of them. I lied to the American people. I lied about what I knew and then I lied about what I did not know. In a sense I was like a child who refuses to admit a fact in the hope that it would go away. Of course it did not go away. I was scared, scared to death. I had no solid position, no basis to stand on for myself. There was one way out and that was simply to tell the truth. |
475 |
147 |
1.041 |
144.06 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
90.79 |
80.71 |
May 7, 2017 |
| 97. |
#3620981 |
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly. |
393 |
385 |
1.041 |
138.47 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.37 |
62.84 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 98. |
#3811444 |
I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. |
451 |
127 |
1.040 |
163.55 — (nonquit) |
85.64 |
79.91 |
August 24, 2017 |
| 99. |
#3620711 |
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. |
418 |
112 |
1.040 |
156.90 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
96.87 |
92.67 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 100. |
#3620034 |
Resistance is the measurement of the ability of electrons to move through a material. A copper wire with a large diameter has lower resistance to the flow of electrons than a copper wire with a small diameter. You need to understand resistance because almost every electronics project you do involves a resistor. Resistors have controlled amounts of resistance, which allows you to control the flow of electrons in a circuit. |
425 |
164 |
1.039 |
146.91 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
95.28 |
82.12 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 101. |
#3811456 |
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind. |
460 |
137 |
1.039 |
146.77 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
87.30 |
79.72 |
July 10, 2017 |
| 102. |
#657 |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy car race or just have fun competing in the middle of the pack in an amateur race, you must be seated properly in the car. First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be overly tiring and very difficult to concentrate. Many races have been lost simply because a driver lost concentration due to discomfort from a poorly fitted seat. |
405 |
72 |
1.037 |
186.42 — Izanagi (baguettianmysticism) |
110.32 |
110.32 |
January 5, 2017 |
| 103. |
#3620766 |
There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare to yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants, and water, and silence. And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect. |
486 |
186 |
1.037 |
140.20 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
96.65 |
81.26 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 104. |
#179 |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the whole city rose and left for the summer. I was afraid to be left alone, and for three days I roamed dejectedly through the city, unable to understand what was happening to me. Whether I went to Nevsky Avenue, to the park, or wandered along the embankments, I never came across the people I was accustomed to meet in certain spots at certain hours all year round. They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right. |
483 |
187 |
1.037 |
154.38 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
100.74 |
83.42 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 105. |
#3811400 |
The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job. |
402 |
108 |
1.036 |
158.54 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
83.94 |
80.95 |
July 10, 2017 |
| 106. |
#3640828 |
Don't look so disappointed, dear one. Just try them on. Today is a day to celebrate. It is the day that you become the same age as the young hero spoken of in all the legends. You only have to wear them for one day, so don't look so down. Be proud, child. In the olden days, this was the day the boys were finally considered to be men. They were taught the ways of the sword to prepare them for battle with their enemies. But we don't live in such a way any longer. Our ways are the ways of peace. |
497 |
136 |
1.036 |
163.99 — (nonquit) |
92.64 |
84.73 |
May 19, 2017 |
| 107. |
#3811326 |
You said I sounded a bit callous in my last letter, Dad. Let me see if I can put things in a better way. At this particular Mobile Army Hospital we are not concerned with the ultimate reconstruction of the patient. We care only about getting the kid out of here alive enough for someone else to put on the fine touches. We work fast and we're not dainty. We try to play par surgery on this course. Par is a live patient. |
420 |
76 |
1.036 |
143.03 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
89.64 |
89.64 |
July 20, 2017 |
| 108. |
#3620185 |
The universe is true for us all and dissimilar to each of us. If we were not obliged, to preserve the continuity of our story, to confine ourselves to frivolous reasons, how many more serious reasons would permit us to demonstrate the falsehood and flimsiness of the opening pages of this volume in which, from my bed, I hear the world awake, now to one sort of weather, now to another. |
386 |
402 |
1.036 |
147.03 — MadsFuldGhoul (swaax) |
99.53 |
65.39 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 109. |
#3811179 |
What is it about owning things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love and why do we become such jerks when we do? We've all been there, you know: we want something; we own it; and by owning it we change it. When you finally win that girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is try to change her. That little thing she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes, the way she chews her gum. Until eventually, what you like, what you don't like, and what you change all merges into one. Like a watercolor in the rain. |
530 |
107 |
1.035 |
157.93 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.21 |
89.97 |
July 17, 2017 |
| 110. |
#3810686 |
Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you. |
426 |
99 |
1.035 |
143.28 — lubi222 (lubi222) |
95.74 |
95.74 |
May 11, 2017 |
| 111. |
#1710005 |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the whole city rose and left for the summer. I was afraid to be left alone, and for three days I roamed dejectedly through the city, unable to understand what was happening to me. Whether I went to Nevsky Avenue, to the park, or wandered along the embankments, I never came across the people I was accustomed to meet in certain spots at certain hours all year round. They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right. |
483 |
2,814 |
1.035 |
169.67 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
125.18 |
57.01 |
February 4, 2011 |
| 112. |
#3620211 |
To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite. |
473 |
107 |
1.035 |
140.85 — Influensane - nonquit main/... |
91.11 |
89.02 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 113. |
#582 |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out my heart and I'll feed it to anyone. Crying for sympathy, crocodiles cry for the love of the crowd and the free cheers from everyone. Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through the roof of your mouth, through the mouth of your eye, through the eye of the needle, it's easier for me to get closer to heaven than ever feel whole again. |
410 |
162 |
1.034 |
150.20 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
98.28 |
84.20 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 114. |
#3620991 |
Three kings protested to me, that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some minister in whom they confided; neither would they do it if they were to live again: and they showed, with great strength of reason, that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident, restive temper, which virtue infused into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business. |
465 |
157 |
1.034 |
162.64 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
94.29 |
81.94 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 115. |
#3620169 |
The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. |
421 |
159 |
1.034 |
148.05 — Ella (chawahir) |
94.47 |
82.46 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 116. |
#3620277 |
Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour. |
375 |
362 |
1.034 |
150.36 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
87.56 |
61.27 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 117. |
#496 |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I breathe and walk and when I'm told to sit I sit and when I'm told to leave I leave and return home to luxuriate and think how much I despise them." He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm. |
422 |
172 |
1.034 |
161.42 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
104.77 |
87.58 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 118. |
#3620307 |
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow. |
649 |
74 |
1.033 |
149.06 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
104.88 |
104.88 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 119. |
#3811075 |
Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know. |
394 |
99 |
1.033 |
144.43 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
78.78 |
78.78 |
July 16, 2017 |
| 120. |
#3620354 |
I believe that you are sincere and good at heart. If you do not attain happiness, always remember that you are on the right road, and try not to leave it. Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. |
474 |
101 |
1.033 |
133.09 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
92.10 |
91.72 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 121. |
#3640626 |
It makes a real difference in people's lives if they can drive to work on noncongested roads. It matters that people can travel safely and efficiently on trains and subways. The quality of life for millions of Americans will be improved if they are living in safe and affordable homes rather than overpriced and dilapidated apartments. We have the right to know that the water we are drinking is safe, and that our children are attending high-quality schools. |
459 |
134 |
1.032 |
149.97 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.96 |
84.33 |
May 25, 2017 |
| 122. |
#3810655 |
I never sleep, I don't know why. I had a roommate and I drove her nuts, I mean really nuts. They had to take her away in an ambulance and everything. But she's okay now, but she had to transfer to an easier school, but I don't know if that had anything to do with being my fault. But listen, if you ever need to talk or you need help studying just let me know, 'cause I'm just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep, okay? |
435 |
141 |
1.032 |
144.75 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
88.00 |
79.19 |
May 15, 2017 |
| 123. |
#3620816 |
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem. |
449 |
164 |
1.032 |
147.31 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
94.71 |
81.53 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 124. |
#3620254 |
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity. |
467 |
102 |
1.031 |
158.65 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
99.12 |
98.33 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 125. |
#3640928 |
To understand what I'm about to tell you, you need to do something first, you need to believe in the impossible. Can you do that? Good. Because all of us, we've forgotten what miracles look like. Maybe because they haven't made much of an appearance lately. Our lives have become ordinary. But there is someone out there who is truly extraordinary. I don't know where you came from, I don't know your name, but I have seen you do the impossible to protect the city I love. So for those of us who believe in you and what you're doing, I just want to say thank you. |
563 |
132 |
1.031 |
138.76 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
88.95 |
81.58 |
May 5, 2017 |
| 126. |
#310 |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. We drew in deep breaths of it as we walked back from dinner through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour, before we melted indistinguishably into it again. |
450 |
178 |
1.031 |
159.49 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
100.06 |
83.80 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 127. |
#219 |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. Then, one day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away. |
469 |
164 |
1.031 |
149.65 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
99.18 |
84.67 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 128. |
#3090000 |
Why is that? The main reason is that you are swimming against the market's existing current, going against the grain. All entrepreneurs do that. If that were not the case, it would not be entrepreneurship. Because you, or your friends, are doing something novel, bringing a product or service to the market is that doesn't exist yet except in your mind's eye. You are trying to tell people that what they are currently buying is not good enough, that they need to pay you in order to change their behavior. That means you are butting up against from anything from apathy to scorn. But if you succeed in scaling that wall of resistance, you will have proven that that new product or service has. |
694 |
1,107 |
1.031 |
167.37 — Ibexus (ibexus) |
107.06 |
54.25 |
January 5, 2017 |
| 129. |
#3620803 |
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, "It is enough! It is enough!" |
396 |
377 |
1.030 |
151.54 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
95.76 |
64.05 |
January 5, 2017 |
| 130. |
#3620221 |
So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight, it seems he intentionally passes over them in silence, since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them deviate from the path of the truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, repository of great deeds, witness to the past, example and adviser to the present, and forewarning to the future. |
518 |
165 |
1.030 |
137.82 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
94.41 |
81.97 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 131. |
#3621145 |
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a "fiance," why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too. |
438 |
94 |
1.029 |
155.27 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
92.20 |
92.20 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 132. |
#3640282 |
Though understanding the meaning of actions is not directed at uncovering causes, it certainly satisfies some standards of predictive success: the correct interpretation of human actions enables us to navigate successfully in a society of other human beings. When we step back and consider the reliability of the predictions we make regarding the behavior of others, we cannot fail to be impressed with the implicit theory that growing up in society has provided us. |
466 |
157 |
1.029 |
144.23 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
87.56 |
77.50 |
May 4, 2017 |
| 133. |
#131 |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind. |
388 |
1,119 |
1.028 |
147.33 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
107.28 |
51.70 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 134. |
#3620914 |
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you. |
378 |
391 |
1.028 |
151.85 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
94.00 |
62.20 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 135. |
#3090015 |
If I tell you what you already believe, then you may like me or feel comforted, but the value created by the ideas in this book will be limited. In order for this book to contain extraordinary value, it must call into question some of the widely held beliefs that we cherish. At a minimum, it must make us think. It has certainly done that for me. Entrepreneurship has become a romantic pursuit for many, but there is no substitute for clear headedness, even when you don't like what you see. Beauty may be the vision of a new product or service, but truth is in its realization. |
579 |
385 |
1.028 |
169.71 — _(=.=)_ (residober) |
96.96 |
64.43 |
January 5, 2017 |
| 136. |
#3620839 |
She seemed to have encompassed time. She postulated the elapsed years during which no honeymoon nor any change had taken place, out of which the (now) five faces looked with a sort of lifeless and perennial bloom like painted portraits hung in a vacuum, each taken at its forewarned peak and smoothed of all thought and experience, the originals of which had lived and died so long ago that their joys and griefs must now be forgotten even by the very boards on which they had strutted and postured and laughed and wept. |
520 |
155 |
1.028 |
148.53 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.55 |
80.93 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 137. |
#3 |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. |
389 |
410 |
1.028 |
148.06 — Noom (noomo) |
92.66 |
61.75 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 138. |
#3641095 |
One of the hardest things to do in a fight is to make it look like you're trying to kill someone without doing any permanent damage. They don't teach any half-moves in combat training. There are moves designed to kill and maim as efficiently as possible. If those are off limits, one option is open your fist right before a punch lands. Painful, but the force is distributed. Another showy option is a kick to the shoulder. You might break a rib or two, but if you aim right, nobody is going to the morgue. |
506 |
129 |
1.028 |
127.63 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
86.60 |
80.13 |
May 20, 2017 |
| 139. |
#373 |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but never finished. He'd been to jail, but never prison. And it was his first day off in forever, man. The festival seemed like a pretty good plan: cruise some chicks and get a suntan. And his friend gave him four, but said only take one. But then he got bored and he ended up taking all four, so now my man ain't that bored anyways. The paramedics found him, he was shaking on the side of the stage. |
452 |
390 |
1.028 |
137.25 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
97.07 |
64.14 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 140. |
#3620979 |
Judges are picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office. |
397 |
410 |
1.027 |
159.73 — ILOVEPALESTINE (iamslow103) |
96.10 |
62.65 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 141. |
#3620788 |
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental pretence but an idea: and an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to. |
415 |
160 |
1.027 |
151.76 — Sachin Sharma (ragemodeon) |
98.55 |
84.52 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 142. |
#3620273 |
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. |
386 |
143 |
1.027 |
176.18 — ILOVEPALESTINE (iamslow103) |
96.71 |
82.52 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 143. |
#3620031 |
The Ministry of Magic does not wish me to tell you this. It is possible that some of your parents will be horrified that I have done so - either because they will not believe that Lord Voldemort has returned, or because they think I should not tell you so, young as you are. It is my belief however, that the truth is generally preferable to lies, and that any attempt to pretend that Cedric died as a result of an accident of some sort of blunder of his own, is an insult to his memory! |
487 |
164 |
1.027 |
132.96 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
95.66 |
82.48 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 144. |
#3620268 |
If you are one of earth's inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man's destiny is more than blest - he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed. |
390 |
120 |
1.027 |
147.54 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
94.97 |
87.48 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 145. |
#3641172 |
Fifteen years ago, there was a war. Well, war's broken out plenty of times before. They've tried to invade the southlands through the northern valley time and time again. Luck was never on their side, though, and their victories didn't last long. They didn't realize that times had changed. Facing one defeat after another, losing territory and watching their nation dwindle, they built up their industrial strength to unprecedented heights and used it to wage one final battle against the world. That was fifteen years ago... |
526 |
150 |
1.026 |
191.71 — Izanagi (baguettianmysticism) |
90.78 |
79.51 |
May 6, 2017 |
| 146. |
#3620071 |
You can't go to school because I said so. I won't have you nagging me for lunch money and whining for help on your homework. There is no need to know about presidents, wars, numbers or science. Just listen to me and you'll learn. And no little friends over here, repeating rhymes, asking flippant questions, and talking in those nagging baby voices. Can't you just sit here and look out into the air? Isn't that enough? Do you always have to badger me for attention? |
466 |
179 |
1.026 |
143.98 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
100.12 |
83.14 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 147. |
#3620632 |
From the very beginning - from the first moment, I may almost say - of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry. |
479 |
162 |
1.026 |
151.31 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
91.50 |
79.89 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 148. |
#3640832 |
This is actually a bit embarrassing for me to admit, but although I am a boat that possesses the power of speech. I possess no sail. And a boat with no sail can sail no seas. I have brought you far to the east of the dark gaze of the Forsaken Fortress. On this island is a town of merchants who deal with a wide variety of goods. If you search hard enough, surely you can find one who will sell you a sail. I am sorry to ask this of you, but without a sail, I will be useless to you. |
483 |
188 |
1.024 |
155.15 — ILOVEPALESTINE (iamslow103) |
93.22 |
79.06 |
May 6, 2017 |
| 149. |
#3811078 |
Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is just because something thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films, I am allergic to pollen. What is the point of different tastes, different preferences if not to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can't we say the same thing for brains built of copper and wire, steel? |
645 |
50 |
1.023 |
145.31 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
99.06 |
99.06 |
July 20, 2017 |
| 150. |
#3640601 |
The universe divided as the heart and mind collided with the people left unguided for so many troubled years. In a cloud of doubts and fears, their world was torn asunder into hollow hemispheres. Some fought themselves, some fought each other. Most just followed one another, lost, aimless, like their brothers. For their hearts were so unclear and the truth could not appear. Their spirits were divided into blinded hemispheres. |
429 |
128 |
1.023 |
134.97 — Meep (meeeep) |
83.83 |
77.30 |
May 9, 2017 |
| 151. |
#3620781 |
She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. |
386 |
371 |
1.023 |
153.81 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
88.87 |
61.50 |
January 6, 2017 |
| 152. |
#3620938 |
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind. |
477 |
180 |
1.023 |
148.63 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
97.93 |
82.74 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 153. |
#661 |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in amateur races, trying to go fast, with their arms flailing around, banging off shifts, jerking the steering into a turn with feet stabbing at the pedals - the car usually in massive slides through the turns. It may feel fast and even look fast, but I'll guarantee it's not. If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually go faster. It reminds me of the saying, "never confuse movement for action." |
469 |
64 |
1.023 |
155.24 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
105.83 |
105.83 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 154. |
#3620174 |
They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my imagination; for there are people - and this had been my case since youth - for whom all the things that have a fixed value, assessable by others, fortune, success, high positions, do not count; what they must have is phantoms. They sacrifice all the rest, devote all their efforts, make everything else subservient to the pursuit of some phantom. But this soon fades away; then they run after another only to return later on to the first. |
557 |
162 |
1.022 |
158.76 — (w1ns) |
93.61 |
81.29 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 155. |
#3620019 |
He is a man seemingly without a conscience; for whom the ends always justify the means and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country but rather the country itself. Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view. |
410 |
381 |
1.021 |
163.46 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
90.11 |
61.66 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 156. |
#3620638 |
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding - certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever. |
449 |
159 |
1.021 |
165.43 — eiko (eikomaniac) |
93.66 |
81.57 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 157. |
#3810740 |
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. |
605 |
68 |
1.020 |
146.39 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
104.40 |
104.40 |
May 6, 2017 |
| 158. |
#551 |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. And the majority of us live lifestyles undreamed of only a generation or two ago. One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the average household in Europe or North America has so many devices and such a variety of food and clothing that to produce the same lifestyle in Roman times would have required six thousand slaves. |
413 |
175 |
1.020 |
154.55 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
101.02 |
84.15 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 159. |
#3620344 |
The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. |
398 |
435 |
1.020 |
150.46 — You're not that slow (beast... |
90.40 |
61.30 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 160. |
#3811299 |
I know, I know. Now you're going to deny it. Even though it's ludicrously obvious to everyone around you, you two will go on pretending it's not true because you're emotional infants. You're in a living hell. You love each other and you hate each other and you hate yourselves for loving each other. Well, my dear friends, I want no part of it. It's time I just picked up where I left off. It's time to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. So I'll get out of here so you can just get on with your denial fest. |
511 |
119 |
1.020 |
149.25 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
81.11 |
76.69 |
July 17, 2017 |
| 161. |
#3640536 |
There are many types of monsters that scare me: Monsters who cause troubles without showing themselves, monsters who abduct children, monsters who devour dreams, monsters who suck blood... and then, monsters who tell nothing but lies. Lying monsters are a real nuisance: They are much more cunning than others; they pose as humans even though they have no understanding of the human heart; they eat even though they've never experienced hunger; they study even though they have no interest in academics; they seek friendship even though they do not know how to love. If I were to encounter such monsters, I would likely be eaten by them... because in truth, I am that monster. |
676 |
60 |
1.020 |
165.85 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
102.03 |
102.03 |
May 2, 2017 |
| 162. |
#718 |
And then I hear the best thing to do is feed 'em to pigs. You gotta starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped up body looks like curry to a drunk. You gotta shave the heads of your victims and pull the teeth out. You could do that after of course, but you don't want to go sieving pig shit do you? Ever seen the size of one of their molars? They go through bone like it's butter. You gotta have a few pigs though, you need about sixteen. They will go through a body that weighs two hundred pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute... Hence the expression "greedy as a pig." |
664 |
43 |
1.019 |
151.14 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
108.52 |
108.52 |
February 10, 2017 |
| 163. |
#3640533 |
When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. |
545 |
141 |
1.019 |
157.84 — _(=.=)_ (residober) |
89.30 |
79.79 |
May 4, 2017 |
| 164. |
#155 |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer. |
393 |
364 |
1.019 |
160.53 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.97 |
62.22 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 165. |
#3620931 |
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people. |
502 |
191 |
1.018 |
149.22 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
100.35 |
82.60 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 166. |
#3620761 |
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror - of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? |
454 |
161 |
1.018 |
159.13 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
96.46 |
83.06 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 167. |
#1710002 |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. Then, one day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away. |
469 |
2,563 |
1.018 |
171.29 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
123.94 |
59.26 |
February 4, 2011 |
| 168. |
#3620751 |
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance. |
582 |
157 |
1.018 |
143.45 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.61 |
80.01 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 169. |
#577 |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Francisco is to feel like you're landing on another planet. Over our two-hour drive, the temperature went from nearly a hundred to the middle sixties. The visual disparity was as dramatic. On one side of the bay was a day so bright you'd have to squint with the visor down and your sunglasses on. As we crossed into the fog, it didn't seem possible that two such environments could exist side by side. |
476 |
109 |
1.018 |
92.40 — MrChups (rioschupchup) |
65.56 |
64.17 |
January 21, 2019 |
| 170. |
#3621109 |
Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business, they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive towards colorlessness? But seriously and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. |
500 |
176 |
1.018 |
155.89 — (shazman) |
99.32 |
83.42 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 171. |
#83 |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book down. Because this book is for America's Heroes. And who are the Heroes? The people who bought this book. People who borrow this book are not Heroes. They are no better than welfare queens mooching off the system like card-carrying library card-carriers. For the record, we're not offering this book to libraries. No free rides. |
387 |
402 |
1.017 |
143.92 — Dylan (dr_gammaray) |
98.95 |
63.32 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 172. |
#1810002 |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year and I used to be over by the window and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and its not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire. |
607 |
1,106 |
1.017 |
155.50 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
104.43 |
51.77 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 173. |
#3620985 |
They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage. |
532 |
180 |
1.017 |
142.38 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
92.77 |
79.12 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 174. |
#1710004 |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Francisco is to feel like you're landing on another planet. Over our two-hour drive, the temperature went from nearly a hundred to the middle sixties. The visual disparity was as dramatic. On one side of the bay was a day so bright you'd have to squint with the visor down and your sunglasses on. As we crossed into the fog, it didn't seem possible that two such environments could exist side by side. |
476 |
2,665 |
1.017 |
168.83 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
126.26 |
57.20 |
February 9, 2011 |
| 175. |
#3621366 |
More and more in the past few weeks. And she wanders - God knows where she wanders. I followed her one day, watched her coming out of the apartment, someone I didn't know. She even walked a different way. Got into her car and drove off to Golden Gate Park. Five miles. Sat by the lake, staring across the water at the pillars that stand on the far shore. You know, Portals of the Past. Sat there a long time without moving. I had to leave, get back to the office. When I got home that evening, I asked her what she'd done all day. She said she'd driven out to Golden Gate Park and sat by the lake, that's all. |
609 |
83 |
1.016 |
146.24 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
101.58 |
101.58 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 176. |
#3100045 |
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. |
458 |
91 |
1.015 |
145.87 — Dylan (dr_gammaray) |
90.13 |
90.13 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 177. |
#3640586 |
You and a criminal accomplice are hauled down to the police station and each put in an isolated room. A prosecutor tells you the police have sufficient evidence to send both of you to jail for a year, but not enough to get you convicted on more serious charges. But if you confess and agree to testify against your partner, you'll get off free for cooperating while he goes to jail for three years. If you both confess to the greater crime, however, the cops won't need your cooperation and each of you is going to serve two years. You're led to believe your partner's been offered the same deal. What do you do? |
612 |
50 |
1.015 |
140.30 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
107.97 |
107.97 |
May 2, 2017 |
| 178. |
#3622099 |
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about him, and felt, inexplicably, the way one might feel upon recognizing a melody or a voice, that all this had happened to him before and that he had faced it with fear but also with joy and hopefulness and curiosity. Then he descended into his memory, which seemed to him endless, and managed to draw up from that vertigo the lost remembrance that gleamed like a coin in the rain - perhaps because he had never really looked at it except (perhaps) in a dream. |
594 |
197 |
1.015 |
149.48 — lavé (traben) |
103.02 |
83.83 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 179. |
#3810275 |
Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you go all the way inside, to their soul, and you both know instantly. I always imagined I'd fall in love nursing a blind soldier who was wounded in battle. Or maybe while rescuing someone in the middle of a blizzard, seconds before the avalanche hits. I thought at least by the age of fifteen I'd have a love life, but I don't even have a like life! |
405 |
109 |
1.015 |
144.38 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
79.63 |
76.53 |
May 5, 2017 |
| 180. |
#105 |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements. |
394 |
394 |
1.014 |
133.26 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
94.78 |
62.97 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 181. |
#639 |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people who thought their bods aged like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don't. Besides Butch, how many fights you think you got left in you anyway? Two? Boxers don't have an old timer's pension. You came close, but you never made it, and if you were gonna make it, you woulda made it by now. |
400 |
160 |
1.014 |
150.20 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
95.94 |
82.41 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 182. |
#3640581 |
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting point and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up. |
456 |
145 |
1.014 |
156.24 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
90.23 |
80.44 |
May 3, 2017 |
| 183. |
#3550124 |
My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced. |
433 |
134 |
1.014 |
154.00 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
89.62 |
79.45 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 184. |
#377 |
There are still some places where you can get all you can eat for a fixed price. Sew a plastic bag onto your tee-shirt or belt and wear a loose-fitting jacket or coat to cover any noticeable bulge. Fried chicken is the best and the easiest to pocket, or should we say bag. Another trick is to pour your second free cup of hot coffee into the plastic bag sewed inside your pocket and take it with you. |
400 |
208 |
1.013 |
160.82 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
96.54 |
78.74 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 185. |
#3622136 |
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos. |
479 |
120 |
1.013 |
154.14 — lavé (traben) |
83.80 |
79.14 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 186. |
#3621050 |
She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall. |
542 |
132 |
1.013 |
145.58 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
90.34 |
83.04 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 187. |
#3810610 |
Oh, I don't know. I mean, what makes you think that elves are any more magical than something like... like a whale? You know what I mean? What if I told you a story about how underneath the ocean, there was this giant sea mammal that used sonar and sang songs and it was so big that its heart was the size of a car and you could crawl through the arteries? I mean, you'd think that was pretty magical, right? |
408 |
104 |
1.013 |
167.09 — (shazman) |
87.77 |
86.14 |
May 25, 2017 |
| 188. |
#3620551 |
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless. |
412 |
138 |
1.013 |
167.11 — thumb space for fun (supere... |
92.83 |
80.93 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 189. |
#303 |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. |
442 |
163 |
1.013 |
151.96 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
98.85 |
84.39 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 190. |
#7 |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil. |
398 |
392 |
1.012 |
145.45 — Dylan (dr_gammaray) |
91.07 |
61.09 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 191. |
#576 |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Francisco is to feel like you're landing on another planet. Over our two-hour drive, the temperature went from nearly a hundred to the middle sixties. The visual disparity was as dramatic. On one side of the bay was a day so bright you'd have to squint with the visor down and your sunglasses on. Halfway across the Bay Bridge the fog enveloped us, whipping in strands through the rusted girders. As we crossed into the fog, it didn't seem possible that two such environments could exist side by side. |
576 |
64 |
1.012 |
144.99 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
107.10 |
107.10 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 192. |
#3620988 |
I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and incorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world." |
396 |
414 |
1.011 |
144.56 — lavé (traben) |
89.91 |
60.71 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 193. |
#3811458 |
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism. |
394 |
368 |
1.011 |
134.94 — (w1ns) |
84.64 |
59.22 |
July 13, 2017 |
| 194. |
#3620217 |
He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the serious, surprised at the variety of accidents, improved by the language, warned by the frauds, instructed by examples, incensed against vice, and enamoured with virtue; for a good play must cause all these emotions in the soul of him that sees it, though he were never so insensible and unpolished. |
422 |
166 |
1.010 |
158.49 — ANDREA (andreaak00) |
97.11 |
82.75 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 195. |
#3550198 |
Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to. |
384 |
119 |
1.010 |
146.76 — Varsovieee (varsoviee) |
95.50 |
88.34 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 196. |
#433 |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows. |
429 |
70 |
1.010 |
169.09 — chillin (slekap) |
112.07 |
112.07 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 197. |
#3621449 |
I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine. |
455 |
153 |
1.010 |
170.07 — Izanagi (baguettianmysticism) |
93.55 |
81.80 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 198. |
#3621212 |
He spoke and rose to full height, sword in air, then cleft the man's brow square between the temples cutting his head in two - a dreadful gash between the cheeks all beardless. Earth resounded quivering at the great shock of his weight as he went tumbling down in all his armor, drenched with blood and brains; in equal halves his head hung this and that way from his shoulders. |
378 |
124 |
1.010 |
145.33 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
90.71 |
82.91 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 199. |
#3621172 |
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection. |
501 |
167 |
1.009 |
156.01 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
96.09 |
81.87 |
January 8, 2017 |
| 200. |
#3811230 |
Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior. |
494 |
153 |
1.009 |
148.00 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
88.78 |
78.26 |
August 2, 2017 |
| 201. |
#3620566 |
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. |
437 |
151 |
1.009 |
143.09 — lavé (traben) |
90.40 |
79.79 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 202. |
#3811292 |
I'm particular about cake. And I have to say it's been my experience that men buy better cake than women. I've found that women tend to get these yogurt-frosted low-cal things laced with a rum and fruit concoction that make eating cake into something you do to be polite. So that's why I was asking what kind of cake you were planning on getting to celebrate Isaac returning from vacation. |
389 |
335 |
1.009 |
158.92 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
84.26 |
60.70 |
July 16, 2017 |
| 203. |
#3811313 |
The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. I got about fifty feet out and suddenly the great beast appeared before me. I tell you he was ten stories high if he was a foot. As if sensing my presence, he let out a great bellow. I said, "Easy, big fella!" And then, as I watched him struggling, I realized that something was obstructing its breathing. From where I was standing, I could see directly into the eye of the great fish. |
478 |
154 |
1.008 |
157.23 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.01 |
79.91 |
July 11, 2017 |
| 204. |
#3620754 |
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. |
413 |
151 |
1.007 |
139.99 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
95.03 |
82.74 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 205. |
#3640845 |
By the way, boy, when you drew that sword of yours out of its pedestal, did you by chance notice how all the monsters frozen in time down there suddenly began stirring again? Do you understand precisely what that means? I highly doubt you do. Foolish child. While that sword is indeed the blade of evil's bane, at the same time, it has long played another role. You see, it is also a sort of key, a most wretched little key that has kept a seal on me and my magic intact! By withdrawing the blade, you have broken that seal. |
524 |
140 |
1.007 |
135.41 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
87.03 |
78.78 |
May 2, 2017 |
| 206. |
#3620658 |
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. |
583 |
172 |
1.005 |
138.43 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
91.93 |
78.37 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 207. |
#3621233 |
What I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally, you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. With determination. With strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father and your mother might both have been. |
389 |
119 |
1.005 |
146.46 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
92.80 |
85.35 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 208. |
#3810027 |
Let's say life is this square of the sidewalk. We're born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square, and in the process of walking out of it, suddenly we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious footsteps? |
433 |
128 |
1.004 |
137.23 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
87.74 |
80.86 |
May 5, 2017 |
| 209. |
#156 |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. |
396 |
348 |
1.004 |
143.51 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
90.52 |
61.52 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 210. |
#3100084 |
I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this. |
371 |
131 |
1.004 |
148.94 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
93.60 |
82.73 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 211. |
#3811287 |
I have a younger brother named Sam. Sam's a genius. I mean literally. As a kid he tested off the charts. The first computer I ever had he built from a kit he bought with money he earned tutoring other kids in math. He's energetic and articulate, curious and funny. A great source of pride to our parents. And there's no doubt that he'd be living a great life right now except for that he's dead. |
395 |
375 |
1.004 |
154.70 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
90.75 |
61.44 |
July 10, 2017 |
| 212. |
#3620920 |
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe. |
404 |
120 |
1.004 |
148.17 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
85.98 |
79.34 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 213. |
#3640686 |
My name is Barry Allen and I'm the fastest man alive. When I was a child, I saw my mother killed by something impossible. My father went to prison for her murder. Then an accident made me the impossible. To the outside world, I'm just an ordinary forensic scientist, but secretly I use my speed to fight crime and find others like me, and one day I'll find who killed my mother and get justice for my father. I am The Flash. |
424 |
137 |
1.004 |
144.07 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
85.90 |
77.63 |
May 2, 2017 |
| 214. |
#3620004 |
Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up. |
387 |
163 |
1.003 |
154.34 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
94.62 |
80.92 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 215. |
#3811229 |
A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being. |
563 |
145 |
1.003 |
142.06 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
83.23 |
75.62 |
July 14, 2017 |
| 216. |
#3620457 |
Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow. |
465 |
151 |
1.003 |
141.92 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
94.04 |
82.33 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 217. |
#3810611 |
I finally figured it out. It's like when they realized it was gonna be too expensive to actually build cyborgs and robots. I mean, the costs of that were impossible. They decided to just let humans turn themselves into robots. That's what's going on right now. I mean, why not? There're billions of us just laying around, not really doing anything. We don't cost anything. We're even pretty good at self-maintenance and reproducing constantly. And as it turns out, we're already biologically programmed for our little cyborg upgrades. |
534 |
135 |
1.003 |
157.32 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
85.05 |
77.28 |
May 7, 2017 |
| 218. |
#1710003 |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary animus against private property. I tell you that you cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into the prose of honest vegetation by any gingerbread reward, or by the offer of a secure position, or by the gift of money, or by a woman's love: because there is here a permanent beauty of risk, a fascinating abyss of danger, the delightful sinking of the heart, the impetuous pulsation of life, the ecstasy! |
471 |
2,636 |
1.002 |
185.35 — chillin (slekap) |
122.10 |
54.90 |
February 8, 2011 |
| 219. |
#3550227 |
When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators. |
392 |
117 |
1.002 |
136.22 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
86.45 |
80.60 |
December 29, 2016 |
| 220. |
#3090008 |
I will confess up front that these are weighty issues, some of which I myself raise because they are important, even though I myself don't believe I have satisfactory answers to them. They include income inequality, social entrepreneurship, and whether personal gain is an essential motivator of entrepreneurship. But let's take a first look at several of these entrepreneurs, especially those who shatter some of our stereotypes about who the typical entrepreneur really is. |
475 |
1,112 |
1.001 |
154.26 — _(=.=)_ (residober) |
98.13 |
49.00 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 221. |
#629 |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup. Grab a beer for your beverage instead and you'd still be drinking corn, in the form of alcohol fermented from glucose refined from corn. Read the ingredients on the label of any processed food and, provided you know the chemical names it travels under, corn is what you will find. |
424 |
145 |
1.001 |
140.88 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
93.72 |
83.18 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 222. |
#3550181 |
Now as to you poor devils? So as I see it, when it comes to the subject of what to do next, you gentlemen have two choices. One: once I'm gone, you could lift that beast off the remaining Speck, then carry him to the nearest town. Which would be at least 37 miles back the way you came. Or two: you could unshackle yourselves, take that rifle, put a bullet in his head, bury the two of them deep, and then make your way to a more enlightened area of this country. The choice is yours. |
484 |
151 |
1.000 |
143.47 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
88.23 |
78.20 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 223. |
#374 |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you are wearing the correct uniform. You should always have one suit or fashionable dress outfit hanging in the closet for the proper heists. Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be most helpful. Check out your local uniform store for a wide range of clothes that will get you in, and especially out, of all kinds of stores. |
396 |
154 |
1.000 |
137.23 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.53 |
80.62 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 224. |
#472 |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concerned about the growing problems of pollution and the destruction of natural habitats. This movement led to the formation of groups like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The primary goal of the environmental movement as a whole is to make sure that the environment is safe and intact for future generations to enjoy. |
383 |
339 |
1.000 |
150.60 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
93.84 |
62.32 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 225. |
#3640819 |
A man once promised me he would free me of my chains. But in the end, he abandoned me to serve his own needs. But, in some ways, I thank him: he showed me exactly how much faith our species deserved. God put his faith in men once, too. It seems that we have something in common: disappointment. I did not always love the Prophet. In truth, I ran from his embrace. I even denied that I was his. I followed a man who seemed to be everything my father was not. But that man was a False Shepherd, and when the wolves came for me, he was nowhere to be found. |
553 |
123 |
1.000 |
134.53 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
83.21 |
77.95 |
May 30, 2017 |
| 226. |
#3811215 |
I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean I knew her, and then she's... There's just a body and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why. |
486 |
130 |
1.000 |
158.75 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
84.83 |
78.18 |
July 17, 2017 |
| 227. |
#3640622 |
Many typists have not memorized the keyboard. Usually each key is labeled, so nontypists can hunt and peck letter by letter, relying on knowledge in the world and minimizing the time required for learning. The problem is that such typing is slow and difficult. With experience, of course, hunt-and-peckers learn the positions of many of the letters on the keyboard, even without instruction, and typing speed increases notably, quickly surpassing handwriting speeds and, for some, reaching quite respectable rates. |
514 |
130 |
1.000 |
148.81 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
85.36 |
78.11 |
May 5, 2017 |
| 228. |
#3620646 |
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility. |
435 |
184 |
0.999 |
140.96 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
92.85 |
77.70 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 229. |
#3550226 |
Our prematurity brought a second big advantage: it forced us to communicate. A newborn human is so helpless that it cannot survive without communicating its needs. Many babies died in the past. But some babies were better at signaling their needs, and some mothers were better at interpreting the signals. Babies who got their needs met lived to pass on their genes and their mother's genes. We were thus naturally selected for the ability to communicate. |
455 |
81 |
0.999 |
152.38 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
96.51 |
96.51 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 230. |
#3621023 |
You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. |
392 |
119 |
0.999 |
130.26 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
87.81 |
81.50 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 231. |
#3620794 |
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others, and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures. |
461 |
163 |
0.998 |
133.31 — ♥ Maria Shennah (amun2) |
90.30 |
77.86 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 232. |
#3640480 |
The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe. |
655 |
61 |
0.998 |
144.37 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
98.28 |
98.28 |
May 2, 2017 |
| 233. |
#498 |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generally performed in silence and solitude, since great care was needed in their manufacture. Certain artisans were chosen for this occupation at an early age and were trained in mental workhouses or asylums. They were known as idealists, and were expected to provide a fixed number of ideas to be exhibited or dramatised for the benefit of the public. |
405 |
55 |
0.998 |
131.85 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
101.50 |
101.50 |
January 7, 2017 |
| 234. |
#3621335 |
A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl. |
453 |
165 |
0.997 |
152.93 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
99.92 |
83.71 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 235. |
#3100048 |
Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club. |
491 |
94 |
0.997 |
160.61 — ILOVEPALESTINE (iamslow103) |
90.18 |
90.18 |
January 6, 2017 |
| 236. |
#269 |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the most common pairings of letters in the English language. He then split up those letters so that their type bars were farther apart and less likely to jam. That in turn dictated the layout of the keyboard - known as QWERTY, for the first five letters in the upper row. In a manner of speaking, he slowed down the typists to prevent jamming, and thus speed up the typing. |
430 |
155 |
0.996 |
140.21 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
93.36 |
80.57 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 237. |
#3640782 |
It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission? |
450 |
130 |
0.996 |
149.31 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
83.38 |
77.00 |
May 2, 2017 |
| 238. |
#394 |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the winter and then laying them off when the work slowed down, Jay had instituted a system of paying workers a steady wage year-round. A 1937 Fortune magazine article about this and other progressive labor policies at Hormel might well shock those familiar only with the company's labor relations in the 1980s. |
364 |
356 |
0.996 |
150.97 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
86.18 |
59.12 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 239. |
#425 |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilibrates with the high-temperature oven. First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-content material with a large number of nonconnecting small air spaces. Second, the tomato paste dehydrates, and third, the mozzarella undergoes a complex series of transitions involving protein denaturation and lipid rearrangement from regular liquid crystal to more disordered states. |
440 |
56 |
0.995 |
163.50 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
102.18 |
102.18 |
January 6, 2017 |
| 240. |
#630 |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food. From the standpoint of industrial efficiency, it's too bad we can't simply drink the petroleum directly, because there's a lot less energy in a bushel of corn (measured in calories) than there is in the half gallon or so of oil required to produce it. Ecologically this is a fabulously expensive way to produce food. |
397 |
153 |
0.994 |
143.57 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
97.95 |
84.32 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 241. |
#3100074 |
The feeling of having no power over people and events is generally unbearable to us - when we feel helpless we feel miserable. No one wants less power; everyone wants more. In the world today, however, it is dangerous to seem too power hungry, to be overt with your power moves. We have to seem fair and decent. So we need to be subtle - congenial yet cunning, democratic yet devious. |
384 |
125 |
0.994 |
142.16 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
93.85 |
84.31 |
February 7, 2017 |
| 242. |
#3620597 |
When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. |
435 |
89 |
0.993 |
136.55 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
87.66 |
87.66 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 243. |
#3620472 |
Skepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of skepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire. |
499 |
146 |
0.993 |
145.73 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.98 |
82.14 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 244. |
#3100037 |
We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. A full commitment's what I'm thinking of. You wouldn't get this from any other guy. I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you understand. Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry. Never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. |
387 |
130 |
0.992 |
134.66 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
84.26 |
75.72 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 245. |
#198 |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison. |
392 |
161 |
0.991 |
138.81 — lavé (traben) |
94.33 |
81.25 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 246. |
#3550168 |
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. |
418 |
144 |
0.991 |
152.71 — Izanagi (baguettianmysticism) |
88.56 |
78.73 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 247. |
#3640614 |
I basically know of two principles for treating complicated systems in simple ways; the first is the principle of modularity and the second is the principle of abstraction. I am an apologist for computational probability in machine learning, and particularly for graphical models and variational methods, because I believe that probability theory implements these two principles in deep and intriguing ways - namely through factorization and through averaging. Exploiting these two mechanisms as fully as possible seems to me to be the way forward in machine learning. |
568 |
118 |
0.990 |
155.95 — (shazman) |
81.67 |
77.45 |
May 5, 2017 |
| 248. |
#3620376 |
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amaranta Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past. |
407 |
121 |
0.989 |
157.00 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
88.14 |
80.87 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 249. |
#3811317 |
I don't even want to talk about it anymore. What were you thinking? What was going on in your mind? Artistic integrity? Where, where did you come up with that? You're not artistic and you have no integrity. You know you really need some help. A regular psychiatrist couldn't even help you. You need to go to like Vienna or something. You know what I mean? You need to get involved at the University level. Like where Freud studied and have all those people looking at you and checking up on you. That's the kind of help you need. |
529 |
141 |
0.989 |
139.02 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
86.12 |
77.29 |
July 10, 2017 |
| 250. |
#181 |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders. |
392 |
146 |
0.989 |
168.64 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
91.08 |
80.92 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 251. |
#3640944 |
I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing. Walk hand-in-hand into extinction. One last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal. |
601 |
53 |
0.987 |
146.95 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
101.96 |
101.96 |
May 16, 2017 |
| 252. |
#3620412 |
It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from me, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. |
419 |
159 |
0.987 |
150.29 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
91.93 |
79.46 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 253. |
#3550202 |
Tatum used a special device to elongate his descending pentatonic runs, to sustain them over longer groups of bars. In addition to inserting descending chromatic connective tones, he also inserted some ascending skips (usually fourths, fifths, or sixths), followed by a descending skip landing a whole-step below any of the tones of the pentatonic run he was using. In this way, he was able to "gain" some ground, and was then ready to play another portion of the descending pentatonic run. |
490 |
62 |
0.986 |
151.94 — thumb space for fun (supere... |
102.49 |
102.49 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 254. |
#3620546 |
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts "to be like the rest" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel. |
490 |
132 |
0.986 |
144.76 — ANDREA (andreaak00) |
85.49 |
77.75 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 255. |
#591 |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I'm older now'n he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember so well but it was about money and I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and snowin', hard ridin'. Hard country. |
445 |
146 |
0.986 |
132.25 — Inori (shaoyue) |
90.28 |
79.79 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 256. |
#410 |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the generations that for every woman there is the perfect man for her. I laugh at the whole notion and you should too. Here's why: The concept of a perfect match, one that requires no efforts on your part, creates unreasonable expectations that force a disparity between "ideal" and "reality" that always leads to disappointment. |
379 |
58 |
0.985 |
132.68 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
100.84 |
100.84 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 257. |
#3620578 |
Dreams appear much more prominent and clear when the dreamer is in an unhealthy state - they have an extraordinary semblance of reality. Most monstrous pictures are put together, but all the circumstances are so subtly interwoven, the details so artistically harmonious in every minute respect, as to defy human imitation. Such morbid dreams are always recollected for very long, and produce strong impressions on the disordered and already excited organs of the dreamer. |
471 |
175 |
0.983 |
137.61 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
94.48 |
80.25 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 258. |
#3620223 |
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. |
495 |
138 |
0.983 |
151.21 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
86.51 |
78.32 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 259. |
#3620018 |
Some believed that it was the work of God himself, but it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members that made them all obscenely rich. But the true genius of the plan was the fear. A year later, several extremists are tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is built to canonize their victims. Fear became the ultimate tool of this government. And through it our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history. |
517 |
132 |
0.983 |
145.98 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
86.70 |
79.02 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 260. |
#3622109 |
Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk? |
683 |
65 |
0.982 |
151.43 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
102.00 |
102.00 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 261. |
#3620734 |
It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. |
696 |
69 |
0.981 |
143.53 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
97.71 |
97.71 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 262. |
#3100099 |
As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity. |
409 |
129 |
0.981 |
139.46 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
94.68 |
84.43 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 263. |
#3620402 |
Experience informs intuition. But it does more than that: Experience sets the frame within which we analyze and interpret what we perceive. You would no doubt expect, for instance, that the "wild child" raised by a pack of wolves would interpret the world from a perspective that differs substantially from your own. Even less extreme comparisons, such as those between people raised in very different cultural traditions, serve to underscore the degree to which our experiences determine our interpretive mindset. |
514 |
164 |
0.981 |
133.36 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.76 |
79.91 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 264. |
#129 |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that urban herding and its concomitant technologies are not the proper way to partake of this planet's hospitality. (Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrialized, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one wrong way.) |
404 |
1,038 |
0.981 |
148.56 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
100.71 |
49.02 |
January 6, 2017 |
| 265. |
#3620042 |
No doubt when they speak of him as a Lion, they only mean he's as strong as a lion or (to our enemies, of course) as fierce as a lion. Or something of that kind. Even a little girl like you, Aravis, must see that it would be quite absurd to suppose he is a real lion. Indeed it would be disrespectful. If he was a lion he'd have to be a Beast just like the rest of us. Why, if he was a lion he'd have four paws, and a tail, and whiskers! |
437 |
136 |
0.980 |
134.52 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
88.45 |
79.90 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 266. |
#528 |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the winemaker added alcohol during or after the fermentation. That's an unusual way of making wine, but some parts of the world, like the Sherry region in Spain and the Port region in Portugal, have made quite a specialty of it. Dessert wine is the legal U.S. terminology for these wines, probably because they're usually sweet and often enjoyed after dinner. |
412 |
154 |
0.980 |
149.84 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
91.00 |
79.29 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 267. |
#634 |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. The common perception is that the final 200 meters of a Tour stage are the most dangerous and the most frightening. That might be half right, but while it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike race are fastest and apparently chaotic, at 70 kph and 200 heartbeats per minute, there's simply no time for anxiety. Adrenaline, yes. Instinct, sure. But fear, no. |
428 |
152 |
0.979 |
148.52 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
91.55 |
80.23 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 268. |
#69 |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find my favorite axe. Don't look so frightened, this is just a passing phase - one of my bad days. Would you like to watch TV? Or get between the sheets? Or contemplate the silent freeway? Would you like something to eat? Would you like to learn to fly? Would you like to see me try? Would you like to call the cops? Do you think it's time I stopped? Why are you running away... |
434 |
982 |
0.979 |
152.89 — (nonquit) |
100.97 |
49.51 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 269. |
#3640680 |
The rotten tiles broke with a noise of disaster and the man barely had time to let out a cry of terror as he cracked his skull and was killed outright on the cement floor. The foreigners who heard the noise in the dining room and hastened to remove the body noticed the suffocating odour of Remedios the Beauty on his skin. It was so deep in his body that the cracks in his skull did not give off blood but an amber-coloured oil that was impregnated with that secret perfume, and then they understood that the smell of Remedios the Beauty kept on torturing the men beyond death, right down to the dust of their bones. |
617 |
68 |
0.979 |
127.71 — Amen [Dvorak-Trainee] (amun) |
99.64 |
99.64 |
May 4, 2017 |
| 270. |
#3621391 |
There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it. |
463 |
151 |
0.979 |
140.60 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
89.34 |
78.27 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 271. |
#3621481 |
When we came up with our slogan, 'We are the People,' when I said let the people rule, I felt that I was being somewhat overly optimistic. I must tell you that I am more optimistic now than ever before. The people are rising to the demands that I have made on them. The people are beginning to rule. I feel it is a groundswell. I know it will continue through the primary. I know it will continue in Miami. And I know it will rise to an unprecedented swell in November. |
469 |
142 |
0.976 |
134.42 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
87.53 |
77.79 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 272. |
#3641027 |
Do you think we're wealthy? Wealthy people drive fancy cars, they have fresh pasta. Do we do any of those things? No! Wealthy people can afford any of their vacations ruined, no big deal. They just pick up and go again. Your father and I worked so hard, so long. What is wrong with you two? Are you aborigines? Every time I turn around, I hear someone screaming and fighting. And I pray to God that's someone else's children, but it's not, it's always you! Sane children would appreciate this. Are you even thinking? No, you're always at each other like a couple of rabid monkeys. It is not enough you two do this every day, but you have to make me suffer. Well, so help me... |
676 |
47 |
0.976 |
133.67 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
99.38 |
99.38 |
May 10, 2017 |
| 273. |
#3811387 |
Psychologists often speak of the denial of an unthinkable evil or a misplacement of shared fears, anxieties taking the form of a hideous monster for whom the most horrific human attributes can be ascribed. What we can't possibly imagine ourselves capable of, we can blame on the ogre, on the hunchback, on the lowly half-breed. Common sense alone will tell you that these legends, these unverified rumors, are ridiculous. |
421 |
133 |
0.976 |
151.83 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
77.70 |
71.91 |
July 16, 2017 |
| 274. |
#3620858 |
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self - never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted. |
474 |
189 |
0.976 |
137.07 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
94.05 |
79.06 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 275. |
#3640530 |
I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past. |
579 |
137 |
0.976 |
140.34 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
90.97 |
81.89 |
May 7, 2017 |
| 276. |
#3811128 |
Shut up. Just shut up. Homer once said you love the mine more than your own family. I stuck up for you because I didn't want to believe it. Homer has gotten a lot of help from the people in this town. They've helped him build his rockets. They've watched him fly 'em. But not you, John. You never showed up, not even once. I'm not asking you to believe in it but he's your son for God's sake, John. And I am asking you to help him. If you don't I'll leave you. I'll do whatever it takes to get away from here. I will work if that's what it takes. I'll live in a tree to get away from you. Don't think I won't. |
609 |
38 |
0.976 |
152.87 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
100.43 |
100.43 |
July 14, 2017 |
| 277. |
#3620149 |
The evidence before the court is incontrovertible, there's no need for the jury to retire! In all my years of judging, I have never heard before some one more deserving of the full penalty of law! The way you made them suffer, your exquisite wife and mother, fills me with the urge to defecate! Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear, I sentence you to be exposed before your peers. Tear down the wall! |
417 |
153 |
0.976 |
132.14 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
92.07 |
80.15 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 278. |
#3700003 |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and then let them practice them until they have routinized their mastery. Then, the game throws a new class of problem at the player (this is sometimes called a "boss"), requiring them to rethink their taken-for-granted mastery. In turn, this new mastery is consolidated through repetition (with variation), only to be challenged again. This cycle of consolidation and challenge is the basis of the development of expertise in any domain. |
493 |
149 |
0.975 |
133.89 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
90.29 |
79.48 |
January 6, 2017 |
| 279. |
#3550224 |
What the boys from Jiangxi had never even considered was that each of these creatures, destined for the banquet table, had a host of indigenous viruses that it shed by the millions, in feces, blood, sweat, saliva, and tears. Fang Lin and his friends would be in close proximity to microbes imported directly from the rain forests of Southeast Asia and the wild hinterlands of China. None of the men, however, knew what a virus was or what the risks were of a lethal microbe jumping the species barrier. They knew only that they were getting a sweet deal. |
554 |
140 |
0.975 |
154.98 — Influensane - nonquit main/... |
88.76 |
79.70 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 280. |
#672 |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect. |
397 |
152 |
0.974 |
149.97 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
91.30 |
78.77 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 281. |
#3640596 |
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vine-encumbered trees that silently wave twisted branches far aloft. Such a lot the gods gave to me - to me, the dazed, the disappointed; the barren, the broken. And yet I am strangely content, and cling desperately to those sere memories, when my mind momentarily threatens to reach beyond to the other. |
580 |
149 |
0.973 |
152.19 — thumb space for fun (supere... |
89.82 |
78.93 |
April 29, 2017 |
| 282. |
#3811371 |
It sits there looking at me and I don't know what it is. This case has dealt with metaphysics, with questions best left to saints and philosophers. I am neither competent nor qualified to answer those. I've got to make a ruling, to try to speak to the future. Is Data a machine? Yes. Is he the property of Starfleet? No. We have all been dancing around the basic issue. Does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that I have! But I have got to give him the freedom to explore that question himself. It is the ruling of this court that Lieutenant Commander Data has the freedom to choose. |
606 |
44 |
0.973 |
143.26 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
99.17 |
99.17 |
July 17, 2017 |
| 283. |
#3621435 |
Vincent, Mr. Joe Zasa now owns what used to be the Corleone family business in New York. Out of the kindness of his heart he gave you a job with his family. Contrary to my advice you took the job. I offered you something better. Something in the legitimate world. You turned me down. Now you both come to me with this bad blood. What do you expect me to do? Am I a gangster? |
374 |
320 |
0.973 |
137.58 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
84.81 |
59.13 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 284. |
#3620012 |
Sutler can no longer trust you, can he, Mr. Creedy? And we both know why. After I destroy Parliament, his only chance will be to offer them someone else. Some other piece of meat. And who will that be? You, Mr. Creedy. A man as smart as you has probably considered this. A man as smart as you probably has a plan. That plan is the reason Sutler no longer trusts you. It's the reason why you're being watched right now, why there are eyes and ears in every room of this house and a tap on every phone. |
500 |
50 |
0.972 |
148.50 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
102.19 |
102.19 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 285. |
#3620567 |
In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler's or Newton's discoveries could become known to people in no other way than by sacrificing the lives of one, or ten, or a hundred or more people who were hindering the discovery, or standing as an obstacle in its path, then Newton would have the right, and it would even be his duty to remove those ten or a hundred people, in order to make his discoveries known to mankind. It by no means follows from this, incidentally, that Newton should have the right to kill anyone he pleases, whomever happens along, or to steal from the market every day. |
611 |
69 |
0.972 |
151.27 — Ella (chawahir) |
98.89 |
98.89 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 286. |
#490 |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary animus against private property. I tell you that you cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into the prose of honest vegetation by any gingerbread reward, or by the offer of a secure position, or by the gift of money, or by a woman's love: because there is here a permanent beauty of risk, a fascinating abyss of danger, the delightful sinking of the heart, the impetuous pulsation of life, the ecstasy! |
471 |
65 |
0.972 |
140.93 — lavé (traben) |
106.10 |
106.10 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 287. |
#3090002 |
The entrepreneurial record is writ full of entrepreneurs who "should" succeed but don't, and who "shouldn't" succeed, but do; entrepreneurs who almost crashed and burned, only to barely survive and to take off, and those who were taking off, only to suddenly lose altitude and fall. Entrepreneurs' defiance of our expectations is so prevalent that it almost always has a surprising quality-if it weren't a surprise, typically greeted by a great deal of skepticism in the early stages, someone would be doing it already. |
519 |
1,031 |
0.972 |
151.75 — Izanagi (baguettianmysticism) |
96.56 |
48.68 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 288. |
#430 |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we knew the reflectance of mozzarella and the cardboard in the long-wavelength regions of interest. The process is clearly governed by the Stefan-Boltzmann fourth power radiation law. Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the surface might be of some importance if they changed the surface radiance in any appreciable way. |
397 |
141 |
0.972 |
169.66 — chillin (slekap) |
90.25 |
80.41 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 289. |
#3090013 |
So Shah convinced his landlord, a teacher on summer break, to drop him off in a different spot every morning, and he would work his beat on foot. Shah did find one point for optimism: "At least in India I was used to 100F with high humidity." The first morning at the first house, no one came to the door. The second house, he was waved along. The third house unleashed a dog on him. And at the fourth house, a little kid answered, and seeing Shah standing in front of him, shouted, "Mom, there's a tan guy at the door!" |
520 |
346 |
0.971 |
138.62 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.22 |
61.80 |
January 5, 2017 |
| 290. |
#3620022 |
Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician. He's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. He's completely single-minded and has no regard for the political process. The more power he attains, the more obvious his zealotry and the more aggressive his supporters become. Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of national security. At first, it's believed to be a search for biological weapons and is pursued without regard to its cost. However, the true goal of this project is power. Complete and total hegemonic domination. |
608 |
147 |
0.970 |
153.61 — (shazman) |
88.20 |
78.10 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 291. |
#603 |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement without the overt violent conflict that haunted some of its southern neighbors, Atlanta was a city obsessed with economic progress. Just as editor Henry Grady had looked north for investment and support in the wake of the Civil War, the city's newest generation of boosters saw international dollars as the future for Atlanta. |
389 |
142 |
0.970 |
131.46 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
84.08 |
75.21 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 292. |
#484 |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and economic aspects of the question. I do not wish to fatigue your attention. I must nevertheless point out that our profession very closely approaches the idea of that which is called art. Into it enter all the elements which go to form art - vocation, inspiration, fantasy, inventiveness, ambition, and a long and arduous apprenticeship to the science. |
410 |
67 |
0.970 |
162.71 — thumb space for fun (supere... |
101.77 |
101.77 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 293. |
#3640283 |
Opponents of a "scientific" approach to the social sciences claim that much of the apparent sterility and lack of progress in these disciplines is the result of slavish attempts to force folk psychology into the mold of a scientific theory of the causes and effects of action. The social scientists and philosophers who oppose the scientific approach and those who support it agree that in certain areas the social sciences have not progressed. But the diagnosis of the former does not blame the lack of progress on the complexity of social life, the inability to undertake experiments, or the failure to find the appropriate "natural kinds." |
642 |
69 |
0.970 |
134.74 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
98.39 |
98.39 |
May 4, 2017 |
| 294. |
#462 |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over the surrounding peoples; every year, they were forced to pay the Aztecs money, goods, and a supply of captives to be sacrificed on the altar. Taking advantage of this resentment of their Aztec overlords, the tiny Spanish force was able to attract a massive army of some 30,000 Mesoamericans of many different tribes. |
376 |
344 |
0.969 |
128.83 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
83.01 |
58.41 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 295. |
#3621260 |
For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping. |
387 |
403 |
0.968 |
151.67 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
87.84 |
59.27 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 296. |
#3550184 |
If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large-headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially pea-brained dinosaurs. |
481 |
63 |
0.968 |
141.97 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
99.43 |
99.43 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 297. |
#3620066 |
There are a lot of humorous little episodes. I tried to get Father to let me take a nursing course at a hospital. Oh yes and I almost got arrested trying to help some strikers over in Jersey. Well how was I to know that Father was on the board of directors at the company? You see, Case, the trouble with me is I never could decide whether I wanted to be Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, or John L. Lewis. |
407 |
379 |
0.968 |
132.89 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
86.55 |
58.75 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 298. |
#3621218 |
My comrades, hardly strangers to pain before now, we all have weathered worse. Some god will grant us an end to this as well. You've threaded the rocks resounding with Scylla's howling rabid dogs, and taken the brunt of the Cyclops' boulders, too. Call up your courage again. Dismiss your grief and fear. A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this. Through so many hard straits, so many twists and turns our course holds firm for Latium. |
451 |
152 |
0.967 |
136.78 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
89.61 |
78.55 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 299. |
#3640551 |
A swimming pool not unlike any other pool, a structure built of tile and cement and money, a backyard toy for the affluent, wet entertainment for the well-to-do. But to Jeb and Sport Sharewood, this pool holds mysteries not dreamed of by the building contractor, not guaranteed in any sales brochure. For this pool has a secret exit that leads to a never-neverland, a place designed for junior citizens who need a long voyage away from reality, into the bottomless regions of the Twilight Zone. |
494 |
139 |
0.966 |
141.28 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
80.43 |
73.46 |
May 2, 2017 |
| 300. |
#3620033 |
Light and Shadow are the most fundamental forces in existence. Although contradictory by their very nature, they are bound together on a cosmic scale. One cannot exist without the other. Pure Light and Shadow dwell in a realm outside the borders of reality, but shades of their presence are found in the physical universe. Light manifests as holy magic, while Shadow (also referred to as "the Void") appears as shadow magic. |
424 |
145 |
0.965 |
152.80 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
83.84 |
75.01 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 301. |
#46 |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics. We are concerned only with cutting down crime and with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons. He will be your true Christian, ready to turn the other cheek, ready to be crucified rather than crucify, sick to the heart at the thought of killing a fly. Reclamation! Joy before the angels of God! The point is that it works. |
419 |
156 |
0.964 |
163.52 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
91.26 |
78.51 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 302. |
#400 |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitchen to see if there was anything around to eat. He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found the 25-pound bag of low-fart dog biscuits the vet had prescribed for him, which had made him fart more. Even though he knew they made him fart more, he couldn't resist. He ate the entire bag. |
360 |
56 |
0.963 |
161.52 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
103.22 |
103.22 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 303. |
#3090006 |
Entrepreneurship - perceiving, creating, and capturing extraordinary value - is part of the human experience. In this respect, it is similar to art, poetry, music, and story-telling. Every society's people have developed unique ways of expressing themselves, and entrepreneurship is also a form of self-expression. Also like art and music, whereas they are ubiquitous, not everyone in a society is a musician or artist - or entrepreneur, although from childhood we all have innate abilities to sing and draw. |
508 |
989 |
0.962 |
151.78 — (shazman) |
94.95 |
47.69 |
January 6, 2017 |
| 304. |
#242 |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, manager, computer programmer, or engineer; whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an invaluable skill. It's a skill that can open doors and enhance your career opportunities. In this high-tech world of computer-generated communications, anyone who can't type runs the risk of being excluded from many business transactions. |
399 |
133 |
0.962 |
147.84 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
89.21 |
80.89 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 305. |
#3621014 |
How many winners were losers, successes failures, rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to blackguards for petty cash, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? |
511 |
149 |
0.960 |
128.66 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
88.67 |
78.14 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 306. |
#3640999 |
My beloved wife, I have missed you terribly. Thank you for returning Lady Bolton safely. Now, dismount and kneel before me. Surrender your army and proclaim me the true Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North. I will pardon you for deserting the Night's Watch, I will pardon these treasonous Lords for betraying my House. Come, bastard. You don't have the men, you don't have the horses, and you don't have Winterfell! Why lead those poor souls into slaughter? There's no need for a battle. Get off your horse and kneel. I am a man of mercy. |
544 |
113 |
0.959 |
150.32 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
78.85 |
75.41 |
May 16, 2017 |
| 307. |
#3620428 |
Why? Because we belong to the same riffraff, the same wretched pack, and because you put up with my insults. No, don't hit me. You live in caravans. We stay in filthy hotels. We make art. You make artifice. The lowest of us would spit on the best of you. Why? You only risk your lives. We risk our pride. I think you look ridiculous and overdressed, and your little lady would look better without her finery. If you dared, you'd think us even sillier, with our shabby elegance, our painted faces, our pretentious speech. So why shouldn't I insult you? |
551 |
130 |
0.957 |
139.04 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
87.04 |
79.95 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 308. |
#3621062 |
The Western States nervous under the beginning change. Texas and Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, New Mexico, Arizona, California. A single family moved from the land. Pa borrowed money from the bank, and now the bank wants the land. The land company - that's the bank when it has land - wants tractors, not families on the land. |
327 |
376 |
0.955 |
144.31 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
89.51 |
59.36 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 309. |
#93 |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero, and there's the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When he wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic that Superman stands alone. Superman did not become Superman, Superman was born Superman. |
401 |
357 |
0.952 |
135.84 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
86.04 |
57.99 |
January 19, 2017 |
| 310. |
#272 |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to be mass produced, and its keyboard layout was soon standard on all typewriters. Other keyboard layouts have been created since, such as the Blickensderfer and the Dvorak, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first. |
396 |
128 |
0.951 |
135.82 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
84.59 |
77.46 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 311. |
#3640562 |
Light and Shadow are the most fundamental forces in existence. Although contradictory by their very nature, they are bound together on a cosmic scale. One cannot exist without the other. Pure Light and Shadow dwell in a realm outside the borders of reality, but shades of their presence are found in the physical universe. Light manifests as holy magic, while Shadow (also referred to as "the Void") appears as shadow magic. |
424 |
128 |
0.951 |
144.43 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
81.18 |
75.03 |
April 6, 2017 |
| 312. |
#465 |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in communication with each other through ARPANET. By the mid-1980s, the core of the network was in place, the communications protocols had been determined, and the Internet was live. By the early 1990s the first Internet language (http) was written and the first browser was published. The World Wide Web was born. |
369 |
912 |
0.950 |
155.48 — typeracerplays (typeracerpl... |
98.51 |
48.00 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 313. |
#3620444 |
I had a dream this afternoon while I slept off the booze. I dreamt that Alma came to me and said, "Poor Frost, you look tired and sad. Wouldn't you like to rest a while?" "Yes," I said. "I'll make you small as a little unborn child," she said. "You can climb into my womb and sleep in peace." So I did as she said and crept inside her womb and I slept there so soundly and peacefully, rocked to sleep as if in a cradle. Then I got smaller and smaller, until at last I was just a tiny seed, and then I was gone. |
510 |
146 |
0.949 |
132.09 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
81.09 |
72.44 |
January 6, 2017 |
| 314. |
#3550139 |
In the Age of Ancients the world was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of gray crags, Archtrees and Everlasting Dragons. But then there was fire and with fire came disparity. Heat and cold, life and death, and of course, light and dark. Then from the dark, they came, and found the Souls of Lords within the flame. Nito, the First of the Dead, The Witch of Izalith and her Daughters of Chaos, Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight, and his faithful knights. And the Furtive Pygmy, so easily forgotten. |
490 |
64 |
0.948 |
142.31 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
97.80 |
97.80 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 315. |
#3621025 |
There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? |
407 |
368 |
0.947 |
142.93 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
84.41 |
57.67 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 316. |
#3640879 |
Tech goggles allow agents to operate in low-light environments such as offices or labs where illumination might otherwise attract attention. With binoculars, an agent can survey an opponent's disposition and determine the best way to evade or eliminate their defenses. A rifle or crossbow equipped with scope and silencing modifications can be used to interdict targets from a considerable distance, significantly compromising hostile resistance. |
446 |
122 |
0.944 |
129.75 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
79.62 |
74.75 |
May 2, 2017 |
| 317. |
#3620084 |
Uh, do you realize that the dinosaurs dominated this globe for 140 million years before they became extinct? Modern Man has been on this planet for only a fraction of just over 40,000 years and yet already he faces extinction. In fact, the species will be lucky to survive beyond the year 2010. Mankind has only one hope: science. Technology is a survival kit of the human race. Even the politicians realize this. |
413 |
141 |
0.944 |
151.75 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
91.36 |
80.81 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 318. |
#3641166 |
After the Agricultural Revolution, human societies grew ever larger and more complex, while the imagined constructs sustaining the social order also became more elaborate. Myths and fictions accustomed people, nearly from the moment of birth, to think in certain ways, to behave in accordance with certain standards, to want certain things, and to observe certain rules. They thereby created artificial instinct that enabled millions of strangers to cooperate effectively. This network of artificial instincts is called 'culture'. |
530 |
130 |
0.943 |
136.21 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
82.36 |
75.68 |
May 10, 2017 |
| 319. |
#569 |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisco across the Sierra toward our rendezvous in the Black Rock Desert that day. Significantly absent among them was Julia, my girlfriend at the time. We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties, yet none had found brides or husbands. Although we were all older than our parents were when they had us, the idea of having children ourselves still seemed a far-off abstraction. |
448 |
157 |
0.943 |
140.35 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
87.88 |
75.87 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 320. |
#3621381 |
Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to a personal services contract with this big bandleader. And as his career got better and better, he wanted to get out of it. But the bandleader wouldn't let him. Now, Johnny is my father's godson. So my father went to see this bandleader and offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go, but the bandleader said no. So the next day, my father went back, only this time with Luca Brasi. Within an hour, he had a signed release for a certified check of $1,000. |
508 |
142 |
0.942 |
144.93 — (alpha_panda) |
88.28 |
78.52 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 321. |
#278 |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by August Dvorak, a professor of education at the University of Washington, is vastly superior to the Qwerty keyboard developed by Christopher Sholes that is now in common use. We are to believe that, although the Dvorak keyboard is vastly superior to the Qwerty, virtually no one trains on Dvorak because there are too few Dvorak typists. |
393 |
136 |
0.940 |
143.64 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.46 |
82.55 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 322. |
#232 |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been the world's number one producer of petroleum, American companies determined the global price of oil. In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its inexorable, irreversible decline. The year before, the prerogative of setting the price of crude oil had passed into the hands of a new producer group, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. |
427 |
130 |
0.932 |
127.35 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
84.67 |
77.26 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 323. |
#3620239 |
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? |
563 |
134 |
0.926 |
139.77 — KiddieX (emyrr) |
84.98 |
76.88 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 324. |
#542 |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to be in the Spanish class - that'll be great!" But no, she walked into the Portuguese class. So I figured, what the hell - I might as well learn Portuguese. I started walking right after her when this Anglo-Saxon attitude that I have said, "No, that's not a good reason to decide which language to speak." So I went back and signed up for the Spanish class, to my utter regret. |
436 |
133 |
0.921 |
117.15 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
85.17 |
77.05 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 325. |
#3550182 |
Now, that's 200 dollars, dead or alive. I'm aware this is probably disconcerting news, but I'm willing to wager this man was elected sheriff sometime in the last 2 years. I know this because 3 years ago, he was rustling cattle from the B.C. Corrigan Cattle Company of Lubbock, Texas. Now this is a warrant, made out by circuit court Judge Henry Allen Laudermilk of Austin, Texas. You're encouraged to wire him. He'll back up who I am, and who your dear departed sheriff was. In other words, Marshall, you owe me 200 dollars. |
524 |
73 |
0.919 |
134.16 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
92.49 |
92.49 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 326. |
#3100055 |
At a peace rally in Philadelphia in 1966, a reporter asked me, "Are you from North or South Vietnam?" If I had said I was from the north, he would have thought I was pro-communist, and if I had said I was from the south, he would have thought I was pro-American. So I told him, "I am from the Center." I wanted to help him let go of his notions and encounter the reality that was right in front of him. This is the language of Zen. |
431 |
77 |
0.916 |
124.64 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
84.22 |
84.22 |
January 4, 2017 |
| 327. |
#523 |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like this: 1. Pick a large quantity of ripe grapes from grapevines (you could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.9 percent of all the wine in the world is made from grapes, because they make the best wines). 2. Put the grapes into a clean container that doesn't leak. 3. Crush the grapes somehow to release their juice. (Once upon a time, feet performed this step.) 4. Wait. |
443 |
140 |
0.915 |
142.37 — Jetmode🐊🐍 (botpro) |
84.20 |
74.97 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 328. |
#1 |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," "point," and "straight line," with which we are able to associate more or less definite ideas, and from certain simple propositions (axioms) which, in virtue of these ideas, we are inclined to accept as "true." Then, on the basis of a logical process, the justification of which we feel ourselves compelled to admit, all remaining propositions are shown to follow from those axioms, i.e. they are proven. |
464 |
733 |
0.914 |
166.67 — PhilliesMagic (fightin_phils) |
110.40 |
81.94 |
February 4, 2011 |
| 329. |
#743 |
What else do I get with it? - You get a gold-plated Rolls Royce, as long as you pay for it. - Don't know, Tom, seems expensive. - Seems... well this seems to be a waste of my time. That is nine hundred nicker in any shop you're lucky enough to find one in, and you're complaining about two hundred? What school of finance did you study? It's a deal, it's a steal, it's the sale of the beeping century! In fact, beep it Nick, I think I'll keep it! |
446 |
126 |
0.899 |
127.43 — Amen [Dvorak-Trainee] (amun) |
81.04 |
74.26 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 330. |
#740 |
So, ahem, how much is it, then, Tom? - You know how much, Nick. - And that includes the amp, yeah? - No, that does not include the amp. - Shoot, Tom, I thought it included the amp! - Well it doesn't! I'll throw in one of these telephones if you'd like, but it does not include the amp. - Very nice... I hope it includes the speakers. - It doesn't include the speakers, it doesn't include the amp, and it's not supposed to include me getting the hump with your stupid questions. Now, you want it, Nick, you buy it. - What else do I get with it? - You get a gold-plated Rolls Royce, as long as you pay for it. |
607 |
43 |
0.881 |
137.46 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
100.46 |
100.46 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 331. |
#3621369 |
I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you. |
448 |
115 |
0.878 |
125.07 — retired, for now ᐢ.‸.... |
73.95 |
70.57 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 332. |
#709 |
Bullet Tooth Tony: "A bookie's got blagged last night." Avi: "Blagged? Do me a favor, Tony, speak English. I thought this country spawned the language, and so far nobody seems to speak it!" Tony: "Blagged - robbed. I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean." Rose Bud: "I need a gun." Tony: "No you don't, Rose Bud my old son, you need me." |
415 |
111 |
0.822 |
123.67 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
75.41 |
72.30 |
January 3, 2017 |
| 333. |
#721 |
The car has stopped. Vinny: "What have you stopped here for? What's wrong with that space over there?" Tyrone: "It's too tight." Vinny: "What are you talking about, tight? You could land a jumbo jet in there!" Sol: "Hey, leave him alone, he's a natural. Ain't you Tyrone?" Tyrone gets a little over-excited with the accelerator and reverses with a crashing sound into the rear of the van behind them. Vinny: "A natural idiot! Tyrone, what have you done!" Sol: "Yeah Tyrone, what have you done?" |
494 |
121 |
0.818 |
123.42 — Hreyfill Hreyfill (hreyfill) |
72.27 |
67.30 |
December 31, 2016 |
| 334. |
#3621306 |
When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten, and from there they decide which drugs to use and how quickly to use them. I'd been asked this question hundreds of times over the years, and I remember once early on when I couldn't get my breath and it felt like my chest was on fire, flames licking the inside of my ribs fighting for a way to burn out of my body, my parents took me to the ER. Nurse asked me about the pain, and I couldn't even speak, so I held up nine fingers. |
542 |
1 |
0.809 |
97.00 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
97.00 |
97.00 |
December 30, 2016 |
| 335. |
#3640793 |
You're a natural born soldier. You're not the grow old gracefully type. Same for all of us who've seen real action. The only place we can feel truly alive is on the battlefield. I'm a solider too. I know those feelings of powerlessness, frustration that you feel everyday. You've tried to play the boy scout out there in Alaska, but you can't race dogs in the snow forever. Why don't you come back to us and be a soldier again. |
427 |
1 |
0.771 |
92.45 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
92.45 |
92.45 |
May 11, 2017 |
| 336. |
#3811327 |
It's inhuman to serve the same food day after day. The Geneva Convention prohibits the killing of our taste buds! I simply cannot eat the same food day after day. Fish! Liver! Day after day! I've eaten a river of liver and an ocean of fish! I've eaten so much fish I'm ready to grow gills! I've eaten so much liver I can only make love if I'm smothered in bacon and onions! Are we going to stand for this? Are we going to let them do this to us? No, I say NO! We're not going to eat this dreck anymore! We want something else! |
526 |
1 |
0.765 |
91.73 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
91.73 |
91.73 |
July 11, 2017 |
| 337. |
#3811247 |
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives. |
552 |
1 |
0.764 |
91.53 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
91.53 |
91.53 |
July 17, 2017 |
| 338. |
#3640508 |
On the way to the bus stop, Bill saw somebody he recognized walking towards him, but he couldn't remember his name. He began to think of things to say when they'd be close enough to acknowledge each other. As they drew nearer, their eyes locked, uncertain if the other was gonna stop to talk. The person greeted Bill as Bill mixed up the phrases "What's up" with "How's it going?" Confused, the person blurted out "Thanks" before he knew what he was saying. Words caught in Bill's throat and he replied, "Weh." They did a sort of awkward half turn, and then continued on now confident that the other was not gonna stop to talk. They never saw each other again, and a day later had each forgotten the whole thing. |
712 |
1 |
0.760 |
91.15 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
91.15 |
91.15 |
April 6, 2017 |
| 339. |
#3620826 |
Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both: - touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I - Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too. |
540 |
1 |
0.675 |
80.91 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
80.91 |
80.91 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 340. |
#3621148 |
Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. |
438 |
1 |
0.673 |
80.63 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
80.63 |
80.63 |
January 1, 2017 |
| 341. |
#3621045 |
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. I says, "What's this call, this sperit?" An' I says, 'It's love. I love people so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes.' I figgered, "Why do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe," I figgered, "maybe it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the Holy Sperit-the human sperit-the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of." |
462 |
1 |
0.629 |
75.38 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
75.38 |
75.38 |
January 2, 2017 |
| 342. |
#3090004 |
At a recent conference at MIT on business opportunities in Brazil, one of the speakers summed up: "In a word, Brazil is juicy." He was not referring to the juice of electricity, but in Sorocaba, 25 miles west of Sao Paulo, Bento Koike and the venture he founded, Tecsis, have shipped over 12 thousand 50-meter wind turbine blades that operate 24x7 in the wind farms of North America and Europe. Virtually all of Koike's critical raw materials come from the Northern Hemisphere, and all of his customers are there as well. The value-the real "juice"-is created and captured in Brazil. |
583 |
1 |
0.612 |
73.39 — wr.dd.i.go.rng (lucean) |
73.39 |
73.39 |
January 12, 2017 |