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Anne Carson
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
On the Rules of PerspectiveA bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends his life drawing profiles will end up believing that man has one eye, Braque felt. Braque wanted to take full possession of objects. He said as much in published interviews. Watching the small shiny planes of the landscape recede out of his grasp filled Braque with loss so he smashed them. Nature morte, said Braque.
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Barry Eisler
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Extremis
Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive.
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Robert A. Caro
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Master of the Senate
their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,
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Rick Warren
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The Purpose Driven Life: What
The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships.
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Pearl S. Buck
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The Good Earth
He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.
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Robert J. Allison
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Before 1776: Life in the
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
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Robert M. Pirsig
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
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Robert M. Pirsig
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, "I am a mechanic." At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job.
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Robert M. Pirsig
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.
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Geraldine Brooks
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The Secret Chord
I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern of the whole.
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Maya Angelou
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I Know Why the Caged Bird
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.
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Rebecca Goldstein
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Plato at the Googleplex: Why
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
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