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1. #3700013 Learning a foreign language not only reveals how other societies think and feel, what they have experienced and value, and how they express themselves, it also provides a cultural mirror in which we can more clearly see our own society. 236 689 1.141 216.53 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 173.32 122.17 April 4, 2017
2. #3700015 Works of art participate in our lives; we are not just distant observers of their lives. They are in conversation among themselves and with us. 143 1,010 1.132 323.47 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 238.52 125.99 May 9, 2017
3. #3700016 If you have to choose among an infinite number of ways to put it together then the relation of the machine to you, and the relation of the machine and you to the rest of the world, has to be considered, because the selection from among many choices, the art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. 363 865 1.106 337.73 — Mirabai On Plover Steno (pl... 255.69 130.58 May 9, 2017
4. #3700004 It is always important, I think, to be clear about what delights you: important, and more easily said than done, to know exactly what you'd do if you didn't have to do everything else. 184 1,358 1.102 232.40 — Kathy (florentine) 192.27 121.05 February 3, 2017
5. #3700020 Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. How does it feel to be a problem? 201 777 1.086 344.03 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 219.53 118.92 June 20, 2017
6. #3700027 There is one controlling truth from all past wars which applies with equal weight to any war of tomorrow. No nation on earth possesses such limitless resources that it can maintain itself in a state of perfect readiness to engage in war immediately and decisively and win a total victory soon after the outbreak without destroying its own economy, pauperizing its own people, and promoting interior disorder. 408 942 1.086 255.76 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 153.39 97.67 September 6, 2017
7. #3700018 A new disease has fallen on the life of man. Our torment is unbelief, the uncertainty as to what we ought to do; the distrust of the value of what we do, and the distrust that the necessity is fair and beneficent. 213 712 1.080 303.35 — Mirabai On Plover Steno (pl... 212.13 120.36 June 20, 2017
8. #3700009 Speed is the consort of death, as pleasure is of life. Speed defies sensuality; it short-circuits ardor and shortchanges the palate. Speed is a thirst for life that in its haste keeps spilling the drink. 203 1,571 1.078 211.22 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 179.39 103.51 March 2, 2017
9. #3700002 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. 314 1,492 1.072 219.80 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 193.38 125.90 January 2, 2017
10. #3700001 All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. 228 1,369 1.064 209.37 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 185.72 123.90 January 2, 2017
11. #3700023 Robbers never strike at the homes of the poor; private wealth does not benefit the entire nation. Calamity has its source in the accumulated riches of a few, people who lose their souls for ten thousand coins. 209 485 1.063 293.09 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 165.76 107.76 July 8, 2017
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13. #3700019 I see a clear difference between experts and intellectuals. An expert is someone who designs military drones; an intellectual is someone questioning their ethics. I cannot escape thinking that the unintellectual experts are leading the world to its ruin. 254 662 1.060 338.33 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 219.76 119.21 June 20, 2017
14. #3700025 Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground. 181 928 1.059 266.63 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 170.13 106.99 August 8, 2017
15. #3700017 The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. 396 877 1.033 274.65 — Mirabai On Plover Steno (pl... 217.96 118.82 May 9, 2017
16. #3700005 If we can simply determine whether Johnson was "conservative" or "liberal," for instance, we can use that comprehensive allegiance to determine where he would have stood on every issue, just as we make the same blanket determination for ourselves. No need to look at particulars. In other words, we should like to know which sort of cant would best suit the man who told us to clear our minds of cant. 401 880 1.031 218.26 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 177.31 114.17 February 3, 2017
17. #2400005 Can you type fast? 18 78 1.022 183.21 — Izzy (blade5468) 108.45 108.45 December 27, 2016
18. #0 This is a placeholder text. You are seeing it because there are no other texts available for your skill level. Please tell your system administrator to add some texts! 167 171 1.016 194.09 — ᗜ Plover Steno (stedno) 107.41 87.95 March 1, 2017
19. #3700022 Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. 337 478 1.014 256.50 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 154.48 104.56 July 8, 2017
20. #3700024 Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years', thirty years', ten years' time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia. 408 738 1.007 256.20 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 163.95 104.95 August 8, 2017
21. #3700006 Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith. 548 836 1.000 207.03 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 172.92 113.11 February 3, 2017
22. #3700028 Promenading Portland's pavements purposely pure pigments purveying public preference positively points to Pierce's Prepared Paints. 131 843 0.985 220.57 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 151.35 89.08 September 6, 2017
23. #3700007 In the beginning, the field concept was no more than a means of facilitating the understanding of phenomena from the mechanical point of view. In the new field language it is the description of the field between the two charges, and not the charges themselves, which is essential for an understanding of their action. The recognition of the new concepts grew steadily, until substance was overshadowed by the field. It was realized that something of great importance had happened in physics. A new reality was created, a new concept for which there was no place in the mechanical description. Slowly and by a struggle the field concept established for itself a leading place in physics and has remained one of the basic physical concepts. The electromagnetic field is, for the modern physicist, as real as the chair on which he sits. But it would be unjust to consider that the new field view freed science from the errors of the old theory of electric fluids or that the new theory destroys the achievements of the old. The new theory shows the merits as well as the limitations of the old theory and allows us to regain our old concepts from a higher level. This is true not only for the theories of electric fluids and field, but for all changes in physical theories, however revolutionary they may seem. In our case, we still find, for example, the concept of the electric charge in Maxwell's theory, though the charge is understood only as a source of the electric field. Coulomb's law is still valid and is contained in Maxwell's equations from which it can be deduced as one of the many consequences. We can still apply the old theory, whenever facts within the region of its validity are investigated. But we may as well apply the new theory, since all the known facts are contained in the realm of its validity. To use a comparison, we could say that 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. 2316 402 0.974 192.98 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 150.25 107.47 March 2, 2017
24. #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. 493 957 0.969 222.29 — (joshua728) 164.53 113.25 January 2, 2017
25. #3700026 Inteligencia intrapersonal es la capacidad de que disponemos para conocer, entre otras cosas, nuestras limitaciones y actuar sobre ellas. 137 1,057 0.934 217.60 — Vince (vincemiller) 166.50 102.32 August 8, 2017
26. #3700021 i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) 158 528 0.922 223.56 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 149.90 98.00 July 8, 2017
27. #3700029 Extra vegetated terraces were reseeded afterwards as we recreated a devastated desert. We faced a savage crew, sewed seaweed sweaters, as we extracted stewed sewage. 165 849 0.894 199.96 — ᗜ John on Plover Stenogra... 133.61 82.39 September 6, 2017
28. #3700012 Te recuerdo como eras en el ultimo otono. Eras la boina gris y el corazon en calma. En tus ojos peleaban las llamas del crepusculo. Y las hojas caian en el agua de tu alma. Apegada a mis brazos como una enredadera, las hojas recogian tu voz lenta y en calma. Hoguera de estupor en que mi sed ardia. Dulce jacinto azul torcido sobre mi alma. 340 740 0.885 202.91 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 173.60 110.47 April 4, 2017
29. #3700011 Nu credeam sa-nvat a muri vreodata; pururi tanar, infasurat in manta-mi, ochii mei naltam visatori la steaua; singuratatii. 123 892 0.881 190.99 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 155.69 105.80 April 4, 2017
30. #3700010 Jongens waren we - maar aardige jongens. Al zeg ik 't zelf. We zijn nu veel wijzer, stakkerig wijs zijn we, behalve Bavink, die mal geworden is. 144 746 0.865 189.56 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 146.35 101.53 April 4, 2017
31. #3700014 Marahil ang bugtong na bagay na hindi matututulang ikinatatangi ng tao sa mga hayop ay ang paggalang na inihahandog sa mga namamatay. Sinasaysay ng mga historiador na sinasamba at dinidios nila ang canilang mga nuno at magugulang; ngayo'y tumbalic ang nangyayari: ang mga patay ang nagcacailangang mamintuho sa mga buhay. 321 624 0.826 193.63 — Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 140.39 98.49 April 6, 2017
32. #3700008 2.71828182 8459045235 3602874713 5266249775 7247093699 9595749669 6762772407 6630353547 5945713821 7852516642 7427466391 9320030599 2181741359 6629043572 9003342952 6059563073 8132328627 9434907632 197 1,066 0.603 202.73 — Taro (yada) 170.65 87.17 March 2, 2017