Then suddenly, when her hope was almost spent, he woke again, and looked up, seeing leaves against the sky; and he heard beneath the leaves singing soft and slow beside him Lúthien Tinúviel. And it was spring again.
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Then Celegorm arose amid the throng, and drawing his sword he cried: ‘Be he friend or foe, whether demon of Morgoth, or Elf, or child of Men, or any other living thing in Arda, neither law, nor love, nor league of hell, nor might of the Valar, nor any power of wizardry, shall defend him from the pursuing hate of Fëanor’s sons, if he take or find a Silmaril and keep it. For the Silmarils we alone claim, until the world ends.’
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It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal enquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.
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Denji: Same goes for all assasins who came to kill me. If I'd known their circumstances, learned what kinda people they were then I probably would felt grappy when they died. There are some things you gotta know, and some things it's better to stay in the dark about.
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
I hurt her with these tiny scratches, day after day. And then I got surprised when it left a wound too big to heal.
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White supremacy is the unnamed political system that has made the modern world what it is today.
You will not fi nd this term in introductory, or even advanced, texts in political theory. A standard under graduate philosophy course will start off with Plato and Aris totle, perhaps say something about Augustine, Aquinas, and Machiavelli, move on to Hobbes, Locke, Mill, and Marx, and then wind up with Rawls and Nozick. It will introduce you to notions of aristocracy, democracy, absolutism, liberalism, representative government, socialism, welfare capitalism, and libertarianism. But though it covers more than two thousand years of Western political thought and runs the ostensible gamut of political systems, there will be no mention of the basic political system that has shaped the world for the past several hundred years. And this omission is not accidental.
Rather, it reflects the fact that standard textbooks and courses have for the most part been written and designed by whites, who take their racial privilege so much for granted that they do not even see it as political, as a form of domination.
“I might have been better off if he did,” I say, wrinkling up my nose. “Honestly, I think his villain speeches were better. He’s a proper badass, you know? Whereas Oliver was so whiny, putting on the guilt trips . . . like Jesus dude, get on Tinder, get over it.”
Callum stares at me for a second, then he starts laughing so hard that his shoulders shake.
“Aida, you’re out of your fucking mind,” he says.
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Bandura's research showed that the best way to overcome phobias is to first observe the fearless model and then, with the model's guidance and support, try it and master it yourself.
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The astronomer Carl Sagan used to say that understanding something does not diminish its wonder and mystery. Many people fear that scientific understanding entails a trade-off with wonder, as if knowledge leeches the flavor and color out of life. But Sagan was right. The truth is that, with understanding, we become more comfortable with our role in the universe and simultaneously the universe becomes even more colorful and mysterious. Being a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, alive, aware, intelligent, and creative, is far more interesting than living on a flat, limited Earth at the center of a small universe. Understanding how our brains work does not diminish the wonder and mystery of the universe, our lives, or our future. Our amazement will only deepen as we apply this knowledge to understanding ourselves, building intelligent machines, and then acquiring more knowledge.
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