Michele Pasin / Quotes

Ideals and personal needs

[priest] You are indomitable, Luisa. Your father would be very proud. But do not let that ghost drive you beyond reason. The moment this becomes personal.. is the moment you've lost control.

[Luisa] Bullshit. That's the job talking, dear Rodrigo. You know as well as I do, it has to be personal. We only expand it into something greater to justify our own needs.

Saved 17 April 2019 / www.bbc.co.uk ↗

#control #fathers #need #reasons

Eating cows without hurting them

To ensure the unflagging progress of the ox, Kishan beat the animal fiercely and often. The stick rose and fell with a resounding smack at regular intervals…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #animals #nail #fathers #expression

God the Father has become ridiculous

Frankly, the image of God the Father has become ridiculous—that is, unless you read Saint Thomas Aquinas or Martin Buber or Paul Tillich, and realize that you…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #fathers #emotions #image-of-God #parents #images

Killing to live versus living to kill

IN MY FIRST KNIFE FIGHT I learned that there are two kinds of people who enter a deadly conflict: those who kill to live, and those who live to kill. The ones…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #blood #women #reasons #men #fight #life

One-thing-per-page vs one-page-per-thing

In December of that year the first streaming version of iPlayer was released. For a whole variety of reasons the “iPlayer inside” (/programmes) model never…

Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst #episodes #years #reasons

Property quantifiers are ontological

We use the term property quantifiers for the declaration of the allowed number of instances of a certain property that an instance of its range or domain may…

Cidoc-crm Version 4.2.4 - Reference Document #knowledge #persons #fathers #instances

Reuse existing vocabularies like Dublin Core

Even then, RDF's use of URIrefs does not solve all identification problems because, for example, people can still use different URIrefs to refer to the same…

Rdf Primer #use #people #reasons #terms #problem