(1) The scholastic period begins with the Recognitio summularum of Alonso de la Veracruz (1554) and continues to the dawn of the nineteenth century. According to Ueberweg, the influence of Duns Scotus during this period was greater than that of Thomas Aquinas.
(2) The predominantly naturalistic and positivistic period coincides roughly with the nineteenth century. The wars of independence were accompanied by revolt from scholasticism. In the early part of the century, liberal eclectics like Cousin and P. Janet were popular in South America, but French eighteenth century materialism exerted an increasing influence. Later, the thought of Auguste Comte and of Herbert Spencer came to be dominant especially in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Even an idealistically inclined social and educational philosopher like Eugenio Maria de Hostos (1839-1903), although rejecting naturalistic ethics, maintains a positivistic attitude toward metaphysics.
90-90 Rule {Ninety-Ninety Rule}
Adaptive Server Enterprise "database" (ASE) The {relational database management system} that started life in the mid-eighties [first release?] as "Sybase SQL Server". For a number of years {Microsoft} was a Sybase distributor, reselling the Sybase product for {OS/2} and (later) {Windows NT} under the name "Microsoft SQL Server". Around 1994, Microsoft basically bought a copy of the {source code} of Sybase SQL Server and then went its own way. As competitors, Sybase and Microsoft have been developing their products independently ever since. Microsoft has mostly emphasised ease-of-use and "Window-ising" the product, while Sybase has focused on maximising performance and reliability, and running on high-end hardware. When releasing version 11.5 in 1997, Sybase renamed its product to "ASE" to better distinguish its database from Microsoft's. Both ASE and MS SQL Server call their query language "Transact-SQL" and they are very similar. Sybase SQL Server was the first true {client-server} RDBMS which was also capable of handling real-world workloads. In contrast, other DBMSs have long been monolithic programs; for example, {Oracle} only "bolted on" client-server functionality in the mid-nineties. Also, Sybase SQL Server was the first commercially successful RDBMS supporting {stored procedures} and {triggers}, and a cost-based {query optimizer}. As with many other technology-driven competitors of Microsoft, Sybase has lost market share to MS's superior marketing, though many consider it has the superior system. {(http://sypron.nl/whatis_ase.html)}. (2003-07-02)
ahaituki ::: feminine of ahaituka
alanine ::: n. --> A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.
Algebra of logic is the name given to the Nineteenth Century form of the calculi of classes and propositions. It is distinguished from the contemporary forms of these calculi primarily by the absence of formalization as a logistic system (q.v.) The propositional calculus was also at first either absent or not clearly distinguished from the class calculus; the distinction between the two was made by Peirce and afterwards more sharply by Schröder (1891) but the identity of notation was retained.
algorithm ::: n. --> The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.
The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.
"Along with purity and as a help to bring it about, concentration. Purity and concentration are indeed two aspects, feminine and masculine, passive and active, of the same status of being; purity is the condition in which concentration becomes entire, rightly effective, omnipotent; by concentration purity does its works and without it would only lead to a state of peaceful quiescence and eternal repose.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“Along with purity and as a help to bring it about, concentration. Purity and concentration are indeed two aspects, feminine and masculine, passive and active, of the same status of being; purity is the condition in which concentration becomes entire, rightly effective, omnipotent; by concentration purity does its works and without it would only lead to a state of peaceful quiescence and eternal repose.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Amal: “They are beautiful feminine beings of subtle worlds—the vital planes. They correspond to what the Greeks spoke of as nymphs. They are to be distinguished from other such beings—the nereids (river nymphs) and the oreads (mountain nymphs). The most beautiful among them was Urvasie whom King Pururavas made his wife thus saving her from the grasp of a giant demon.”
ambassadress ::: a feminine ambassador or messenger.
anamayi ::: feminine of vijñanamaya.
anoplotherium ::: n. --> A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).
apara ::: lower (feminine of apara). apara apara apar a prakr prakrti
apennine ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.
Apsaras ::: Amal: “They are beautiful feminine beings of subtle worlds—the vital planes. They correspond to what the Greeks spoke of as nymphs. They are to be distinguished from other such beings—the nereids (river nymphs) and the oreads (mountain nymphs). The most beautiful among them was Urvasie whom King Pururavas made his wife thus saving her from the grasp of a giant demon.”
archon ::: n. --> One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preeminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates.
aryapatnih ::: [those (feminine) ] possessed by the arya; wives of the noble ones.
asinine ::: a. --> Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy.
asininity ::: n. --> The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy.
assish ::: a. --> Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate.
Aufklärung: In general, this German word and its English equivalent Enlightenment denote the self-emancipation of man from mere authority, prejudice, convention and tradition, with an insistence on freer thinking about problems uncritically referred to these other agencies. According to Kant's famous definition "Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority, which is the incapacity of using one's understanding without the direction of another. This state of minority is caused when its source lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of determination and courage to use it without the assistance of another" (Was ist Aufklärung? 1784). In its historical perspective, the Aufklärung refers to the cultural atmosphere and contrlbutions of the 18th century, especially in Germany, France and England [which affected also American thought with B. Franklin, T. Paine and the leaders of the Revolution]. It crystallized tendencies emphasized by the Renaissance, and quickened by modern scepticism and empiricism, and by the great scientific discoveries of the 17th century. This movement, which was represented by men of varying tendencies, gave an impetus to general learning, a more popular philosophy, empirical science, scriptural criticism, social and political thought. More especially, the word Aufklärung is applied to the German contributions to 18th century culture. In philosophy, its principal representatives are G. E. Lessing (1729-81) who believed in free speech and in a methodical criticism of religion, without being a free-thinker; H. S. Reimarus (1694-1768) who expounded a naturalistic philosophy and denied the supernatural origin of Christianity; Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) who endeavoured to mitigate prejudices and developed a popular common-sense philosophy; Chr. Wolff (1679-1754), J. A. Eberhard (1739-1809) who followed the Leibnizian rationalism and criticized unsuccessfully Kant and Fichte; and J. G. Herder (1744-1803) who was best as an interpreter of others, but whose intuitional suggestions have borne fruit in the organic correlation of the sciences, and in questions of language in relation to human nature and to national character. The works of Kant and Goethe mark the culmination of the German Enlightenment. Cf. J. G. Hibben, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, 1910. --T.G. Augustinianism: The thought of St. Augustine of Hippo, and of his followers. Born in 354 at Tagaste in N. Africa, A. studied rhetoric in Carthage, taught that subject there and in Rome and Milan. Attracted successively to Manicheanism, Scepticism, and Neo-Platontsm, A. eventually found intellectual and moral peace with his conversion to Christianity in his thirty-fourth year. Returning to Africa, he established numerous monasteries, became a priest in 391, Bishop of Hippo in 395. Augustine wrote much: On Free Choice, Confessions, Literal Commentary on Genesis, On the Trinity, and City of God, are his most noted works. He died in 430. St. Augustine's characteristic method, an inward empiricism which has little in common with later variants, starts from things without, proceeds within to the self, and moves upwards to God. These three poles of the Augustinian dialectic are polarized by his doctrine of moderate illuminism. An ontological illumination is required to explain the metaphysical structure of things. The truth of judgment demands a noetic illumination. A moral illumination is necessary in the order of willing; and so, too, an lllumination of art in the aesthetic order. Other illuminations which transcend the natural order do not come within the scope of philosophy; they provide the wisdoms of theology and mysticism. Every being is illuminated ontologically by number, form, unity and its derivatives, and order. A thing is what it is, in so far as it is more or less flooded by the light of these ontological constituents. Sensation is necessary in order to know material substances. There is certainly an action of the external object on the body and a corresponding passion of the body, but, as the soul is superior to the body and can suffer nothing from its inferior, sensation must be an action, not a passion, of the soul. Sensation takes place only when the observing soul, dynamically on guard throughout the body, is vitally attentive to the changes suffered by the body. However, an adequate basis for the knowledge of intellectual truth is not found in sensation alone. In order to know, for example, that a body is multiple, the idea of unity must be present already, otherwise its multiplicity could not be recognized. If numbers are not drawn in by the bodily senses which perceive only the contingent and passing, is the mind the source of the unchanging and necessary truth of numbers? The mind of man is also contingent and mutable, and cannot give what it does not possess. As ideas are not innate, nor remembered from a previous existence of the soul, they can be accounted for only by an immutable source higher than the soul. In so far as man is endowed with an intellect, he is a being naturally illuminated by God, Who may be compared to an intelligible sun. The human intellect does not create the laws of thought; it finds them and submits to them. The immediate intuition of these normative rules does not carry any content, thus any trace of ontologism is avoided. Things have forms because they have numbers, and they have being in so far as they possess form. The sufficient explanation of all formable, and hence changeable, things is an immutable and eternal form which is unrestricted in time and space. The forms or ideas of all things actually existing in the world are in the things themselves (as rationes seminales) and in the Divine Mind (as rationes aeternae). Nothing could exist without unity, for to be is no other than to be one. There is a unity proper to each level of being, a unity of the material individual and species, of the soul, and of that union of souls in the love of the same good, which union constitutes the city. Order, also, is ontologically imbibed by all beings. To tend to being is to tend to order; order secures being, disorder leads to non-being. Order is the distribution which allots things equal and unequal each to its own place and integrates an ensemble of parts in accordance with an end. Hence, peace is defined as the tranquillity of order. Just as things have their being from their forms, the order of parts, and their numerical relations, so too their beauty is not something superadded, but the shining out of all their intelligible co-ingredients. S. Aurelii Augustini, Opera Omnia, Migne, PL 32-47; (a critical edition of some works will be found in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vienna). Gilson, E., Introd. a l'etude de s. Augustin, (Paris, 1931) contains very good bibliography up to 1927, pp. 309-331. Pope, H., St. Augustine of Hippo, (London, 1937). Chapman, E., St. Augustine's Philos. of Beauty, (N. Y., 1939). Figgis, J. N., The Political Aspects of St. Augustine's "City of God", (London, 1921). --E.C. Authenticity: In a general sense, genuineness, truth according to its title. It involves sometimes a direct and personal characteristic (Whitehead speaks of "authentic feelings"). This word also refers to problems of fundamental criticism involving title, tradition, authorship and evidence. These problems are vital in theology, and basic in scholarship with regard to the interpretation of texts and doctrines. --T.G. Authoritarianism: That theory of knowledge which maintains that the truth of any proposition is determined by the fact of its having been asserted by a certain esteemed individual or group of individuals. Cf. H. Newman, Grammar of Assent; C. S. Peirce, "Fixation of Belief," in Chance, Love and Logic, ed. M. R. Cohen. --A.C.B. Autistic thinking: Absorption in fanciful or wishful thinking without proper control by objective or factual material; day dreaming; undisciplined imagination. --A.C.B. Automaton Theory: Theory that a living organism may be considered a mere machine. See Automatism. Automatism: (Gr. automatos, self-moving) (a) In metaphysics: Theory that animal and human organisms are automata, that is to say, are machines governed by the laws of physics and mechanics. Automatism, as propounded by Descartes, considered the lower animals to be pure automata (Letter to Henry More, 1649) and man a machine controlled by a rational soul (Treatise on Man). Pure automatism for man as well as animals is advocated by La Mettrie (Man, a Machine, 1748). During the Nineteenth century, automatism, combined with epiphenomenalism, was advanced by Hodgson, Huxley and Clifford. (Cf. W. James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, ch. V.) Behaviorism, of the extreme sort, is the most recent version of automatism (See Behaviorism). (b) In psychology: Psychological automatism is the performance of apparently purposeful actions, like automatic writing without the superintendence of the conscious mind. L. C. Rosenfield, From Beast Machine to Man Machine, N. Y., 1941. --L.W. Automatism, Conscious: The automatism of Hodgson, Huxley, and Clifford which considers man a machine to which mind or consciousness is superadded; the mind of man is, however, causally ineffectual. See Automatism; Epiphenomenalism. --L.W. Autonomy: (Gr. autonomia, independence) Freedom consisting in self-determination and independence of all external constraint. See Freedom. Kant defines autonomy of the will as subjection of the will to its own law, the categorical imperative, in contrast to heteronomy, its subjection to a law or end outside the rational will. (Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, § 2.) --L.W. Autonomy of ethics: A doctrine, usually propounded by intuitionists, that ethics is not a part of, and cannot be derived from, either metaphysics or any of the natural or social sciences. See Intuitionism, Metaphysical ethics, Naturalistic ethics. --W.K.F. Autonomy of the will: (in Kant's ethics) The freedom of the rational will to legislate to itself, which constitutes the basis for the autonomy of the moral law. --P.A.S. Autonymy: In the terminology introduced by Carnap, a word (phrase, symbol, expression) is autonymous if it is used as a name for itself --for the geometric shape, sound, etc. which it exemplifies, or for the word as a historical and grammatical unit. Autonymy is thus the same as the Scholastic suppositio matertalis (q. v.), although the viewpoint is different. --A.C. Autotelic: (from Gr. autos, self, and telos, end) Said of any absorbing activity engaged in for its own sake (cf. German Selbstzweck), such as higher mathematics, chess, etc. In aesthetics, applied to creative art and play which lack any conscious reference to the accomplishment of something useful. In the view of some, it may constitute something beneficent in itself of which the person following his art impulse (q.v.) or playing is unaware, thus approaching a heterotelic (q.v.) conception. --K.F.L. Avenarius, Richard: (1843-1896) German philosopher who expressed his thought in an elaborate and novel terminology in the hope of constructing a symbolic language for philosophy, like that of mathematics --the consequence of his Spinoza studies. As the most influential apostle of pure experience, the posltivistic motive reaches in him an extreme position. Insisting on the biologic and economic function of thought, he thought the true method of science is to cure speculative excesses by a return to pure experience devoid of all assumptions. Philosophy is the scientific effort to exclude from knowledge all ideas not included in the given. Its task is to expel all extraneous elements in the given. His uncritical use of the category of the given and the nominalistic view that logical relations are created rather than discovered by thought, leads him to banish not only animism but also all of the categories, substance, causality, etc., as inventions of the mind. Explaining the evolution and devolution of the problematization and deproblematization of numerous ideas, and aiming to give the natural history of problems, Avenarius sought to show physiologically, psychologically and historically under what conditions they emerge, are challenged and are solved. He hypothesized a System C, a bodily and central nervous system upon which consciousness depends. R-values are the stimuli received from the world of objects. E-values are the statements of experience. The brain changes that continually oscillate about an ideal point of balance are termed Vitalerhaltungsmaximum. The E-values are differentiated into elements, to which the sense-perceptions or the content of experience belong, and characters, to which belongs everything which psychology describes as feelings and attitudes. Avenarius describes in symbolic form a series of states from balance to balance, termed vital series, all describing a series of changes in System C. Inequalities in the vital balance give rise to vital differences. According to his theory there are two vital series. It assumes a series of brain changes because parallel series of conscious states can be observed. The independent vital series are physical, and the dependent vital series are psychological. The two together are practically covariants. In the case of a process as a dependent vital series three stages can be noted: first, the appearance of the problem, expressed as strain, restlessness, desire, fear, doubt, pain, repentance, delusion; the second, the continued effort and struggle to solve the problem; and finally, the appearance of the solution, characterized by abating anxiety, a feeling of triumph and enjoyment. Corresponding to these three stages of the dependent series are three stages of the independent series: the appearance of the vital difference and a departure from balance in the System C, the continuance with an approximate vital difference, and lastly, the reduction of the vital difference to zero, the return to stability. By making room for dependent and independent experiences, he showed that physics regards experience as independent of the experiencing indlvidual, and psychology views experience as dependent upon the individual. He greatly influenced Mach and James (q.v.). See Avenarius, Empirio-criticism, Experience, pure. Main works: Kritik der reinen Erfahrung; Der menschliche Weltbegriff. --H.H. Averroes: (Mohammed ibn Roshd) Known to the Scholastics as The Commentator, and mentioned as the author of il gran commento by Dante (Inf. IV. 68) he was born 1126 at Cordova (Spain), studied theology, law, medicine, mathematics, and philosophy, became after having been judge in Sevilla and Cordova, physician to the khalifah Jaqub Jusuf, and charged with writing a commentary on the works of Aristotle. Al-mansur, Jusuf's successor, deprived him of his place because of accusations of unorthodoxy. He died 1198 in Morocco. Averroes is not so much an original philosopher as the author of a minute commentary on the whole works of Aristotle. His procedure was imitated later by Aquinas. In his interpretation of Aristotelian metaphysics Averroes teaches the coeternity of a universe created ex nihilo. This doctrine formed together with the notion of a numerical unity of the active intellect became one of the controversial points in the discussions between the followers of Albert-Thomas and the Latin Averroists. Averroes assumed that man possesses only a disposition for receiving the intellect coming from without; he identifies this disposition with the possible intellect which thus is not truly intellectual by nature. The notion of one intellect common to all men does away with the doctrine of personal immortality. Another doctrine which probably was emphasized more by the Latin Averroists (and by the adversaries among Averroes' contemporaries) is the famous statement about "two-fold truth", viz. that a proposition may be theologically true and philosophically false and vice versa. Averroes taught that religion expresses the (higher) philosophical truth by means of religious imagery; the "two-truth notion" came apparently into the Latin text through a misinterpretation on the part of the translators. The works of Averroes were one of the main sources of medieval Aristotelianlsm, before and even after the original texts had been translated. The interpretation the Latin Averroists found in their texts of the "Commentator" spread in spite of opposition and condemnation. See Averroism, Latin. Averroes, Opera, Venetiis, 1553. M. Horten, Die Metaphysik des Averroes, 1912. P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin, 2d ed., Louvain, 1911. --R.A. Averroism, Latin: The commentaries on Aristotle written by Averroes (Ibn Roshd) in the 12th century became known to the Western scholars in translations by Michael Scottus, Hermannus Alemannus, and others at the beginning of the 13th century. Many works of Aristotle were also known first by such translations from Arabian texts, though there existed translations from the Greek originals at the same time (Grabmann). The Averroistic interpretation of Aristotle was held to be the true one by many; but already Albert the Great pointed out several notions which he felt to be incompatible with the principles of Christian philosophy, although he relied for the rest on the "Commentator" and apparently hardly used any other text. Aquinas, basing his studies mostly on a translation from the Greek texts, procured for him by William of Moerbecke, criticized the Averroistic interpretation in many points. But the teachings of the Commentator became the foundation for a whole school of philosophers, represented first by the Faculty of Arts at Paris. The most prominent of these scholars was Siger of Brabant. The philosophy of these men was condemned on March 7th, 1277 by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris, after a first condemnation of Aristotelianism in 1210 had gradually come to be neglected. The 219 theses condemned in 1277, however, contain also some of Aquinas which later were generally recognized an orthodox. The Averroistic propositions which aroused the criticism of the ecclesiastic authorities and which had been opposed with great energy by Albert and Thomas refer mostly to the following points: The co-eternity of the created word; the numerical identity of the intellect in all men, the so-called two-fold-truth theory stating that a proposition may be philosophically true although theologically false. Regarding the first point Thomas argued that there is no philosophical proof, either for the co-eternity or against it; creation is an article of faith. The unity of intellect was rejected as incompatible with the true notion of person and with personal immortality. It is doubtful whether Averroes himself held the two-truths theory; it was, however, taught by the Latin Averroists who, notwithstanding the opposition of the Church and the Thomistic philosophers, gained a great influence and soon dominated many universities, especially in Italy. Thomas and his followers were convinced that they interpreted Aristotle correctly and that the Averroists were wrong; one has, however, to admit that certain passages in Aristotle allow for the Averroistic interpretation, especially in regard to the theory of intellect. Lit.: P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin au XIIIe Siecle, 2d. ed. Louvain, 1911; M. Grabmann, Forschungen über die lateinischen Aristotelesübersetzungen des XIII. Jahrhunderts, Münster 1916 (Beitr. z. Gesch. Phil. d. MA. Vol. 17, H. 5-6). --R.A. Avesta: See Zendavesta. Avicehron: (or Avencebrol, Salomon ibn Gabirol) The first Jewish philosopher in Spain, born in Malaga 1020, died about 1070, poet, philosopher, and moralist. His main work, Fons vitae, became influential and was much quoted by the Scholastics. It has been preserved only in the Latin translation by Gundissalinus. His doctrine of a spiritual substance individualizing also the pure spirits or separate forms was opposed by Aquinas already in his first treatise De ente, but found favor with the medieval Augustinians also later in the 13th century. He also teaches the necessity of a mediator between God and the created world; such a mediator he finds in the Divine Will proceeding from God and creating, conserving, and moving the world. His cosmogony shows a definitely Neo-Platonic shade and assumes a series of emanations. Cl. Baeumker, Avencebrolis Fons vitae. Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Philos. d. MA. 1892-1895, Vol. I. Joh. Wittman, Die Stellung des hl. Thomas von Aquino zu Avencebrol, ibid. 1900. Vol. III. --R.A. Avicenna: (Abu Ali al Hosain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina) Born 980 in the country of Bocchara, began to write in young years, left more than 100 works, taught in Ispahan, was physician to several Persian princes, and died at Hamadan in 1037. His fame as physician survived his influence as philosopher in the Occident. His medical works were printed still in the 17th century. His philosophy is contained in 18 vols. of a comprehensive encyclopedia, following the tradition of Al Kindi and Al Farabi. Logic, Physics, Mathematics and Metaphysics form the parts of this work. His philosophy is Aristotelian with noticeable Neo-Platonic influences. His doctrine of the universal existing ante res in God, in rebus as the universal nature of the particulars, and post res in the human mind by way of abstraction became a fundamental thesis of medieval Aristotelianism. He sharply distinguished between the logical and the ontological universal, denying to the latter the true nature of form in the composite. The principle of individuation is matter, eternally existent. Latin translations attributed to Avicenna the notion that existence is an accident to essence (see e.g. Guilelmus Parisiensis, De Universo). The process adopted by Avicenna was one of paraphrasis of the Aristotelian texts with many original thoughts interspersed. His works were translated into Latin by Dominicus Gundissalinus (Gondisalvi) with the assistance of Avendeath ibn Daud. This translation started, when it became more generally known, the "revival of Aristotle" at the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. Albert the Great and Aquinas professed, notwithstanding their critical attitude, a great admiration for Avicenna whom the Arabs used to call the "third Aristotle". But in the Orient, Avicenna's influence declined soon, overcome by the opposition of the orthodox theologians. Avicenna, Opera, Venetiis, 1495; l508; 1546. M. Horten, Das Buch der Genesung der Seele, eine philosophische Enzyklopaedie Avicenna's; XIII. Teil: Die Metaphysik. Halle a. S. 1907-1909. R. de Vaux, Notes et textes sur l'Avicennisme Latin, Bibl. Thomiste XX, Paris, 1934. --R.A. Avidya: (Skr.) Nescience; ignorance; the state of mind unaware of true reality; an equivalent of maya (q.v.); also a condition of pure awareness prior to the universal process of evolution through gradual differentiation into the elements and factors of knowledge. --K.F.L. Avyakta: (Skr.) "Unmanifest", descriptive of or standing for brahman (q.v.) in one of its or "his" aspects, symbolizing the superabundance of the creative principle, or designating the condition of the universe not yet become phenomenal (aja, unborn). --K.F.L. Awareness: Consciousness considered in its aspect of act; an act of attentive awareness such as the sensing of a color patch or the feeling of pain is distinguished from the content attended to, the sensed color patch, the felt pain. The psychologlcal theory of intentional act was advanced by F. Brentano (Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte) and received its epistemological development by Meinong, Husserl, Moore, Laird and Broad. See Intentionalism. --L.W. Axiological: (Ger. axiologisch) In Husserl: Of or pertaining to value or theory of value (the latter term understood as including disvalue and value-indifference). --D.C. Axiological ethics: Any ethics which makes the theory of obligation entirely dependent on the theory of value, by making the determination of the rightness of an action wholly dependent on a consideration of the value or goodness of something, e.g. the action itself, its motive, or its consequences, actual or probable. Opposed to deontological ethics. See also teleological ethics. --W.K.F. Axiologic Realism: In metaphysics, theory that value as well as logic, qualities as well as relations, have their being and exist external to the mind and independently of it. Applicable to the philosophy of many though not all realists in the history of philosophy, from Plato to G. E. Moore, A. N. Whitehead, and N, Hartmann. --J.K.F. Axiology: (Gr. axios, of like value, worthy, and logos, account, reason, theory). Modern term for theory of value (the desired, preferred, good), investigation of its nature, criteria, and metaphysical status. Had its rise in Plato's theory of Forms or Ideas (Idea of the Good); was developed in Aristotle's Organon, Ethics, Poetics, and Metaphysics (Book Lambda). Stoics and Epicureans investigated the summum bonum. Christian philosophy (St. Thomas) built on Aristotle's identification of highest value with final cause in God as "a living being, eternal, most good." In modern thought, apart from scholasticism and the system of Spinoza (Ethica, 1677), in which values are metaphysically grounded, the various values were investigated in separate sciences, until Kant's Critiques, in which the relations of knowledge to moral, aesthetic, and religious values were examined. In Hegel's idealism, morality, art, religion, and philosophy were made the capstone of his dialectic. R. H. Lotze "sought in that which should be the ground of that which is" (Metaphysik, 1879). Nineteenth century evolutionary theory, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics subjected value experience to empirical analysis, and stress was again laid on the diversity and relativity of value phenomena rather than on their unity and metaphysical nature. F. Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883-1885) and Zur Genealogie der Moral (1887) aroused new interest in the nature of value. F. Brentano, Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis (1889), identified value with love. In the twentieth century the term axiology was apparently first applied by Paul Lapie (Logique de la volonte, 1902) and E. von Hartmann (Grundriss der Axiologie, 1908). Stimulated by Ehrenfels (System der Werttheorie, 1897), Meinong (Psychologisch-ethische Untersuchungen zur Werttheorie, 1894-1899), and Simmel (Philosophie des Geldes, 1900). W. M. Urban wrote the first systematic treatment of axiology in English (Valuation, 1909), phenomenological in method under J. M. Baldwin's influence. Meanwhile H. Münsterberg wrote a neo-Fichtean system of values (The Eternal Values, 1909). Among important recent contributions are: B. Bosanquet, The Principle of Individuality and Value (1912), a free reinterpretation of Hegelianism; W. R. Sorley, Moral Values and the Idea of God (1918, 1921), defending a metaphysical theism; S. Alexander, Space, Time, and Deity (1920), realistic and naturalistic; N. Hartmann, Ethik (1926), detailed analysis of types and laws of value; R. B. Perry's magnum opus, General Theory of Value (1926), "its meaning and basic principles construed in terms of interest"; and J. Laird, The Idea of Value (1929), noteworthy for historical exposition. A naturalistic theory has been developed by J. Dewey (Theory of Valuation, 1939), for which "not only is science itself a value . . . but it is the supreme means of the valid determination of all valuations." A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (1936) expounds the view of logical positivism that value is "nonsense." J. Hessen, Wertphilosophie (1937), provides an account of recent German axiology from a neo-scholastic standpoint. The problems of axiology fall into four main groups, namely, those concerning (1) the nature of value, (2) the types of value, (3) the criterion of value, and (4) the metaphysical status of value. (1) The nature of value experience. Is valuation fulfillment of desire (voluntarism: Spinoza, Ehrenfels), pleasure (hedonism: Epicurus, Bentham, Meinong), interest (Perry), preference (Martineau), pure rational will (formalism: Stoics, Kant, Royce), apprehension of tertiary qualities (Santayana), synoptic experience of the unity of personality (personalism: T. H. Green, Bowne), any experience that contributes to enhanced life (evolutionism: Nietzsche), or "the relation of things as means to the end or consequence actually reached" (pragmatism, instrumentalism: Dewey). (2) The types of value. Most axiologists distinguish between intrinsic (consummatory) values (ends), prized for their own sake, and instrumental (contributory) values (means), which are causes (whether as economic goods or as natural events) of intrinsic values. Most intrinsic values are also instrumental to further value experience; some instrumental values are neutral or even disvaluable intrinsically. Commonly recognized as intrinsic values are the (morally) good, the true, the beautiful, and the holy. Values of play, of work, of association, and of bodily well-being are also acknowledged. Some (with Montague) question whether the true is properly to be regarded as a value, since some truth is disvaluable, some neutral; but love of truth, regardless of consequences, seems to establish the value of truth. There is disagreement about whether the holy (religious value) is a unique type (Schleiermacher, Otto), or an attitude toward other values (Kant, Höffding), or a combination of the two (Hocking). There is also disagreement about whether the variety of values is irreducible (pluralism) or whether all values are rationally related in a hierarchy or system (Plato, Hegel, Sorley), in which values interpenetrate or coalesce into a total experience. (3) The criterion of value. The standard for testing values is influenced by both psychological and logical theory. Hedonists find the standard in the quantity of pleasure derived by the individual (Aristippus) or society (Bentham). Intuitionists appeal to an ultimate insight into preference (Martineau, Brentano). Some idealists recognize an objective system of rational norms or ideals as criterion (Plato, Windelband), while others lay more stress on rational wholeness and coherence (Hegel, Bosanquet, Paton) or inclusiveness (T. H. Green). Naturalists find biological survival or adjustment (Dewey) to be the standard. Despite differences, there is much in common in the results of the application of these criteria. (4) The metaphysical status of value. What is the relation of values to the facts investigated by natural science (Koehler), of Sein to Sollen (Lotze, Rickert), of human experience of value to reality independent of man (Hegel, Pringle-Pattlson, Spaulding)? There are three main answers: subjectivism (value is entirely dependent on and relative to human experience of it: so most hedonists, naturalists, positivists); logical objectivism (values are logical essences or subsistences, independent of their being known, yet with no existential status or action in reality); metaphysical objectivism (values --or norms or ideals --are integral, objective, and active constituents of the metaphysically real: so theists, absolutists, and certain realists and naturalists like S. Alexander and Wieman). --E.S.B. Axiom: See Mathematics. Axiomatic method: That method of constructing a deductive system consisting of deducing by specified rules all statements of the system save a given few from those given few, which are regarded as axioms or postulates of the system. See Mathematics. --C.A.B. Ayam atma brahma: (Skr.) "This self is brahman", famous quotation from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.19, one of many alluding to the central theme of the Upanishads, i.e., the identity of the human and divine or cosmic. --K.F.L.
babbitt metal ::: --> A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.
babirussa ::: n. --> A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, / Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.
baboon ::: n. --> One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.
beatitude ::: n. --> Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.
Beatification.
bebirine ::: n. --> An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.
bhagavati. ::: goddess; the feminine form of Bhagavan
bhuvarmayi ::: vital (feminine of bhuvarmaya). bhuvarmayi bhuvar of bh bhu
bicuspid ::: a. --> Alt. of Bicuspidate ::: n. --> One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
(b) In particular: a group of French political philosophers of the early nineteenth century. -- V.J.B.
bitch ::: n. --> The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.
An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.
nine ::: a. --> Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles. ::: n. --> The number greater than eight by a unit; nine units or objects.
A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.
nine-bark ::: n. --> A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, / Spiraea, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.
nine-eyes ::: n. --> The lamprey.
ninefold ::: a. --> Nine times repeated.
nineholes ::: n. pl. --> A game in which nine holes are made in the ground, into which a ball is bowled.
nine-killer ::: n. --> The northern butcher bird.
ninepence ::: n. --> An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents.
ninepences ::: pl. --> of Ninepence
ninepins ::: n. pl. --> A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.
ninescore ::: a. --> Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty. ::: n. --> The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.
nineteen ::: a. --> Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months. ::: n. --> The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.
A symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix.
nineteenth ::: a. --> Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.
Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided. ::: n. --> The quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of
nineties ::: pl. --> of Ninety
ninetieth ::: a. --> Next in order after the eighty-ninth.
Constituting or being one of ninety equal parts. ::: n. --> The quotient of a unit divided by ninety; one of ninety equal parts of anything.
The next in order after the eighty-ninth.
ninety ::: a. --> Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men. ::: n. --> The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.
A symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc.
boniness ::: n. --> The condition or quality of being bony.
bonniness ::: n. --> The quality of being bonny; gayety; handsomeness.
Boodin, John Elof: American philosopher born in Sweden in 1869 who emigrated in 1886 to the United States. Studied at the Universities of Colorado, Minnesota, Brown and especially Harvard under Royce with whom he kept a life-long friendship though he was opposed to his idealism. His works (Time and Reality, 1904 -- Truth and Reality, 1912 -- A Realistic Universe, 1916 -- Cosmic Evolution, 1925 -- Three Interpretations of the Universe, 1934 -- God, 1935 -- The Social Mind, 1940) form practically a complete system. His philosophy takes the form of a cosmic idealism, though he was interested for a time in certain aspects of pragmatism. It grew gradually from his early studies when he developed a new concept of a real and non-serial time. The structure of the cosmos is that of a hierarchy of fields, as exemplified in physics, in organisms, in consciousness and in society. The interpenetration of the mental fields makes possible human knowledge and social intercourse. Reality as such possesses five attributes: being (the dynamic stuff of all complexes, the active energy), time (the ground of change and transformation), space (which accounts for extension), consciousness (active awareness which lights up reality in spots; it becomes the self when conative tendencies cooperate as one active group), and form (the ground of organization and structure which conditions selective direction). God is the spirit of the whole. -- T.G.J Boole, George: (1815-1864) English mathematician. Professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork, 1849-1864. While he made contributions to other branches of mathematics, he is now remembered primarily as the founder of the Nineteenth Century algebra of logic and through it of modern symbolic logic. His Mathematical Analysis of Logic appeared in 1847 and the fuller Laws of Thought in 1854. -- A.C.
brawniness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being brawny.
brininess ::: n. --> The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.
brucine ::: n. --> A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.
canine ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors. ::: n. --> A canine tooth.
caffeine ::: n. --> A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.
calliope ::: n. --> The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
One of the asteroids. See Solar.
A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.
A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.
canniness ::: n. --> Caution; crafty management.
Can.d.i (Chandi) ::: fierce (feminine of can.d.a); "the fierce one", an Candi epithet of Kali.
caninal ::: a. --> See Canine, a.
carbonaro ::: n. --> A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.
Cartesianism: The philosophy of the French thinker, Rene Descartes (Cartesius) 1596-1650. After completing his formal education at the Jesuit College at La Fleche, he spent the years 1612-1621 in travel and military service. The reminder of his life was devoted to study and writing. He died in Sweden, where he had gone in 1649 to tutor Queen Christina. His principal works are: Discours de la methode, (preface to his Geometric, Meteores, Dieptrique) Meditationes de prima philosophia, Principia philosophiae, Passions de l'ame, Regulae ad directionem ingenii, Le monde. Descartes is justly regarded as one of the founders of modern epistemology. Dissatisfied with the lack of agreement among philosophers, he decided that philosophy needed a new method, that of mathematics. He began by resolving to doubt everything which could not pass the test of his criterion of truth, viz. the clearness and distinctness of ideas. Anything which could pass this test was to be readmitted as self-evident. From self-evident truths, he deduced other truths which logically follow from them. Three kinds of ideas were distinguished: innate, by which he seems to mean little more than the mental power to think things or thoughts; adventitious, which come to him from without; factitious, produced within his own mind. He found most difficulty with the second type of ideas. The first reality discovered through his method is the thinking self. Though he might doubt nearly all else, Descartes could not reasonably doubt that he, who was thinking, existed as a res cogitans. This is the intuition enunciated in the famous aphorism: I think, therefore I am, Cogito ergo sum. This is not offered by Descartes as a compressed syllogism, but as an immediate intuition of his own thinking mind. Another reality, whose existence was obvious to Descartes, was God, the Supreme Being. Though he offered several proofs of the Divine Existence, he was convinced that he knew this also by an innate idea, and so, clearly and distinctly. But he did not find any clear ideas of an extra-mental, bodily world. He suspected its existence, but logical demonstration was needed to establish this truth. His adventitious ideas carry the vague suggestion that they are caused by bodies in an external world. By arguing that God would be a deceiver, in allowing him to think that bodies exist if they do not, he eventually convinced himself of the reality of bodies, his own and others. There are, then, three kinds of substance according to Descartes: Created spirits, i.e. the finite soul-substance of each man: these are immaterial agencies capable of performing spiritual operations, loosely united with bodies, but not extended since thought is their very essence. Uncreated Spirit, i.e. God, confined neither to space nor time, All-Good and All-Powerful, though his Existence can be known clearly, his Nature cannot be known adequately by men on earth, He is the God of Christianity, Creator, Providence and Final Cause of the universe. Bodies, i.e. created, physical substances existing independently of human thought and having as their chief attribute, extension. Cartesian physics regards bodies as the result of the introduction of "vortices", i.e. whorls of motion, into extension. Divisibility, figurability and mobility, are the notes of extension, which appears to be little more thin what Descartes' Scholastic teachers called geometrical space. God is the First Cause of all motion in the physical universe, which is conceived as a mechanical system operated by its Maker. Even the bodies of animals are automata. Sensation is the critical problem in Cartesian psychology; it is viewed by Descartes as a function of the soul, but he was never able to find a satisfactory explanation of the apparent fact that the soul is moved by the body when sensation occurs. The theory of animal spirits provided Descartes with a sort of bridge between mind and matter, since these spirits are supposed to be very subtle matter, halfway, as it were, between thought and extension in their nature. However, this theory of sensation is the weakest link in the Cartesian explanation of cognition. Intellectual error is accounted for by Descartes in his theory of assent, which makes judgment an act of free will. Where the will over-reaches the intellect, judgment may be false. That the will is absolutely free in man, capable even of choosing what is presented by the intellect as the less desirable of two alternatives, is probably a vestige of Scotism retained from his college course in Scholasticism. Common-sense and moderation are the keynotes of Descartes' famous rules for the regulation of his own conduct during his nine years of methodic doubt, and this ethical attitude continued throughout his life. He believed that man is responsible ultimately to God for the courses of action that he may choose. He admitted that conflicts may occur between human passions and human reason. A virtuous life is made possible by the knowledge of what is right and the consequent control of the lower tendencies of human nature. Six primary passions are described by Descartes wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy and sorrow. These are passive states of consciousness, partly caused by the body, acting through the animal spirits, and partly caused by the soul. Under rational control, they enable the soul to will what is good for the body. Descartes' terminology suggests that there are psychological faculties, but he insists that these powers are not really distinct from the soul itself, which is man's sole psychic agency. Descartes was a practical Catholic all his life and he tried to develop proofs of the existence of God, an explanation of the Eucharist, of the nature of religious faith, and of the operation of Divine Providence, using his philosophy as the basis for a new theology. This attempted theology has not found favor with Catholic theologians in general.
centimetre ::: n. --> The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter.
Chalmers University of Technology "body, education" A Swedish university founded in 1829 offering master of science and doctoral degrees. Research is carried out in the main engineering sciences as well as in technology related mathematical and natural sciences. Five hundred faculty members work in more than 100 departments organised in nine schools. Chalmers collaborates with the University of Göteborg. Around 8500 people work and study on the Chalmers campus, including around 500 faculty members and some 600 teachers and doctoral students. About 4800 students follow the master degree programs. Every year 700 Masters of Science in Engineering and in Architecture graduate from Chalmers, and about 190 PhDs and licentiates are awarded. Some 40% of Sweden's engineers and architects are Chalmers graduates. About a thousand research projects are in progress and more than 1500 scientific articles and research reports are published every year. Chalmers is a partner in 80 EC research projects. {(http://chalmers.se/Home-E.html)}. Address: S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden. (1995-02-16)
Charles Babbage "person" The British inventor known to some as the "Father of Computing" for his contributions to the basic design of the computer through his {Analytical Engine}. His previous {Difference Engine} was a special purpose device intended for the production of mathematical tables. Babbage was born on December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire UK. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1814 and graduated from Peterhouse. In 1817 he received an MA from Cambridge and in 1823 started work on the Difference Engine through funding from the British Government. In 1827 he published a table of {logarithms} from 1 to 108000. In 1828 he was appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge (though he never presented a lecture). In 1831 he founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1832 he published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery". In 1833 he began work on the Analytical Engine. In 1834 he founded the Statistical Society of London. He died in 1871 in London. Babbage also invented the cowcatcher, the dynamometer, standard railroad gauge, uniform postal rates, occulting lights for lighthouses, Greenwich time signals, and the heliograph opthalmoscope. He also had an interest in cyphers and lock-picking. [Adapted from the text by J. A. N. Lee, Copyright September 1994]. Babbage, as (necessarily) the first person to work with machines that can attack problems at arbitrary levels of {abstraction}, fell into a trap familiar to {toolsmiths} since, as described here by the English ethicist, Lord Moulton: "One of the sad memories of my life is a visit to the celebrated mathematician and inventor, Mr Babbage. He was far advanced in age, but his mind was still as vigorous as ever. He took me through his work-rooms. In the first room I saw parts of the original Calculating Machine, which had been shown in an incomplete state many years before and had even been put to some use. I asked him about its present form. 'I have not finished it because in working at it I came on the idea of my {Analytical Machine}, which would do all that it was capable of doing and much more. Indeed, the idea was so much simpler that it would have taken more work to complete the Calculating Machine than to design and construct the other in its entirety, so I turned my attention to the Analytical Machine.'" "After a few minutes' talk, we went into the next work-room, where he showed and explained to me the working of the elements of the Analytical Machine. I asked if I could see it. 'I have never completed it,' he said, 'because I hit upon an idea of doing the same thing by a different and far more effective method, and this rendered it useless to proceed on the old lines.' Then we went into the third room. There lay scattered bits of mechanism, but I saw no trace of any working machine. Very cautiously I approached the subject, and received the dreaded answer, 'It is not constructed yet, but I am working on it, and it will take less time to construct it altogether than it would have token to complete the Analytical Machine from the stage in which I left it.' I took leave of the old man with a heavy heart." "When he died a few years later, not only had he constructed no machine, but the verdict of a jury of kind and sympathetic scientific men who were deputed to pronounce upon what he had left behind him, either in papers or in mechanism, was that everything was too incomplete of be capable of being put to any useful purpose." [Lord Moulton, "The invention of algorithms, its genesis, and growth", in G. C. Knott, ed., "Napier tercentenary memorial volume" (London, 1915), p. 1-24; quoted in Charles Babbage "Passage from the Life of a Philosopher", Martin Campbell-Kelly, ed. (Rutgers U. Press and IEEE Press, 1994), p. 34]. Compare: {uninteresting}, {Ninety-Ninety Rule}. (1996-02-22)
chayamayi (chhayamayi) ::: shadowy (feminine of chayamaya, agreeing with implied dr.s.t.i, "vision"); the shadowy vision of the underworld.
chevron ::: n. --> One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer&
Chiu: Duration, or "what reaches to different times," or "what unites past and present, morning and evening." (Neo-Mohism.) -- W.T.C Chiu ch'ou: The Nine Categories of the Grand Norm (hung fan) of ancient Confucian philosophy, consisting of the Five Elements (wu hsing), the reverent practice of the five functions (of personal appearance, speech, vision, hearing, and thought), the intensive application of the eight governmental measures, the harmonious use of the five regulations of time, the establishment of the royal standard, the orderly practice of the three virtues, the intelligent practice of divination, the thoughtful following of various indications, and the rewarding with five kinds of good and punishment with six forms of evil. -- W.T.C.
chmod "file system" ("Change mode") The {Unix} command and {system call} to change the access {permissions} of a named file. Each file (directory, device, etc.) has nine kinds of access which can be allowed or denied. Different permissions apply to the owner of the file, the members of the group the file belongs to, and all users. Each of these classes of user (owner, group and other) can have permission to read, write or execute the file. Chmod can also set various other mode bits for a file or directory such as the {sticky bit} and the {set user id} bit. Unix {man} page: chmod (1995-01-31)
cinchonine ::: n. --> One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
cinchonidine ::: n. --> One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.
cinchonism ::: n. --> A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.
cinchonize ::: v. t. --> To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
closh ::: n. --> A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.
The game of ninepins.
CMC 1. "messaging" {Computer Mediated Communication}. 2. "hardware" {Common Mezzanine Card}.
conine ::: n. --> A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.
colatitude ::: n. --> The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.
comboloio ::: n. --> A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads.
compress 1. To feed data through any {compression} {algorithm}. 2. "tool" The {Unix} program "compress", now largely supplanted by {gzip}. Unix compress was written in {C} by Joseph M. Orost, James A. Woods et al., and was widely circulated via {Usenet}. It uses the {Lempel-Ziv Welch} {algorithm} and normally produces files with the suffix ".Z". Compress uses variable length codes. Initially, nine-bit codes are output until they are all used. When this occurs, ten-bit codes are used and so on, until an implementation-dependent maximum is reached. After every 10 {kilobytes} of input the compression ratio is checked. If it is decreasing then the entire string table is discarded and information is collected from scratch.
conchinine ::: n. --> See Quinidine.
coneine ::: n. --> See Conine.
conhydrine ::: n. --> A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.
conia ::: n. --> Same as Conine.
coniine ::: n. --> See Conine.
conylene ::: n. --> An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.
conyrine ::: n. --> A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.
cotarnine ::: n. --> A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.
crawling horror "jargon" Ancient {crufty} hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like {dusty deck} or {gonkulator}, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare {WOMBAT}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-01)
crotonine ::: n. --> A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil.
Dnine, refiises to admit them. This is the subjective form of the universal resistance, but it may also take an objective form,
decennovary ::: a. --> Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years.
delphinine ::: n. --> A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.
demiculverin ::: n. --> A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.
desertrice ::: n. --> A feminine deserter.
divya navagvah ::: the heavenly Nine-rayed ones. [Ved.]
dodecandria ::: n. pl. --> A Linnaean class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.
dodecandrous ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.
dogtooth ::: n. --> See Canine tooth, under Canine.
An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament.
dollar ::: n. --> A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.
A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.
A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada,
double bucky Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the {space-cadet keyboard} at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford {bucky bits} (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer {filk} --- ESR). See also {meta bit}, {cokebottle}, and {quadruple bucky}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-07)
downiness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being downy.
eburnine ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to ivory.
ecgonine ::: n. --> A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.
echidnine ::: n. --> The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus.
Edward Yourdon "person" A {software engineering} consultant, widely known as the developer of the "{Yourdon method}" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of {object-oriented analysis} and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from {MIT}, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of {Information Technology} at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with {DEC} and {General Electric}. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different {mainframe} computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving {time-sharing} and {virtual memory}. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, {Yourdon, Inc.}. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and {system dynamics} modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on {computer crime} and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network. (1995-04-16)
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enheahedral ::: a. --> Having nine sides.
enheahedron ::: n. --> A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.
ennead ::: n. --> The number nine or a group of nine.
enneagonal ::: a. --> Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.
enneagon ::: n. --> A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.
enneagynous ::: a. --> Having or producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant.
enneandria ::: n. --> A Linnaean class of plants having nine stamens.
enneandrous ::: a. --> Having nine stamens.
enneapetalous ::: a. --> Having nine petals, or flower leaves.
enneaspermous ::: a. --> Having nine seeds; -- said of fruits.
enneatical ::: a. --> Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth.
entresol ::: n. --> A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.
epicene ::: a. & n. --> Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
euchre ::: n. --> A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower. ::: v. t.
executrix ::: a feminine executor.
eyetooth ::: n. --> A canine tooth of the upper jaw.
falconine ::: a. --> Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae
february ::: n. --> The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.
female rhymes ::: --> double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.
femalize ::: v. t. --> To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.
feminine ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate. ::: n.
femininely ::: adv. --> In a feminine manner.
feminineness ::: n. --> The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.
feminine rhyme ::: --> See Female rhyme, under Female, a.
feminal ::: a. --> Feminine.
feminate ::: a. --> Feminine.
feroher ::: n. --> A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.
fescennine ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. ::: n. --> A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.
fesse ::: n. --> A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.
festennine ::: n. --> A fescennine.
Ficino, Marsilio: Of Florence (1433-99). Was the main representative of Platonism in Renaissance Italy. His doctrine combines NeoPlatonic metaphysics and Augustinian theologv with many new, original ideas. His major work, the Theologia Ptatonica (1482) presents a hierarchical system of the universe (God, Angelic Mind, Soul, Quality, Body) and a great number of arguments for the immortality of the soul. Man is considered as the center of the universe, and human life is interpreted as an internal ascent of the soul towards God. Through the Florentine Academy Ficino's Platonism exercised a large influence upon his contemporaries. His theory of "Platonic love" had vast repercussions in Italian, French and English literature throughout the sixteenth century. His excellent Latin translations of Plato (1484), Plotinus (1492), and other Greek philosophers provided the occidental world with new materials of the greatest importance and were widely used up to the beginning of the nineteenth century. -- P.O.K.
firkin ::: n. --> A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc.
foo "jargon" /foo/ A sample name for absolutely anything, especially programs and files (especially {scratch files}). First on the standard list of {metasyntactic variables} used in {syntax} examples. See also {bar}, {baz}, {qux}, quux, {corge}, {grault}, {garply}, {waldo}, {fred}, {plugh}, {xyzzy}, {thud}. The etymology of "foo" is obscure. When used in connection with "bar" it is generally traced to the WWII-era Army slang acronym {FUBAR}, later bowdlerised to {foobar}. However, the use of the word "foo" itself has more complicated antecedents, including a long history in comic strips and cartoons. "FOO" often appeared in the "Smokey Stover" comic strip by Bill Holman. This surrealist strip about a fireman appeared in various American comics including "Everybody's" between about 1930 and 1952. FOO was often included on licence plates of cars and in nonsense sayings in the background of some frames such as "He who foos last foos best" or "Many smoke but foo men chew". Allegedly, "FOO" and "BAR" also occurred in Walt Kelly's "Pogo" strips. In the 1938 cartoon "The Daffy Doc", a very early version of Daffy Duck holds up a sign saying "SILENCE IS FOO!". Oddly, this seems to refer to some approving or positive affirmative use of foo. It has been suggested that this might be related to the Chinese word "fu" (sometimes transliterated "foo"), which can mean "happiness" when spoken with the proper tone (the lion-dog guardians flanking the steps of many Chinese restaurants are properly called "fu dogs"). Earlier versions of this entry suggested the possibility that hacker usage actually sprang from "FOO, Lampoons and Parody", the title of a comic book first issued in September 1958, a joint project of Charles and Robert Crumb. Though Robert Crumb (then in his mid-teens) later became one of the most important and influential artists in underground comics, this venture was hardly a success; indeed, the brothers later burned most of the existing copies in disgust. The title FOO was featured in large letters on the front cover. However, very few copies of this comic actually circulated, and students of Crumb's "oeuvre" have established that this title was a reference to the earlier Smokey Stover comics. An old-time member reports that in the 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language", compiled at {TMRC} there was an entry that went something like this: FOO: The first syllable of the sacred chant phrase "FOO MANE PADME HUM." Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters turning. For more about the legendary foo counters, see {TMRC}. Almost the entire staff of what became the {MIT} {AI LAB} was involved with TMRC, and probably picked the word up there. Another correspondant cites the nautical construction "foo-foo" (or "poo-poo"), used to refer to something effeminate or some technical thing whose name has been forgotten, e.g. "foo-foo box", "foo-foo valve". This was common on ships by the early nineteenth century. Very probably, hackish "foo" had no single origin and derives through all these channels from Yiddish "feh" and/or English "fooey". [{Jargon File}] (1998-04-16)
fortieth ::: a. --> Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.
Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided. ::: n. --> One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided;
forty ::: a. --> Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more. ::: n. --> The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.
A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.
franc ::: a. --> A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes.
Frege, (Friedrich Ludwig) Gottlob, 1848-1925, German mathematician and logician. Professor of mathematics at the University of Jena, 1879-1918. Largely unknown to, or misunderstood by, his contemporaries, he is now regarded by many as "beyond question the greatest logician of the Nineteenth Century" (quotation from Tarski). He must be regarded -- after Boole (q. v.) -- as the second founder of symbolic logic, the essential steps in the passage from the algebra of logic to the logistic method (see the article Logistic system) having been taken in his Begriffsschrift of 1879. In this work there appear tor the first time the propositional calculus in substantially its modern form, the notion of propositional function, the use of quantifiers, the explicit statement of primitive rules of inference, the notion of an hereditary property and the logical analysis of proof by mathematical induction or recursion (q. v.). This last is perhaps the most important element in the definition of an inductive cardinal number (q.v.) and provided the basis for Frege's derivation of arithmetic from logic in his Grundlagen der Anthmetik (1884) and Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, vol. 1 (1893), and vol. 2 (1903). The first volume of Grundgesetze der Arithmetik is the culmination of Frege's work, and we find here many important further ideas. In particular, there is a careful distinction between using a formula to express something else and naming a formula in order to make a syntactical statement about it, quotation marks being used in order to distinguish the name of a formula from the formula itself. In an appendix to the second volume of Grundgesetze , Frege acknowledges the presence of an inconsistency in his system through what is now known as the Russel paradox (see Paradoxes , logical), as had been called to his attention by Russell when the book was nearly through the press. -- A.C.
fulcrum ::: A developmental milestone within the self-identity stream, or the proximate-self line of development. Fulcrums follow a general 1-2-3 process: fusion or identification with one’s current level of self-development; differentiation or disidentification from that level; and integration of the new level with the previous level. AQAL theory, and Integral Psychology in specific, focus on anywhere from nine to ten developmental fulcrums.
gentianine ::: n. --> A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.
geranine ::: n. --> A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane&
geraniine ::: n. --> Alt. of Geranine
gita dhyanam. :::nine verses that are recited before reading the Bhagavad Gita; these verses offer salutations to a variety of sacred scriptures, figures, and entities, characterise the relationship of the Bhagavad Gita to the
gloss ::: 1. A surface shininess or luster. 2. A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance. 3. An misleading interpretation or explanation.
gomati ::: [feminine of gomat], brilliant, accompanied by or bringing the rays of light. [Ved.]
googol "mathematics" The number represented in base-ten by a one with a hundred zeroes after it. According to Webster's Dictionary, the name was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of American mathematician, Edward Kasner. See also {googolplex}. (2001-03-29)
gopi ::: feminine of gopa
grapeshot ::: n. --> A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.
guaranine ::: n. --> An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as Caffeine.
Guiding Unv of experience ::: The guiding law of spiritual experience can only come by an opening of human conscious~ ness to the Divine Consciousness ; there must be the power to receive in us the working and command and dynamic presence of the Divine Shakti and surrender ourselves to her control ; it is that surrender and that control which bring tbs guidance. But the surrender is not sure, there is so absolute certitude of the guidance so long as we are besieged by mind fonnaljons and life impulses and instigations of ego which may easily betray us into the bands of a false experience. This danger can only be countered by the opening of a now nine^tenths concealed inmost soul or psychic being that is already there but not commonly active within. That is the inner light we must Uberate ; for the light of thb inmost soul is our one sure illumioation so long as we walk still amidst the siege of the Ignorance and the Truth-
HAKMEM "publication" /hak'mem/ MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is "HAKMEM", which is a 6-letterism for "hacks memo".) Some of them are very useful techniques, powerful theorems, or interesting unsolved problems, but most fall into the category of mathematical and computer trivia. Here is a sampling of the entries (with authors), slightly paraphrased: Item 41 (Gene Salamin): There are exactly 23,000 prime numbers less than 2^18. Item 46 (Rich Schroeppel): The most *probable* suit distribution in bridge hands is 4-4-3-2, as compared to 4-3-3-3, which is the most *evenly* distributed. This is because the world likes to have unequal numbers: a thermodynamic effect saying things will not be in the state of lowest energy, but in the state of lowest disordered energy. Item 81 (Rich Schroeppel): Count the magic squares of order 5 (that is, all the 5-by-5 arrangements of the numbers from 1 to 25 such that all rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the same number). There are about 320 million, not counting those that differ only by rotation and reflection. Item 154 (Bill Gosper): The myth that any given programming language is machine independent is easily exploded by computing the sum of powers of 2. If the result loops with period = 1 with sign +, you are on a sign-magnitude machine. If the result loops with period = 1 at -1, you are on a twos-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, including the beginning, you are on a ones-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, not including the beginning, your machine isn't binary - the pattern should tell you the base. If you run out of memory, you are on a string or bignum system. If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. But the very ability to trap overflow is machine dependent. By this strategy, consider the universe, or, more precisely, algebra: Let X = the sum of many powers of 2 = ...111111 (base 2). Now add X to itself: X + X = ...111110. Thus, 2X = X - 1, so X = -1. Therefore algebra is run on a machine (the universe) that is two's-complement. Item 174 (Bill Gosper and Stuart Nelson): 21963283741 is the only number such that if you represent it on the {PDP-10} as both an integer and a {floating-point} number, the bit patterns of the two representations are identical. Item 176 (Gosper): The "banana phenomenon" was encountered when processing a character string by taking the last 3 letters typed out, searching for a random occurrence of that sequence in the text, taking the letter following that occurrence, typing it out, and iterating. This ensures that every 4-letter string output occurs in the original. The program typed BANANANANANANANA.... We note an ambiguity in the phrase, "the Nth occurrence of." In one sense, there are five 00's in 0000000000; in another, there are nine. The editing program TECO finds five. Thus it finds only the first ANA in BANANA, and is thus obligated to type N next. By Murphy's Law, there is but one NAN, thus forcing A, and thus a loop. An option to find overlapped instances would be useful, although it would require backing up N - 1 characters before seeking the next N-character string. Note: This last item refers to a {Dissociated Press} implementation. See also {banana problem}. HAKMEM also contains some rather more complicated mathematical and technical items, but these examples show some of its fun flavour. HAKMEM is available from MIT Publications as a {TIFF} file. {(ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker)}. (1996-01-19)
Hartmann, Nicolai: (1882-) A realist in metaphysics, he refutes nineteenth century idealism and monism, and attacks medieval super-naturalism and the various forms of theism. As exponent of a philosophic humanism, he made extensive contributions to ethics.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich: Born at Stuttgart in 1770 and died at Berlin in 1831. He studied theology, philosophy and the classics at Tübingen, 1788-93, occupied the conventional position of tutor in Switzerland and Frankfort on the Main, 1794-1800, and went to Jena as Privatdocent in philosophy in 1801. He was promoted to a professorship at Jena in 1805, but was driven from the city the next year by the incursion of the French under Napoleon. He then went to Bamberg, where he remained two years as editor of a newspaper. The next eight years he spent as director of the Gymnasium at Nürnberg. In 1816 he accepted a professorship of philosophy at Heidelberg, from which position he was called two years later to succeed Fichte at the University of Berlin. While at Jena, he co-operated with Schelling in editing the Kritisches Journal der Philosophie, to which he contributed many articles. His more important volumes were published as follows: Phänomenologie des Geistes, 1807; Wissenschaft der Logik, 1812-16; Encyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse, 1817; Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, 1820. Shortly after his death his lectures on the philosophy of religion, the history of philosophy, the philosophy of history, and aesthetics were published from the collated lecture-notes of his students. His collected works in nineteen volumes were published 1832-40 by a group of his students. -- G.W.C.
heisenbug "jargon" /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In {C}, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised {auto variables}, {fandango on core} phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc {arena}) or errors that {smash the stack}. Opposite: {Bohr bug}. See also {mandelbug}, {schroedinbug}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-28)
heptane ::: n. --> Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc.
herapathite ::: n. --> The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.
herself ::: pron. --> An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself.
Her own proper, true, or real character; hence, her right, or sane, mind; as, the woman was deranged, but she is now herself again; she has come to herself.
heterodont ::: a. --> Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man; -- opposed to homodont. ::: n. --> Any animal with heterodont dentition.
horse ::: n. --> A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed,
hydrophobia ::: n. --> An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:
The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness.
IBM 1620 "computer" A computer built by {IBM} and released in late 1959. The 1620 cost from around $85,000(?) up to hundreds of thousands of dollars(?) according to the configuration. It was billed as a "small scientific computer" to distinguish it from the business-oriented {IBM 1401}. It was regarded as inexpensive, and many schools started out with one. It was either developed for the US Navy to teach computing, or as a replacement for the very successful {IBM 650} which did quite well in the low end scientific market. Rumour has it that the Navy called this computer the CADET - Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try. The {ALU} used lookup tables to add, subtract and multiply but it could do address increments and the like without the tables. You could change the number base by adjusting the tables, which were input during the boot sequence from {Hollerith} cards. The divide instruction required additional hardware, as did {floating point} operations. The basic machine had 20,000 decimal digits of {ferrite core memory} arranged as a 100 by 100 array of 12-bit locations, each holding two digits. Each digit was stored as four numeric bits, one flag bit and one parity bit. The numeric bits stored a decimal digit (values above nine were illegal). Memory was logically divided into fields. On the high-order digit of a field the flag bit indicated the end of the field. On the low-order digit it indicated a negative number. A flag bit on the low order of the address indicated {indirect addressing} if you had that option installed. A few "illegal" bit combinations were used to store things like record marks and "numeric blanks". On a {subroutine} call it stored the {return address} in the five digits just before the entry point to the routine, so you had to build your own {stack} to do {recursion}. The enclosure was grey, and the core was about four or five inches across. The core memory was kept cool inside a temperature-controlled box. The machine took a few minutes to warm up after power on before you could use it. If it got too hot there was a thermal cut-out switch that would shut it down. Memory could be expanded up to 100,000 digits in a second cabinet. The cheapest package used {paper tape} for I/O. You could also get {punched cards} and later models could be hooked up to a 1311 {disk drive} (a two-{megabyte} {washing machine}), a 1627 {plotter}, and a 1443 {line printer}. Because the 1620 was popular with colleges, IBM ran a clearing house of software for a nominal cost such as {Snobol}, {COBOL}, chess games, etc. The model II, released about three years later, could add and subtract without tables. The {clock period} decreased from 20 to 10 microseconds, instruction fetch sped up by a few cycles and it added {index registers} of some sort. Some of the model I's options were standard on the model II, like {indirect addressing} and the {console} {teletype} changed from a model C to a {Selectric}. Later still, IBM marketed the {IBM 1710}. A favorite use was to tune a FM radio to pick up the "interference" from the lights on the console. With the right delay loops you could generate musical notes. Hackers wrote {interpreters} that played music from notation like "C44". {IBM 1620 console (img:/pub/misc/IBM1620-console.jpg)} 1620 consoles were used as props to represent {Colossus} in the film "The Forbin Project", though most of the machines had been scrapped by the time the film was made. {A fully configured 1620 (http://uranus.ee.auth.gr/TMTh/exhibit.htm)}. {IBM 1620 at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA (/pub/misc/IBM1620-Tuck1960s.jpg)} (Thanks Victor E. McGee, pictured). ["Basic Programming Concepts and the IBM 1620 Computer", Leeson and Dimitry, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962]. (2018-09-11)
ideographical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the number itself.
incisor ::: n. --> One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw; an incisive tooth. See Tooth. ::: a. --> Adapted for cutting; of or pertaining to the incisors; incisive; as, the incisor nerve; an incisor foramen; an incisor tooth.
(In later Hinduism) “The Preserver.” The second member of the Trimurti, along with Brahma the Creator and Shiva the Destroyer. 2. (In popular Hinduism) a deity believed to have descended from heaven to earth in several incarnations, or avatars, varying in number from nine to twenty-two, but always including animals. His most important human incarnation is the Krishna of the Bhagavad-Gita. 3. “The Pervader,” one of a half-dozen solar deities in the Rig-Veda, daily traversing the sky in three strides, morning, afternoon, and night.
iodoquinine ::: n. --> A iodide of quinine obtained as a brown substance,. It is the base of herapathite. See Herapathite.
isvari (Ishwari) ::: [feminine of isvara, "she who has mastery"].
It is nine inches high.
it ::: pron. --> The neuter pronoun of the third person, corresponding to the masculine pronoun he and the feminine she, and having the same plural (they, their or theirs, them).
As a substance for any noun of the neuter gender; as, here is the book, take it home.
As a demonstrative, especially at the beginning of a sentence, pointing to that which is about to be stated, named, or mentioned, or referring to that which apparent or well known; as, I saw
kayles ::: n. pl. --> A game; ninepins.
keels ::: n. pl. --> Ninepins. See Kayles.
kitcat ::: a. --> Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.
Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club.
koodoo ::: n. --> A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut.
laburnine ::: n. --> A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.
lactamide ::: n. --> An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is metameric with alanine.
lactimide ::: n. --> A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.
lady ::: n. --> A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.
A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.
A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.
A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower
lammergeier ::: n. --> A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore
laniariform ::: a. --> Shaped like a laniary, or canine, tooth.
laniary ::: a. --> Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.
The shambles; a place of slaughter.
A laniary, or canine, tooth.
lash ::: n. --> The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
laudanine ::: n. --> A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium.
leap year ::: --> Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile.
Legal Philosophy: Deals with the philosophic principles of law and justice. The origin is to be found in ancient philosophy. The Greek Sophists criticized existing laws and customs by questioning their validity: All human rules are artificial, created by enactment or convention, as opposed to natural law, based on nature. The theory of a law of nature was further developed by Aristotle and the Stoics. According to the Stoics the natural law is based upon the eternal law of the universe; this itself is an outgrowth of universal reason, as man's mind is an offshoot of the latter. The idea of a law of nature as being innate in man was particularly stressed and popularized by Cicero who identified it with "right reason" and already contrasted it with written law that might be unjust or even tyrannical. Through Saint Augustine these ideas were transmitted to medieval philosophy and by Thomas Aquinas built into his philosophical system. Thomas considers the eternal law the reason existing in the divine mind and controlling the universe. Natural law, innate in man participates in that eternal law. A new impetus was given to Legal Philosophy by the Renaissance. Natural Jurisprudence, properly so-called, originated in the XVII. century. Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, Benedictus Spinoza, John Locke, Samuel Pufendorf were the most important representatives of that line of thought. Grotius, continuing the Scholastic tradition, particularly stressed the absoluteness of natural hw (it would exist even if God did not exist) and, following Jean Bodin, the sovereignty of the people. The idea of the social contract traced all political bodies back to a voluntary compact by which every individual gave up his right to self-government, or rather transferred it to the government, abandoning a state of nature which according to Hobbes must have been a state of perpetual war. The theory of the social compact more and more accepts the character of a "fiction" or of a regulative idea (Kant). In this sense the theory means that we ought to judge acts of government by their correspondence to the general will (Rousseau) and to the interests of the individuals who by transferring their rights to the commonwealth intended to establish their real liberty. Natural law by putting the emphasis on natural rights, takes on a revolutionary character. It played a part in shaping the bills of rights, the constitutions of the American colonies and of the Union, as well as of the French declaration of the rights of men and of citizens. Natural jurisprudence in the teachings of Christian Wolff and Thomasius undergoes a kind of petrification in the vain attempt to outline an elaborate system of natural law not only in the field of international or public law, but also in the detailed regulations of the law of property, of contract, etc. This sort of dogmatic approach towards the problems of law evoked the opposition of the Historic School (Gustav Hugo and Savigny) which stressed the natural growth of laws ind customs, originating from the mysterious "spirit of the people". On the other hand Immanuel Kant tried to overcome the old natural law by the idea of a "law of reason", meaning an a priori element in all existing or positive law. In his definition of law ("the ensemble of conditions according to which everyone's will may coexist with the will of every other in accordance with a general rule of liberty"), however, as in his legal philosophy in general, he still shares the attitude of the natural law doctrine, confusing positive law with the idea of just law. This is also true of Hegel whose panlogism seemed to lead in this very direction. Under the influence of epistemological positivism (Comte, Mill) in the later half of the nineteenth century, legal philosophy, especially in Germany, confined itself to a "general theory of law". Similarily John Austin in England considered philosophy of law concerned only with positive law, "as it necessarily is", not as it ought to be. Its main task was to analyze certain notions which pervade the science of law (Analytical Jurisprudence). In recent times the same tendency to reduce legal philosophy to logical or at least methodological tasks was further developed in attempting a pure science of law (Kelsen, Roguin). Owing to the influence of Darwinism and natural science in general the evolutionist and biological viewpoint was accepted in legal philosophy: comparative jurisprudence, sociology of law, the Freirecht movement in Germany, the study of the living law, "Realism" in American legal philosophy, all represent a tendency against rationalism. On the other hand there is a revival of older tendencies: Hegelianism, natural law -- especially in Catholic philosophy -- and Kantianism (beginning with Rudolf Stammler). From here other trends arose: the critical attitude leads to relativism (f.i. Gustav Radbruch); the antimetaphysical tendency towards positivism -- though different from epistemological positivism -- and to a pure theory of law. Different schools of recent philosophy have found their applications or repercussions in legal philosophy: Phenomenology, for example, tried to intuit the essences of legal institutions, thus coming back to a formalist position, not too far from the real meaning of analytical jurisprudence. Neo-positivism, though so far not yet explicitly applied to legal philosophy, seems to lead in the same direction. -- W.E.
leonine ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity.
leonine ::: of, relating to, or characteristic of a lion.
lepidine ::: n. --> An organic base, C9H6.N.CH3, metameric with quinaldine, and obtained by the distillation of cinchonine.
longipennine ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate.
lupinine ::: n. --> An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, L. albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance.
machairodus ::: n. --> A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.
mahati ::: great; large, vast (feminine of mahat). mahati mahat laghima
Main works: Philosophy of the Present, 1932; Mind, Self, and Society, 1934; Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century, 1936; Philosophy of the Act, 1938.
manomayi ::: mental (feminine of manomaya). manomayi
masculine ::: a. --> Of the male sex; not female.
Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.
Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.
Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.
Matter ::: There is no need to put "the" before "quality"— in English that would alter the sense. Matter is not regarded in this passage as a quality of being perceived by sense; I don’t think that would have any meaning. It is regarded as a result of a certain power and action of consciousness which presents forms of itself to sense perception and it is this quality of sense-perceivedness, so to speak, that gives them the appearance of Matter, i.e. of a certain kind of substantiality inherent in themselves—but in fact they are not self-existent substantial objects but forms of consciousness. The point is that there is no such thing as the self-existent Matter posited by nineteenth-century Science.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 13, Page: 92
mezzanine ::: n. --> Same as Entresol.
A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
moby "jargon" /moh'bee/ (From {MIT}, seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago. Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick", some say from "Moby Pickle") 1. Large, immense, complex, impressive. "A Saturn V rocket is a truly moby frob." "Some MIT undergrads pulled off a moby hack at the Harvard-Yale game." 2. (Obsolete) The maximum {address space} of a computer (see below). For a 680[234]0 or {VAX} or most modern 32-bit architectures, it is 4,294,967,296 8-bit bytes (four {gigabytes}). 3. A title of address (never of third-person reference), usually used to show admiration, respect, and/or friendliness to a competent hacker. "Greetings, moby Dave. How's that address-book thing for the Mac going?" 4. In backgammon, doubles on the dice, as in "moby sixes", "moby ones", etc. Compare this with {bignum}: double sixes are both bignums and moby sixes, but moby ones are not bignums (the use of "moby" to describe double ones is sarcastic). 5. The largest available unit of something which is available in discrete increments. Thus a "moby Coke" is not just large, it's the largest size on sale. This term entered hackerdom with the Fabritek 256K memory added to the MIT AI PDP-6 machine, which was considered unimaginably huge when it was installed in the 1960s (at a time when a more typical memory size for a {time-sharing} system was 72 kilobytes). Thus, a moby is classically 256K 36-bit words, the size of a PDP-6 or PDP-10 moby. Back when {address registers} were narrow the term was more generally useful, because when a computer had {virtual memory} mapping, it might actually have more physical memory attached to it than any one program could access directly. One could then say "This computer has six mobies" meaning that the ratio of physical memory to address space is six, without having to say specifically how much memory there actually is. That in turn implied that the computer could timeshare six "full-sized" programs without having to swap programs between memory and disk. Nowadays the low cost of processor logic means that address spaces are usually larger than the most physical memory you can cram onto a machine, so most systems have much *less* than one theoretical "native" moby of {core}. Also, more modern memory-management techniques (especially paging) make the "moby count" less significant. However, there is one series of widely-used chips for which the term could stand to be revived --- the Intel 8088 and 80286 with their incredibly {brain-damaged} segmented-memory designs. On these, a "moby" would be the 1-megabyte address span of a segment/offset pair (by coincidence, a PDP-10 moby was exactly one megabyte of nine-bit bytes). [{Jargon File}] (1997-10-01)
muse ::: myth. Any of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, each of whom presided over a different art or science.
muse ::: n. --> A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural.
A particular power and practice of poetry.
A poet; a bard.
To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
Narasiṁha (Narasinha) ::: the man-lion, the fourth avatara of Vis.n.u,Narasimha the incarnation symbolically "bridging man and animal" in the evolutionary interpretation of the ten avataras; psychologically, leonine vital strength in a mentalised form, associated in the Record of Yoga with a "fierce & ardent" energy called Narasiṁha tejas.
narwhal ::: n. --> An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.
navadvare pure (navadware pure) ::: in the nine-gated city (of the navadvare body). [Gita 5.13] negative asamat asamata
navagvas (Navagwas) ::: those who sacrificed for nine months of the year; seers of the nine cows or nine rays who institute the search for the herds of the Sun and the march of Indra to battle with the panis. [Ved.]
Neo-Hegelianism: The name given to the revival of the Hegelian philosophy which began in Scotland and England about the middle of the nineteenth century and a little later extended to America. Outstanding representatives of the movement in England and Scotland are J. H. Stirling, John and Edward Caird, T. H. Green (perhaps more under the influence of Kant), F. H. Bradley, B. Bosanquet, R. B. Haldane, J. E. McTaggart and, in America, W. T. Harris and Josiah Royce. Throughout, the representatives remained indifferent to the formal aspects of Hegel's dialectic and subscribed only to its spirit -- what Hegel himself described as "the power of negation" and what Bosanquet named the argumentum a contingentia mundi. -- G.W.C.
neuvaines ::: n. pl. --> Prayers offered up for nine successive days.
nicotianine ::: n. --> A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.
Ninety-Ninety Rule "humour" "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time". An aphorism attributed to Tom Cargill of Bell Labs, and popularised by Jon Bentley's September 1985 "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" column in "Communications of the ACM". It was there called the "Rule of Credibility", a name which seems not to have stuck. [{Jargon File}] (1995-07-14)
ninth ::: a. --> Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.
Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided. ::: n. --> The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts
nocturn ::: n. --> An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.
One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service.
nonagenarian ::: n. --> A person ninety years old.
nonagesimal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal. ::: n. --> The middle or highest point of the part of the ecliptic which is at any given moment above the horizon. It is the ninetieth degree of the ecliptic, reckoned from the points in which it
nonagon ::: n. --> A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.
nonane ::: n. --> One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons C9H20 of the paraffin series; -- so called because of the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene.
nones ::: n. pl. --> The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.
The canonical office, being a part of the Breviary, recited at noon (formerly at the ninth hour, 3 P. M.) in the Roman Catholic Church.
The hour of dinner; the noonday meal.
nonetto ::: n. --> A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices.
novenary ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the number nine. ::: n. --> The number of nine units; nine, collectively.
novene ::: a. --> Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary.
novum ::: n. --> A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five.
nux vomica ::: --> The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.
obtuse ::: superl. --> Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.
Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses.
Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.
Open Software Foundation "body" (OSF) A foundation created by nine computer vendors, ({Apollo}, {DEC}, {Hewlett-Packard}, {IBM}, {Bull}, {Nixdorf}, {Philips}, {Siemens} and {Hitachi}) to promote "Open Computing". It is planned that common {operating systems} and interfaces, based on developments of {Unix} and the {X Window System} will be forthcoming for a wide range of different hardware architectures. OSF announced the release of the industry's first open {operating system} - OSF/1 on 23 October 1990. (1994-11-23)
opianine ::: n. --> An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium. It is identical with narcotine.
oscinine ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Oscines.
paeonine ::: n. --> An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.
para- ::: --> A prefix signifying alongside of, beside, beyond, against, amiss; as parable, literally, a placing beside; paradox, that which is contrary to opinion; parachronism.
A prefix denoting: (a) Likeness, similarity, or connection, or that the substance resembles, but is distinct from, that to the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde, paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric modification. (b) Specifically: (Organ. Chem.) That two groups or radicals substituted in the benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the
paraconine ::: n. --> A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.
para ::: higher; supreme (feminine of para). para
passiflora ::: n. --> A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
pauropoda ::: n. pl. --> An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae.
pavonine ::: a. --> Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.
Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent.
PCI Mezzanine Card "hardware" (PMC) A family of low profile {mezzanine} cards for {VMEbus}, {Futurebus+}, desktop computers and other computer systems with logical and electrical layers based on the {Peripheral Component Interconnect} (PCI) specification. PMC is defined in {IEEE} P1386.1 and follows the {Common Mezzanine Card} (CMC) mechanical specification. PCI2.0 defines a 4.2 inch by 12.3 inch board that plugs perpendicularly into a {mother board}. (1994-10-06)
penninerved ::: a. --> Pinnately veined or nerved.
Peripheral Component Interconnect "hardware" (PCI) A standard for connecting {peripherals} to a {personal computer}, designed by {Intel} and released around Autumn 1993. PCI is supported by most major manufacturers including {Apple Computer}. It is technically far superior to {VESA}'s {local bus}. It runs at 20 - 33 MHz and carries 32 bits at a time over a 124-pin connector or 64 bits over a 188-pin connector. An address is sent in one cycle followed by one word of data (or several in burst mode). PCI is used in systems based on {Pentium}, {Pentium Pro}, {AMD 5x86}, {AMD K5} and {AMD K6} processors, in some {DEC Alpha} and {PowerPC} systems, and probably {Cyrix 586} and {Cyrix 686} systems. However, it is processor independent and so can work with other processor architectures as well. Technically, PCI is not a bus but a {bridge} or {mezzanine}. It includes buffers to decouple the {CPU} from relatively slow peripherals and allow them to operate asynchronously. (1997-12-07)
peseta ::: n. --> A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.
phagedena ::: n. --> A canine appetite; bulimia.
Spreading, obstinate ulceration.
phloretin ::: n. --> A bitter white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a substitute for quinine.
phycocyanine ::: n. --> A blue coloring matter found in certain algae.
phycocyanin ::: n. --> Alt. of Phycocyanine
PLAN "language" Programming LANguage Nineteen hundred. The {assembly language} for {ICL 1900} series computers. (1995-03-21)
Plotinism: The philosophic and religious thought of Plotinus (205-270). His writings were published by Porphyry in six books of nine sections, Enneads, each. All reality consists of a series of emanations, from the One, the eternal source of all being. The first, necessary emanation is that of Nous (mind or intelligence), the second that of Psyche (soul). At the periphery of the universe is found matter. Man belongs partly in the realm of spirit and partly in the sphere of matter.
PMC {PCI Mezzanine Card}
pracetas ::: conscious thinker (seems to correspond to the Vedantic prajnana). [Ved.] ::: pracetah [nominative, feminine], she who has the perceptive knowledge.
prescribe ::: v. t. --> To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.
To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. ::: v. i.
puniness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.
pup ::: n. --> A young dog; a puppy.
a young seal. ::: v. i. --> To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.
puppy ::: n. --> The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.
A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person. ::: v. i. --> To bring forth whelps; to pup.
purusarsabha ::: the leonine soul among men.
quadrille ::: n. --> A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.
The appropriate music for a quadrille.
A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.
quinine ::: n. --> An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.
quinia ::: n. --> Quinine.
quinic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
quinicine ::: n. --> An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.
quinidine ::: n. --> An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge.
quininic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.
quinogen ::: n. --> A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.
rabies ::: n. --> Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.
ranine ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.
Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.
raininess ::: n. --> The state of being rainy.
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal "humour" Back in the good old days - the "Golden Era" of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked in capital letters, you understand), and the rest of the world said things like "computers are too complicated for me" and "I can't relate to computers - they're so impersonal". (A previous work [1] points out that Real Men don't "relate" to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.) But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow Real Men out of the water playing Asteroids and Pac-Man, and anyone can buy and even understand their very own Personal Computer. The Real Programmer is in danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with {TRASH-80s}. There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is made clear, it will give these kids something to aspire to -- a role model, a Father Figure. It will also help explain to the employers of Real Programmers why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings). LANGUAGES The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use {Fortran}. Quiche Eaters use {Pascal}. Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of Pascal, gave a talk once at which he was asked how to pronounce his name. He replied, "You can either call me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'." One can tell immediately from this comment that Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. The only parameter passing mechanism endorsed by Real Programmers is call-by-value-return, as implemented in the {IBM 370} {Fortran-G} and H compilers. Real programmers don't need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a {keypunch}, a {Fortran IV} {compiler}, and a beer. Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran. Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran. Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran. Real Programmers do {Artificial Intelligence} programs in Fortran. If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in {assembly language}. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING The academics in computer science have gotten into the "structured programming" rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the programmer uses some special language constructs and techniques. They don't all agree on exactly which constructs, of course, and the examples they use to show their particular point of view invariably fit on a single page of some obscure journal or another - clearly not enough of an example to convince anyone. When I got out of school, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different computer languages, and create 1000-line programs that WORKED. (Really!) Then I got out into the Real World. My first task in the Real World was to read and understand a 200,000-line Fortran program, then speed it up by a factor of two. Any Real Programmer will tell you that all the Structured Coding in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming: Real Programmers aren't afraid to use {GOTOs}. Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused. Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting. Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 {nanoseconds} in the middle of a tight loop. Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious. Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using {assigned GOTOs}. Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Wirth (the above-mentioned Quiche Eater) actually wrote an entire book [2] contending that you could write a program based on data structures, instead of the other way around. As all Real Programmers know, the only useful data structure is the Array. Strings, lists, structures, sets - these are all special cases of arrays and can be treated that way just as easily without messing up your programing language with all sorts of complications. The worst thing about fancy data types is that you have to declare them, and Real Programming Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name. OPERATING SYSTEMS What kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M. Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don't do Serious Work on Unix systems: they send jokes around the world on {UUCP}-net and write adventure games and research papers. No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great programmer can write JCL without referring to the manual at all. A truly outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte {core dump} without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.) OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is encouraged. The best way to approach the system is through a keypunch. Some people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken. PROGRAMMING TOOLS What kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back in the days when computers had front panels, this was actually done occasionally. Your typical Real Programmer knew the entire bootstrap loader by memory in hex, and toggled it in whenever it got destroyed by his program. (Back then, memory was memory - it didn't go away when the power went off. Today, memory either forgets things when you don't want it to, or remembers things long after they're better forgotten.) Legend has it that {Seymore Cray}, inventor of the Cray I supercomputer and most of Control Data's computers, actually toggled the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer. One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had crashed in the middle of saving some important work. Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone. The moral of this story: while a Real Programmer usually includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies. In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a single keypunch. The Real Programmer in this situation has to do his work with a "text editor" program. Most systems supply several text editors to select from, and the Real Programmer must be careful to pick one that reflects his personal style. Many people believe that the best text editors in the world were written at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for use on their Alto and Dorado computers [3]. Unfortunately, no Real Programmer would ever use a computer whose operating system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse. Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - {Emacs} and {VI} being two. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise. It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine. For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary {object code} directly, using a wonderful program called SUPERZAP (or its equivalent on non-IBM machines). This works so well that many working programs on IBM systems bear no relation to the original Fortran code. In many cases, the original source code is no longer available. When it comes time to fix a program like this, no manager would even think of sending anything less than a Real Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called "job security". Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers: Fortran preprocessors like {MORTRAN} and {RATFOR}. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming. Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps. Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient. Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5]. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORK Where does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real Programmer would be caught dead writing accounts-receivable programs in {COBOL}, or sorting {mailing lists} for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!). Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers. Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions. It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies. Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles. Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft by heart. With a combination of large ground-based Fortran programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, they are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation - hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and batteries. Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern-matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter. The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances. As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, however, a black cloud has formed on the Real Programmer horizon. It seems that some highly placed Quiche Eaters at the Defense Department decided that all Defense programs should be written in some grand unified language called "ADA" ((C), DoD). For a while, it seemed that ADA was destined to become a language that went against all the precepts of Real Programming - a language with structure, a language with data types, {strong typing}, and semicolons. In short, a language designed to cripple the creativity of the typical Real Programmer. Fortunately, the language adopted by DoD has enough interesting features to make it approachable -- it's incredibly complex, includes methods for messing with the operating system and rearranging memory, and Edsgar Dijkstra doesn't like it [6]. (Dijkstra, as I'm sure you know, was the author of "GoTos Considered Harmful" - a landmark work in programming methodology, applauded by Pascal programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language. The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing there's enough money in it. There are several Real Programmers building video games at Atari, for example. (But not playing them - a Real Programmer knows how to beat the machine every time: no challenge in that.) Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because nobody has found a use for computer graphics yet. On the other hand, all computer graphics is done in Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAY Generally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be doing for fun anyway (although he is careful not to express this opinion out loud). Occasionally, the Real Programmer does step out of the office for a breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room: At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it. At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper. At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand. At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying "Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary." In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time. THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT What sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done. The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are: Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office. Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush. Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages. Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969. Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine. Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions. Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.) The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer - it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general: No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night). Real Programmers don't wear neckties. Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes. Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9]. A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire {ASCII} (or EBCDIC) code table. Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee. THE FUTURE What of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same outlook on life as their elders. Many of them have never seen a computer with a front panel. Hardly anyone graduating from school these days can do hex arithmetic without a calculator. College graduates these days are soft - protected from the realities of programming by source level debuggers, text editors that count parentheses, and "user friendly" operating systems. Worst of all, some of these alleged "computer scientists" manage to get degrees without ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers? From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, despite all the efforts of Pascal programmers the world over. Even more subtle tricks, like adding structured coding constructs to Fortran have failed. Oh sure, some computer vendors have come out with Fortran 77 compilers, but every one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be. Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real Programmer - two different and subtly incompatible user interfaces, an arcane and complicated teletype driver, virtual memory. If you ignore the fact that it's "structured", even 'C' programming can be appreciated by the Real Programmer: after all, there's no type checking, variable names are seven (ten? eight?) characters long, and the added bonus of the Pointer data type is thrown in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
rectangular ::: a. --> Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.
remote monitoring "protocol" (RMON) A {network management} {protocol} that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas {SNMP} gathers network data from a single type of {Management Information Base} (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a much richer set of data about network usage. For RMON to work, network devices, such as {hubs} and {switches}, must be designed to support it. The newest version of RMON, RMON 2, provides data about {traffic} at the {network layer} in addition to the {physical layer}. This allows administrators to analyse traffic by protocol. (2003-09-15)
ricinine ::: n. --> A bitter white crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant.
rubiaceous ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms.
rytina ::: n. --> A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller&
Saadia, ben Joseph: (Arabic Sa'id Al-Fayyumi) (892-942) Born and educated in Egypt, he left his native country in 915 and settled in Babylonia where he was appointed in 928 Gaon of the Academy of Sura. He translated the Bible into Arabic and wrote numerous works, both in Hebrew and Arabic, in the fields of philology, exegesis, Talmudics, polemics, Jewish history, and philosophy. His chief philosophical work is the Kitab Al-Amanat wa'l-Itikadat, better known by its Hebrew title, Emunot we-Deott, i.e., Doctrines and Religious Beliefs. Its purpose is to prove the compatibility of the principles of Judaism with reason and to interpret them in such a way that their rationality be evident The first nine sections establish philosophically the ten fundamental articles of faith, and the tenth deals with ethics. Philosophically, Saadia was influenced by the teachings of the Mutazilia. See Jewish Philosophy. -- Q.V.
safranine ::: n. --> An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.
Sakti: (Skr.) Strength, might, of feminine gender, the word designates in Tantric (see Tantra) literature the female generative power of energy in the universe, worshipped by the religious as the wife of some deity or other, e.g., as Durga, wife of Shiva. See Shaktism. -- K.F.L.
saturnine ::: a. --> Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.
Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper.
Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn.
saturn ::: n. --> One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a
scampavia ::: n. --> A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.
Schröder, (Friedrich Wilhelm Karl) Ernst, 1841-1902. German mathematician. Professor of mathematics at Karlsruhe, 1876-1902. His three-volume Algebra der Logik (1890-1895, with a posthumous second part of vol. 2 published in 1905) is an able compendium and systematization of the work of his predecessors. With contributions of his own, and may be regarded as giving in nearly all essentials the final form of the Nineteenth Century algebra of logic (q.v.), including the algebra of relatives (or relations). -- A.C.
Seven-Segment Display "electronics" (SSD) A kind of display element consisting of seven independently controllable lines arranged as a rectangular figure eight. A seven-segment display is the simplest device that can display any of the digits zero to nine (and some other characters) by lighting different combinations of lines. They are often seen in electronic calculators or measuring equipment. (2013-04-27)
seventy ::: a. --> Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine. ::: n. --> The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.
she ::: obj. --> This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
A woman; a female; -- used substantively.
shrike ::: v. i. --> Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.
shukshma deha. ::: the subtle or astral body, which possess nineteen properties &
sixty ::: a. --> Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore. ::: n. --> The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.
A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.
skinniness ::: n. --> Quality of being skinny.
skittles ::: v. t. --> An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
smock-faced ::: a. --> Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish.
solanine ::: n. --> A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.
solania ::: n. --> Solanine.
solanidine ::: n. --> An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine, as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste.
SPACEWAR "games" A space-combat simulation game for the {PDP-1} written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at {MIT}. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new {vector video display} so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for {HC12} {emulators}. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at {MIT}. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated {Ken Thompson} to build, in his spare time on a scavenged {PDP-7}, the {operating system} that became {Unix}. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still {feep}ing in video arcades everywhere. ["SPACEWAR" or "Space Travel"?] [{Jargon File}] (2004-07-19)
span ::: --> imp. & p. p. of Spin. ::: v. t. --> The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or
spininess ::: n. --> Quality of being spiny.
spinosity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.
Sri Aurobindo: "The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri (the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female) of the Indian iconological symbol; it is the double Power masculine-feminine born from and supported by the supreme Shakti of the Supreme.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Stanine ::: A standard score that literally means Standard Nine, stanines have a mean of five and a standard deviation of approximately two. Stanines 2 through 8 are exactly 1/2 standard deviations and stanines one and nine or open ended.
stannine ::: n. --> Alt. of Stannite
Standard Score ::: A score derived by transforming the data based on the standard deviation. Standard scores can then be compared to one another on face value. (See z-score, T-score, NCE score, stanines, and Wechsler&
stoniness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being stony.
struthionine ::: a. --> Struthious.
strychnine ::: n. --> A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.
strychnia ::: n. --> Strychnine.
strychnic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to strychnine; produced by strychnine; as, strychnic compounds; strychnic poisoning
used to designate an acid, called also igasuric acid.
Sturgeon's Law "Ninety percent of everything is crap". Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud." Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to "crap". Compare {Ninety-Ninety Rule}. Though this maxim originated in SF fandom, most hackers recognise it and are all too aware of its truth. [{Jargon File}]
suvira ::: full of energy. [Ved.] ::: suvira [feminine]
tantra. ::: a manual of or a particular path of sadhana laying great stress upon japa of a mantra and other esoteric practices relating to the powers latent in the human complex of physical, astral, and causal bodies in relation to the cosmic power usually thought of as the divine feminine
tawniness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being tawny.
teens ::: n. pl. --> The years of one&
ten ::: a. --> One more than nine; twice five. ::: n. --> The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.
A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
tenpins ::: n. --> A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.
tenth ::: a. --> Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided. ::: n. --> The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
tester ::: n. --> A headpiece; a helmet.
A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.
A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.
tetanic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.
Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n. ::: n. --> A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine)
tetragon ::: n. --> A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.
An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle.
thalia ::: n. --> That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy.
One of the three Graces.
One of the Nereids.
thanousēs [Greek] ::: from the dead one (feminine). thanouses
thebaine ::: n. --> A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.
The differences begin when the questions of the mode of creation and mediators between God and the world are dealt with. In these matters there are to be noted three variations. Saadia rejected entirely the theory of the emanation of separate intelligences, and teaches God's creation from nothing of all beings in the sublunar and upper worlds. He posits that God created first a substratum or the first air which was composed of the hyle and form and out of this element all beings were created, not only the four elements, the components of bodies in the lower world, but also the angels, stars, and the spheres. Bahya's conception is similar to that of Saadia. The Aristotelians, Ibn Daud, Maimonides, and Gersonides accepted the theory of the separate intelligences which was current in Arabic philosophy. This theory teaches that out of the First Cause there emanated an intelligence, and out of this intelligence another one up to nine, corresponding to the number of spheres. Each of these intelligences acts as the object of the mind of a sphere and is the cause of its movement. The tenth intelligence is the universal intellect, an emanation of all intelligences which has in its care the sublunar world. This theory is a combination of Aristotelian and neo-PIatonic teachings; Ibn Daud posits, however, in addition to the intelligences also the existence of angels, created spiritual beings, while Maimonides seems to identify the angels with the intelligences, and also says that natural forces are also called angels in the Bible. As for creation, Ibn Daud asserts that God created the hyle or primal matter and endowed it with general form from which the specific forms later developed. Maimonides seems to believe that God first created a substance consisting of primal matter and primal form, and that He determined by His will that parts of it should form the matter of the spheres which is imperishable, while other parts should form the matter of the four elements. These views, however, are subject to various interpretations by historians. Gabirol and Gersonides posit the eternal existence of the hyle and limit creation to endowing it with form and organization -- a view close to the Platonic.
“The Godhead has built this universe in a complex system of worlds which we find both within us and without, subjectively cognised and objectively sensed. It is a rising tier of earths and heavens; it is a stream of diverse waters; it is a Light of seven rays, or of eight or nine or ten; it is a Hill of many plateaus. The seers often image it in a series of trios; there are three earths and three heavens. More, there is a triple world below,—Heaven, Earth and the intervening mid-region; a triple world between, the shining heavens of the Sun; a triple world above, the supreme and rapturous abodes of the Godhead.” The Secret of the Veda
“The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri (the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female) of the Indian iconological symbol; it is the double Power masculine-feminine born from and supported by the supreme Shakti of the Supreme.” The Synthesis of Yoga
thionine ::: n. --> An artificial red or violet dyestuff consisting of a complex sulphur derivative of certain aromatic diamines, and obtained as a dark crystalline powder; -- called also phenylene violet.
thionoline ::: n. --> A beautiful fluorescent crystalline substance, intermediate in composition between thionol and thionine.
thionol ::: n. --> A red or violet dyestuff having a greenish metallic luster. It is produced artificially, by the chemical dehydration of thionine, as a brown amorphous powder.
thirty ::: a. --> Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days. ::: n. --> The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects.
thousandth ::: a. --> Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.
Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.
Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.
Traditionalism: In French philosophy of the early nineteenth century, the doctrine that the truth -- particularly religious truth -- is never discovered by an individual but is only to be found in "tradition". It was revealed in potentia at a single moment by God and has been developing steadily through history. Since truth is an attribute of ideas, the traditionalist holds that ideas are super-individual. They are the property of society and are found embedded in language which was revealed to primitive man bv God at the creation. The main traditionalists were Joseph de Maistre, the Vicomte de Bonald, and Bonetty. -- G.B.
traigun.yamayi ::: feminine of traigun.yamaya. traigunyamayi traigun traigunyamayi prakrti
triple world ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Godhead has built this universe in a complex system of worlds which we find both within us and without, subjectively cognised and objectively sensed. It is a rising tier of earths and heavens; it is a stream of diverse waters; it is a Light of seven rays, or of eight or nine or ten; it is a Hill of many plateaus. The seers often image it in a series of trios; there are three earths and three heavens. More, there is a triple world below, — Heaven, Earth and the intervening mid-region; a triple world between, the shining heavens of the Sun; a triple world above, the supreme and rapturous abodes of the Godhead.” *The Secret of the Veda
trollmydames ::: n. --> The game of nineholes.
tropidine ::: n. --> An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.
tusk ::: n. --> Same as Torsk.
One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.
twentieth ::: a. --> Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.
Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided. ::: n. --> The next in order after the nineteen; one coming after
twenty ::: a. --> One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.
An indefinite number more or less that twenty. ::: n. --> The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.
A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.
types ::: Horizontal styles available to any developmental level within the quadrants. Examples of types include Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, masculine and feminine in the Upper Left; body types in the Upper Right; cultural types in the Lower Left; and types of biomes in the Lower Right.
undern ::: n. --> The time between; the time between sunrise and noon; specifically, the third hour of the day, or nine o&
University of Michigan "body, education" A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. 70% of the University's students graduated in the top 10% of their high school class. 90% rank in the top 20% of their high school class. 60% of the students receive financial aid. The main Ann Arbor Campus lies in the Huron River valley, 40 miles west of Detroit. The campus boasts 2700 acres with 200 buildings, six million volumes in 23 libraries, nine museums, seven hospitals, hundreds of laboratories and institutes, and over 18000 {microcomputers}. {(http://umich.edu/)}. (1995-02-23)
unsex ::: v. t. --> To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one&
urania ::: n. --> One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
Vac: (Skr.) Speech, voice, word. In Vedic (q.v.) philosophy vac and sabda (q.v.) have a similar role as the Logos in Greek philosophy (see e.g. Rigveda 10.125). It appears personified (feminine) and close to primeval reality in the hierarchy of emanations. -- K.F.L.
Vada: (Skr.) Theory. Vague: A word (or the idea or notion associated with it) is vague if the meaning is so far not fixed that there are cases in which its application is in principle indeterminate -- although there may be other cases in which the application is quite definite. Thus longevity is vague because, although a man who dies at sixty certainly does not possess the characteristic of longevity and one who lives to be ninety certainly does, there is doubt about a man who dies at seventy-five. On the other hand, octogenarian is not vague, because the precise moment at which a man becomes an octogenarian may (at least in principle) be determined. Of course, the vagueness of longevity might be removed by specifying exactly at what age longevity begins, but the meaning of the word would then have been changed. (See further the article Relative.).
Vaisesika: One of the major systems of Indian philosophy (q.v.) founded by Ulaka, better known by his surname Kanada. It is a pluralistic realism, its main insistence being on visesa or particularity of the ultimate reality, incidental to an atomism. There are theistic implications. Reality falls into seven categories: nine substances (dravya, q.v.), 24 qualities (guna, q.v.), action (karma, q.v.), universality (samanya, q.v.), particularity (visesa), inherence (samavdya), and non-existence (abhava). -- K.F.L.
vaisesika (Vaisheshika) ::: [a system of philosophy, one of the six darsanas; its characteristic doctrine is the eternally distinct nature of the nine substances (air, fire, water, earth, mind, ether, time, space and soul), of which the first five, including mind, are held to be atomic].
valeridine ::: n. --> A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids.
vernine ::: n. --> An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
vespertilionine ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Vespertiliones.
VII. Leonine Restoration (1879). The Encyclical Aeterni Patris of Leo XIII gave this new movement a conscious direction. Since Leo XIII's time to the present day, Catholic Scholars have been active both in the fields of speculation and history. Numerous reviews have been founded and Scholasticism has raised its voice even in the non-sectarian Universities of America. -- W.G.
viraj. ::: the macrocosm; the manifested universe; the world man &
virile ::: a. --> Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.
vishnu ::: 1. (In later Hinduism) "The Preserver.” The second member of the Trimurti, along with Brahma the Creator and Shiva the Destroyer. 2. (In popular Hinduism) a deity believed to have descended from heaven to earth in several incarnations, or avatars, varying in number from nine to twenty-two, but always including animals. His most important human incarnation is the Krishna of the Bhagavad-Gita. 3. "The Pervader,” one of a half-dozen solar deities in the Rig-Veda, daily traversing the sky in three strides, morning, afternoon, and night.
water deer ::: --> A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.
The water chevrotain.
whip ::: v. t. --> To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with
womanly ::: a. --> Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. ::: adv. --> In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman.
W. V. Quine, Mathematical Logic, New York, 1940. Logic, symbolic, or mathematical logic, or logistic, is the name given to the treatment of formal logic by means of a formalized logical language or calculus whose purpose is to avoid the ambiguities and logical inadequacy of ordinary language. It is best characterized, not as a separate subject, but as a new and powerful method in formal logic. Foreshadowed by ideas of Leibniz, J. H. Lambert, and others, it had its substantial historical beginning in the Nineteenth Century algebra of logic (q. v.), and received its contemporary form at the hands of Frege, Peano, Russell, Hilbert, and others. Advantages of the symbolic method are greater exactness of formulation, and power to deal with formally more complex material. See also logistic system. -- A. C.
xanthinine ::: n. --> A complex nitrogenous substance related to urea and uric acid, produced as a white powder; -- so called because it forms yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like quinine.
xiphodon ::: n. --> An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet, and small canine teeth.
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1:If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones. ~ Hazrat Umar ibn Khattab, #KEYS
2:Do not blame nature, God, or others. Ninety-nine percent of your problems are self-created. You know it, though you do not accept it. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
3:The tree too thick to embrace
emerges from a seedling.
A nine-storey tower rises from a brick.
A thousand-mile journey begins under your feet. ~ Lao Tzu,#KEYS
4:He who knows ten should only teach nine." ~ Far Eastern Saying. From: "The Essential Rene Guenon: Metaphysics, Tradition, and the Crisis of Modernity,", (2009), p.272., #KEYS
5:The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #KEYS
6:Get rid of the ego, observe all your actions as if they were another's, and you will avoid ninety-nine percent of the troubles that await you. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, 1.7, #KEYS
7:Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, Mort,#KEYS
8:The real and perfect civilisation yet waits to be discovered; for the life of mankind is still nine tenths of barbarism to one tenth of culture. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India, "Is India Civilised?" - III, #KEYS
9:Try peaceful tactics the first ninety-nine times, at the hundredth try, you have no choice if there's demand for a fight. A man who doesn't understand this is worse than a dog. If you encounter an aggressive dog, hit it on the nose with a stick." ~ Tibetan saying., #KEYS
10:Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one -- one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back. ~ Heraclitus, #KEYS
11:A big tree is at first a slender shoot; a nine-storied tower is raised by first placing a few small bricks; a journey of a thousand leagues begins with a step. Be careful of your thoughts; they are the beginning of your acts. ~ Lao Tse, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
12:9. Gods three thousand and three hundred and thirty and nine waited upon the Fire. They anointed him with streams of the clarity, they spread for him the seat of sacrifice, and seated him within as priest of the call.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire,#KEYS
13:I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!" ~ Bill Hicks, #KEYS
14:He told me that in 1886 he had invented an original system of numbering and that in a very few days he had gone beyond the twenty-four-thousand mark. He had not written it down, since anything he thought of once would never be lost to him. His first stimulus was, I think, his discomfort at the fact that the famous thirty-three gauchos of Uruguayan history should require two signs and two words, in place of a single word and a single sign. He then applied this absurd principle to the other numbers. In place of seven thousand thirteen he would say (for example) Maximo Pérez; in place of seven thousand fourteen, The Railroad; other numbers were Luis Melian Lafinur, Olimar, sulphur, the reins, the whale, the gas, the caldron, Napoleon, Agustin de Vedia. In place of five hundred, he would say nine. Each word had a particular sign, a kind of mark; the last in the series were very complicated...~ Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, Selected Stories and Other Writings, #KEYS
15:Few poets can keep for a very long time a sustained level of the highest inspiration. The best poetry does not usually come by streams except in poets of a supreme greatness though there may be in others than the greatest long-continued wingings at a considerable height. The very best comes by intermittent drops, though sometimes three or four gleaming drops at a time. Even in the greatest poets, even in those with the most opulent flow of riches like Shakespeare, the very best is comparatively rare. All statements are subject to qualification. What Lawrence states1 is true in principle, but in practice most poets have to sustain the inspiration by industry. Milton in his later days used to write every day fifty lines; Virgil nine which he corrected and recorrected till it was within half way of what he wanted. In other words he used to write under any conditions and pull at his inspiration till it came. Usually the best lines, passages, etc. come like that.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Inspiration and Effort - II,#KEYS
16:The key one and threefold, even as universal science. The division of the work is sevenfold, and through these sections are distributed the seven degrees of initiation into is transcendental philosophy.
The text is a mystical commentary on the oracles of Solomon, ^ and the work ends with a series of synoptic schedules which are the synthesis of Magic and the occult Kabalah so far as concerns that which can be made public in writing. The rest, being the esoteric and inexpressible part of the science, is formulated in magnificent pantacles carefully designed and engraved. These are nine in number, as follows
(1) The dogma of Hermes;
(2) Magical realisation;
(3) The path of wisdom and the initial procedure in the work
(4) The Gate of the Sanctuary enlightened by seven mystic rays;
(5) A Rose of Light, in the centre of which a human figure is extending its arms in the form of a cross;
(6) The magical laboratory of Khunrath, demonstrating the necessary union of prayer and work
(7) The absolute synthesis of science;
(8) Universal equilibrium ;
(9) A summary of Khunrath's personal embodying an energetic protest against all his detractors. ~ Eliphas Levi, The History Of Magic,#KEYS
17:Inspiration is always a very uncertain thing; it comes when it chooses, stops suddenly before it has finished its work, refuses to descend when it is called. This is a well-known affliction, perhaps of all artists, but certainly of poets. There are some who can command it at will; those who, I think, are more full of an abundant poetic energy than careful for perfection; others who oblige it to come whenever they put pen to paper but with these the inspiration is either not of a high order or quite unequal in its levels. Again there are some who try to give it a habit of coming by always writing at the same time; Virgil with his nine lines first written, then perfected every morning, Milton with his fifty epic lines a day, are said to have succeeded in regularising their inspiration. It is, I suppose, the same principle which makes Gurus in India prescribe for their disciples a meditation at the same fixed hour every day. It succeeds partially of course, for some entirely, but not for everybody. For myself, when the inspiration did not come with a rush or in a stream,-for then there is no difficulty,-I had only one way, to allow a certain kind of incubation in which a large form of the thing to be done threw itself on the mind and then wait for the white heat in which the entire transcription could rapidly take place. But I think each poet has his own way of working and finds his own issue out of inspiration's incertitudes.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Inspiration and Effort - I,#KEYS
18:The guiding law of spiritual experience can only come by an opening of human consciousness to the Divine Consciousness; there must be the power to receive in us the working and command and dynamic presence of the Divine Shakti and surrender ourselves to her control; it is that surrender and that control which bring the guidance. But the surrender is not sure, there is no absolute certitude of the guidance so long as we are besieged by mind formations and life impulses and instigations of ego which may easily betray us into the hands of a false experience. This danger can only be countered by the opening of a now nine-tenths concealed inmost soul or psychic being that is already there but not commonly active within us. That is the inner light we must liberate; for the light of this inmost soul is our one sure illumination so long as we walk still amidst the siege of the Ignorance and the Truth-consciousness has not taken up the entire control of our Godward endeavour. The working of the Divine Force in us under the conditions of the transition and the light of the psychic being turning us always towards a conscious and seeing obedience to that higher impulsion and away from the demands and instigations of the Forces of the Ignorance, these between them create an ever progressive inner law of our action which continues till the spiritual and supramental can be established in our nature. In the transition there may well be a period in which we take up all life and action and offer them to the Divine for purification, change and deliverance of the truth within them, another period in which we draw back and build a spiritual wall around us admitting through its gates only such activities as consent to undergo the law of the spiritual transformation, a third in which a free and all-embracing action, but with new forms fit for the utter truth of the Spirit, can again be made possible. These things, however, will be decided by no mental rule but in the light of the soul within us and by the ordaining force and progressive guidance of the Divine Power that secretly or overtly first impels, then begins clearly to control and order and finally takes up the whole burden of the Yoga. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1, 138, #KEYS
19:
Are not offering and surrender to the Divine the same thing?
They are two aspects of the same thing, but not altogether the same. One is more active than the other. They do not belong to quite the same plane of existence.
For example, you have decided to offer your life to the Divine, you take that decision. But all of a sudden, something altogether unpleasant, unexpected happens to you and your first movement is to react and protest. Yet you have made the offering, you have said once for all: "My life belongs to the Divine", and then suddenly an extremely unpleasant incident happens (that can happen) and there is something in you that reacts, that does not want it. But here, if you want to be truly logical with your offering, you must bring forward this unpleasant incident, make an offering of it to the Divine, telling him very sincerely: "Let Your will be done; if You have decided it that way, it will be that way." And this must be a willing and spontaneous adhesion. So it is very difficult.
Even for the smallest thing, something that is not in keeping with what you expected, what you have worked for, instead of an opposite reaction coming in - spontaneously, irresistibly, you draw back: "No, not that" - if you have made a complete surrender, a total surrender, well, it does not happen like that: you are as quiet, as peaceful, as calm in one case as in the other. And perhaps you had the notion that it would be better if it happened in a certain way, but if it happens differently, you find that this also is all right. You might have, for example, worked very hard to do a certain thing, so that something might happen, you might have given much time, much of your energy, much of your will, and all that not for your own sake, but, say, for the divine work (that is the offering); now suppose that after having taken all this trouble, done all this work, made all these efforts, it all goes just the other way round, it does not succeed. If you are truly surrendered, you say: "It is good, it is all good, it is all right; I did what I could, as well as I could, now it is not my decision, it is the decision of the Divine, I accept entirely what He decides." On the other hand, if you do not have this deep and spontaneous surrender, you tell yourself: "How is it? I took so much trouble to do a thing which is not for a selfish purpose, which is for the Divine Work, and this is the result, it is not successful!" Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it is like that.
True surrender is a very difficult thing.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 52,#KEYS
20:GURU YOGA
Guru yoga is an essential practice in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon. This is true in sutra, tantra, and Dzogchen. It develops the heart connection with the masteR By continually strengthening our devotion, we come to the place of pure devotion in ourselves, which is the unshakeable, powerful base of the practice. The essence of guru yoga is to merge the practitioner's mind with the mind of the master.
What is the true master? It is the formless, fundamental nature of mind, the primordial awareness of the base of everything, but because we exist in dualism, it is helpful for us to visualize this in a form. Doing so makes skillful use of the dualisms of the conceptual mind, to further strengthen devotion and help us stay directed toward practice and the generation of positive qualities.
In the Bon tradition, we often visualize either Tapihritsa* as the master, or the Buddha ShenlaOdker*, who represents the union of all the masters. If you are already a practitioner, you may have another deity to visualize, like Guru Rinpoche or a yidam or dakini. While it is important to work with a lineage with which you have a connection, you should understand that the master you visualize is the embodiment of all the masters with whom you are connected, all the teachers with whom you have studied, all the deities to whom you have commitments. The master in guru yoga is not just one individual, but the essence of enlightenment, the primordial awareness that is your true nature.
The master is also the teacher from whom you receive the teachings. In the Tibetan tradition, we say the master is more important than the Buddha. Why? Because the master is the immediate messenger of the teachings, the one who brings the Buddha's wisdom to the student. Without the master we could not find our way to the Buddha. So we should feel as much devotion to the master as we would to the Buddha if the Buddha suddenly appeared in front of us.
Guru yoga is not just about generating some feeling toward a visualized image. It is done to find the fundamental mind in yourself that is the same as the fundamental mind of all your teachers, and of all the Buddhas and realized beings that have ever lived. When you merge with the guru, you merge with your pristine true nature, which is the real guide and masteR But this should not be an abstract practice. When you do guru yoga, try to feel such intense devotion that the hair stands upon your neck, tears start down your face, and your heart opens and fills with great love. Let yourself merge in union with the guru's mind, which is your enlightened Buddha-nature. This is the way to practice guru yoga.
The Practice
After the nine breaths, still seated in meditation posture, visualize the master above and in front of you. This should not be a flat, two dimensional picture-let a real being exist there, in three dimensions, made of light, pure, and with a strong presence that affects the feeling in your body,your energy, and your mind. Generate strong devotion and reflect on the great gift of the teachings and the tremendous good fortune you enjoy in having made a connection to them. Offer a sincere prayer, asking that your negativities and obscurations be removed, that your positive qualities develop, and that you accomplish dream yoga.
Then imagine receiving blessings from the master in the form of three colored lights that stream from his or her three wisdom doors- of body, speech, and mind-into yours. The lights should be transmitted in the following sequence: White light streams from the master's brow chakra into yours, purifying and relaxing your entire body and physical dimension. Then red light streams from the master's throat chakra into yours, purifying and relaxing your energetic dimension. Finally, blue light streams from the master's heart chakra into yours, purifying and relaxing your mind.
When the lights enter your body, feel them. Let your body, energy, and mind relax, suffused inwisdom light. Use your imagination to make the blessing real in your full experience, in your body and energy as well as in the images in your mind.
After receiving the blessing, imagine the master dissolving into light that enters your heart and resides there as your innermost essence. Imagine that you dissolve into that light, and remain inpure awareness, rigpa.
There are more elaborate instructions for guru yoga that can involve prostrations, offerings, gestures, mantras, and more complicated visualizations, but the essence of the practice is mingling your mind with the mind of the master, which is pure, non-dual awareness. Guru yoga can be done any time during the day; the more often the better. Many masters say that of all the practices it is guru yoga that is the most important. It confers the blessings of the lineage and can open and soften the heart and quiet the unruly mind. To completely accomplish guru yoga is to accomplish the path.
~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep, [T3],#KEYS
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1:The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 2:I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 3:Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 4:Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun. ~ geoffrey-chaucer, @wisdomtrove 5:Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 6:Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 7:I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 8:Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 9:If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 10:Wandering in many a coral grove, / Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry! ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 11:If I had nine of my fingers missing... I wouldn't type any slower. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 12:Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 13:You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 14:Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove 15:Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 16:Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 17:One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 18:In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 19:Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 20:No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 21:Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 22:I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 23:Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 24:It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 25:Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 26:One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 27:In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 28:How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches! ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 29:Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 30:I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 31:I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 32:Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 33:Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 34:Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 35:The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 36:If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 37:I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 38:He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 39:Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 40:They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 41:Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 42:Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~ kin-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 43:Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 44:At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 45:Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 46:I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 47:Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 48:Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 49:I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 50:The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 51:Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 52:In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 53:I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 54:There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 55:Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining complete victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 56:Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 57:The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 58:We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 59:It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 60:Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term “exist” nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 61:In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 62:I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 63:There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 64:The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 65:What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 66:I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 67:Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 68:I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 69:The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 70:The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and √Üons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles! ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 71:The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 72:A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 73:Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 74:The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 75:If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 76:During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 77:Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 78:Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 79:People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 80:The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 81:If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 82:Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 83:The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 84:Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 85:Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 86:It may be that & 87:Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 88:She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 89:Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 90:The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 91:I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 92:You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees! ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 93:Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 94:At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 95:Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 96:Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 97:We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 98:For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 99:Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 100:The number-one killer in this country is heart disease. And the majority of people suffer their first major heart attack on Monday morning between eight and nine. That is the time, of course, when most people are getting ready to go to jobs that they don’t like, jobs that are making them sick. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 101:All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 102:Those three things - autonomy, complexity and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether our work fulfills us. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 103:The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon& 104:I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 105:At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgement of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 106:And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: & 107:The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 108:Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 109:Did you ever notice, when you are sitting at a red light, that when the person in front of you pulls up a couple of inches, you are compelled to move up too? Do we really think we are making progress toward our destination? "Whew, I thought we would be late, but now that I am nine inches closer, I can stop for coffee and a danish!" ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 110:The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 111:To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 112:To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what’s ten years? Well, it’s roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 113:Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 114:To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 115:There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest - whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories - comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer. ~ albert-camus, @wisdomtrove 116:Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 117:Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 118:To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 119:In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a clich√©, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 120:The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 121:Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this& 122:It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 123:It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call accumulative advantage. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 124:The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 125:The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in his looks he is careful to be kind, in his manner to be respectful, in his words to be sincere, in his work to be diligent. When in doubt he is careful to ask for information; when angry he has a care for the consequences; and when he sees a chance for gain, he thinks carefully whether the pursuits of it would be right. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 126:Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar. This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 127:No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 128:Now we the American working population Hate the fact that eight hours a day Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us. And we may not hate our jobs, But we hate jobs in general That don't have to do with fighting our own causes. We the American working population Hate the nine-to-five, day-in day-out When we'd rather be supporting ourselves By being paid to perfect the pastimes That we have harbored based solely on the fact That it makes us smile if it sounds dope. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 129:A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [... ] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it... materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 130:The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . . The nobler sort of man pays special attention to nine points. He is anxious to see clearly, to hear distinctly, to be kindly in his looks, respectful in his demeanor, conscientious in his speech, earnest in his affairs. When in doubt, he is careful to inquire; when in anger, he thinks of the consequences; when offered an opportunity for gain, he thinks only of his duty. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 131:Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. ~ jesus-christ, @wisdomtrove 132:I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 133:Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 134:Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 135:To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 136:Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 137:The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 138:The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating …and you finish off as an orgasm. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:The Thirty-nine Steps. ~ Lynne Olson, #NFDB
2:Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer”– ~ S L Scott, #NFDB
3:Nine games? It's too long. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB
4:By turns the nine delight to sing ~ Homer, #NFDB
5:Let your poem be kept nine years. ~ Horace, #NFDB
6:Eight or nine men were present ~ John Brunner, #NFDB
7:I don't have a nine-to-five brain. ~ Jay Mohr, #NFDB
8:call nine-one-one, or something. ~ Sandra Hill, #NFDB
9:A Stitch in Time Saves Nine. ~ Andrew J Robinson, #NFDB
10:It’s nine o’clock in the morning. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
11:Number forty-nine has been mapped. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
12:Nine Men in Ten are Suicides. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
13:Nine men in ten are suicides. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
14:A woman hath nine lives like a cat. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
15:Eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-nine— ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
16:nine years earlier. Life was still ~ Alan Brennert, #NFDB
17:A Stitch in Time May save Nine. ~ Andrew J Robinson, #NFDB
18:It takes nine tailors to make a man. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
19:Like a cat I have nine times to die. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
20:Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: ~ Plato, #NFDB
21:Each ton was about nine hundred kilos. ~ Aleron Kong, #NFDB
22:I was a cheerleader for nine years. ~ Betsey Johnson, #NFDB
23:Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to ~ Eminem, #NFDB
24:Nine-year-olds were terrifying creatures. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
25:Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting. ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
26:The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine. ~ Ernie Banks, #NFDB
27:I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop. ~ Axl Rose, #NFDB
28:CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE Losing the Light ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
29:Nine people can't make a baby in a month. ~ Fred Brooks, #NFDB
30:there was such a thing as ice-nine. And ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
31:I'm living a life. I have nine children. ~ Stevie Wonder, #NFDB
32:I've been playing the drums since age nine. ~ Bill Berry, #NFDB
33:Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink. ~ Gene Ween, #NFDB
34:Obsessions are nine tenths of my flaws. ~ Atticus Poetry, #NFDB
35:skipped the rest of the way to Room Nine. ~ Barbara Park, #NFDB
36:Success is ninety-nine percent failure. ~ Soichiro Honda, #NFDB
37:disconnected. It was nearly nine o’clock ~ Wayne Stinnett, #NFDB
38:I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
39:I'm in bed by nine. Let's get on with it. ~ Jason Bateman, #NFDB
40:I've been singing since I was nine or ten. ~ Kelli O Hara, #NFDB
41:The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
42:We are the zero point nine nine percent! ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
43:I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
44:It was called Nine Gates Mystery School. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
45:I've got a nine iron that says otherwise. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
46:Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun. ~ Andrew Niccol, #NFDB
47:I come from a very big family. Nine parents. ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB
48:Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ~ Anatole France, #NFDB
49:Hell’s fire, I was in all nine circles here. ~ Ashlan Thomas, #NFDB
50:TWENTY-NINE We Are Falafel-Jacked by an Eagle ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
51:eight, nine kilometers—more than halfway! ~ Michael D O Brien, #NFDB
52:I’m going to kill them all - Stanley aka Nine ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
53:I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life. ~ Tea Leoni, #NFDB
54:I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
55:Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
56:We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm. ~ John Entwistle, #NFDB
57:A foot on the neck is nine points of the law. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
58:I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
59:My mission was to multiply twenty-four times nine. ~ Wendy Mass, #NFDB
60:My son is about ninety nine percent of my life. ~ Casey Neistat, #NFDB
61:Nine, now eight. Are the rest of you out there? ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
62:This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
63:Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
64:You and I, we'll be together 'til the six is nine. ~ Rick James, #NFDB
65:A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
66:Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
67:for every mile the feet go
the heart goes nine ~ E E Cummings,#NFDB
68:glanced at nine-year-old Micah, who poked at his ~ Debra Holland, #NFDB
69:I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine. ~ Assata Shakur, #NFDB
70:Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. ~ Jon Bon Jovi, #NFDB
71:Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole. ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
72:Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
73:For each ten coins I put in, to spend but nine. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB
74:I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates. ~ Scott Hamilton, #NFDB
75:Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors. ~ Peter Mullan, #NFDB
76:nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-six ~ Katherine Applegate, #NFDB
77:THE JOURNEY FROM PLATFORM NINE AND THREE-QUARTERS H ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
78:A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
79:And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years. ~ Connie Willis, #NFDB
80:Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10. ~ Susy Clemens, #NFDB
81:Nine-tenths of human law is about possession. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
82:Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive ~ Jay Z, #NFDB
83:Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal. ~ E J Gold, #NFDB
84:Well we got nine and you can't score more than that ~ Bobby Robson, #NFDB
85:I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old. ~ Ewan McGregor, #NFDB
86:Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
87:The French, on average, sleep nine hours a day. ~ Mireille Guiliano, #NFDB
88:Each year, we throw up another nine billion tons ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
89:get into Zeus Bar. Kaktus. Kaktus at nine.” “But ~ Bret Easton Ellis, #NFDB
90:Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
91:he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true. ~ Robert Ferrigno, #NFDB
92:I’m like a cat. I swear I have
nine lives ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,#NFDB
93:Impossibly (A Dante’s Nine MC Novel) by Colleen Masters. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
94:Melrose Diner, South Philly, tomorrow at nine A.M. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
95:Only Celts would use nine letters to make one sound. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
96:woman is beaten every nine seconds in this country. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
97:half-life of a startup VP of Sales is about nine months ~ Steve Blank, #NFDB
98:I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. ~ Shelley Winters, #NFDB
99:Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
100:The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters Harry ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
101:The most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true. ~ Robert Ferrigno, #NFDB
102:A woman is beaten every nine seconds in this country. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
103:If nine planets in this universe can align, why can’t we? ~ Megan Hart, #NFDB
104:I go to bed early; my favorite dream comes on at nine. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
105:Jest becuz I’m nine, don’t mean I’m a stupid little kid. ~ Moira Young, #NFDB
106:Paris is a pen-and-ink drawing before nine o’clock. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald, #NFDB
107:What in the actual hell of all nine circles of Hell was this? ~ J Lynn, #NFDB
108:I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
109:Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
110:most, even at my young age of nine and twenty, and the ~ Ashley Gardner, #NFDB
111:My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow, #NFDB
112:You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall. ~ Mark Lawrenson, #NFDB
113:Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation. ~ Jimmy Carr, #NFDB
114:He nodded. “The original Johnny Cash or Nine Inch Nails?” I ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
115:Mina felt as if she were on cloud nine and three-quarters, ~ Chanda Hahn, #NFDB
116:I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under ~ Snoop Dogg, #NFDB
117:Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
118:Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day. ~ Roddy Doyle, #NFDB
119:Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is the paperwork. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
120:Of our nine planets, Saturn is the one that looks like fun. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
121:Relationships are nine parts intuition, one part madness. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
122:saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth ~ John Maynard Keynes, #NFDB
123:...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months ~ Margaret Chan, #NFDB
124:Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
125:nine times out of ten, romance is a problem, not a solution. ~ Chuck Hogan, #NFDB
126:Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
127:To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ~ Francis Marion Crawford, #NFDB
128:We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year. ~ George Shearing, #NFDB
129:Within reach of his hand, the Bloody-Nine was master. The ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
130:You know how I know you're a fighter? You called a ten a nine. ~ John Green, #NFDB
131:I think I was about nine years old when I got my first job. ~ Tyler Hoechlin, #NFDB
132:Possession is nine-tenths of the law. ~ William Murray 1st Earl of Mansfield, #NFDB
133:A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time. ~ Ray Davies, #NFDB
134:Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
135:I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
136:Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
137:every measure of talent brings with it nine measures of work. ~ Naomi Alderman, #NFDB
138:I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna. ~ Big Pun, #NFDB
139:In fact that's Swindon's first win of any kind in nine matches ~ David Coleman, #NFDB
140:It’s nine o’clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is? ~ Elle Varner, #NFDB
141:Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative. ~ Harold Geneen, #NFDB
142:She would never be without support. Sierra was nine months sober. ~ Robyn Carr, #NFDB
143:What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking? ~ Sebastian Barry, #NFDB
144:Crocodiles. I’ve been catching them since I was nine. No problem. ~ Steve Irwin, #NFDB
145:Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
146:I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine. ~ Samuel Larsen, #NFDB
147:If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower. ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
148:I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10. ~ Jennifer Lawrence, #NFDB
149:Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
150:She was about to have her lady junk stretched nine ways to Sunday. ~ Lola Stark, #NFDB
151:Six? Here?" he says.
Six, here. Seven, eight, nine, anywhere. ~ Deb Caletti,#NFDB
152:Hurt’.” He nodded. “The original Johnny Cash or Nine Inch Nails?” I ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
153:I’m not John or Nine,” Six said. “I don’t play well with others. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
154:I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story. ~ Lana Del Rey, #NFDB
155:I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
156:Lord, cat. Announce yourself next time. I don’t have no nine lives. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
157:Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything. ~ David Ogilvy, #NFDB
158:Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. ~ E O Wilson, #NFDB
159:Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with ~ Patricia Stephens Due, #NFDB
160:The end of my nine o’clocks was another anchor in time gone. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
161:I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails. ~ Nat Wolff, #NFDB
162:I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school. ~ Vanessa Lachey, #NFDB
163:My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy. ~ Erykah Badu, #NFDB
164:Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One! ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
165:The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions. ~ Paul Samuelson, #NFDB
166:Will you want me just as much when I’m fifteen feet nine inches? ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
167:A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. ~ Henry Fielding, #NFDB
168:Honey, live like you got to live. Chuck Berry, nineteen sixty-nine. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
169:I learned that I was right and everyone else wrong when I was nine. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
170:I’m fucking twenty-nine years old. Could be a long life, you know? ~ Loretta Nyhan, #NFDB
171:Megan and Marty’s nine-month-old daughter with a mop of red curls. ~ Maggie Sefton, #NFDB
172:Nine out of ten children get their awesomeness from their mother. ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
173:Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me. ~ M F Husain, #NFDB
174:Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails. ~ Ray Davies, #NFDB
175:The nine of us being together is more important than anything else. ~ Kim Hyo yeon, #NFDB
176:Delilah Darling. I’m twenty-nine years old, I’m single, and well…I’m ~ Karyn Bosnak, #NFDB
177:I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting. ~ Scott Putesky, #NFDB
178:It would take a human nine years to walk from the Earth to the moon. ~ Warren Ellis, #NFDB
179:Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
180:Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine). ~ Dizzy Dean, #NFDB
181:Million-to-one chances,’ she said, ‘crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
182:Million-to-one chances,” she said, “crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
183:Nine herons stand like flowers in the canal beside the coking plant. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
184:Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things. ~ Patricia C Wrede, #NFDB
185:The devil will tell you nine truths, so that you’ll believe one lie. ~ Shannon Mayer, #NFDB
186:You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine. ~ Cyndi Lauper, #NFDB
187:A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born. ~ T Berry Brazelton, #NFDB
188:Capps earned over nine million last year and paid a pittance in taxes. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
189:did you just say 'gee whiz' to me? what am I, nine? I am a woman- ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
190:I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB
191:I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing. ~ Beyonce Knowles, #NFDB
192:Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here. ~ Lenny Kravitz, #NFDB
193:People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
194:This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
195:Very specifically, Nickelodeon is aimed at eight- and nine-year-olds. ~ Kyle Dunnigan, #NFDB
196:We just stood there, facing each other, but nine floors apart. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
197:Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup. ~ Maggie Shipstead, #NFDB
198:Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
199:I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk. ~ Elena Kagan, #NFDB
200:I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten. ~ Sam Elliott, #NFDB
201:No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. ~ Eric Sevareid, #NFDB
202:Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
203:To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. ~ John Churton Collins, #NFDB
204:You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
205:You know what they say: a woman was made with nine measures of talk. ~ Sholom Aleichem, #NFDB
206:Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ~ Jonathan Sacks, #NFDB
207:I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine. ~ Ben Affleck, #NFDB
208:Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials. ~ Justin Long, #NFDB
209:Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war! ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
210:Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
211:We can only shine the brightest as SNSD when we stand on one stage as nine. ~ Kwon Yuri, #NFDB
212:In all, a total of nine Democrats would throw their hats into the ring. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
213:Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude. ~ Bikram Choudhury, #NFDB
214:Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
215:Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
216:When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
217:Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration, ~ William Poundstone, #NFDB
218:Give it some gas, Six, damn,’ Nine complains. ‘Drive it like we stole it. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
219:Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
220:Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
221:The trial was over in nine days, the verdict a foregone conclusion. ~ Matthew FitzSimmons, #NFDB
222:You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
223:I just take the train from platform nine and three-quarters," - Harry Potter ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
224:My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my father. ~ Kris Kidd, #NFDB
225:Nine out of ten Afghan women will experience domestic abuse in some form, ~ Jenny Nordberg, #NFDB
226:Nine years ago, I watched my mother die like this. I cheer myself hoarse. ~ Catherine Egan, #NFDB
227:Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds. ~ Kate Adie, #NFDB
228:One psycho for every nine stable people in the company is a good ratio. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
229:We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
230:A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels. ~ Caryl Chessman, #NFDB
231:Birthing takes nine months, and dying takes you all the rest of your life. ~ Leigh Brackett, #NFDB
232:I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. ~ Nadine Gordimer, #NFDB
233:In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
234:In response, Nine punches him right in the face. Because of course he does. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
235:I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open. ~ Nancy Kerrigan, #NFDB
236:Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil. ~ Sophia Dembling, #NFDB
237:Nine-tenths of every attack is bluff. The art is to know when to call it. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
238:When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
239:At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. ~ Noel Redding, #NFDB
240:I was nine months old the first time Mamaw saw my mother put Pepsi in my bottle. ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
241:Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. ~ Horace, #NFDB
242:One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
243:baseball caps, some LEDs, wiring, two nine-volt batteries, and a green laser. ~ Leopoldo Gout, #NFDB
244:Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I'll take the Glock. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
245:In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
246:I think you're a dangerous, corrupt, lying piece of nine-day-old mosquito shit. ~ Hugh Laurie, #NFDB
247:There sat a twelve-foot-long, nine-thousand-pound bomb called Little Boy. ~ Laura Hillenbrand, #NFDB
248:To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. ~ Jesse Owens, #NFDB
249:Where in the nine hells did you ever find the notion that I would fight fair? ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
250:Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains! ~ Matsuo Basho, #NFDB
251:He cut nine hairs out of the mole on her head for luck and went off happy ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
252:I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice. ~ Becky Chambers, #NFDB
253:In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
254:I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles. ~ Kim Alexis, #NFDB
255:Kill me?' The Bloody-Nine laughed louder than ever. 'I do the killing, fool! ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
256:Ninety-nine years old and batting her eyelashes like a Chi O at a KA mixer. ~ Mary Kay Andrews, #NFDB
257:She sighed. “All men are the same.” “So are all women—after the first nine. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
258:The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. ~ Fred Brooks, #NFDB
259:The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue. ~ Steve Irwin, #NFDB
260:There's nothing like being admonished by a nine-year-old ecoterrorist in training. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
261:For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell. ~ Mark Bradford, #NFDB
262:If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one. ~ Jack Ma, #NFDB
263:If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts. ~ Saint Ambrose of Milan, #NFDB
264:I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
265:I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover. ~ Vincent Kartheiser, #NFDB
266:There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
267:was nine when she passed. The last thing she told us was Be good to one another. ~ Louis Bayard, #NFDB
268:you’re nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
269:Artists in Times of War The Bomb Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB
270:nine times out of ten they filling your head up with shit ‘cause they want what you have. ~ Shan, #NFDB
271:Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect. ~ David Hasselhoff, #NFDB
272:Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
273:Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
274:Yes," I said. "My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
275:I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine. ~ Elvis Presley, #NFDB
276:I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point. ~ Gloria Estefan, #NFDB
277:The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years. ~ Michael Caine, #NFDB
278:A guy is supposed to put you on cloud nine and help you forget about your problems. ~ Portia Moore, #NFDB
279:And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
280:And she knew someone was behind her even before the hand fell on her shoulder. NINE ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
281:hundred and eighty-nine, and expertise in weaponry.” “And you speak oddly.” Knowing ~ Kathryn Shay, #NFDB
282:Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century. ~ C P Snow, #NFDB
283:Oh, my God! Get out of the car or I’ll call nine-one-one. Dude, what is your problem? ~ John Green, #NFDB
284:The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world. ~ Sebastian Coe, #NFDB
285:The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. ~ Rob Portman, #NFDB
286:Think you have nine lives...Do you? I saved you once...Dont make me save you again.. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
287:Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days XIX. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
288:We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it? ~ Charles Duke, #NFDB
289:In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. ~ George Bancroft, #NFDB
290:I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet. ~ Shirley Geok lin Lim, #NFDB
291:Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
292:she reached fifty-nine, she felt Tanner’s arm relax and loosen his possessive hold. ~ Fern Michaels, #NFDB
293:The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. ~ Brian Ferneyhough, #NFDB
294:The quarry will be armed with a nine-millimeter Glock featuring a ten-round magazine. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
295:There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
296:Think you have nine lives, do you? I saved you once.... don't make me save you again. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
297:This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me. ~ Abhinav Bindra, #NFDB
298:When I was nine—before I grew up and became a scientist—I thought I knew everything, ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
299:When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up. ~ Ice Cube, #NFDB
300:A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. —Earl Wilson ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
301:I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice. ~ Richard Griffiths, #NFDB
302:I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
303:I perform my job ten times a day. Seven days a week. For nine years. You do the math. ~ Anne Tibbets, #NFDB
304:No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
305:Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds. ~ Star Jones, #NFDB
306:A lizard fucks a crab and nine months later a turtle pops out. It's called evolution. ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB
307:Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten. ~ Clint Walker, #NFDB
308:Arsenal means every thing to me. I've been here since I was nine and I love the Club. ~ Jack Wilshere, #NFDB
309:I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
310:Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. ~ Horace Walpole, #NFDB
311:and waited to feel as if I had really started living. Nine months on I was still waiting. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
312:Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine. ~ Betty Comden, #NFDB
313:I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates. ~ Bob Graham, #NFDB
314:I’d always hoped that love would be enough. Otherwise it’s just a Nine Inch Nails song. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
315:I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
316:I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change. ~ Katy Perry, #NFDB
317:Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
318:Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think. ~ Jack Welch, #NFDB
319:No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten PM on the second Saturdays. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
320:One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
321:Thirty-three. You?” Salena asked. “Thirty-six. You put us together and you get sixty-nine. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
322:By the summer I turned nine Daddy had given up about having a boy. He tried making me do. ~ Karen Hesse, #NFDB
323:Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine? ~ Clive James, #NFDB
324:(his house at Stowe, in Buckinghamshire, had nine of the first flush toilets in England), ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
325:I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife. ~ Morgan Freeman, #NFDB
326:My doctor said I had OCD. I couldn't believe it. I had to call him nine times to make sure. ~ Judy Gold, #NFDB
327:My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep ~ Thom Yorke, #NFDB
328:Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie. ~ Im Yoona, #NFDB
329:Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
330:You think a man doesn't fall down, son? A real man falls down nine times and gets up ten. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
331:A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
332:Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth. ~ Kalki Krishnamurthy, #NFDB
333:I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
334:I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine. ~ David Cross, #NFDB
335:In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine... ~ Celia Rees, #NFDB
336:It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
337:Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals. ~ Michael Azerrad, #NFDB
338:That’s kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so OK. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
339:The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. ~ Frederick P Brooks Jr, #NFDB
340:Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
341:A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. ~ Henri Fr d ric Amiel, #NFDB
342:A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
343:in the US you’re nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
344:It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character. ~ Dolph Lundgren, #NFDB
345:I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots! ~ Michael Landon, #NFDB
346:I was in like nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger. ~ Jessica Stroup, #NFDB
347:Maybe answers are found not in observing but in doing. Doing the right thing" -Eva Nine ~ Tony DiTerlizzi, #NFDB
348:Nine runs to the bad, doomed, insanely hopeful, they pleaded raucously for the impossible. ~ Roger Angell, #NFDB
349:Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
350:Ronan, who had spent nine hundred dollars on a tattoo merely to piss off his brother. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
351:The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
352:This, with Nine, is downright nuclear. And any second, we’re both going to fucking explode. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
353:Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
354:You scared the life out of me."
"Good thing cats have nine lives, then," she teased. ~ Carrie Ann Ryan,#NFDB
355:Discount all praise by nine-tenths, since a king draws flatterers as offal does flies. ~ L Sprague de Camp, #NFDB
356:Do you know what nine words can make your mind explode? “I need to rub one out. Do you mind? ~ Dan Skinner, #NFDB
357:It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
358:It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
359:I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family. ~ Jerry Lawler, #NFDB
360:I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up. ~ Matthew McConaughey, #NFDB
361:Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister. ~ Bruce Willis, #NFDB
362:Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy. ~ Brian Blessed, #NFDB
363:That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
364:the Messenger of God consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old’. ~ Nick Cohen, #NFDB
365:Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys
Entry Nine
Observation #1: Boys suck. ~ Kate Brian,#NFDB
366:Get your news from six or nine sources and you can usually tell the bullshit from the reality. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
367:I was an officer at twenty-nine, when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was still in effect.” Dominic’s ~ Megan Erickson, #NFDB
368:I was not even looking, but my Caddy pinged me with twenty-nine points of convergence ~ Charlie Jane Anders, #NFDB
369:I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor. ~ Simon Callow, #NFDB
370:Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed ~ Douglas MacArthur, #NFDB
371:Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
372:Please keep all dicks less than nine inches away from this pussy, because the bar has been set. ~ J Daniels, #NFDB
373:Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them. ~ Richie Havens, #NFDB
374:I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
375:I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine. ~ Allison Mack, #NFDB
376:I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn? ~ John Hart, #NFDB
377:In the nine years I’d known Snake, this was the first time I’d heard him reference Star Wars. ~ Project Itoh, #NFDB
378:it would only take one dummy to kill us all, and we had four hundred and ninety-nine to spare. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
379:I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. ~ Peter De Vries, #NFDB
380:One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
381:Please don’t misunderstand me. I’m as peaceful as Siddhartha, ninety-nine percent of the time. ~ Aubrey Dark, #NFDB
382:Thomas Edison said, “Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
383:We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory. ~ Marianne Moore, #NFDB
384:We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well. ~ Alan Jay Lerner, #NFDB
385:When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it. ~ Ansel Elgort, #NFDB
386:Couldn’t thirty-nine-year-olds just be old and tired and not talk about it constantly? Having ~ Doree Shafrir, #NFDB
387:Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball. ~ Chuck Dressen, #NFDB
388:Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
389:If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
390:I was feeling nine ways at once, and they all ended up at the touch of her hand on my ear... ~ Jerry Spinelli, #NFDB
391:Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
392:And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan, #NFDB
393:At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance ~ Tom Holt, #NFDB
394:children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
395:For Stephen, London was less a city that never slept, more a city that got a good nine hours. ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
396:I have been in my domain for nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days. Alone. For ~ Katherine Applegate, #NFDB
397:I have to have dinner with my mother at nine and after that I won't be fit for human society. ~ Mary Gaitskill, #NFDB
398:I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball ~ Brady Anderson, #NFDB
399:In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
400:Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
401:Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence. ~ Paolo Giordano, #NFDB
402:The conscious mind is only one-tenth, and the unconscious mind is nine times bigger than the conscious. ~ Osho, #NFDB
403:There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby. ~ Jenna Dewan, #NFDB
404:And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart. ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan, #NFDB
405:I never complain that I'm tired, because I know as soon as I get a good nine hours' sleep, I'm cool. ~ Jessie J, #NFDB
406:It is incredible what kind of mess I can make
with a nine-hour drive and an unanswered text. ~ Andrea Gibson,#NFDB
407:It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school. ~ John Bright, #NFDB
408:I was exhausted from fake partying. I was like, "I just danced for nine hours. Goodnight, ladies!" ~ Mila Kunis, #NFDB
409:On January 9, 1863, nine days after Lincoln ended slavery by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, ~ Doug Most, #NFDB
410:Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
411:There’s nine times more to gain by elevating positive customers than by eliminating negative ones. ~ Chip Heath, #NFDB
412:Where in the Nine Hells did you ever get the notion I would fight fair?"
Drizzt Do'Urden ~ R A Salvatore,#NFDB
413:I have a pretty normal office day. I get to work at 10 in the morning and leave at eight or nine. ~ Pedro Winter, #NFDB
414:In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl. ~ Sylvester Stallone, #NFDB
415:It consisted of nine levels, with docking facilities that could handle almost ten thousand ships, ~ Mike Resnick, #NFDB
416:I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today. ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
417:Probably not great to call a nine-year-old a prostitute," Mira said.
"Fine. Filthy whore, then. ~ Kate Scelsa,#NFDB
418:The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young. ~ Paul Dickson, #NFDB
419:Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent. ~ Noel Gallagher, #NFDB
420:If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
421:If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
422:My longest relationship was nine days, and even I know that you don’t keep shit from your bird. But ~ Lucy Parker, #NFDB
423:Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing. ~ Linda Ronstadt, #NFDB
424:The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
425:A good thrashing is what’s needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often? ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
426:But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
427:College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come. ~ Dan Rather, #NFDB
428:If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
429:I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. ~ Matt Dillon, #NFDB
430:I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space. ~ Peter Diamandis, #NFDB
431:I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out ~ William Hurt, #NFDB
432:Just fancy! He is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
433:My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
434:Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.” R. Buckminster-Fuller (1895–1983) ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
435:Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. ~ Donna Leon, #NFDB
436:The children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
437:Where in the nine hells did you ever find the notion that I would fight fair?”
-Drizzt Do'Urden ~ R A Salvatore,#NFDB
438:Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
439:I almost feel guilty. The physical toll is tremendous. Im exhausted and I only played nine innings. ~ Lance Berkman, #NFDB
440:I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
441:I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. ~ Ringo Starr, #NFDB
442:I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact. ~ Joan Collins, #NFDB
443:It’s where my mother hopes to read classic novels again one day when she isn’t working nine days a week, ~ A S King, #NFDB
444:I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs. ~ Ryan Tedder, #NFDB
445:Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference. ~ Brenda Strong, #NFDB
446:Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you. ~ Ford Madox Ford, #NFDB
447:Or we fear terrorists more than the police, even though in the US you’re nine times more likely to ~ Bruce Schneier, #NFDB
448:The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
449:What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!" "Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
450:From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine. ~ Nostradamus, #NFDB
451:I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine... more like cloud ten... cloud nine was old news. ~ Darren Criss, #NFDB
452:I would rather be broke and do something I love, than be wealthy working a nine-to-five job any day. ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
453:One cannot be exploited or thwarted from nine to five, then come home and feel loving and lovable. ~ Daniel Berrigan, #NFDB
454:One universe, nine planets, 204 countries, 809 islands and 7 seas, and I had the privilege of meeting you. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
455:There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
456:The ultimate success of a product or service is 10 percent product quality and 90 percent sales. Nine ~ Darren Hardy, #NFDB
457:thousand seven hundred and nine to one against. By a totally staggering coincidence that is also the ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
458:What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
459:I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
460:Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ~ George Washington Carver, #NFDB
461:nine weeks after giving birth to a son, she ran the Wasatch and breastfed her baby at the aid stations. ~ Scott Jurek, #NFDB
462:Remember in all society nine girls out of ten marry for money and nine men out of ten are fools. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
463:She was right off that scale, stranger; hurricane force nine was a gentle breeze where she came from. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
464:Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine. Nine ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
465:There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat. ~ Vita Sackville West, #NFDB
466:I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
467:I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of. ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
468:I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
469:Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
470:Most of these first nine chapters prepare the ground for, and then introduce, the notion of surplus value. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
471:Twenty percent of the workforce is already at suboptimal productivity in the current nine-to-five model. ~ John Medina, #NFDB
472:What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!"
"Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
473:Anna would say that she was a cat like Gemma, with nine lives to spend, all nine precious and delicious. ~ Beth Kephart, #NFDB
474:But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin. ~ Heidi Baker, #NFDB
475:I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground. ~ Dave Navarro, #NFDB
476:I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
477:Siberia was only cold three months out of the year: June, July, and August. The other nine were very cold. ~ Tim Tigner, #NFDB
478:Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/…No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you. ~ Sizzla, #NFDB
479:The compartment built to ‘seat 8 passengers; 4 British Troops, or 6 Indian Troops’ now carried only nine. ~ R K Narayan, #NFDB
480:The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
481:Can you get me home by nine?" His grin widened. "Isolde, my friend, I can get you back by quarter 'til. ~ Rachel Hawkins, #NFDB
482:I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep. ~ Philip Johnson, #NFDB
483:I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love. ~ Diana Gabaldon, #NFDB
484:I’m not sure nine o’clock in the morning is ready for how fabulous your ass looks in those fake pants. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
485:Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine. ~ Francis Ford Coppola, #NFDB
486:Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. ~ Adolf Galland, #NFDB
487:She gestured to the piano. It was a nine-foot Steinway. Because seven-foot Steinways are for posers. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
488:There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office. ~ Robin Thicke, #NFDB
489:Two, four, six, eight—Welfare rations come too late. Three, five, seven, nine—Medicare is still behind. ~ Harry Harrison, #NFDB
490:why your friends who opted to take nondescript nine-to-five jobs after college were actually the smart ones. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
491:You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
492:I had been on cloud nine all day until that point. But the higher your cloud, the farther your rain falls. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
493:Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
494:So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence. ~ Satish Kumar, #NFDB
495:The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action ~ Chester Barnard, #NFDB
496:What would it have been for you?” said Ron, sniggering. “A piece of homework that only got nine out of ten? ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
497:You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
498:You know, if it took a normal adult human male nine months to have an orgasm, maybe he’d finally get it. ~ Michael Bishop, #NFDB
499:God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
500:I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old. ~ Alanis Morissette, #NFDB
501:I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company. ~ Carly Fiorina, #NFDB
502:Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone. ~ Georgette Mosbacher, #NFDB
503:She had nine hundred thirty-one viewers at the moment. Another sixty-nine, and sponsorships would kick in. ~ Will McIntosh, #NFDB
504:Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
505:the snow of twenty-nine wasn't real snow. If you didn't want it to be snow, you just paid some money. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
506:Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall! ~ Danny Kaye, #NFDB
507:Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
508:Around nine thirty, but Natalie was still reading a book on her Kindle when I fell asleep thirty minutes later. ~ T R Ragan, #NFDB
509:Have you always loved yourself this much?”
“I had an awkward year in ‘ninety-nine, but I got over it quick. ~ K A Tucker,#NFDB
510:IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE NINE OF US. We left when we were young, almost too young to remember. Almost. I ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
511:It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
512:Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
513:She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her! ~ Gloria Estefan, #NFDB
514:The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
515:Thrice to thine and thrice to mine and thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! The charm’s wound up. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
516:To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege. ~ Mark Teixeira, #NFDB
517:Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible. ~ Molly Ringle, #NFDB
518:China had more than 160 cities with populations over a million, where the United States had exactly nine. I ~ Matthew Mather, #NFDB
519:Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
520:If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
521:I got a vibrator that needed two nine volt batteries. What am I - R2D2? I don't know what to do with that. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
522:I missed nine years.” With trembling hands, he held me, his anguish apparent, and I could hold back no longer. ~ A L Jackson, #NFDB
523:It’s ironic. At last I have my freedom. But at a price. Now my destiny is mine to choose. - Stanley aka Nine ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
524:It was as if Strawberry Shortcake fucked Winston Churchill, and nine months later, Shannon Walsh was born. ~ Kate Canterbary, #NFDB
525:More than just a captive whale, Shamu—nine years old, just a child really, when she died—had become a brand. ~ John Hargrove, #NFDB
526:Most Krakau massed less than the average human. They were roughly tube-shaped, with nine tentacles—arms—limbs? ~ Jim C Hines, #NFDB
527:of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
528:whose one hundred and twenty-nine homilies are still extant, if what no one reads may be said to be extant.] ~ Edward Gibbon, #NFDB
529:I don't know, I'm kinda busy. I've got a pity party scheduled for eight o'clock followed by wallowing at nine. ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
530:I hear Nine make an oohing noise off to the side and make a mental note to destroy him the next chance I get. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
531:Life teaches me a hundred things every day, and I forget ninety-nine of them, sometimes all hundred of them. ~ Kiran Nagarkar, #NFDB
532:Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist. ~ Emmanuelle Chriqui, #NFDB
533:The gross size of all bank derivatives positions now exceeds $650 trillion, more than nine times global GDP. ~ James Rickards, #NFDB
534:When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much. ~ Peter Mayhew, #NFDB
535:You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine. ~ Justin Halpern, #NFDB
536:My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter. ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
537:Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that. ~ Matthew Perry, #NFDB
538:Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. ~ Willie Nelson, #NFDB
539:Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine. ~ Shirley Geok lin Lim, #NFDB
540:Out of the Mercury Seven, the New Nine, and the Fourteen space families, only seven couples would stay together. ~ Lily Koppel, #NFDB
541:What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five. ~ Amanda Donohoe, #NFDB
542:As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. ~ Mary Augusta Ward, #NFDB
543:Chapter One In Which We Learn of the Village of Wall, and of the Curious Thing That Occurs There Every Nine Years ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
544:... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
545:He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine inches deep into the beams of our minds. ~ Chigozie Obioma, #NFDB
546:He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine-inches deep into the beams of our minds. ~ Chigozie Obioma, #NFDB
547:I try my best to stay healthy, but I have the appetite of a nine-year-old boy, so I just pay for it in workouts. ~ Italia Ricci, #NFDB
548:It’s how you treat the one that reveals how you regard the ninety-nine, because everyone is ultimately a one. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
549:I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods. ~ Tina Ambani, #NFDB
550:Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
551:Mr. Pappleworth arrived, chewing a chlorodyne gum, at about twenty to nine, when all the other men were at work. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
552:Nine are killed instantly. One of them still clutching the hand of bridge he was playing when the shell struck. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
553:Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
554:Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. ~ Thornton Wilder, #NFDB
555:She imagined herself at age nine, running through these very halls, crying out to her older self across the years. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
556:She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue.
But no, she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth. ~ J R Ward,#NFDB
557:The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion. ~ John Maynard Keynes, #NFDB
558:Thirteen years, one night.
Nine months. One small baby will deliver true love.
I can't wait to see you. ~ Lori L Otto,#NFDB
559:You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
560:At twenty-nine, life no longer held any brightness for him, but Voltaire supplied him with man-made wings. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
561:He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
562:I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
563:My whole life, you have made decisions for me."
"Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years. ~ Sarah MacLean,#NFDB
564:Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves. ~ Mark Batterson, #NFDB
565:Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
566:Nine years. I’ve been waiting nine years for this. Nine years to finally have you the way I’ve always needed you. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
567:There’s no point in me going to mixers and getting attached to people when I’m only going to be there nine months. * ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
568:They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
569:You go on ahead. I’d rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds’ urine. ~ Justin Halpern, #NFDB
570:For nine more nights they trained, after an arduous day’s march, Vaelin would try to turn a poet into a swordsman. ~ Anthony Ryan, #NFDB
571:I got down there about nine, under a hard high October moon that lost itself in the top layers of a beach fog. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
572:I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip. ~ Marco Rubio, #NFDB
573:The Patrician was not a man you shook a finger at unless you wanted to end up being able to count only to nine. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
574:When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
575:At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity. ~ Rankin, #NFDB
576:Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love. ~ Tim O Brien, #NFDB
577:I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life. ~ Sean Patrick Flanery, #NFDB
578:I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. ~ Billy Wilder, #NFDB
579:I'll take you thinking I'm your angel but you need to know you're my hero. Twenty-nine years, I held out for you. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
580:It’s been a long day.” “It’s only nine in the morning.” Myron said, “For what breeds time but two hands on a clock? ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
581:Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
582:Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind. ~ Elvis Presley, #NFDB
583:Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
584:ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don’t criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
585:The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
586:...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone. ~ Paul Hoffman, #NFDB
587:There have been times I've been out, and my phone battery is at nine percent, and I was like, 'Time to go home.' ~ Hannibal Buress, #NFDB
588:Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
589:What had been left of the eighty-nine people aboard hadn’t looked much different from a Hamburger Helper casserole. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
590:You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
591:You obliterated ninety-nine percent of humanity. Now you want the last one percent to save your ass. That’s rich. ~ Vaughn Heppner, #NFDB
592:You think people never say what they mean. The truth is, nine times out of ten what they say is all they mean. ~ Zia Haider Rahman, #NFDB
593:A stitch in time saves nine. The early bird catches the worm. Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today. ~ Robert C Martin, #NFDB
594:A year in Vermont, according to an old saw, is "nine months of winter followed by three months of very poor sledding. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
595:I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at nine o’clock every morning.” ~ S J Scott William Faulkner ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
596:I spent nine years trying not to have any expressions, trying to be my sister. Now I can't smile, not even if I want to. ~ Otsuichi, #NFDB
597:It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August - the most terrible August in the history of the world. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
598:Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
599:Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
600:Nine SPEAKING IN TONGUES The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1 ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
601:... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty. ~ John Boyne, #NFDB
602:The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times. ~ Kingsley Amis, #NFDB
603:We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves. ~ Joshua Ferris, #NFDB
604:When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. ~ Martin Garrix, #NFDB
605:When last we left our heroine (us), she was nine years old and about to stuff her gob with a chocolate digestive. ~ Daniel O Malley, #NFDB
606:and she had been unable to have any. So by 1955, after nine years of marriage, they were looking to adopt a child. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
607:At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
608:Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
609:I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies. ~ Charles Ferguson, #NFDB
610:I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
611:I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
612:I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful. ~ Harold Ramis, #NFDB
613:Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the full dollar. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
614:Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that. ~ Don Hertzfeldt, #NFDB
615:Respect Whats Mine.
Know Not To Cross That Line.
I Won't Have To Get Out Of Line and Clap You With My Nine .... ~ Erick S Gray,#NFDB
616:It was hoped we might have two lives—the way cats are said to have nine. This life we ruined, and another, for after. ~ Nova Ren Suma, #NFDB
617:ninety- nine times out of a hundred, people don’t criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be. C ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
618:We spend nine months in a nurturing darkness before we're born, and we aspire to the highest of all places when we die. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
619:An artisan busies himself with his work for three hours each day and spends nine hours in study. ~ Maimonides, Mishneh Torah (c. 1180), #NFDB
620:And for every woman killed in the United States from domestic violence homicide, nearly nine are almost killed. ~ Rachel Louise Snyder, #NFDB
621:But if she'd realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would have come down here. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
622:Detective work is ninety-nine percent boring and one percent the kind of excitement no one should ever experience. ~ Marshall Thornton, #NFDB
623:Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
624:(Don't like my take? Go read Surahs Eight and Nine. Skip One. It's superceded by Mohammed's own directives in Surah Six.) ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
625:I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
626:If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight? ~ Peter Greenaway, #NFDB
627:Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. ~ Claudine Guerin de Tencin, #NFDB
628:Please please please. I am twenty-nine. I don’t want to be thirty, forty, fifty and at war with myself, day after day. ~ Hannah Howard, #NFDB
629:Seinfeld told his writers that nine was his lucky number, so he just had to go out with his ninth season. ~ Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, #NFDB
630:She's there for me.
And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart. ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan,#NFDB
631:The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
632:Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month. ~ Wernher von Braun, #NFDB
633:I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it. ~ Brian Eno, #NFDB
634:If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
635:In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten. ~ Peter Lynch, #NFDB
636:As the years went by, I gradually discovered that ninety-nine per cent of the things I worried about never happened. For ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
637:Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent. ~ William H Macy, #NFDB
638:Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
639:If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
640:I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. ~ Henry Addington 1st Viscount Sidmouth, #NFDB
641:it is a fact that eleven million Africans were forcibly carried abroad, more than nine million of them to the Americas. ~ Bernard Bailyn, #NFDB
642:I turned toward his army. It was now roughly one hundred and ninety-nine to one. I did the natural thing. I charged them. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
643:Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards. ~ Theodore Dreiser, #NFDB
644:Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
645:Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
646:To inculcate Catholicism in the mind of the child until it is nine years of age is to ruin it forever for any other idea, ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
647:When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster. ~ Boris Karloff, #NFDB
648:A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
649:As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort. ~ John Caudwell, #NFDB
650:But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure. ~ Owen Wister, #NFDB
651:I am afraid, monsieur, you will have to kill me first, and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock. ~ Rafael Sabatini, #NFDB
652:I don't know how I got to be thirty. I don't feel thirty, the way I felt so definitely nine, and thirteen, and twenty-one. ~ Rachel Khong, #NFDB
653:I turned towards his army. It was now roughly one hundred and ninety-nine to one. I did the natural thing. I charged them. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
654:Love is not a real-world limit: the mother of nine children can love each of them as much as the mother of an only child. ~ Dossie Easton, #NFDB
655:Nine hundred years,” he murmured, his gaze rising to her face. “And you are the most beautiful
thing I’ve ever seen. ~ Victoria Davies,#NFDB
656:Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
657:Some things are just sitting there, waiting to be discovered. Other things are probably better off left alone’ Nine-year-old ~ John Boyne, #NFDB
658:This, my students, was the first cure I did discover for my lean purse: For each ten coins I put in, to spend but nine. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB
659:Why is it so morning right now?” Ree asked. “It’s already half-nine, Ree.” “I roll to disbelieve. Come back to bed. ~ Michael R Underwood, #NFDB
660:You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke. ~ Bernie Mac, #NFDB
661:Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer. ~ Janusz Korwin Mikke, #NFDB
662:everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows. ~ Barry Hughart, #NFDB
663:If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
664:It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine. ~ William Wyler, #NFDB
665:It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out. ~ Tim Pawlenty, #NFDB
666:I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it. ~ Patrick Macnee, #NFDB
667:Real love still happens sometimes. It's not just something we make up when you're nine. I have to believe that. You do too. ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
668:Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them. ~ Rick Moody, #NFDB
669:Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. ~ Daniel Libeskind, #NFDB
670:A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
671:Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. ~ William Feather, #NFDB
672:France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century. ~ Raoul Dufy, #NFDB
673:I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role. ~ Tab Hunter, #NFDB
674:It's rotten that every bit of real love in the world is ninety-nine percent passion and one little soupcon of jealousy ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
675:I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind. ~ Cyndi Lauper, #NFDB
676:Long story short – the sixty-nine position doesn’t work. You both get too turned on to keep going. It’s a beautiful failure. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
677:Night was falling across the trampled rye. Nine thousand men had been killed or wounded in the fight for the crossroads, ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
678:Nine times out of ten, the coarse word is the word that condemns an evil and the refined word the word that excuses it. G. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB
679:She told me when they share the bed, it’s platonic and they sleep foot to head. I think what she really means is sixty-nine. ~ Vivian Arend, #NFDB
680:Sometimes Fox thought all the men she knew had the dreams and wishes of nine-year-old boys—at least all the men she liked. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
681:Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
682:We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. ~ John Lubbock, #NFDB
683:been finished. A month after the launch, Alan Atlas recalled, it crashed for nine hours, and hardly anyone in the outside world ~ Brad Stone, #NFDB
684:Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ~ Joseph Epstein, #NFDB
685:From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old. ~ Joan Larkin, #NFDB
686:His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
687:I like to go see a ball game. I'll have seven, eight, nine - 10 beers, and the second inning will roll around, and I gotta go. ~ Doug Benson, #NFDB
688:Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. ~ William Graham Sumner, #NFDB
689:Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
690:Pinky and me. We are friends, I think." Lance laughed again. "This is too funny. I haven't played pretend since I was nine. ~ Brenda Barrett, #NFDB
691:Daughter," said the Hermit, "I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never met any such thing as Luck. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
692:I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born! ~ David Copperfield, #NFDB
693:I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him! ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
694:If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else. ~ William Feather, #NFDB
695:I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened. ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB
696:I know how birth control works, big brother, and—spoiler alert—putting a wrapper on the banana is ninety-nine percent effective. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
697:I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again. ~ Michael Franti, #NFDB
698:Never forget the nine most important words of any family-
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr,#NFDB
699:Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels. ~ Geoff Dyer, #NFDB
700:Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. —George Washington Carver scientist ~ Kathryn Petras, #NFDB
701:The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
702:Thursday night at nine o’clock. Be my plus one? My fingers hovered above the screen for only a moment. Yes. LIBERTY ~ Santino Hassell, #NFDB
703:Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi, #NFDB
704:By the age of nine, I felt like a plant, constantly being repotted without enough time for my roots to recover, ever weakening. ~ Sasha Martin, #NFDB
705:Consider the logistics of a god who has eight arms and three penises coupling with a goddess who has four arms and nine vaginas. ~ Steve Perry, #NFDB
706:If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home. ~ Fannie Flagg, #NFDB
707:Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
708:Only fifty-nine percent of our voters demonstrated a level of comprehension high enough to vote on the issue,” Iloona said. ~ Randolph Lalonde, #NFDB
709:The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
710:Whenever I hear about parents who have nine or ten children, the only thing I wonder is how they survive the birthday parties. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
711:Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
712:And if you wake me before nine in the morning again, I'll pate your liver and have it with my breakfast. Now get out. - Millie ~ Kerrigan Byrne, #NFDB
713:Besides making change in the collection plate every Sunday, Mr. Avery sat on the porch every night until nine o’clock and sneezed. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
714:But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I’d feel myself a failure. ~ Johnston McCulley, #NFDB
715:If you tell someone ten times that you don’t want to talk to him, you are talking to them—nine more times than you wanted to. ~ Gavin de Becker, #NFDB
716:Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times. ~ Leslie Mann, #NFDB
717:The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums. ~ Brian May, #NFDB
718:TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie. ~ Warren Ellis, #NFDB
719:You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months. ~ Vaclav Smil, #NFDB
720:A group of drunk college students skirt around us. Seriously, how are they already drunk? It’s like nine on a Tuesday. I’m jealous. ~ A R Kahler, #NFDB
721:I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
722:I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job. ~ Nigel Barker, #NFDB
723:I suppose you'd have ten wives if you could."
"I'd be sufficiently miserable with one. The other nine would be redundant. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
724:On Waterslides “You go on ahead. I’d rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds’ urine. ~ Justin Halpern, #NFDB
725:I'll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine. ~ Bruce Lansky, #NFDB
726:just longitude and latitude. Thirty-seven degrees, fifty-six minutes north by one hundred seven degrees, forty-nine minutes west. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
727:Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
728:Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
729:The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts. ~ Lisa Kessler, #NFDB
730:You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
731:You carry a human being around for nine months and see how well your memory does.” Lorelei looked at Snow. “Did she just curse me? ~ Terri Osburn, #NFDB
732:You need to know, I'd go fifty-nine more. What ever it takes to let you win I'd retreat all over and all over and all over again ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
733:Bush presided over more executions in Texas than any other governor in the state’s history, averaging one death every nine days. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
734:He is eight or nine years old now—a good age, my favorite age, old enough to know the world yet young enough to still delight in it. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
735:Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
736:Ninety-nine percent of humanity had had something done to their brains, and only a few people in the world knew exactly what. • ~ Scott Westerfeld, #NFDB
737:Rennie’s people got regular breaks, footrests, English lessons, and nine bucks an hour to start. There was almost no turnover. Quinn ~ Monica Wood, #NFDB
738:Unit Nine is far away from the other units, with enough chain link and razor wire around it to stop Ike on the beaches of Normandy. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
739:Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want to talk to. ~ Julie James, #NFDB
740:Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she’s still the only person I want to talk to. ~ Julie James, #NFDB
741:Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'." (Talitha) ~ Helen Fielding, #NFDB
742:I can't cohabitate with rodents." She pauses. That's a lie. I've lived with Loren for nine months, but I draw the line right here. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
743:I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet. ~ Greg LeMond, #NFDB
744:I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
745:It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was...perfect. ~ Sarah Ockler, #NFDB
746:Mr. Colbert said in a statement: “I have nine months to make a show, just like a baby. So first, I should find out how you make a baby. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
747:Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest! ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
748:Ruth Bader Ginsburg “People ask me sometimes, ‘When will there be enough women on the court?’ and my answer is, ‘When there are nine.’ ~ Sam Maggs, #NFDB
749:That was the hottest moment I’ve had in nine years. We’ll go as fast or slow as you want. I can wait. Even if it takes another nine. ~ Devney Perry, #NFDB
750:The Federalist Papers ran to eighty-five essays, with fifty-one attributed to Hamilton, twenty-nine to Madison, and only five to Jay. ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
751:About Daniel: Two, he hates Clay
*
Five, he really hates Clay.
*
Nine, he really, really, REALLY hates Clay. ~ Kelley Armstrong,#NFDB
752:But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. You are a leader, Eva Nine. A hero. And you are my WondLa" -Rovender ~ Tony DiTerlizzi, #NFDB
753:Chief Electrician Bill Cliber, who worked on nine transitions, said that the Clintons’ arrival was by far the most difficult. ~ Kate Andersen Brower, #NFDB
754:Have you had your first baby yet? I might have one myself, once they find a way for the man to carry it around the first nine months. ~ Joe Haldeman, #NFDB
755:I always joke that I'd like to be a cat 'cause then I'll have nine lives, and then I can do like everything. But that's really hard. ~ Tavi Gevinson, #NFDB
756:I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year. ~ Jens Lekman, #NFDB
757:Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it’s going to pass through nine murder victims. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
758:That is to say, nine dead beavers in a line on the sand. There was something decorative about this, but also ominous or forbidding. ~ Patrick deWitt, #NFDB
759:the world’s post-war population was always back up to pre-war numbers within nine months—nine fun months—of soldiers returning home. ~ Chris Dietzel, #NFDB
760:Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
761:Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you. ~ Tom Hardy, #NFDB
762:We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way. ~ Andrew McCutchen, #NFDB
763:Why are you so unhappy? Because ninety-nine percent of what you think, And everything you do, Is for your self, And there isn’t one. ~ Peter M Senge, #NFDB
764:You know who they are?” Tony said softly. “I could maybe give nine guesses. And twelve of them would be right.” (I'll be waiting) ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
765:A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
766:I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
767:I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo. ~ Jack Nicholson, #NFDB
768:I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
769:I thought Ireland was the land of one thousand welcomes.” – Willa.
“I’m knocking it down to nine-hundred ninety nine.” – Shane. ~ Tessa Bailey,#NFDB
770:It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song. ~ Sammy Hagar, #NFDB
771:Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States. ~ Carolyn Maloney, #NFDB
772:Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it. ~ Masashi Kishimoto, #NFDB
773:The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
774:Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one. ~ Wei Wu Wei, #NFDB
775:I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
776:I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats. ~ Frank Tuttle, #NFDB
777:I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid. ~ David Salle, #NFDB
778:I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education ~ John Locke, #NFDB
779:I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour! ~ Lauren Hutton, #NFDB
780:Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others. ~ Harold S Kushner, #NFDB
781:The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract. ~ Stephen Gaghan, #NFDB
782:think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead? ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
783:For string theory to make sense, the universe should have nine spacial dimensions and one time dimension, for a total of ten dimensions. ~ Brian Greene, #NFDB
784:I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it. ~ Gemma Chan, #NFDB
785:I want to be married too,” said the plump little princeling, who was all of nine. “I’m taller than my uncle!” “I know you are,” said Sansa, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
786:Richard’s clenched hands fell to his sides. He turned and walked into the study, carrying his balls on a nine-carat-gold dinner plate. ~ Angela Marsons, #NFDB
787:These forty-nine God-inspired Old Testament books divided into four sections—books of the Law, of History, of Wisdom, and of Prophecy—which ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
788:When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right. ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
789:I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
790:I don't have the ability to do a nine-to-five nor do I have the desire to. Stand-up is the only thing that's come completely naturally to me. ~ Jay Mohr, #NFDB
791:Inside was a ten-digit keypad. A combination lock. One through nine, plus zero, laid out like a telephone. A possible 3,628,800 variants. It ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
792:I think if you have something that you really love to do, you're already ahead of ninety-nine percent of the people out there in the world. ~ Jeanne Ray, #NFDB
793:I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
794:Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick? ~ Sandra Lee, #NFDB
795:That trout lay shattered into a thousand fragments - I say a thousand, but they may only have been nine hundred. I did not count them. ~ Jerome K Jerome, #NFDB
796:There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages. ~ Louise Fresco, #NFDB
797:Well, he told me you were a flirt who would try and get me into bed, but damn, I didn’t realise you’d start before nine in the morning. ~ Kirsty Moseley, #NFDB
798:When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now." ~ Sammy Hagar, #NFDB
799:When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
800:Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen ~ Cecil Rhodes, #NFDB
801:Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese. ~ David Tang, #NFDB
802:Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers. ~ Hugh Hefner, #NFDB
803:I’ll be fine. Just maybe we shouldn’t talk about the possible rape and murder of my nine-year-old sister while we’re in a moving vehicle. ~ Toni Anderson, #NFDB
804:In the United States, 59 percent of young people ages eighteen to twenty-nine with a Christian background have dropped out of church. ~ Rachel Held Evans, #NFDB
805:I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since. ~ DJ Ashba, #NFDB
806:I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million. ~ Steve Case, #NFDB
807:Ronald Reagan used to say that the nine scariest words in the English language were ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help. ~ Christopher Buckley, #NFDB
808:There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
809:Thirty-Four The Third Day Thirty-Five Thirty-Six Thirty-Seven Thirty-Eight Thirty-Nine Forty Forty-One Forty-Two Forty-Three Forty-Four ~ Mark Billingham, #NFDB
810:Wants to set the world on fire, and if it can't happen by tomorrow morning at nine a.m., then life's just unfair and hardly worth living. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
811:When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
812:I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing? ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
813:I have nine different weapons concealed on my body right now. Would you like to choose the one I use to shoot you in the face? Or should i? ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
814:Plus, I've seen two of the Nine naked today. Nice bit of eye candy for a woman with a ferocious sweet tooth and no way to satisfy it. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
815:She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
816:..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
817:We almost always can point to that hundredth blow, but we don't always mark the ninety-nine other things that happen before we change. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
818:We almost always can point to that hundredth blow, but we don’t always mark the ninety-nine other things that happen before we change. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
819:Wrongly chosen, wrongly slain, A hero Valhalla cannot contain. Nine days hence the sun must go east, Ere Sword of Summer unbinds the beast. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
820:You are just as annoyingly cocky as you were nine years ago.”
“Yes,” Kyle’s gaze fell to her lips. “And we both know how that turned out. ~ Julie James,#NFDB
821:From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out. ~ Bruce Dern, #NFDB
822:I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember. ~ Brett Favre, #NFDB
823:You do realize Kingsley is forty-five, yes?” “I told them,” Nora said. “Age is only a number,” Angie said. “So is sixty-nine,” Maxine said. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
824:You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
825:At last the spring thaw came, and graves were laboriously prepared for the nine silent harvests of the grim reaper which waited in the tomb. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
826:Endured a lecture on the Nine Worlds given by some fossilized thane named Snorti. (Might be Snorri? So boring, I almost started snorri-ing….) ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
827:If you listen to old Jerry Lee Lewis records, he'll always - about nine times out of 10 have the lyrics different than the original record is. ~ Chris Isaak, #NFDB
828:I had a plan ever since I was nine years old, when I said "Mama, I'm a buy you a nice house and pretty dresses." That was the plan, that was my goal. ~ Mr T, #NFDB
829:I've about had it with flying," he grumbled, switching off the plane's systems, "It's ninety-nine percent boring and one percent sheer terror. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
830:I’ve heard that nature abhors a vacuum—though if that’s true, then I can’t figure why about ninety-nine zillion percent of creation is vacuum. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
831:Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
832:The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
833:Twenty-nine years old and on her third masters degree because she’s afraid to go out and meet the world. Sad, isn’t it?” Mal sighed. “Tragic. ~ James Ellroy, #NFDB
834:Whatcha reading?” “A new Kurtherian Gambit book, released this morning. I think it’s number nine thousand or something. I’ve read them all. ~ Craig Martelle, #NFDB
835:You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
836:Bayaz chuckled. “The Bloody-Nine, scared of shadows? I’d never have believed it.” “Every shadow’s cast by something,” growled the Northman, ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
837:Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules! ~ Jim Carrey, #NFDB
838:he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details? ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
839:If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB
840:I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days. ~ Francis Ford Coppola, #NFDB
841:I’m hitting the sack”
“Are you twenty-nine or sixty-nine?”
The devilish dimples appeared. “Twenty-nine with a sixty-nine waiting at home ~ Cherrie Lynn,#NFDB
842:In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
843:No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
844:The minivan sounded like Sasquatch singing Ninety-Nine Bottles of beer on the wall after drinking ninety-nine bottles of beer- not pretty. ~ Rachel Higginson, #NFDB
845:When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her. ~ Orlando Bloom, #NFDB
846:Fifteen!" Dess's distant cry reached him. "Where the hell are you, Rex? Ten. You're-an-idiot-nine, get-back-here-eight, you-dimwit-seven... ~ Scott Westerfeld, #NFDB
847:I can tell you is all nine of the people here [on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
848:I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
849:I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12 ~ January Jones, #NFDB
850:Indeed, it has been suggested that there isn’t a single bit of any of us – not so much as a stray molecule – that was part of us nine years ago. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
851:In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West. ~ Sugata Mitra, #NFDB
852:In September 1942, a B-17 crashed in the Pacific, stranding nine men on a raft. Within a few days, one had died and the rest had gone mad. ~ Laura Hillenbrand, #NFDB
853:worldliness, which is a homicidal attitude. Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the person! It kills the Church! PART NINE ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
854:But my darling was as frail as a bird. She died nine days later. After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled. Although ~ Sara Gruen, #NFDB
855:I'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because I have an inability to do a nine-to-five. ~ Jay Mohr, #NFDB
856:I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ~ Randall Jarrell, #NFDB
857:The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons. ~ Edna Ferber, #NFDB
858:Today, only around 20 percent of Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine are wed,4 compared to the nearly 60 percent in 1960. ~ Rebecca Traister, #NFDB
859:forty-nine thousand Jews in Italy at the time of the Nazi invasion, some forty-one thousand evaded arrest or survived the concentration camps. ~ Mark T Sullivan, #NFDB
860:Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine. ~ Fernando Sabino, #NFDB
861:In six years the Nazis had killed approximately two-thirds of the nine and a half million Jews living in Europe, as well as millions of non-Jews. ~ Wendy Holden, #NFDB
862:It wasn't my most fashionable dress, but anyone who called for me at nine o-clock in the bloody morning would have to take what he was given. ~ Alyxandra Harvey, #NFDB
863:"I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird." ~ Eddie Izzard, #NFDB
864:Nine out of ten times in the House of Representatives, and eight out of ten times in the Senate, the candidate who spends the most money wins. ~ Peter Schweizer, #NFDB
865:Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining complete victory. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
866:FOLK SAYINGS: “Nine wise men don’t make a minyan, but ten cobblers do.” “Nine saints do not make a minyan, but one ordinary man can by joining them. ~ Leo Rosten, #NFDB
867:Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga takes them down to a nine. That's me. ~ Jen Kirkman, #NFDB
868:His proximity in time to the mixing event makes it possible to obtain a more accurate date of fifty-four thousand to forty-nine thousand years ago. ~ David Reich, #NFDB
869:I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
870:I got my dog three years ago because I was drunk in a pet store. We had nine cats at the time. The cats started hiding the alcohol after that. ~ Paula Poundstone, #NFDB
871:It was almost nine o’clock. The witching hour, the time the teenaged boys trickled back to the house from wherever they’d hung out during the day. ~ CeeCee James, #NFDB
872:Maybe it all went back to the days when games were decided, not by the best score in nine innings, but by the first team to score twenty-one runs ~ Robert Coover, #NFDB
873:Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
874:Okay, now I was ninety-nine percent sure I’d grown a pussy and actually contemplated going to the restroom to check that my dong was still intact. And ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
875:There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
876:The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
877:The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
878:The tree too thick to embrace
emerges from a seedling.
A nine-storey tower rises from a brick.
A thousand-mile journey begins under your feet. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB
879:I’m a man of the world, and all that means is I understand what powers the world. The fuel mix is one part high-octane to nine parts pure bullshit. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
880:I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous. ~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, #NFDB
881:It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last.
Because, finally, she was his. ~ Julie James,#NFDB
882:I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with. ~ Peter Jackson, #NFDB
883:Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present. He was a genius undisciplined by diligence. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
884:Never greet a devil till you meet one or cross a bridge before you've reached it. Ten times out of nine, thing aren't as bad as we fear them to be. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
885:What the hell, man?” Dawson exploded, hands flying up. “I was on level sixty-nine of Candy Crush, you bastard. Do you know how hard that—? ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
886:You are the most contrary man I ever met. If someone handed you a glass of free beer that was nine-tenths full, you’d cry over the missing tenth. ~ Stephen Hunter, #NFDB
887:By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
888:Herpo the Foul’s Basilisk is believed to have lived for close on nine hundred years. The creation of Basilisks has been illegal since medieval times, ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
889:He says, his voice low and rough, “Nine years. I’ve been waiting nine years for this. Nine years to finally have you the way I’ve always needed you. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
890:I reckon it was always going to happen, one way or another. She wasn't made right for this world. She'd been running away from it since she was nine. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
891:Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous. ~ Claude Monet, #NFDB
892:We did sixty-nine that night. Larry went on top so he didn’t get squished. He’s really good at sucking dick. I wondered if he’d got exams in that too. ~ J L Merrow, #NFDB
893:we fear terrorists more than the police, even though in the US you’re nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist. ~ Bruce Schneier, #NFDB
894:We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
895:Who passed Wall Street deregulation that enabled the meltdown of Wall Street and the disappearance of nine million jobs, the theft of 5 million homes? ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
896:Almost ninety nine percent of relationships break because at least one of the two shows dishonesty – in whatever form or degree – towards it. ~ Novoneel Chakraborty, #NFDB
897:If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on? ~ William Whiting Borden, #NFDB
898:If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level? ~ Warren Farrell, #NFDB
899:I got so schooled this year.
By a nine year old.
He taught me that it's okay to live life
a little backwards. ~ Colleen Hoover,#NFDB
900:It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million."
"How many words are in the English language?"
"Not the point. ~ Sandy Hall,#NFDB
901:I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there. ~ Floyd Mayweather Jr, #NFDB
902:Spending the next nine hours with a crying woman wal real close to the top of his "Avoid at All Costs" list right under untimely death and a desk job. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
903:The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training. ~ Diana Vreeland, #NFDB
904:There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
905:Wales smiled sadly. “Dig, dig, clear every little detail, that’s a detective’s life. A crime is like an iceberg, one-tenth showing and nine-tenths hidden. ~ Ed Lacy, #NFDB
906:All you need do is nod. I already know nine parts in ten of what he will say, but it is like fishing. Be patient, and you will get what you came for. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
907:Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home. ~ Gene Cernan, #NFDB
908:And I had nine years to sort out how I feel about you... nine years. It's not impulsive to want to be with you, Daisy. If anything, it's long overdue. ~ Katy Regnery, #NFDB
909:He was keeping his pants zipped, which actually wasn’t as hard as it seemed, even after he’d gone for well over nine months without getting laid. ~ Suzanne Brockmann, #NFDB
910:I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun. ~ Wavy Gravy, #NFDB
911:I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked. ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
912:So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine. ~ Rene Auberjonois, #NFDB
913:The inconspicuous nine-vehicle motorcade rolled toward Manhattan with motorcycle sirens blaring and lights flashing, attracting no attention at all. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
914:Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play. ~ Claudia Christian, #NFDB
915:Before the Second World War, more than nine million Jews were living in Europe, most of them in lands that were or had been part of the Russian Empire. ~ Masha Gessen, #NFDB
916:certain that a chemist on analyzing and pharmacopolizing it, as Rabelais says, would find it composed of one part interest to nine parts of self-esteem. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
917:I’m feeling generous. We’ll make it sixty-nine thousand. I just love writing 69s. I’ll even put that in the memo. For sixty-nining your beautiful son. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
918:It was nine forty-five. I had Myrt’s designer goggles dangling from one finger. Amy held out her hand. “I’ll take vet duty if I can borrow the Subaru. ~ Maggie Shayne, #NFDB
919:Or we fear terrorists more than the police, even though in the US you’re nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist. ~ Bruce Schneier, #NFDB
920:Perhaps it’s the return of Saturn. Every twenty-nine years the planet returns to the same point in the sky that it occupied at the moment of our birth. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
921:Since he’d shared, I felt compelled to give him something. “‘Hurt’.” He nodded. “The original Johnny Cash or Nine Inch Nails?” I smiled. “Johnny. Always. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
922:The historian Will Durant calculated that there have only been twenty-nine years in all of human history during which a war was not underway somewhere. ~ Chris Hedges, #NFDB
923:The Neck Cracker said, “Who are you?” again. Matt would not risk it. He sighed and took out his camera phone. “I’m Bob Smiley, Channel Nine News.” That ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
924:There’s 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that. ~ Shane L Koyczan, #NFDB
925:Well, let's see: I started [in music] at nine and quit. Then got back to it when I was twelve. Then I became a party star. In fact, I became a party! ~ Richard Manuel, #NFDB
926:With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life. ~ David Suzuki, #NFDB
927:All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore. ~ Isla Fisher, #NFDB
928:a Pew Research Center survey found that sharing household chores ranked third in importance on a list of nine items associated with successful marriages. ~ Jancee Dunn, #NFDB
929:Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
930:(from: Age Sixty-nine)
There is this circle I walk
that I have learned to love.
I hope one day to be a spiral
but to the birds I'm a circle. ~ Jim Harrison,#NFDB
931:I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old. ~ Mila Kunis, #NFDB
932:I’m not getting married. I plan to live a life of bachelorette-hood. I’ll be eccentric, have nine cats, and wear blue eye shadow and fur in the summer, ~ Jen Frederick, #NFDB
933:Is not it interesting that you had everything you needed in the first nine months, why is not that true for the next ninety years, because we interfere. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
934:I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way. ~ Carly Fiorina, #NFDB
935:I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
936:Nine good men fell to the Questing Beast that night. The officers would all be awarded the SpecOps Star for ‘Conspicuous bravery in the face of Other’. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
937:Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store-rooms. There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
938:We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them. ~ Paul Ince, #NFDB
939:As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank. ~ Dean Norris, #NFDB
940:If you drive at precisely twenty-nine miles per hour, the rumble strips play ‘Jerusalem’ on the car tires. Listen.” Mary slowed to the correct speed and ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
941:If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
942:I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into. ~ Cassie Steele, #NFDB
943:I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago. ~ Rand Beers, #NFDB
944:Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
945:Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked out by about 15 psychiatrists. ~ Martin O Neill, #NFDB
946:By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy. ~ Jason Bateman, #NFDB
947:Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month. ~ Theodore von Karman, #NFDB
948:I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
949:I exhale slowly, ten, nine, eight... counting backwards without meaning to, but it feels better than counting up, because at one it will be over, right? ~ Laura Lascarso, #NFDB
950:Of the thirteen currently recognized vitamins, four are fat-soluble (vitamins A, D, E, and K) and nine are water-soluble (eight B vitamins and vitamin C). ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
951:We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction. ~ Andrew Niccol, #NFDB
952:When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. ~ Paul Merton, #NFDB
953:After thirty-nine years of being alive, I had forgiven my own parents for not knowing how to care for a child, but that was the depth of my forgiveness. ~ Gary Shteyngart, #NFDB
954:Do you even remember how many people you've killed, Eliana?"
…
"Eighty-seven," she whispered as the gunshots continued. "Eighty-eight. Eighty-nine. ~ Claire Legrand,#NFDB
955:Eighty-nine percent of what people learn comes through visual stimulation, 10 percent through audible stimulation, and 1 percent through other senses. So ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
956:Name the nine prime fallacies,” he snapped. “Simplification. Generalization. Circularity. Reduction. Analogy. False causality. Semantism. Irrelevancy…. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
957:The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
958:Then sang forth the Nine,
Apollo’s garland:–yet didst thou divine
Such home-bred glory, that they cry’d in vain,
“Come hither, Sister of the Island! ~ John Keats,#NFDB
959:An intellectual rather than a rival alpha male, Gasol preferred opera to rap—he even read Roberto Bolaño’s nine-hundred-page novel “2666,” a gift from Jackson— ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
960:As far as I'm concerned, ninety-nine percent of surprises should be avoided at all cost. When I can prepare for something, I'm much better at handling it. ~ Jill Santopolo, #NFDB
961:Balder is not too keen on people who wear ties and work from nine to five. He prefers obsessive idiots who are glued to their computers all night long, ~ David Lagercrantz, #NFDB
962:But in the course of my wanderings I had the good fortune to save the ninth life of a tailor -- tailors having, like cats, nine lives, as you probably know. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
963:Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues. ~ Thomas Menino, #NFDB
964:I spent nine years living in a graveyard of dead dreams, pretending it was Cinderella's castle. If that's not sad enough to cry over, I don't know what is. ~ Shirlee McCoy, #NFDB
965:It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway. ~ Alice Sebold, #NFDB
966:I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
967:I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world. ~ Tony Bennett, #NFDB
968:I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life. ~ Bobby Moynihan, #NFDB
969:Nine people had died today. And it didn't matter what the FBI had thought of her actions. Her career as a negotiator had ended before it had even begun. ~ Elizabeth Heiter, #NFDB
970:The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton, #NFDB
971:before it even began to dawn upon me that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don’t criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
972:Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon. ~ John Hickenlooper, #NFDB
973:If you're into the brand and the heritage of the brand, you can always remember where you got your first Fred Perry Shirt, and for me I was nine years old ~ Bradley Wiggins, #NFDB
974:I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order. ~ Will Arnett, #NFDB
975:I said, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep. ~ Laura Bush, #NFDB
976:Pawn William Goode, after being disemboweled by a Grafter, haughtily re-emboweled himself and then backhanded his opponent, sending him flying nine miles. ~ Daniel O Malley, #NFDB
977:The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
978:The things that I'm talking about not knowing, they're not mysteries of the universe; it's just stuff I thought I would know by the time I was thirty-nine. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
979:Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life. ~ Maurice Herzog, #NFDB
980:We'd gone at it like jackrabbits the night before...hard and fast. This felt nine kinds of different. Relaxed, familiar, comfortable-scared me to my bones. ~ James Buchanan, #NFDB
981:What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
982:While it’s fun to be near someone interesting for occasional chats, being stuck next to a person who will not stop talking for nine hours is my idea of hell. ~ Scott Berkun, #NFDB
983:All right. Here’s the deal. You’re eight,” he said. “I’m nine,” I said. “Do I look like I carry an abacus with your name on it? Cut me some slack here, son. ~ Justin Halpern, #NFDB
984:I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit. ~ Clark Gregg, #NFDB
985:I just want to go down to the bar, listen to three beers’ worth of your problems, then claim that my stomach hurts so I can leave and get in bed before nine. ~ Samantha Irby, #NFDB
986:Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. ~ James A Garfield, #NFDB
987:The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
988:All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support. ~ Ferguson Jenkins, #NFDB
989:A mother has nine months to get used to sharing the space where her heart is; for a father it comes on sudden, like a storm that changes the landscape forever. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
990:I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for. ~ Michael Caine, #NFDB
991:I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.”
“Not even my balcony door?”
“Especially not your balcony door. ~ Anne Fortier,#NFDB
992:I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way. ~ Tom Cruise, #NFDB
993:In my game, there are a lot of nine-hour flights here, there, and everywhere for work, so I prefer to take a shorter plane journey somewhere hot - just for fun. ~ Katie Price, #NFDB
994:In the kitchen Enid dredged the Promethean meat in flour and laid it in a Westinghouse electric pan large enough to fry nine eggs in ticktacktoe formation. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
995:It's so good for your health to take those naps. I don't know why people brag that they sleep five hours. I'd be ashamed. I'm proud that I sleep nine hours. ~ Sandra Cisneros, #NFDB
996:It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days. ~ Alan Furst, #NFDB
997:Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness. ~ Aldo Leopold, #NFDB
998:The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
999:'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting. ~ Matthew Perry, #NFDB
1000:trying to win without consideration, plan, or clear goals had, in the course of the administration’s first nine months, resulted in almost nothing but losses. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
1001:We’re down to nine hours.” “Until?” Scout asked. The Keep was expressionless. “Something bad happens.” “Right,” Scout said, as if she completely understood. “Bad. ~ Bob Mayer, #NFDB
1002:We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1003:At nine, she had begun to see a truer picture of me than Polly could. She had begun to see what I saw—not beauty, but imperfections. I let her pull away from me. ~ Jan Ellison, #NFDB
1004:A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1005:For nine months I grew a human being inside my belly and then I pushed it out my vagina and now I'm feeding it with my boob. Biology is so fucking weird. ~ Heather B Armstrong, #NFDB
1006:Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it! ~ Andrew Aydin, #NFDB
1007:Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder. ~ Horace Greeley, #NFDB
1008:she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That’s how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane. ~ Peter Lovesey, #NFDB
1009:(Thirty-nine steps)' was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran—'(Thirty-nine steps, I counted them—high tide 10.17 p.m.)'. I could make nothing of that. ~ John Buchan, #NFDB
1010:Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day. ~ David R Ellis, #NFDB
1011:Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition. ~ Edwin Starr, #NFDB
1012:And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be. ~ Christian Bale, #NFDB
1013:[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman. ~ M F K Fisher, #NFDB
1014:Height - ours and our boyfriends - is a running contest between Lecia and me. If I tell her good news about myself, she's liable to say 'I'm five-nine' and hang up. ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB
1015:I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention. ~ Gemma Ward, #NFDB
1016:I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined. ~ Emilia Clarke, #NFDB
1017:In 2003 he wrote an article called “The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams”2 which is just as relevant to today’s digital teams as it was when originally written. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1018:Mom, Dad, Baby, they were three advanced people with three advanced degrees in psychology—they thought more before nine A.M. than most people thought all month. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1019:Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes of a rapacious civil war. ~ Nadeem Aslam, #NFDB
1020:On September 17, 1787, after almost four months of hard-fought battles, the convention ended when thirty-nine delegates from twelve states signed the Constitution ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
1021:The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations. ~ Molly Crabapple, #NFDB
1022:there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument – and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes. Nine ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1023:three. It’s also the sum of five prime numbers in a row—3, 5, 7, 11, 13. And if you add the first three powers of three, 31 plus 32 plus 33, you get thirty-nine. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1024:Whoever’d think, Mr. Wong, they could put nine hours and maybe ten of good, good darkness into such a tiny time-capsule, a gelatin spaceship bound for the stars. ~ Fritz Leiber, #NFDB
1025:You certainly don’t consider all the bipeds running around the street to be human beings merely because they walk upright and carry their young for nine months? ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1026:By nine, Mildred was powdered, puffed, perfumed, and patted to that state of semi-transparency that a woman seems to achieve when she is really dressed to go out. ~ James M Cain, #NFDB
1027:Eroom’s law—that’s Moore’s law backward—observes that the number of new drugs approved per billion dollars spent on R&D has halved every nine years since 1950. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1028:How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone. ~ Marlene Dietrich, #NFDB
1029:I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB
1030:It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1031:It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf. ~ Joshua Mohr, #NFDB
1032:The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten. ~ George Curzon 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, #NFDB
1033:Vicki shines with intelligence as brightly as with beauty, a clear open face, black eyes, and a smile that makes you see what she looked like as a nine-year-old. ~ Frances Mayes, #NFDB
1034:After four hundred and ninety-nine years of existence, Connor Buchanan arrived at an inescapable conclusion regarding himself. He was a coldhearted old bastard. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks, #NFDB
1035:Christian! His parents had nine months to to think of a name, and the best they came up with was Christian!? My parents had nine months and they didn't call me Jew! ~ Paul Heyman, #NFDB
1036:Get rid of the ego, observe all your actions as if they were another's, and you will avoid ninety-nine percent of the troubles that await you. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, 1.7, #NFDB
1037:If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability? ~ Michael Muhammad Knight, #NFDB
1038:... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish. ~ Elizabeth Bowen, #NFDB
1039:Meanwhile, we blew each other’s minds (and other parts) in our new bedroom last night. Then we passed out and slept for nine hours in our brand new king-sized bed. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
1040:Nobody nowadays, I must say, expects to be rescued from anything, once he or she is more than nine months old. That’s how long human childhood lasts nowadays. *** ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1041:The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band. ~ Lisa Loeb, #NFDB
1042:A tree too big to embrace
Is born from a slender shoot.
A nine-storey tower
Rises from a pile of earth.
A thousand-mile journey
Begins with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB
1043:Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
1044:I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping. ~ Stella McCartney, #NFDB
1045:In 1276, Peter of Spain was elected Pope John XXI, but he died just nine months later when the ceiling of his library suspiciously collapsed on him as he slept. ~ Christopher Ryan, #NFDB
1046:I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo. ~ Assata Shakur, #NFDB
1047:I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book. ~ Karen Thompson Walker, #NFDB
1048:Jake shrugged, in the way that only nine-year-old children can manage -- and usually male children at that, girls not being permitted the same kind of insouciance. ~ Marie Brennan, #NFDB
1049:Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. ~ T E Lawrence, #NFDB
1050:Ninety-nine percent of men are okay with following the rules and doing what they’re told. We’re the other one percent, so we built our own world with our own rules. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
1051:Being gay is only one small facet to the complex organism that is myself, and if you do like girls, it will be equally irrelevant to ninety-nine percent of your life. ~ Siera Maley, #NFDB
1052:Goodbye have always been as natural for us as silence, unspoken agreements between us nine time out of ten. There’s no I should go or look at the time. ~ Emily Henry, #NFDB
1053:I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face. ~ Gregory Nicotero, #NFDB
1054:It is quite possible that British Intelligence demanded that Babbage keep his work secret, thus providing them with a nine-year head start over the rest of the world. ~ Simon Singh, #NFDB
1055:Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell. ~ James Taylor, #NFDB
1056:Life teaches me a hundred things every day, and I forget ninety-nine of them, sometimes all hundred of them. I forgot once again never to take anything for granted ~ Kiran Nagarkar, #NFDB
1057:Of the nine American presidents who owned slaves—a list that includes his fellow Virginians Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe—only Washington set free all of his slaves. ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
1058:She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram, but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respectable mother of nine children on a small income. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1059:Something weird," Ben said. "You would think, with ninety-nine percent of us gone, the two percent would get along better."
Um, that would be one percent, Parish. ~ Rick Yancey,#NFDB
1060:A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
1061:Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to battle with nine orangutans."--Don Anacleto ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1062:If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1063:The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods. ~ Timothy Radcliffe, #NFDB
1064:They were prepared physically and mentally for war. They’d all had at least nine lives, and had the burns, the dents, the bullet holes and the knife wounds to prove it. ~ Andy McNab, #NFDB
1065:Working for the Clintons took the biggest physical toll on the perfectionist chef. They hosted twenty-nine state dinners during their time in the White House, ~ Kate Andersen Brower, #NFDB
1066:Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
1067:Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life. ~ Georgia May Jagger, #NFDB
1068:In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1069:Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties. ~ Robert Graves, #NFDB
1070:Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer... If one of those bottles should happen to fall, there'd be how many bottles of beer on the wall? ~ Lesley Kagen, #NFDB
1071:You’d think, given a planet nine-tenths covered in water and a solar system with no other habitable biospheres, that people would be careful with that real estate. ~ Richard K Morgan, #NFDB
1072:Eroom’s law—that’s Moore’s law backward—observes that the number of new drugs approved per billion dollars spent on R&D has halved every nine years since 1950. Since ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1073:her feel so amazing from a simple touch. She didn’t know whether she should feel satisfied or scared. Glancing at the clock on the wall, she saw that it was close to nine. ~ T K Leigh, #NFDB
1074:I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well. ~ Paul Tournier, #NFDB
1075:I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response. ~ Daniel Radcliffe, #NFDB
1076:I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta) Yeah, right. (Aiden) Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1077:My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York. ~ Larry King, #NFDB
1078:Nine floors underground. Ugh.
It seemed like a long way to travel for the little origins to get out, but then again, they were like baby Einsteins on crack. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,#NFDB
1079:Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan. ~ Tracy Austin, #NFDB
1080:Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB
1081:'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long! ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt, #NFDB
1082:When I first set out to ruin SNL, I didn't think anyone would notice, but I persevered because - like you trying to do a nine-piece jigsaw puzzle - it was a labour of love. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
1083:Because of feedback delays within complex systems, by the time a problem becomes apparent it may be unnecessarily difficult to solve. — A stitch in time saves nine. ~ Donella H Meadows, #NFDB
1084:For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications. ~ William Lipscomb, #NFDB
1085:I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts. ~ Ben Fountain, #NFDB
1086:It was too early for any of my friends to have come home.
Hell, it wasn't even nine yet, which meant it was probably also too early for a serial killer to pay a visit. ~ J Lynn,#NFDB
1087:I’ve fought single-headed dragons, double-headed, eight-headed, nine-headed, and the kind with so many heads that if you stopped to count them you’d be pretty much dead. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1088:I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition. ~ Sarah Sutton, #NFDB
1089:Joining the Pioneers is compulsory between the ages of nine and fourteen, but not everyone is accepted at the same time. First, there is a formidable test of memorizing: ~ Hyeonseo Lee, #NFDB
1090:Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1091:So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi, #NFDB
1092:The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous! ~ Roseanne Barr, #NFDB
1093:Today, 9 May, exactly forty-nine months and three days after the Fascist attack on Yugoslavia, the most powerful aggressive force in Europe, Germany, has capitulated. ~ Josip Broz Tito, #NFDB
1094:Do you not realize, Hastings, that each and everyone of us is a complete mystery with layers. We each try to judge each other, but nine times out of ten, we are wrong. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1095:I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on. ~ Melville Fuller, #NFDB
1096:Ninety-nine people out of a hundred, receiving a telegram reading /all is discovered: fly/, will snatch a toothbrush and make for the garage. (p. 227 of 300, chapter 19) ~ Josephine Tey, #NFDB
1097:The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. ~ Marcus Terentius Varro, #NFDB
1098:To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors. ~ Sandor Katz, #NFDB
1099:Trust me, Wainwright, ninety-nine times out of a hundred you can bet the bank that I’m serious.”
“What about the one time when you’re not?”
“I’m asleep. ~ Jayne Ann Krentz,#NFDB
1100:From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique. ~ Cyril Connolly, #NFDB
1101:Hamilton was an exuberant genius who performed at a fiendish pace and must have produced the maximum number of words that a human being can scratch out in forty-nine years. ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
1102:It's nine thirty as night, and it's still eighty-seven degrees outside. Besides, this is Southern California. When God makes it snow here, it's not a plan; it's a miracle. ~ Debbie Vigui, #NFDB
1103:I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is. ~ Kacey Musgraves, #NFDB
1104:lived after the birth of Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and had other sons and daughters. 14Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1105:People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this. ~ Stella McCartney, #NFDB
1106:The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on. ~ Jennifer Lynch, #NFDB
1107:The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something “original,” nine out of ten times they just don’t know the references or the original sources involved. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
1108:To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so - as if she had been gradually getting to know him for over nine years and then, bang, he was known. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
1109:And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad. ~ John G Rowland, #NFDB
1110:I couldn't decide if he was four or nine or twelve. I had no idea of the specifics of children. He was too young to drive, but old enough to be able to turn doorknobs. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1111:I got a nice nine-month vacation living on the beach collecting sand dollars, and I really got to reflect and realize that in entertainment, you can definitely go too far. ~ Spencer Pratt, #NFDB
1112:There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
1113:We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same. ~ Joanna Lumley, #NFDB
1114:You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1115:You want to know what it feels like to be castrated? Try having your nine-year-old brother protect you from your ex-girlfriend after you've told her you're in love with a man. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
1116:Funny creatures, women. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, they do the sensible thing without hesitation. The hundredth time they do the other with the same enthusiasm. ~ John Christopher, #NFDB
1117:I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business. ~ Stanley Donen, #NFDB
1118:I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever. ~ Ray Allen, #NFDB
1119:It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine. ~ Giancarlo Esposito, #NFDB
1120:My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1121:nine out of ten people I have had to forgive sincerely do not feel they have done anything wrong. It is up to me to forgive them from my heart – and then keep quiet about it. ~ R T Kendall, #NFDB
1122:The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive. ~ Patrick J Adams, #NFDB
1123:a miniature model of the solar system, contained within a glass dome. It was a beautiful thing; each of the moons glimmered in place around the nine planets and the fiery sun, ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1124:As she passed her son-in-law’s room, she would repeat a joke she had heard from the workers at the factory: ‘We, the owners, must be at work by six, our employees by nine. ~ Vasily Grossman, #NFDB
1125:But he’s not a dwarf,” pointed out Shadow. “He’s what, five-eight? Five-nine?” “Which makes him a giant among dwarfs,” said Czernobog from behind him. “Tallest dwarf in America. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1126:If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1127:I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry. ~ Natalie Dormer, #NFDB
1128:I had no idea what I was getting into with Brayelle Bates. I didn’t know about such things when I was nine. I didn’t know. But I would never regret a moment with her. Never. ~ J A Redmerski, #NFDB
1129:I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta)
Yeah, right. (Aiden)
Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1130:It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen. ~ Kyril Bonfiglioli, #NFDB
1131:People think living in your parents' basement until you're twenty-nine is lame. But what they don't realize is that while you're there, you save money on rent, food, and dates. ~ Ray Romano, #NFDB
1132:The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a (small) heap of earth; the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1133:You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you. ~ Olympia Dukakis, #NFDB
1134:Hell, even I'm a little surprised by Nine--between this and our little heart-to-heart in the doorway earlier, I might have to upgrade him from total douche bag to minor tool. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
1135:Hello?... No I'm sorry no Shaquita here. Well what number did you dial?.. No it's a nine not a seven... Well try it if it doest work call me back we'll figure this thing out. ~ Katt Williams, #NFDB
1136:I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four."
He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four. ~ Pittacus Lore,#NFDB
1137:It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen. ~ Kyril Bonfiglioli, #NFDB
1138:The average Limbaugh listener is rural and sixty-nine,” he said. “The country is changing in a lot of ways, and what those people are fed is a steady diet of grievance and anger. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1139:The first thing that hit their eyes was what appeared to be a coffin.
And the next four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine things that hit their eyes were also coffins. ~ Douglas Adams,#NFDB
1140:Tired?” he asks.
“Tired—yes. Angry—yes. Pissed off—ninety-nine percent of the time. Fun to be around—never.”
Gabriel smiles. “Who wants fun when you can have interesting? ~ Sally Green,#NFDB
1141:You want to know what it feels like to be castrated? Trying having your nine-year-old brother protect you from your ex-girlfriend after you’ve told her you’re in love with a man. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
1142:Also, I had to remember that word ‘committee’ had two Ms, two Ts and two Es in only nine letters, which told me that a committee was not a good way to do anything efficiently. ~ Craig Alanson, #NFDB
1143:A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
1144:For some reason, people repeatedly have asked RBG when she thought there would be enough women on the court. The question is asinine, her answer effective: 'When there are nine. ~ Irin Carmon, #NFDB
1145:I can’t think of a worse place to be at nine o’clock on a Monday night than hunched down behind a bush, waiting for an illegal party to kick off at an old horse-rendering plant. ~ Jason Segel, #NFDB
1146:Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films. ~ Harold Ramis, #NFDB
1147:The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1148:We’ll take as long as you want. We can be engaged until you turn ninety-nine and you can’t even walk down the aisle. I’ll carry you or wheel you down. Just tell me you’ll marry me. ~ R S Grey, #NFDB
1149:What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1150:Byron wrote his shortest and most eloquent poem as a testament to a titled woman who had taken leave of her husband for a nine-month romp with him: Caroline Lamb, Goddamn. ~ William Manchester, #NFDB
1151:Five years, nine months, and a few days. Fifteen months nearly have passed since he vanished, and is there anything so wonderful in an engagement of little more than five years? ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1152:HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN, AND EXPLAIN HOW TO LAUNCH THINGS INTO SPACE, BUT HE DIED WITHIN NINE MONTHS ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
1153:I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, ~ John Green, #NFDB
1154:I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
1155:IV
Yes, I have a thousand tongues,
And nine and nighty-nine lie.
Though I strive to use the one,
It will make no melody at my will,
But is dead in my mouth. ~ Stephen Crane,#NFDB
1156:Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout. ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
1157:The National Institutes of Health suggest that school-age children need at least ten hours of sleep daily, teens need nine to ten hours, and adults need seven to eight hours. ~ Jonathan Fields, #NFDB
1158:Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1159:When I heard the Prez wanted us to shakedown the trucker spas toward Knoxville, I could've ripped out my nine millimeter and shot it through the ceiling, screaming like an idiot. ~ Nicole Snow, #NFDB
1160:All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1161:Getting adequate sleep is a sign that the world doesn't need your attention for seven to nine hours each day. It keeps spinning as usual in its orbit. Who wants to admit that? ~ Laura Vanderkam, #NFDB
1162:I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is. ~ Frank Oz, #NFDB
1163:Four had never met this man, and did not think himself capable of prophecy, but in a instant he knew Nine was an agent of chaos and would make the difficult work ahead far more so. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
1164:I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do. ~ Paddy Ashdown, #NFDB
1165:I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1166:I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, 'What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1167:It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1168:New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs. ~ James Packer, #NFDB
1169:Schrödinger's cat has far more than nine lives, and far fewer. All of us are unknowing cats, alive and dead at once, and of all the might-have-beens in between, we record only one. ~ Yoon Ha Lee, #NFDB
1170:The record changer clicked; another record dropped down. In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Perhaps only her soul.
It was nine-fifteen. ~ Stephen King,#NFDB
1171:When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show. ~ Sandra Lee, #NFDB
1172:Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely." "Good morning," I replied. "Morning. Listen to this. The second victim. ~ Maureen Johnson, #NFDB
1173:Gray fall light came through the nine square glass panes. On days like this, the strips of white wood that separated the glass seemed brighter to the eye than did the window light. ~ Graham Moore, #NFDB
1174:Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine. ~ Adam Sandler, #NFDB
1175:Suddenly thirty-nine didn’t seem so old. Matthew stopped aging the night he had been turned and wondered if other vampires counted their human years in their age. If not, he was seven. ~ Jex Lane, #NFDB
1176:The running joke was that at the graduation ceremony following their nine months of training, SAS graduates received the coveted tan beret in one hand and a broom in the other. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1177:The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it. ~ Donald Barthelme, #NFDB
1178:Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight. ~ Joan Collins, #NFDB
1179:You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him. ~ Kaye Gibbons, #NFDB
1180:But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is it possible to have achieved nine years and to have nothing whatever to show for it? ~ Ford Madox Ford, #NFDB
1181:If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1182:If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that. ~ Nipsey Hussle, #NFDB
1183:It starts with seeing and believing that whatever giant we’re battling might be big—but it’s not bigger than Jesus. Nine feet tall is nothing to him. And he intends to set you free. ~ Louie Giglio, #NFDB
1184:It suddenly occurred to Harry how odd this would look if a Muggle were to walk up here now … nine people, two grown men, clutching this manky old boot in the semi-darkness, waiting … ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1185:I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films. ~ Jessica Chastain, #NFDB
1186:Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather. ~ Tom Hodgkinson, #NFDB
1187:The greater part of me knew it couldn't be real, but the hopeful part, which is more concentrated and condensed, rich in nine essential delusions, thought: It's not all in your head. ~ Leah Raeder, #NFDB
1188:The greater part of me knew it couldn’t be real, but the hopeful part, which is more concentrated and condensed, rich in nine essential delusions, thought: It’s not all in your head. ~ Leah Raeder, #NFDB
1189:you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1190:I mean, there aren't many inventions that actually succeed in meeting some human need. Ninety-nine percent of them are just some ugly combo of pushy marketing and spineless consumers. ~ Etgar Keret, #NFDB
1191:It does not take a long time to fall to the ground, even from nine stories up. But it took a lifetime for Yetta. It took every single one of the last moments of her life. ~ Margaret Peterson Haddix, #NFDB
1192:Lightning goes off inside huge thunderheads nine miles off the starboard wing. In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1193:Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it. ~ John F Kerry, #NFDB
1194:Stage One is simply being able to sit down and work, if only for a single hour. Don’t laugh. Ninety-nine out of a hundred can’t do it. This stage is entry-level. It’s kindergarten. ~ Jocelyn K Glei, #NFDB
1195:Cited Riley versus California.” “That’s my girl! Cocounsel, I mean. Jeez, that case came down just in time! Unanimous. All nine justices. Cops need a warrant to search your cell phone. ~ Paul Levine, #NFDB
1196:I guess even at nine I had a serious lack of spiritual purity, for my wounds soured within two days, and for nine weeks I lay in fever, chasing dark dreams along death’s borderlands. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
1197:It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one—which is what happens most of the time. ~ Neel Burton, #NFDB
1198:I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better. ~ Edward Albee, #NFDB
1199:Nine out of ten churches in North America are losing ground in the communities in which they are located. They are declining or growing more slowly than their respective communities. ~ Thom S Rainer, #NFDB
1200:nine times out of ten I’ve no idea what I’m saying and I’m only ever nice to people because I don’t have the charisma or the knowledge or any of that to get away with witty put-downs, ~ Kate Griffin, #NFDB
1201:One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old. ~ Betty White, #NFDB
1202:So many Chimaerae," Nine says, nodding excitedly as he gazes into the darkness. "That's awesome."
"We named the chubby, lazy one after you," Sam replies.
"Less awesome. ~ Pittacus Lore,#NFDB
1203:The kill rate in humans infected with Ebola Zaire is nine out of ten. Ninety percent of the people who come down with Ebola Zaire die of it. Ebola Zaire is a slate wiper in humans. ~ Richard Preston, #NFDB
1204:We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad. ~ Don Meyer, #NFDB
1205:Ed Koch had the best line: if you agree with me nine out of twelve times, you should vote for me. If you agree with me twelve out of twelve times, you should find a psychiatrist. ~ Anthony Scaramucci, #NFDB
1206:Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon ~ Roger Lowenstein, #NFDB
1207:In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1208:I started to cry as I grabbed the phone and dialed nine-one-one. I don’t even remember talking to the person who’d answered. All I know is that I was blubbering and she was trying ~ Kristen Middleton, #NFDB
1209:I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
1210:Malcolm shakes his head. "I'd advise against ingesting any of the items in your Chests until we know what they do."
"You listening?" Eight elbows Nine. "Don't eat any of the rocks. ~ Pittacus Lore,#NFDB
1211:My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport. ~ Damon Lindelof, #NFDB
1212:When I was nine—before I grew up and became a scientist—I thought I knew everything, or at least I wanted to know everything, and in my mind there was no difference between the two. At ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1213:A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1214:I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’ ~ Kristen Stewart, #NFDB
1215:I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something. ~ Dr Dre, #NFDB
1216:My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey. ~ Rutherford B Hayes, #NFDB
1217:Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1218:What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe ~ Douglas Adams,#NFDB
1219:A woman goes walking down a thousand-mile road. Twenty minutes after she steps forth, they proclaim that she still has nine hundred ninety-nine miles to go and will never get anywhere. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1220:Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve 'This Side of Wild' Excerpt ~ Gary Paulsen, #NFDB
1221:I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight. ~ Wilt Chamberlain, #NFDB
1222:I have a Florida concealed firearms permit. But then, who doesn’t? We have about nine hundred thousand residents licensed to carry concealed weapons, tops in the nation. Take that, Texas! ~ Paul Levine, #NFDB
1223:I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months. ~ Estelle Morris Baroness Morris of Yardley, #NFDB
1224:In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents. ~ Dominique Moceanu, #NFDB
1225:Tell the thanes to bring candidates to the Thing Room in one hour. I'll be scanning the Nine Worlds from Hlidskjalf if you need me. And, Hunding?"
"Yes, Lord Odin?"
"Don't need me. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
1226:This wasn’t the Lillie he’d left that night nine years ago. His Lillie was all fire and shooting rockets. His Lillie wasn’t like any woman he’d ever known. His Lillie… wasn’t his anymore. ~ B J Daniels, #NFDB
1227:To an impressionable nine-year-old, trouble for the Black men of my family meant police. It was easier and harder to be male; men were given more freedom but threatened with less freedom. ~ Jesmyn Ward, #NFDB
1228:2001 study by the Association of British Neurologists found thirty-five cases of neurological complications, including nine strokes, occurring within twenty-four hours of neck manipulation. ~ Nick Cohen, #NFDB
1229:AT A LITTLE AFTER NINE-THIRTY, MR. SNEED RODE into Rosewood in his buggy. Other people also arrived, including Mr. Taylor from the bank, who Katie’s uncle had asked to be present as ~ Michael R Phillips, #NFDB
1230:He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1231:I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
1232:I know you, you believe that God tests people and you have to have faith that things are going according to His plan.."
"God is not in my bedroom." That was just nine kinds of wrong. ~ James Buchanan,#NFDB
1233:I'm gonna get one of those tracheotomies, so I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time! I'm gonna get nine tracheotomies, all around my neck, I'll be Tracheotomy Man! He can smoke a pack ~ Denis Leary, #NFDB
1234:I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?' ~ Jessie J, #NFDB
1235:The bible says that a good shepard, even if he has one hundred sheep, if he loses but one of them in the wilderness, he must leave the other ninety-nine behind to go looking for that one. ~ Bree Despain, #NFDB
1236:The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern. ~ Joseph Alsop, #NFDB
1237:Today the average age of first marriage is about twenty-seven for women and twenty-nine for men, and it’s around thirty for both men and women in big cities like New York and Philadelphia. ~ Aziz Ansari, #NFDB
1238:As a counterexample, consider the case of the developer who claims ten years of experience, but in reality it was one year of experience repeated nine times. That doesn’t count as experience. ~ Andy Hunt, #NFDB
1239:Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely."
"Good morning," I replied.
"Morning. Listen to this. The second victim... ~ Maureen Johnson,#NFDB
1240:I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. ~ Kenneth Tynan, #NFDB
1241:I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas. ~ Tracie Thoms, #NFDB
1242:Matthias, Jesper, and Kuwei will leave for the embassy at half past nine bells. You approach from the canal. Jesper, you’re tall, brown, and conspicuous—”
“All synonyms for delightful. ~ Leigh Bardugo,#NFDB
1243:Opponents and supporters of abortion rights may find fault with my proposal that a pineal DMT release at forty-nine days after conception marks the entrance of the spirit into the fetus. ~ Rick Strassman, #NFDB
1244:She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she turned her eyes to the flame of the candle as if the question were as irrelevant, or at any rate as impersonal, as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
1245:The physical Universe consists entirely of the most exquisitely interreciprocating technology. Ninety-nine percent of humanity thinks technology is a “new” phenomenon. ~ Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path, #NFDB
1246:This is the mainstream now, Mike. This is how life in America is. Moment by moment, our country has grown sicker. Our borders, Mike, have come to encompass the nine circles of Hell. ~ Warren Ellis, #NFDB
1247:Around nine months is the earliest time you should think about spoiling. Before that, nurturing your baby’s confidence is one hundred times more important than pushing him to be independent. ~ Harvey Karp, #NFDB
1248:I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype. ~ ASAP Rocky, #NFDB
1249:In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
1250:It was nine o'clock, cloudy, and a little like one of those science fiction movies where a few survivors are clinging to the wreckage, living out their days in the dry husk of civilization. ~ James Sallis, #NFDB
1251:I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time. ~ Jim Davis, #NFDB
1252:I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind. ~ Emma Watson, #NFDB
1253:Logan is going to meet me there at nine to put the tattoo over my heart. Her tattoo. The broken butterfly. My broken butterfly. I’m going to brand myself with something that is all Friday. ~ Tammy Falkner, #NFDB
1254:Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1255:Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night. ~ William James, #NFDB
1256:When they'd met, Anakin had been a warmhearted nine-year-old boy with an open nature. He was twelve and a half now, and the years had changed him. He had grown to be a boy who hid his heart. ~ Jude Watson, #NFDB
1257:But I’m not going to lie: it was bloody tough not drinking at all for nine months. The only thing that got me through it was thinking of the bottle of Pouilly-Fumé in the fridge for afterwards. ~ Ruth Ware, #NFDB
1258:Four of the doctors at American Pain were among the top nine physician purchasers of oxycodone in the United States, according to the DEA, which meant that together, they were a juggernaut. A ~ John Temple, #NFDB
1259:I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together. ~ Jean Smart, #NFDB
1260:I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet. ~ Katy Perry, #NFDB
1261:I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do. ~ Jay Baruchel, #NFDB
1262:Just don't go out fighting. I don't need to know where you're going, that's your biz. But if you get yourself killed, I got ninety-nine problems and you're the biggest one of them." Rehv to John ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1263:Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1264:Lovers with all the glories and all the graces are supposed to be plentiful as blackberries by girls of nineteen, but have been proved to be rare hothouse fruits by girls of twenty-nine. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
1265:We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth. ~ Gavin MacLeod, #NFDB
1266:When I found out that I was going to be CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies. ~ Gayle King, #NFDB
1267:A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin. ~ William Godwin, #NFDB
1268:By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information. ~ Nick Flynn, #NFDB
1269:By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information. ~ Nick Flynn, #NFDB
1270:Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you. ~ Helen Van Slyke, #NFDB
1271:The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles! ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
1272:The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1273:He had a real mom, with flesh and blood and a heartbeat he could feel and hear. A heart he grew under for nine months. A body that fed him for another ten. Arms that held him for three years. ~ Emily Bleeker, #NFDB
1274:I'm warning you now," said Freyja stiffly, "I have...certain issues...with Loki." (Maddy wondered briefly whether there was anyone in the Nine Worlds who didn't have issues with Loki.) ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
1275:I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
1276:It is woven with the most powerful paradoxes in the Nine Worlds—Wi-Fi with no lag, a politician’s sincerity, a printer that prints, healthy deep-fried food, and an interesting grammar lecture! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1277:Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
1278:7 I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven because of one sinner who is sorry for his sins and turns from them, than for ninety-nine people right with God who do not have sins to be sorry for. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1279:After four hours I passed slowly from the country of 'nine-fingered people and prepare to meet thy God' into the drive-ins and motels and Homes of the Whopper but all I could see was the river. ~ James Dickey, #NFDB
1280:In retrospect, their best chance of doing it this way was against Arsenal, in the game they won 8–2. They only needed another nine that afternoon – and they missed at least fifteen good chances. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
1281:I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always. ~ Tom Jones, #NFDB
1282:Nine times out of ten someone is hiding something. Even if it’s just thoughts, desires, hopes. You can live in the same house, share the same bed, but how much do you ever really know anyone? ~ Sabine Durrant, #NFDB
1283:You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing. ~ Roseanne Barr, #NFDB
1284:As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality. ~ Grimes, #NFDB
1285:Cautious reticence is, in nine cases out of ten, cowardly betrayal. The best policy is never to be politic, but to proclaim every atom of the truth so far as God has taught it to you. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1286:Every cliché is built on some truth. The cliché that Steve Jobs was half genius, half asshole is based largely on his actions during the nine years that constituted his first tenure at Apple. ~ Brent Schlender, #NFDB
1287:I don’t generally publicly respond to
reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers’ responses to critics seem to me at best undignified. ~ China Mi ville,#NFDB
1288:I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do. ~ Sam Elliott, #NFDB
1289:I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~ Kevin J Anderson, #NFDB
1290:Nine times out of ten a knight dies not because of a direct wound, but minor ones that amass over time. The smart enemies don't strike to kill. They just wait for you to do the work for them. ~ Rachel E Carter, #NFDB
1291:Something dug into the Bloody-Nine's back, but there was no pain. It was a sign. A message in a secret tongue, that only he could understand. It told him where the next dead man was standing. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
1292:The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!! ~ Ron Jeffries, #NFDB
1293:The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
1294:When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue.
The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke. ~ Rudyard Kipling,#NFDB
1295:But I can endure a surprising amount of midnight torment without being absent from class sharp at nine the next day. I suppose that marks me as something not quite up to the Byronic standard. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB
1296:I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. ~ Michael J Fox, #NFDB
1297:I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
1298:I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96. ~ Aesop Rock, #NFDB
1299:I was an intelligence agent for the British government.
Agent double-oh-seven? she asked lightly.
No, he said in a grave tone, then leaned forward and whispered, Agent sixty-nine. ~ Stephanie Bond,#NFDB
1300:I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine. ~ Azar Nafisi, #NFDB
1301:Pre-natal care, perinatal care, post-natal care, pediatrics, nutrition, education, orthodontics, vacations, college, postgrad, a fiancé, the whole nine yards. Her assembly line had worked just fine. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
1302:Swithin! And the fellow had gone and died, last November, at the age of seventy-nine, renewing the doubt whether Forsytes could live for ever, which had first arisen when Aunt Ann passed away. ~ John Galsworthy, #NFDB
1303:The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1304:The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in your system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right! ~ Martin Fowler, #NFDB
1305:Watching others is the closest thing we have to a sex life.” Blake didn’t make any apologies for his frigid gay husband. “Taddy, at your nine o’clock on the fifty-ish floor, do you see what I see? ~ Avery Aster, #NFDB
1306:Dinner is leftover spaghetti, with meat sauce, warmed up in the microwave. I eat spaghetti nine times a week, every week, and it is my favorite food. And yet, tonight, I wonder if I'm in a rut. ~ Craig Lancaster, #NFDB
1307:I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant. ~ Marton Csokas, #NFDB
1308:I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater. ~ Robert Knepper, #NFDB
1309:Nine o'clock in the morning, the World Trade Center on its own is the sixth largest city in New York State. Bigger than Albany. Only sixteen acres of land, but a daytime population of 130,000 people. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
1310:Number Eight: If you have a talent, nurture it. For it is true that if you don't use it you will lose it. “Number Nine: Let go of the need to blame. When something goes wrong, take responsibility. ~ David Lamb, #NFDB
1311:The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby. ~ Vin Diesel, #NFDB
1312:When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts. ~ William Jackson, #NFDB
1313:A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. ~ Alexander Hamilton, #NFDB
1314:Another raid followed on January 31, during which nine airships flew as far as Liverpool, along the way sending terrifying shadows scudding across the landscape of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. ~ Erik Larson, #NFDB
1315:Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine ~ Alan Gratz, #NFDB
1316:I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB
1317:Plutarch gave her nine languages, including Hebrew and Troglodyte, an Ethiopian tongue that—if Herodotus can be believed—was “unlike that of any other people; it sounds like the screeching of bats. ~ Stacy Schiff, #NFDB
1318:Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby. ~ Victoria Moran, #NFDB
1319:Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport. ~ Bobby Charlton, #NFDB
1320:Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB
1321:He proposes, as a final solution to the question, the division of mankind into two unequal parts. One-tenth is to receive personal freedom and unlimited rights over the remaining nine-tenths.6 ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1322:He was only nine years old, he was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was dear to him, he protected it as the eyelid protects the eye, and did not let anyone into his soul without the key of love. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1323:It is a frightening and huge thought,” I said, “that the ninety-nine percent of us wandering around down here are having our lives pushed and pulled around by that psychopathic fraction up there.” “It ~ Jon Ronson, #NFDB
1324:It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb. ~ Oscar Romero, #NFDB
1325:One soul is as important as ninety-nine, worth leaving everything behind to rescue. If there is one soul in your care, one face in your loving gaze, one hand in yours, then you are loving the world. ~ Sarah Bessey, #NFDB
1326:Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic. ~ Esa Pekka Salonen, #NFDB
1327:The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1328:To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. ~ Thomas Huxley, #NFDB
1329:A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indirectly, to our economic and social iniquities, to our system of remorseless exploitation and robbery. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
1330:Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB
1331:If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1332:I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes. ~ Lewis Pugh, #NFDB
1333:Nilsson disembarked from the rear of the massive aircraft on wobbly legs, stepping from the relative warmth of the cargo hold into an ice box, the predawn temperature—a snot-freezing minus forty-nine. ~ Steve Alten, #NFDB
1334:Roof was a young man radicalized to race hatred who reportedly wanted to start a race war and who killed nine innocent people as his opening salvo. If that’s not terrorism, we need to redefine the term. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1335:She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1336:Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
1337:They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions blurry. Fallen to pieces am I guilty? I pray to the lord but his laws be unfortunate because im guilty. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
1338:Think of all the squabbles Adam and Eve must have had in the course of their nine hundred years,” wrote Martin Luther. “Eve would say, ‘You ate the apple,’ and Adam would retort, ‘You gave it to me. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1339:Thirty-nine is a sweet number. It’s thirteen times three. It’s also the sum of five prime numbers in a row—3, 5, 7, 11, 13. And if you add the first three powers of three, 31 plus 32 plus 33, you get ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1340:Good nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition. William Hazlitt, ‘On the Knowledge of Character’ (1822) ~ Alan Bennett, #NFDB
1341:I'm a bit sad because I'm leaving my cherished team in a city where I grew up and where I played for nine years in Santos. But I'm even happier to be facing a new challenge and for making a dream come true. ~ Neymar, #NFDB
1342:In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help explain the mysteries of management and leadership. ~ Marcus Buckingham, #NFDB
1343:Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God. ~ John Knowles, #NFDB
1344:People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1345:What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating. ~ Bob Saget, #NFDB
1346:Your husband," he said finally. I looked down at the slim platinum band on my ring finger, the one I wasn't even sure why I was wearing. "Your husband is asking because nine years is nine too many. ~ Kate Canterbary, #NFDB
1347:During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
1348:Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1349:Independent observers believe that the Pakistan Army killed between one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand Bengalis in a nine-month period, whereas Bangladesh puts the figure at three million. ~ Husain Haqqani, #NFDB
1350:In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
1351:Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1352:Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1353:ninety-nine per cent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences. ~ Poul Anderson, #NFDB
1354:Ninety-nine percent of the time, your parents never have to know, though. The school doesn't want your parents to think you became a fuckup here any more than you want your parents think you're a fuckup. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1355:The first pair of boots I remember owning were Puma Spiders - I still have them in a cupboard at home! They were fantastic boots. I was nine-years-old and I scored about 70 goals with them in a season. ~ Peter Crouch, #NFDB
1356:The real and perfect civilisation yet waits to be discovered; for the life of mankind is still nine tenths of barbarism to one tenth of culture. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India, “Is India Civilised?” - III, #NFDB
1357:There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine? ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
1358:As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay. ~ Chely Wright, #NFDB
1359:I am going to be on 'True Blood.' It was really exciting. I had a great time shooting it. I spent the last nine months shooting this season and it was very secretive, very sexy, a lot of blood and fangs. ~ Scott Foley, #NFDB
1360:Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle.
(Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.) ~ Tamora Pierce,#NFDB
1361:…out here in the real world, my man, you would be amazed how seldom murder has to break into people’s lives. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it gets there because they open the door and invite it in. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
1362:So Die Hard is a better choice for action-fu than Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever."
Eastwood snarled at the mention of the second film. "I hated that movie so much, I got my ninety-nine minutes back. ~ Michael R Underwood,#NFDB
1363:The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
1364:Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1365:You asked me how old I am. I was born roughly nine centuries ago. I’ve lived for more than three hundred thousand days. And you made this one my favorite one of all."
-Uilleam MacRieve ~ Kresley Cole ~ Kresley Cole,#NFDB
1366:Dr. Charlene Bell, says everyone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won’t do it. At nine, you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, ~ Vicki Myron, #NFDB
1367:I did kung fu from when I was nine to 13. You have to be really careful but you want to be able to make it look eventually as though it's just a part of you. So, you train over and over and over again. ~ Channing Tatum, #NFDB
1368:I look along the endless line, squinting in the sunshine. I'm twenty-nine years old. I can go anywhere. Do anything. Be anyone I like. "There's no rush," I say at last, and reach up to kiss him again. ~ Sophie Kinsella, #NFDB
1369:I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.'
'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.'
'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five. ~ Daphne du Maurier,#NFDB
1370:To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley, #NFDB
1371:You are all the happiness," he said, with an energy of conviction astonishing at half-past nine in the morning, "and all the music, and all the colour, and all the fragrance there is in the world. ~ Elizabeth von Arnim, #NFDB
1372:According to Gallup polls, more Americans will pray this week than will exercise, drive a car, have sex, or go to work. Nine in ten of us pray regularly, and three out of four claim to pray every day. To ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1373:Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left. ~ W Mitchell, #NFDB
1374:For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1375:Forty years ago my mother died," he said. "She captured by Comanches, nine years old. Love Indian and wild life so well, no want to go back to white folks. All same people anyway, God say. I love my mother. ~ S C Gwynne, #NFDB
1376:I’m so happy I could cry. “It’s about time,” he says. But it’s not Adam who says it. Thirty-Nine There’s blood everywhere. Adam is on the ground, clutching his body, but I don’t know where he’s been shot. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1377:I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking. The girls must have felt this. They must have known. Where had ten, nine, eight, and seven gone? ~ Jacqueline Woodson, #NFDB
1378:Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt! ~ Grey DeLisle, #NFDB
1379:Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1380:Seven pounds, nine shillings and sixpence turned out to be the value they’d put on Arthur’s life. I sat alone at the kitchen table, and I think that was the moment I knew I’d never see my husband again. ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
1381:To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley, #NFDB
1382:We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine? ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
1383:When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning. ~ Saadat Hasan Manto, #NFDB
1384:A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man's ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can't do that much, she's not trying hard enough. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
1385:His mother was ugly and his father was ugly, but Shrek was uglier than the two of them put together. By the time he toddled, Shrek could spit flame a full ninety-nine yards and vent smoke from either ear. ~ William Steig, #NFDB
1386:I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
1387:In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
1388:Never forget,” I say, quietly now, “that if I wanted your job, I could have it. And never forget that the man you so eagerly serve is the same man who taught me how to fire a gun when I was nine years old. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1389:One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils. ~ Bruce Dickinson, #NFDB
1390:The Weird Sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go, about, about,
Thrice to thine, thrice to mine,
And thrice again to make up nine.
Peace, the charm's wound up. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1391:You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide." "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
1392:Chook’s phone went to nine rings before she answered in the gritty rancor of interrupted sleep. But her voice changed when she recognized mine. “Trav! I phoned you last night. Who is that Mrs. Atkinson? ~ John D MacDonald, #NFDB
1393:Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun. ~ Francine Pascal, #NFDB
1394:From 1973 onward, if nine intelligence analysts came to the same conclusion, it was the duty of the tenth to disagree. No matter how unlikely or far-fetched a possibility might be, one must always dig deeper. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
1395:Give a man the secure possession of bleak rocks," Arthur Young said in Travels in 1787, "and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years of lease of a garden, and he will convert it to a desert ... ~ Bernd Heinrich, #NFDB
1396:I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
1397:In barbaric lands like the Americas, writers produced their best work before learning the craft, and nine times out of ten, their book was the strongest, as well as being, in general, the only one they wrote. ~ C sar Aira, #NFDB
1398:I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets. ~ Nina Conti, #NFDB
1399:Our star life, yours with mine. As someone said over dinner once, each of us is given at least nine versions of our lives, some we guzzle, others we take tiny, timid sips from, and some our lips never touch. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
1400:People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1401:Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1402:There have been abductions in the area. Nine women went missing in the last year; six were found dead. Murdered. There were signs of a struggle where they found you.” Jacob’s blood froze in his veins. “Are you ~ G P Ching, #NFDB
1403:The thing about second chances", Mom interrupted, laying a hand on my arm "is we always walk into them assuming we'll feel better, when nine times out of ten things get worse before the ever get better. ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
1404:unwanted notoriety to La Porte. It was not his purpose, said Smith, either “to defend the character of Belle Gunness” or “to drag it down.” From the “dismembered bodies of nine persons [that] were found ~ Harold Schechter, #NFDB
1405:You know, I got the third most uninsured district in the whole state of Texas, probably number nine in the whole country. As a Blue Dog, I'm also looking at the cost. So, I have got a very unique district. ~ Henry Cuellar, #NFDB
1406:Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
1407:I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world. ~ Raha Moharrak, #NFDB
1408:I don't want people to see what I've been doing at Play Cloths for nine years and built from a streetwear independence standpoint through Japanese streetwear - I don't want that to be shifted into something else. ~ Pusha T, #NFDB
1409:I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't. ~ Eve Ensler, #NFDB
1410:In most cases, I don't know how much, I cannot say if it's ninety nine percent or eighty percent, but the problem with incestuous relationships is that they often come from frustration. And from need of power. ~ Gaspar Noe, #NFDB
1411:in search of a pay phone. He found a phone inside the bus depot. He dialed his bank’s number from memory. Nine-forty in the West, twelve-forty in the East. Lunch time in Virginia, but someone should be there. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
1412:Marissa Rogers, I will marry you tomorrow if that's what it takes to show you that I'm committed. you say the word and we will go to city hall at nine a.m. and tie the knot with a couple of bums looking on. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
1413:The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
1414:Thus they in mutual accusation spent
The fruitless hours, but neither self—condemning;
And of their vain contest’ appeared no end."
(The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.) ~ John Milton,#NFDB
1415:Allison Nelson, twenty-nine years old and engaged, a socialite, searching for answers she needed to know, and Noah Calhoun, the dreamer, thirty-one, visited by the ghost that had come to dominate his life. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1416:Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, #NFDB
1417:He still loved her—and every moment that he didn’t have her hurt him deeply. That was why he’d spent the past nine days with a shadow of her soul, why he’d sought to reset the entire universe to have her back. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
1418:I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1419:I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. ~ Jamie Foxx, #NFDB
1420:In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nineteen one asks oneself this question; at thirty-nine we say, “I wish Fate hadn’t made me this sort of man. ~ Jerome K Jerome, #NFDB
1421:Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen are Americans born within nine years of one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Think about that for a moment. Historians start with Cleopatra and the ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1422:Someone once asked Somerset Maugham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. “I write only when inspiration strikes,” he replied. “Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1423:Dedication CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER ~ Lucy Score, #NFDB
1424:For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps. ~ Walter Schellenberg, #NFDB
1425:I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation. ~ Star Jones, #NFDB
1426:It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1427:It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too. ~ Christopher Reeve, #NFDB
1428:Never say you are five feet nine when
you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered.
Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn
out that there is a God. ~ John Knowles,#NFDB
1429:Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
1430:She looked at her nine guests, all of whom had their eyes obediently closed as they waited her instructions. Their destinies were in her hands. She was going to change them not just temporarily, but forever. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1431:Contrast this with the use by modern Islamic scholars of Muhammad’s decision to marry a six-year-old girl, consummating their marriage when she turned nine, to justify child marriage in Iraq and Yemen today. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali, #NFDB
1432:Despite the fact that Blacks and Whites use recreational drugs at roughly the same rates, Blacks are nine times more likely to be imprisoned for drug crimes than Whites, and three times more than Latinos.29 ~ Marc Lamont Hill, #NFDB
1433:Every morning, the Omori POWs were assembled and ordered to call out their number in Japanese. After November 1, 1944, the man assigned number twenty-nine would sing out “Niju ku!” at the top of his lungs. ~ Laura Hillenbrand, #NFDB
1434:For black families, each dollar creates only sixty-nine cents in total wealth.25 This is why the wealth gap between blacks and whites can continue to grow even when de jure discrimination ended decades ago. ~ Mehrsa Baradaran, #NFDB
1435:Inhale. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Exhale. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez. Inhale. Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix. Exhale. ~ N R Walker, #NFDB
1436:I remember my mom had a conversation with Sam Jackson about what she should do with our careers and what the next step should be; I was eight and my brother was nine. He said, "You need to get them on Broadway." ~ Aldis Hodge, #NFDB
1437:I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
1438:I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door. ~ Billy Collins, #NFDB
1439:None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
1440:Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
1441:Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night. ~ Richard Simmons, #NFDB
1442:Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form of gambling. ~ John Cage, #NFDB
1443:When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. ~ Fred Brooks, #NFDB
1444:ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO FEMALES UNDER NINE THAT HAIR RIBBONS ARE TO BE NEATLY TIED AT ALL TIMES. He turned toward Lily and noticed to his satisfaction that her ribbons were, as usual, undone and dangling. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
1445:It just goes to show you: you can put nine thousand miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1446:It just goes to show you: you can put nine thousand miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he’ll haunt you. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1447:It’s not just about Jen,” he said. “It’s about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It’s a complete injustice. ~ Simon Rich, #NFDB
1448:Love can have the quality of the devil - that`s how it is there in the world, ninety-nine percent. Love can have the quality of God, and unless you make your love divine, it is not going to give you any contentment. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1449:My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now. ~ Dane Cook, #NFDB
1450:One thing led to another. That was the only way to explain how Arnold Brinkman, who considered both professional sports and young children unjustifiable, had ended up at Yankee Stadium with a nine-year-old boy. ~ Jacob M Appel, #NFDB
1451:The grand larceny that occurred in Russia, the corruption that resulted in nine or ten people getting enormous wealth through loans-for-shares, was condoned because it allowed the reelection of Boris Yeltsin. ~ Joseph Stiglitz, #NFDB
1452:There were three of them there, then, and Amabella was introducing Bod and he was shaking hands and saying, "Charmed, I'm sure," because he could greet people politely over nine hundred years of changing manners. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1453:They divided the year into twelve lunar months, six having thirty days, six twenty-nine; and as this made but 354 days in all, they added a thirteenth month occasionally to harmonize the calendar with the seasons ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1454:Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short. ~ Iimani David, #NFDB
1455:You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties."
"Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide."
"Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif. ~ Joanne Harris,#NFDB
1456:Come to think of it, she seemed awfully sure about those ten minutes: it was the first thing out of her mouth. As if nine minutes would be too short or eleven minutes too long. Like cooking spaghetti al dente. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1457:I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them. ~ Len Goodman, #NFDB
1458:I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music. ~ Gunter Grass, #NFDB
1459:I feel so...tiny.” Eva took in the entire starlit expanse. “So...insignificant.”
“Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant. ~ Tony DiTerlizzi,#NFDB
1460:It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism! ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
1461:"It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice. ~ Simon Rich, #NFDB
1462:I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money. ~ Joan Collins, #NFDB
1463:I would say, when Paul Ryan was running for vice president last time, they lost eight of the nine swing states, and people like - I certainly supported him. I know Donald Trump certainly supported the ticket. ~ Kellyanne Conway, #NFDB
1464:Nature doesn’t know what to do with a childless woman of thirty-nine, except throw her that fertility curveball—aches and pains combined with extra time, like some terrifying end to a high-stakes football match. ~ Susie Steiner, #NFDB
1465:There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth. ~ Mark Kurlansky, #NFDB
1466:Thirty-nine is a sweet number. It’s thirteen times three. It’s also the sum of five prime numbers in a row—3, 5, 7, 11, 13. And if you add the first three powers of three, 31 plus 32 plus 33, you get thirty-nine. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1467:And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out. ~ Sandra Cisneros, #NFDB
1468:At no point did I ever doubt I would be as near as anybody could be to England's Elvis Presley. Even from eight or nine years old, I thought, Well, I'll be the greatest rock star in England. I just made up my mind. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
1469:Empathy is not something we offer to our customers or our employees from nine to five... (it) is... "a second by second, minute by minute service that [we] owe to everyone if [we] want to call [ourselves] a leader. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
1470:If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
1471:Let's consider a series of lessons that lay the groundwork for our discussion of breaking free. I will list them as nine lessons about captivity and freedom. LESSON 1 The people of God can be oppressed by the enemy. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1472:\n Is replaced with the text matched by the nth pattern previously saved by \( and \), where n is a number from one to nine, and previously saved patterns (kept in hold buffers) are counted from the left on the line. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1473:Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock. ~ Kurt Tucholsky, #NFDB
1474:The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and its partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days. ~ Deidre Hall, #NFDB
1475:When I was nine, I was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat and was prescribed beta blockers, which had the side effect of turning my skin green. Looking like Shrek's little sister at school wasn't the easiest thing. ~ Jessie J, #NFDB
1476:From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting. ~ Adam Clayton, #NFDB
1477:Have you any idea how hard it is to go nine months out of the year with no sex when you’re married to such a fine piece of male anatomy that he should have been the god of fertility instead of the god of death? ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1478:He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills. ~ Robin McKinley, #NFDB
1479:I am the Grand Marquis Fornas, leader of twenty-nine of Hell’s legions, corrupter of the sciences, defiler of the experiments, and despoiler of the philosophies. I am a warrior, a poet, a scholar, and your doom. ~ John G Hartness, #NFDB
1480:In the beginning we were a group of nine.
Three are gone, dead.
There are six of us left.
They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am number four.
I know that I am next ~ Pittacus Lore,#NFDB
1481:should think it sounds beneficent. I’m offering you a title and fortune. All you have to do is lie back in the dark, then spend nine months swelling up like a tick. What could possibly deter any woman from accepting? ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
1482:That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, “Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1483:There are times when I think Christians need to see ourselves more in the ninety-nine sheep who stayed put, and ask ourselves if we may have been part of the reason that the lost sheep got lost in the first place. ~ Austen Hartke, #NFDB
1484:All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture. ~ Chris Martin, #NFDB
1485:I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1486:I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No one can keep a creative house and work every day from nine to five. Can’t be done, folks. Ain’t no way. ~ Pearl Cleage, #NFDB
1487:In the beginning we were a group of nine.
Three are gone, dead.
There are six of us left.
They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am number four.
I know that I am next. ~ Pittacus Lore,#NFDB
1488:I would probably say I identified more with drama. I'm a really emotional, sensitive person. I'm family-minded and I'm the youngest of four kids. I have nine stepbrothers and sisters. And I love drama. I really do. ~ Courteney Cox, #NFDB
1489:Nine times out of ten, I believe that the church should first discern who should be considering the Christian ministry, not simply act as a rubber stamp for a putative internal call that an individual may think he has. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1490:Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, Mort,#NFDB
1491:When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, #NFDB
1492:You asked me back then if I believed in fate. I didn’t until I met you. And I’ve spent nine years thinking I’d never see your face again. But fate brought you back into my life and I’m not going to mess it up again. ~ Devney Perry, #NFDB
1493:approximately 25 per cent of Laos’s villages are still contaminated with unexploded devices from wartime raids, which rained death from the sky, on average, every eight minutes, twenty-four hours a day for nine years. ~ Sue Perkins, #NFDB
1494:How long, he wondered, could such a thread endure in a world filled with scissors? CHAPTER NINE Wally was the superstitious sort, and although he was always glad to have a little extra money for overtime, he wasn’t ~ Robert Masello, #NFDB
1495:I have lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such things as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure we shall. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1496:In at least nine cases out of ten, the “likability” factor is the first thing mentioned. And in an overwhelmingly large number of cases, the “likability” factor is given far more weight than the technical factor. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
1497:I've been playing the same character on Supernatural for the past nine years and while that character has gone through a lot of different iterations, it's nice to step out and just do something altogether different. ~ Misha Collins, #NFDB
1498:Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut’s infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat’s Cradle. ~ David Quammen, #NFDB
1499:Out of every one hundred men,” he wrote, “ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior… ~ David Goggins, #NFDB
1500:SO GORGEOUS WAS THE SPECTACLE on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. ~ Barbara W Tuchman, #NFDB
203 Integral Yoga
78 Poetry
68 Occultism
38 Yoga
36 Christianity
35 Fiction
19 Psychology
18 Philosophy
16 Mysticism
9 Science
9 Mythology
6 Integral Theory
5 Baha i Faith
4 Philsophy
4 Hinduism
3 Sufism
3 Kabbalah
2 Theosophy
2 Education
1 Thelema
1 Cybernetics
1 Buddhism
1 Alchemy
122 The Mother
79 Satprem
68 Sri Aurobindo
37 Nolini Kanta Gupta
34 Sri Ramakrishna
31 James George Frazer
29 H P Lovecraft
27 Aleister Crowley
22 Carl Jung
18 Jorge Luis Borges
15 William Butler Yeats
14 Saint Augustine of Hippo
14 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
12 John Keats
9 Ovid
7 Percy Bysshe Shelley
6 William Wordsworth
6 Baha u llah
6 Aldous Huxley
5 Sri Ramana Maharshi
5 Plato
5 A B Purani
4 Vyasa
4 Robert Browning
4 Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 Walt Whitman
3 Swami Krishnananda
3 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
3 Jordan Peterson
3 Henry David Thoreau
3 Friedrich Schiller
3 Friedrich Nietzsche
3 Anonymous
2 Saint John of Climacus
2 Lewis Carroll
2 Lalla
2 Ken Wilber
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 George Van Vrekhem
2 Edgar Allan Poe
2 Alice Bailey
2 Al-Ghazali
34 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
31 The Golden Bough
29 Lovecraft - Poems
24 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
18 Labyrinths
17 Magick Without Tears
16 Record of Yoga
15 Yeats - Poems
13 Agenda Vol 08
12 Keats - Poems
11 Agenda Vol 10
10 Liber ABA
9 Metamorphoses
9 Agenda Vol 06
8 Questions And Answers 1953
8 City of God
8 Agenda Vol 09
8 Agenda Vol 07
7 The Synthesis Of Yoga
7 The Human Cycle
7 Talks
7 Shelley - Poems
7 Questions And Answers 1954
7 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
6 Wordsworth - Poems
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Practice of Psycho therapy
6 The Perennial Philosophy
6 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
6 The Bible
6 Some Answers From The Mother
6 Questions And Answers 1955
6 Mysterium Coniunctionis
6 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
6 Aion
6 Agenda Vol 04
6 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
5 The Phenomenon of Man
5 The Future of Man
5 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
5 Agenda Vol 13
5 Agenda Vol 11
5 Agenda Vol 03
4 Vishnu Purana
4 Vedic and Philological Studies
4 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
4 Let Me Explain
4 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
4 Emerson - Poems
4 Browning - Poems
3 Whitman - Poems
3 Walden
3 Twilight of the Idols
3 The Study and Practice of Yoga
3 The Secret Of The Veda
3 The Book of Certitude
3 Schiller - Poems
3 Savitri
3 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
3 Questions And Answers 1956
3 Maps of Meaning
3 Letters On Yoga IV
3 General Principles of Kabbalah
3 Agenda Vol 01
2 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
2 The Blue Cliff Records
2 The Alchemy of Happiness
2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
2 Selected Fictions
2 Preparing for the Miraculous
2 Letters On Yoga I
2 Kena and Other Upanishads
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
2 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
2 Alice in Wonderland
2 Agenda Vol 12
2 Agenda Vol 05
2 Agenda Vol 02
00.00 - Publishers Note A, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The present volume consists of the first seven parts of the book The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo which has run into twelve parts, as it stands now; of these twelve, parts five to nine are based upon talks of the Mother (given by Her to the children of the Ashram). In this volume the later parts of the Talks (8 and 9) could not be included: they are to wait for a subsequent volume. The talks, originally in French, were spread over a number of years, ending in about 1960. We are pleased to note that the Government of India have given us a grant to meet the cost of publication of this volume.
13 January 1972
00.00 - Publishers Note B, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The present volume consists of five parts of the book Yoga of Sri Aurobindo which has now run into twelve parts. Of these five parts, eight and nine are based on talks of the Mother given by Her, in French, to the children of the Ashram.
We are pleased to note that the Government of India have given us a grant to meet the cost of publication of this volume.
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We landed there, one day in February 1954, having emerged from our Guianese forest and a certain number of dead-end peripluses; we had knocked upon all the doors of the old world before reaching that point of absolute impossibility where it was truly necessary to embark into something else or once and for all put a bullet through the brain of this slightly superior ape. The first thing that struck us was this exotic Notre Dame with its burning incense sticks, its effigies and its prostrations in immaculate white: a Church. We nearly jumped into the first train out that very evening, bound straight for the Himalayas, or the devil. But we remained near Mother for nineteen years. What was it, then, that could have held us there? We had not left Guiana to become a little saint in white or to enter some new religion. 'I did not come upon earth to found an ashram; that would have been a poor aim indeed,' She wrote in 1934. What did all this mean, then, this 'Ashram' that was already registered as the owner of a great spiritual business, and this fragile, little silhouette at the center of all these zealous worshippers? In truth, there is no better way to smother someone than to worship him: he chokes beneath the weight of worship, which moreover gives the worshipper claim to ownership. 'Why do you want to worship?' She exclaimed. 'You have but to become! It is the laziness to become that makes one worship.' She wanted so much to make them
become this 'something else,' but it was far easier to worship and quiescently remain what one was.
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Mother, for She never ceased being a mystery right to her ninety-fifth year, and to this day still, challenges us from the other side of a wall of invisibility and keeps us floundering fully in the mystery - with a smile. She always smiles. But the mystery is not solved.
Perhaps this AGENDA is really an endeavor to solve the mystery in the company of a certain
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Day after day, for seventeen years, She sat with us to tell us of her impossible odyssey. Ah, how well we now understand why She needed such an 'outlaw' and an incorrigible heretic like us to comprehend a little bit of her impossible odyssey into 'nothing.' And how well we now understand her infinite patience with us, despite all our revolts, which ultimately were only the revolts of the old species against itself. The final revolt. 'It is not a revolt against the British government which any one can easily do. It is, in fact, a revolt against the whole universal Nature!' Sri Aurobindo had proclaimed fifty years earlier. She listened to our grievances, we went away and we returned. We wanted no more of it and we wanted still more. It was infernal and sublime, impossible and the sole possibility in this old, asphyxiating world. It was the only place one could go to in this barbedwired, mechanized world, where Cincinnati is just as crowded and polluted as Hong Kong. The new species is the last free place in the general Prison. It is the last hope for the earth. How we listened to her little faltering voice that seemed to return from afar, afar, after having crossed spaces and seas of the mind to let its little drops of pure, crystalline words fall upon us, words that make you see. We listened to the future, we touched the other thing. It was incomprehensible and yet filled with another comprehension. It eluded us on all sides, and yet it was dazzlingly obvious. The 'other species' was really radically other, and yet it was vibrating within, absolutely recognizable, as if it were THAT we had been seeking from age to age, THAT we had been invoking through all our illuminations, one after another, in Thebes as in Eleusis as everywhere we have toiled and grieved in the skin of a man. It was for THAT we were here, for that supreme Possible in the skin of a man at last. And then her voice grew more and more frail, her breath began gasping as though She had to traverse greater and greater distances to meet us. She was so alone to beat against the walls of the old prison. Many claws were out all around. Oh, we would so quickly have cut ourself free from all this fiasco to fly away with Her into the world's future. She was so tiny, stooped over, as if crushed beneath the 'spiritual' burden that all the old surrounding species kept heaping upon her. They didn't believe, no. For them, She was ninety-five years old + so many days. Can someone become a new species all alone? They even grumbled at Her: they had had enough of this unbearable Ray that was bringing their sordid affairs into the daylight. The Ashram was slowly closing over Her. The old world wanted to make a new, golden little Church, nice and quiet. No, no one wanted TO
BECOME. To worship was so much easier. And then they bury you, solemnly, and the matter is settled - the case is closed: now, no one need bother any more except to print some photographic haloes for the pilgrims to this brisk little business. But they are mistaken. The real business will take place without them, the new species will fly up in their faces - it is already flying in the face of the earth, despite all its isms in black and white; it is exploding through all the pores of this battered old earth, which has had enough of shams - whether illusory little heavens or barbarous little machines.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
At the age of nine Gadadhar was invested with the sacred thread. This ceremony conferred upon him the privileges of his brahmin lineage, including the worship of the Family Deity, Raghuvir, and imposed upon him the many strict disciplines of a brahmin's life. During the ceremony of investiture he shocked his relatives by accepting a meal cooked by his nurse, a sudra woman. His father would never have dreamt of doing such a thing But in a playful mood Gadadhar had once promised this woman that he would eat her food, and now he fulfilled his plighted word. The woman had piety and religious sincerity, and these were more important to the boy than the conventions of society.
Gadadhar was now permitted to worship Raghuvir. Thus began his first training in meditation. He so gave his heart and soul to the worship that the stone image very soon appeared to him as the living Lord of the Universe. His tendency to lose himself in contemplation was first noticed at this time. Behind his boyish light-heartedness was seen a deepening of his spiritual nature.
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In 1757 English traders laid the foundation of British rule in India. Gradually the Government was systematized and lawlessness suppressed. The Hindus were much impressed by the military power and political acumen of the new rulers. In the wake of the merchants came the English educators, and social reformers, and Christian missionaries — all bearing a culture completely alien to the Hindu mind. In different parts of the country educational institutions were set up and Christian churches established. Hindu young men were offered the heady wine of the Western culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and they drank it to the very dregs.
The first effect of the draught on the educated Hindus was a complete effacement from their minds of the time-honoured beliefs and traditions of Hindu society. They came to believe that there was no transcendental Truth; The world perceived by the senses was all that existed. God and religion were illusions of the untutored mind. True knowledge could be derived only from the analysis of nature. So atheism and agnosticism became the fashion of the day. The youth of India, taught in English schools, took malicious delight in openly breaking the customs and traditions of their society. They would do away with the caste-system and remove the discriminatory laws about food. Social reform, the spread of secular education, widow remarriage, abolition of early marriage — they considered these the panacea for the degenerate condition of Hindu society.
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The temple garden stands directly on the east bank of the Ganges. The northern section of the land and a portion to the east contain an orchard, flower gardens, and two small reservoirs. The southern section is paved with brick and mortar. The visitor arriving by boat ascends the steps of an imposing bathing-ghat which leads to the chandni, a roofed terrace, on either side of which stand in a row six temples of Siva. East of the terrace and the Siva temples is a large court, paved, rectangular in shape, and running north and south. Two temples stand in the centre of this court, the larger one, to the south and facing south, being dedicated to Kali, and the smaller one, facing the Ganges, to Radhakanta, that is, Krishna, the Consort of Radha. nine domes with spires surmount the temple of Kali, and before it stands the spacious natmandir, or music hall, the terrace of which is sup- ported by stately pillars. At the northwest and southwest
corners of the temple compound are two nahabats, or music towers, from which music flows at different times of day, especially at sunup, noon, and sundown, when the worship is performed in the temples. Three sides of the paved courtyard — all except the west — are lined with rooms set apart for kitchens, store-rooms, dining-rooms, and quarters for the temple staff and guests. The chamber in the northwest angle, just beyond the last of the Siva temples, is of special interest to us; for here Sri Ramakrishna was to spend a considerable part of his life. To the west of this chamber is a semicircular porch overlooking the river. In front of the porch runs a foot-path, north and south, and beyond the path is a large garden and, below the garden, the Ganges. The orchard to the north of the buildings contains the Panchavati, the banyan, and the bel-tree, associated with Sri Ramakrishna's spiritual practices. Outside and to the north of the temple compound proper is the kuthi, or bungalow, used by members of Rani Rasmani's family visiting the garden. And north of the temple garden, separated from it by a high wall, is a powder-magazine belonging to the British Government.
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Sri Ramakrishna welcomed the visitor with great respect, described to her his experiences and visions, and told her of people's belief that these were symptoms of madness. She listened to him attentively and said: "My son, everyone in this world is mad. Some are mad for money, some for creature comforts, some for name and fame; and you are mad for God." She assured him that he was passing through the almost unknown spiritual experience described in the scriptures as mahabhava, the most exalted rapture of divine love. She told him that this extreme exaltation had been described as manifesting itself through nineteen physical symptoms, including the shedding of tears, a tremor of the body, horripilation, perspiration, and a burning sensation. The Bhakti scriptures, she declared, had recorded only two instances of the experience, namely, those of Sri Radha and Sri Chaitanya.
Very soon a tender relationship sprang up between Sri Ramakrishna and the Brahmani, she looking upon him as the Baby Krishna, and he upon her as mother. Day after day she watched his ecstasy during the kirtan and meditation, his samadhi, his mad yearning; and she recognized in him a power to transmit spirituality to others. She came to the conclusion that such things were not possible for an ordinary devotee, not even for a highly developed soul. Only an Incarnation of God was capable of such spiritual manifestations. She proclaimed openly that Sri Ramakrishna, like Sri Chaitanya, was an Incarnation of God.
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Now one with Radha, he manifested the great ecstatic love, the mahabhava, which had found in her its fullest expression. Later Sri Ramakrishna said: "The manifestation in the same individual of the nineteen different kinds of emotion for God is called, in the books on bhakti, mahabhava. An ordinary man takes a whole lifetime to express even a single one of these. But in this body [meaning himself] there has been a complete manifestation of all nineteen."
The love of Radha is the precursor of the resplendent vision of Sri Krishna, and Sri Ramakrishna soon experienced that vision. The enchanting ing form of Krishna appeared to him and merged in his person. He became Krishna; he totally forgot his own individuality and the world; he saw Krishna in himself and in the universe. Thus he attained to the fulfilment of the worship of the Personal God. He drank from the fountain of Immortal Bliss. The agony of his heart vanished forever. He realized Amrita, Immortality, beyond the shadow of death.
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Keshab was the leader of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the two great movements that, during the latter part of the nineteenth century, played an important part in shaping the course of the renascence of India. The founder of the Brahmo movement had been the great Raja Rammohan Roy (1774-1833). Though born in an orthodox brahmin family, Rammohan Roy had shown great sympathy for Islam and Christianity. He had gone to Tibet in search of the Buddhist mysteries. He had extracted from Christianity its ethical system, but had rejected the divinity of Christ as he had denied the Hindu Incarnations. The religion of Islam influenced him, to a great extent, in the formulation of his monotheistic doctrines. But he always went back to the Vedas for his spiritual inspiration. The Brahmo Samaj, which he founded in 1828, was dedicated to the "worship and adoration of the Eternal, the Unsearchable, the Immutable Being, who is the Author and Preserver of the Universe". The Samaj was open to all without distinction of colour, creed, caste, nation, or religion.
The real organizer of the Samaj was Devendranath Tagore (1817-1905), the father of the poet Rabindranath. His physical and spiritual beauty, aristocratic aloofness, penetrating intellect, and poetic sensibility made him the foremost leader of the educated Bengalis. These addressed him by the respectful epithet of Maharshi, the "Great Seer". The Maharshi was a Sanskrit scholar and, unlike Raja Rammohan Roy, drew his inspiration entirely from the Upanishads. He was an implacable enemy of image worship ship and also fought to stop the infiltration of Christian ideas into the Samaj. He gave the movement its faith and ritual. Under his influence the Brahmo Samaj professed One Self-existent Supreme Being who had created the universe out of nothing, the God of Truth, Infinite Wisdom, Goodness, and Power, the Eternal and Omnipotent, the One without a Second. Man should love Him and do His will, believe in Him and worship Him, and thus merit salvation in the world to come.
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The other movement playing an important part in the nineteenth-century religious revival of India was the Arya Samaj. The Brahmo Samaj, essentially a movement of compromise with European culture, tacitly admitted the superiority of the West. But the founder of the Arya Samaj was a ' pugnacious Hindu sannyasi who accepted the challenge of Islam and Christianity and was resolved to combat all foreign influence in India. Swami Dayananda (1824-1883) launched this movement in Bombay in 1875, and soon its influence was felt throughout western India. The Swami was a great scholar of the Vedas, which he explained as being strictly monotheistic. He preached against the worship of images and re-established the ancient Vedic sacrificial rites. According to him the Vedas were the ultimate authority on religion, and he accepted every word of them as literally true. The Arya Samaj became a bulwark against the encroachments of Islam and Christianity, and its orthodox flavour appealed to many Hindu minds. It also assumed leadership in many movements of social reform. The caste-system became a target of its attack. Women it liberated from many of their social disabilities. The cause of education received from it a great impetus. It started agitation against early marriage and advocated the remarriage of Hindu widows. Its influence was strongest in the Punjab, the battle-ground of the Hindu and Islamic cultures. A new fighting attitude was introduced into the slumbering Hindu society. Unlike the Brahmo Samaj, the influence of the Arya Samaj was not confined to the intellectuals. It was a force that spread to the masses. It was a dogmatic movement intolerant of those who disagreed with its views, and it emphasized only one way, the Arya Samaj way, to the realization of Truth. Sri Ramakrishna met Swami Dayananda when the latter visited Bengal.
--- KESHAB CHANDRA SEN
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As he read in college the rationalistic Western philosophers of the nineteenth century, his boyhood faith in God and religion was unsettled. He would not accept religion on mere faith; he wanted demonstration of God. But very soon his passionate nature discovered that mere Universal Reason was cold and bloodless. His emotional nature, dissatisfied with a mere abstraction, required a concrete support to help him in the hours of temptation. He wanted an external power, a guru, who by embodying perfection in the flesh would still the commotion of his soul. Attracted by the magnetic personality of Keshab, he joined the Brahmo Samaj and became a singer in its choir. But in the Samaj he did not find the guru who could say that he had seen God.
In a state of mental conflict and torture of soul, Narendra came to Sri Ramakrishna at Dakshineswar. He was then eighteen years of age and had been in college two years. He entered the Master's room accompanied by some light-hearted friends. At Sri Ramakrishna's request he sang a few songs, pouring his whole soul into them, and the Master went into samadhi. A few minutes later Sri Ramakrishna suddenly left his seat, took Narendra by the hand, and led him to the screened verandah north of his room. They were alone. Addressing Narendra most tenderly, as if he were a friend of long acquaintance, the Master said: "Ah! You have come very late. Why have you been so unkind as to make me wait all these days? My ears are tired of hearing the futile words of worldly men. Oh, how I have longed to pour my spirit into the heart of someone fitted to receive my message!" He talked thus, sobbing all the time. Then, standing before Narendra with folded hands, he addressed him as Narayana, born on earth to remove the misery of humanity. Grasping Narendra's hand, he asked him to come again, alone, and very soon. Narendra was startled. "What is this I have come to see?" he said to himself. "He must be stark mad. Why, I am the son of Viswanath Dutta. How dare he speak this way to me?"
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
refer to the ninety-one chapters of this little master-
piece, or even to the numerous volumes he has penned,
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O my darling! We should not have spent ninety
Pounds in that Three Weeks in Paris!...Slash the
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securing freedom have turned nine out of ten English-
men into Slaves, obliged to report their movements to
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna have redirected the thoughts of the denationalized Hindus to the spiritual ideals of their forefa thers. During the latter part of the nineteenth century his was the time-honoured role of the Saviour of the Eternal Religion of the Hindus. His teachings played an important part in liberalizing the minds of orthodox pundits and hermits. Even now he is the silent force that is moulding the spiritual destiny of India. His great disciple, Swami Vivekananda, was the first Hindu missionary to preach the message of Indian culture to the enlightened minds of Europe and America. The full consequence of Swami Vivekn and work is still in the womb of the future.
May this translation of the first book of its kind in the religious history of the world, being the record of the direct words of a prophet, help stricken humanity to come nearer to the Eternal Verity of life and remove dissension and quarrel from among the different faiths!
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
eighty-five or ninety people (the number varies as people come
and go).
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
for nine hours on the sari.
My dear little child,
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This morning after nine o 'clock X came to my room.
He advised me to reject hostile suggestions and so on.
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Today I prayed to You with my body for nine hours.
Now I have become regular again in all my work as
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Today I prayed to You with my body for nine hours.
Mother, for the past two days I have been feeling a
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Today I worked nine hours on the blouse.
Little smile, you must not go on working to the point of fatigue.
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you mean by "all day"? I hope it is not more than nine hours,
because that was already a long stretch and ought not to be
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Today I worked on the sari for nine hours.
Then the work must be proceeding very fast. You have a marvellous capacity for work, my dear little child.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If you worked regularly eight to nine hours a day, you would
be hungry and you would eat well, you would feel sleepy and
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
one has nine chances out of ten of saying something stupid when
one speaks.
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Series nine
Series nine
Letters to a Young Teacher
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Series nine - To a Young Teacher
Sometimes, when we are free to do so, we climb up to this
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Series nine - To a Young Teacher
The two are equally true and they ought to be felt simultaneously. But human egoism always has the tendency to take rather
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Series nine - To a Young Teacher
having chosen the method, you must use your intelligent will
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Series nine - To a Young Teacher
always want to take and to receive. These people are selfish and
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Series nine - To a Young Teacher
The force and the light received by the more developed
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Series nine - To a Young Teacher
Sweet Mother,
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Series nine - To a Young Teacher
If you are speaking of calendars with photographs, it is preferable to cut out the photos, and if you do not want to keep them,
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"The zeal for the Lord hath eaten me up." Such has indeed been the case with Pascal, almost literally. The fire that burned in him was too ardent and vehement for the vehicle, the material instrument, which was very soon used up and reduced to ashes. At twenty-four he was already a broken man, being struck with paralysis and neuras thenia; he died at the comparatively early age of 39, emulating, as it were, the life career of his Lord the Christ who died at 33. The Fire martyrised the body, but kindled and brought forth experiences and realisations that save and truths that abide. It was the Divine Fire whose vision and experience he had on the famous night of 23 November 1654 which brought about his final and definitive conversion. It was the same fire that had blazed up in his brain, while yet a boy, and made him a precocious genius, a marvel of intellectual power in the exact sciences. At 12 this prodigy discovered by himself the 32nd proposition of Euclid, Book I. At sixteen he wrote a treatise on conic sections. At nineteen he invented a calculating machine which, without the help of any mathematical rule or process, gave absolutely accurate results. At twenty-three he published his experiments with vacuum. At twenty-five he conducted the well-known experiment from the tower of St. Jacques, proving the existence of atmospheric pressure. His studies in infinitesimal calculus were remarkably creative and original. And it might be said he was a pioneer in quite a new branch of mathematics, viz., the mathematical theory of probability. We shall see presently how his preoccupation with the mathematics of chance and probability coloured and reinforced his metaphysics and theology.
But the pressure upon his dynamic and heated brain the fiery zeal in his mindwas already proving too much and he was advised medically to take complete rest. Thereupon followed what was known as Pascal's mundane lifea period of distraction and dissipation; but this did not last long nor was it of a serious nature. The inner fire could brook no delay, it was eager and impatient to englobe other fields and domains. Indeed, it turned to its own field the heart. Pascal became initiated into the mystery of Faith and Grace. Still he had to pass through a terrible period of dejection and despair: the life of the world had given him no rest or relaxation, it served only to fill his cup of misery to the brim. But the hour of final relief was not long postponed: the Grace came to him, even as it came to Moses or St. Paul as a sudden flare of fire which burnt up the Dark Night and opened out the portals of Morning Glory.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
age of nineteen.
Sweet Mother,
0 1958-05-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
I have noticed that in at least ninety- nine cases out of a hundred, it is an excuse people give to themselves. I have seen that practically, in the case of almost all the people who write to me saying, I am being violently attacked by hostile forces, its an excuse they are giving. It means that certain things in their nature do not want to yield, so they put all the blame on the hostile forces.
As a matter of fact, my tendency is more and more towards something in which the role of these hostile forces will be reduced to that of an examinerwhich means that they are there to test the sincerity of your spiritual quest. These elements have a reality in their action and for the workthis is their great reality but when you go beyond a certain region, it all grows dim to such a degree that it is no longer so well defined, so distinct. In the occult world, or rather if you look at the world from the occult point of view, these hostile forces are very real, their action is very real, quite concrete, and their attitude towards the divine realization is positively hostile; but as soon as you go beyond this region and enter into the spiritual world where there is no longer anything but the Divine in all things, and where there is nothing undivine, then these hostile forces become part of the total play and can no longer be called hostile forces: it is only an attitude that they have adoptedor more precisely, it is only an attitude adopted by the Divine in his play.
0 1960-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo said that the true or yogic reason for sleep is to put the consciousness back into contact with Sat-Chit-Ananda (I used to do this without knowing it). For some people the contact is established immediately, while for others it takes eight, nine, ten hours to do it. But really, normally you should not wake up till the contact has been established, and thats why its very bad to wake up in an artificial way (with an alarm clock, for example), because then the night is wasted.
As for me, my night is now organized. I go to bed at 8 oclock and get up at 4, which makes for a very long night, and its sliced into three parts. And I get up punctually at 4 in the morning. But Im always awake ten or fifteen minutes beforehand, and I review all that has happened during the night, the dreams, the various activities, etc., so that when I get up, I am fully active.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
He lives in a region which is largely a kind of vital vibration which penetrates the mind and makes use of the imagination (essentially its the same region most so-called cultured men live in). I dont mean to be severe or critical, but its a world that likes to play to itself. Its not really what we could call histrionics, not thatits rather a need to dramatize to oneself. So it can be an heroic drama, it can be a musical drama, it can be a tragic drama, or quite simply a poetic drama and ninety- nine times out of a hundred, its a romantic drama. And then, these soul states (!) come replete with certain spoken expressions (laughing) Im holding myself back from saying certain things!You know, its like a theatricals store where you rent scenery and costumes. Its all ready and waitinga little call, and there it comes, ready-made. For a particular occasion, they say, Youre the woman of my life (to be repeated as often as necessary), and for another they say Its a whole world, a whole mode of human life which I suddenly felt I was holding in my arms. Yes, like a decoration, an ornament, a nicetyan ornament of existence, to keep it from being flat and dull and the best means the human mind has found to get out of its tamas. Its a kind of artifice.
So for persons who are severe and grave (there are two such examples here, but its not necessary to name them) There are beings who are grave, so serious, so sincere, who find it hypocritical; and when it borders on certain (how shall I put it?) vital excesses, they call it vice. There are others who have lived their entire lives in a yogic or religious discipline, and they see this as an obstacle, illusion, dirtyness (Mother makes a gesture of rejecting with disgust), but above all, its this terrible illusion that prevents you from nearing the Divine. And when I saw the way these two people here reacted, in fact, I said to myself, but you see, I FELT So strongly that this too is the Divine, it too is a way of getting out of something that has had its place in evolution, and still has a place, individually, for certain individuals. Naturally, if you remain there, you keep turning in circles; it will always be (not eternally, but indefinitely) the woman of my life, to take that as a symbol. But once youre out of it, you see that this had its place, its utilityit made you emerge from a kind of very animal-like wisdom and quietude that of the herd or of the being who sees no further than his daily round. It was necessary. We mustnt condemn it, we mustnt use harsh words.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They say I have become deaf. I believe its the Lords grace, because when I make an effort to hear what is being said to me, nine times out of ten its completely useless and its absolutely stupid. Its better not to hear!
So there, mon petitand I said I wasnt going to talk! Its always the same thing.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, no, no. Most of the time in sleep, with very few exceptions, one is in contact with all that rises up from the subconscient: a cerebral subconscient, an emotive subconscient, a material subconscient; this is what produces ninety- nine percent of the dreams people have. Sometimesusually the mind goes wandering, but ninety- nine and a half percent of the time, one remembers nothing when it returns, because the link is not properly established.
The purpose of sleep is to re-establish contact with the consciousness of Sachchidananda. But I dont think one person in a hundred does so! They enter into unconsciousness far more than into Sachchidananda.
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But one day when my brother had disobeyed him (Matteo must have been ten or eleven, and I perhaps nine or ten), I came into the dining room and saw my father sitting on a sofa with my brother across his knees; he had pulled down his trousers and was spanking him, I dont know what for. It wasnt a very serious spanking, but still. I came in, drew myself up to my full height and said, Papa, if you ever do that again, I am leaving this house! And with such authority, mon petit! He stopped and never did it again.
Some very funny stories!
0 1962-02-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I cant express it the minute you try to express it, most of it evaporates. And even if I did tell what little I could, surely a good nine and a half people out of ten would say, Shes batty! If I spoke to the people here that way, they would probably say, Shes soft in the head!
Strange. This morning it was strange, for both were there: the feeling of physical weaknessalmost a physical decomposition and AT THE SAME TIME, SIMULTANEOUSLY (not even one behind the other, but both together), a glory of divine splendor.
0 1962-03-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
nine years later, Mother will remember and on December 11, 1971, find it, on the contrary, very good to say for the time had come.
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0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont even say not to cremate people, because in AT LEAST ninety- nine cases out of a hundred its the best thing to do.
The only solution is for people to grow wise, and theyre not wise. They accept a law, a principle, and then, having no wisdom, need to follow it blindly.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Is it different for men? I dont know. Sri Aurobindos case was quite special, and apart from him I dont see any convincing example. But generally speaking, what is most developed in a man, along with the mind, is the physical consciousness; the vital is very impulsive, practically ungoverned. Thats my experience of the hundreds and hundreds of men I have met. Theres normally a physical strength built up through games and exercises, and side by side a more or less advanced, but primarily mental development, very mental. The vital is terribly impulsive and barely organized, except in artists, and even there. I lived among artists for ten years and found this ground to be mostly fallow. I mingled with all the great artists of the time, I was like a kid sister to them (it was at the turn of the century, with the Universal Exposition in 1900; and these were the leading artists of the epoch); so I was by far the youngest, much younger than any of themthey were all thirty, thirty-five, forty years old, while I was nineteen or twenty. Well I was much more advanced in their own fieldnot in what I was producing (I was a perfectly ordinary artist), but from the viewpoint of consciousness: observations, experiences, studies.
I am not sure, but it seems to me that the problem of consciousness ought to come first.
0 1962-08-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Then Mother speaks of the collective meditation held on August 15, Sri Aurobindos ninetieth birthday.)
Mon petit, we had a meditation here on the 15th, at ten oclock.2 At a quarter to ten, I was sitting here at the table in a total silence. And then I cant say Sri Aurobindo came, for he is always here, but he manifested in a special way. Concretely, in the subtle physical, he became so tall that, sitting cross-legged as they do here, he covered the whole compoundeven extended a bit beyond it! He was literally sitting upon the compound; so to the extent that the people meditating were not closed, they were all inside him. He was sitting like that (not on their heads!), and I could feel (I was here, you see) the FRICTION of his presence in the subtle physicalan utterly physical friction! And I saw him (as you well know, I am not shut up in here [the body]), I saw him sitting there, very tall and perfectly proportioned; and then he started gently, gently descendingthis descent is what caused the frictiongently, very gently, so as not to give people a shock. Then he settled there and stayed for a little more than half an hour, a few minutes more, like that, absolutely still, but fully concentrated on all the people they were inside him.
0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is also here the sister of the old portly doctor, she is (I think) five or six years older than Ishe is getting on for ninety. She has been dying away too, for several months. The doctors (who dont know the first thing in these matters) had declared she would die after a few days. Wait a little, I told them, this woman knows how to enter a state of rest, she has a very peaceful consciousness it will last long, it may last for years. She is in bed, she cant move much, but she lives. She too lives out of habit.
In reality, the body should be able to last MUCH LONGER than human beings think. They knock it about: as soon as someone is unwell, they drug or knock his body about, they take away that kind of calm vegetative serenity that can make it last a very long time. The way trees take a very long time to die.
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Simply for want of training. If you train yourself, you remember quite well. There are small holes in the consciousness, gaps, and when you go through such a gap you forget. You may suddenly get a fleeting impression of something, and then it eludes youoh, its gone! Only, it takes a long time to train yourself; you shouldnt be in a hurry or too busy. I went through it at a time when I was bedridden for five months. I had nothing to do. (You cant keep reading all the timeduring those five months I read some eight hundred books no, nine hundred and fifty! But it tires the eyes.) So the rest of the time (you cant sleep too much either when youre in bed all the time), I trained myself: that was when I learned to have completely conscious nights. But its a discipline. When you wake up, either in the middle of the night or in the morning, dont budge, stay absolutely still, concentrated, very silent, and PULL the memory back. For one month, two months, you seem to get nowhere; after six months it begins to work; and eventually you remember everything. At the end, you do the opposite movement, in the sense that whenever you have an interesting dream, you wake up: you learn to wake up in the middle of the night every time you have a vision or a dream, or some activity (there are various cases), so that you can remember, and then you repeat it to your consciousness (once youre awake, you repeat it to yourself two or three or ten times, till youre certain not to forget), and then off you go again.
But you cant do that if, when morning comes, you have to leap out of your bed and attend to fifty thousand pressing matters. It isnt indispensable for the yoga, not at all. Its a hobby, rather, something to amuse yourself with.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, listen (this is not meant to be published or told), I dont know if Ive told you already. I was nine or ten years old, I was running with some friends in the forest of Fontainebleau (Ive told this story somewhere). The forest is rather dense, so you cant see very far ahead. We were running, and speeding along as I was, I didnt see I was coming to the edge overhanging the road. The place where we were was about ten feet above the road (more than a story high), and the road was paved with stonesfreshly paved. And we were running. I was racing ahead, the others were behind. Well, Id built up such momentum that I couldnt stopwhoosh! I went sailing into the air. I was ten, eleven at the most, mind you, with no notion of the miraculous or the marvelous, nothing, nothing I was just flung into the air. And I felt something supporting me, holding me up, and I was literally SET DOWN on the ground, on the stones. I got up (I found it perfectly natural, you understand!): not a scratch, not a speck of dust, nothing, absolutely intact. I fell down very, very slowly. Then everyone rushed up to see. Oh, its nothing! I said, I am all right. And I left it at that. But the impression lingered. That feeling of something carrying me (gesture of a slow fall, like a leaf falling in stages with slight pauses): I fell down that slow. And the material proof was there, it was no illusion since I was unscathed the road was paved with stones (you know the flint stones of France?): not a scratch, nothing. Not a speck of dust.
The soul was very alive at the time, and with all its strength it resisted the intrusion of the material logic4 of the worldso it seemed to me perfectly natural. I simply thought, No. Accidents cant happen to me.
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now, it has life, you understand. It has life. And its the correct drawing, I mean it should be a square (not a rectangle as you did), a square divided into nine smaller squares. It is the image of the realization (not realizationgestation), the birth of Mahalakshmis consciousness in Matter, that is to say, the form of divine love in Matter.
(Mother pores over the diagram for a long time. It should be noted that the figures of the diagram must be read and written in a particular order to have their full power.)
0 1963-06-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He came to earth in America (thats already a sign), but his parents are Indians. Entirely conceived and formed, all nine months, in America. And born in America. He spent the first four or five months of his life in America.
His mother, before marrying, told me, I will have a child only when I want it and, I hope, in the way I want it. It was no accident.
0 1963-06-26a, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Then Mother starts writing from memory Satprems yantram with its nine figures, in the prescribed order. A few days earlier, Mother had done it without a single mistake; today she stops in the middle:)
Impossible to remember anything in the ordinary way (not that I try, either). The things I have to remember come spontaneously: they become living and present, they have a reality.
0 1964-01-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Khrushchev will be dismissed nine months later, on October 15.
See Addendum
0 1964-01-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now, according to what I have seen and tested (with little tests done casually), there are certainlyoh, being EXTREMELY generous, patient and (what shall I say?) merciful there are a good third who are here only because they are comfortable: you work if you want to, you dont work if you dont want to, you always eat, you always have shelter and clothes, and, ultimately, you sort of do as you please (you must pretend to obey, thats all). And if youre denied a convenience, you start grumblingYoga is simply out of the picture! Its a hundred thousand miles away from their consciousness (their mouths are full of words, but its only lip service). Sometimes you have a little scruple in order to appear to be doing some work. And some have grown very old or come here because they have become unfit for life outside so we cant send them away! (It was wrong to accept them I must say I have little to do with that acceptance: Ill say no, and ninety- nine times out of a hundred, theyll pretend they heard yes, but anyway thats life.) So I cant send them away. But I am going to make life ascetic for them: one wont be here to be comfortable anymore then for what?
Well, well see. We have started restrictionsoh, theyre not very serious, but anyway
0 1965-02-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Those things about mummies, I knew them when I was nine or ten, they are memories from that time. I would find again some objects I had used in the past (thats how I was later able to rediscover the track). I had at leastat leastthree incarnations in Egypt (three that have been found).
But my first contact took place when I was quite small, nine or ten, and it was with that mummy at the Guimet Museum: I was speaking about that experience.
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0 1965-06-05, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its put in a childlike way, but its so true and so simple! The more you see things in detail, the more you notice that ninety- nine times out of a hundred, even more than that, if you are tense or hurt, or pained or bothered, its simply because things arent exactly as you had told yourself they should bethis is for intelligent people; for less intelligent people, its a sort of desire: they want things to be that way (they feel it much more than they think it), and then when things happen in another way, oh, they get a shock. But if they had wanted it beforehand, it would have been a pleasureexactly the same occurrence. The occurrence would be exactly the same. If they had wanted it beforehand, they would have said, Ah, at last this has been realized, and just because they didnt think of it, because they didnt see it: Oh, how horrible! Almost everywhere and almost constantly thats how it is. I see it more and more in the small movement of every minute.
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0 1965-06-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We are putting together (what can I call it?) a set of rules (oh, thats an ugly word) for admission to the Ashram. Yes! Not that if you accept the rules youre admitted, its not that, but when someone is admitted, we tell him, But, you know, here is (when he is potentially admitted), here is what you are committing yourself to by becoming a member of the Ashram. Because requests for admission are pouring in like locusts, and at least ninety- nine times out of a hundred, its from people who want to come here to be comfortable and rest and do nothingone in a hundred comes because he has a spiritual aspiration (oh, and even then its mixed). So they shouldnt tell us afterwards (because weve had such experiences), Oh, but I didnt know it was that way, with the excuse that they hadnt been told. For instance, I didnt know we werent allowed to (Mother questions herself for a moment) What isnt allowed? (Then, laughing, she points to Satprem:) Smoking isnt allowed. And drinking alcohol isnt allowed, being married isnt allowed, except nominally, and so on. And then you have to work, and all your desires arent automatically satisfied. So they send me letters, But you told me that (oh, things I never said, naturally), at such-and-such a date (you understand, sufficiently far back for me not to remember!), you told me that And from what they write I see very clearly what I said and how they turned it upside down. So now well prepare a paper that well give them to read, and well ask them, Have you clearly understood? And when they have said theyve clearly understood and have signed, at least well keep the paper, and when they start being a nuisance, we can show it to them and tell them, Beg your pardon, we told you this wasnt a (whats the word?) an Eden where you can stay without doing anything and where your bread is buttered on both sides!
So I put as first condition (I wrote it in English): the sole aim of life is to dedicate oneself to the divine realization (I didnt put it in these terms, but thats the idea). You must first (you may deceive yourself, but that doesnt make any difference), first be convinced that this is what you want and you want this aloneprimo. Then Nolini told me that the second condition should be that my absolute authority had to be recognized. I said, Not like that!, we should put that Sri Aurobindos absolute authority is recognized (we can add [laughing], represented by me, because he cannot speak, of course, except to meto me he speaks very clearly, but others dont hear!). Then there are many other things, I dont remember, and finally a last paragraph that goes like this (Mother looks for a note). Previously, I remember, Sri Aurobindo had also put together a little paper to give people, but its outdated (it was about not quarreling with the police! And what else, I dont rememberits outdated). But I didnt want to put prohibitions in, because prohibitions first of all, its an encouragement to revolt, always, and then there is a good proportion of characters who, when they are forbidden to do something, immediately feel an urge to do itthey might not even have thought of it otherwise, but they just have to be told about it to Ah, but I do as I like. All right.
0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night, for a long time, we went to all sorts of places unknown to me: towns, countrysides, forests, etc. It lasted a very long time. And once, we were there, near a forest (near a road that crossed the forest) and we were busy and talking when all of a sudden, he leaped to his feet. You know, he never wears any clothes, so to speak; when I saw him the first time in his house (his supramental house), in the subtle physical, he was without clothes; but its a kind of vibrant matter: its very material, very concrete, and it has a sort of color that isnt a color, which is a bit golden and radiantit doesnt send out rays, but it vibrates with a radiant light. And at least nine times out of ten he is that way; generally, when we are together for some work, he is that way. Last night he was that way. So then I was busy (we had arranged something and I was busy) when, suddenly, I see him leap to his feet and run a hundred-meter sprint. At first I was shocked, I said to myself, Whats this?! And with great ease, you know: he darted off, then stopped a few minutes, and then ran back. Then he stopped again, and went off a third time on a sprint: like the 100-meter race they run. But the third time, he had grown tall, with a slim body. Grown tall as if to demonstrate to me: this is the way the body will be transformed. He had grown very tall, very strong.
It was very interesting and absolutely unexpected.
0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ah, yes, I fully agree, and scrupulously, because it represents a formation. At least ninety percent of the doctors have goodwill, they want to cure you (some dont care one bit, but not many ninety percent of them want to cure you), so their formation should be given full power. It shouldnt be contradicted because it loses all its effect and then its no use.
(the hour strikes)
0 1965-08-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You answered it was nine point eight hundred and seventy-five miles?!
(Mother laughs) Exactly!
0 1965-10-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I hear at the same time. I dont hear what I play: I hear something else. So when suddenly something creaks, it no longer works! Its probably because it hasnt been played for a long time. I havent played for nine months the last time was
In December.
0 1965-11-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So then, they think they are pulling the Supramental down and they pull some little vital entity that leads them on and afterwards plays nasty tricks on them. Thats what happens most often, ninety- nine times out of a hundred.
A little individuality, a vital entity that puts on a big show and creates dramatic effects, lighting effects; so the poor devil who has pulled is bedazzled, he says, Heres the Supramental! and he falls into a hole.
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And when people pull down, oh, its much more than ninety- nine times out of a hundredits one case in a million in which the True Thing happens to be pulled down; which proves the person was ready. Otherwise, whats pulled down is always the Vital: the appearance, the dramatic representation of the Thing, not the Thing itself.
Pulling down is always an egoistic movement. Its a distortion of aspiration. True aspiration involves a givinga self-givingwhile pulling down is wanting for oneself. Even if you have in your thought a vaster aspiration the earth, the universeit makes no difference, those are mental activities.
0 1965-12-28, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My nightly work begins around nine, till four in the morning, and its divided into three groups of activities (nightly activities). The last group is generally between two and four in the morning, and thats when I deal with all the people! That, mon petit! Its quite comicalits not always too pleasant, but still its comical, oh! I see people as they are (Mother laughs); not as they think they are or want to be seen: I see them as they are.
I get information like that, all the time.
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But when nobody is there or I am alone, or when I dont speak or I am not busy with other people, its the inner lesson: the whole change in the vibration and how the world is organized. This morning, it was really extraordinarily amusing to see the mass of things that lie behind this appearance, an appearance that seems complicated enough as it is, but its nothing! Its thin, flimsy, without complexity in comparison with the MASS of things behind, which (drilling gesture) which bore their way through to reach the surface. Its amusing. But certainly ninety- nine people in a hundred would be seized with panic if they knew, if they saw. I had always been told (I read it, Sri Aurobindo often said it to me, Thon too often said it to me, so did Madame Thon) that its the Grace that keeps people from knowing. Because if they knew, they would be terrified! All, but all the things that are constantly there, moving behindbehind the appearancesall the complexities that are the true causes of or the instruments for all those small events, which to us are absolutely unimportant, but because of which one day you feel everything is harmonious, and another day you feel it takes a labor to do anything at all. And thats how it is. And naturally, when you know, you have the key. But if you know before you have the key, its a little frightening. I think that when people take leave of their senses, its because they are put in contact with the vibrations before having the knowledge, the sufficient knowledge, the sufficient state of consciousness.
There, weve wasted all our time!
0 1966-05-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
ninety percent subjective.
ninety percent subjective. Regularly, for more than a year, every night at the same time and in the same way, I entered the vital to do a special work there. It wasnt the result of my own will: I was destined to do it. It was something I had to do. So then, the entry into the vital, for instance, is often described: there are passages where beings are stationed to stop you from entering (all those things are much talked about in all books of occultism). Well, I know from experience (not a passing one: an experience I learned repeatedly) that that opposition or ill will is ninety percent psychological, in the sense that if you dont anticipate it or dont fear it, or if there is nothing in you thats afraid of the unknown and none of those movements of apprehension and so on, its like a shadow in a picture, or a projected image: it has no concrete reality.
I did have one or two real battles in the vital, yes, while going to rescue someone who had gone astray. And both times I got blows, and in the morning when I woke up, there was a mark (Mother points to her right eye). Well, I know that in both cases, there was in me, not a fear (I never had any fear there), but it was because I expected it. The idea that it may well happen and my expecting it caused the blow to come. I knew that in a definite way. And if I had been in what I might call my normal state of inner certitude, it couldnt have touched me, it couldnt. And I had that apprehension because Madame Thon had lost an eye in a battle in the vital and had told me so; so (laughing) it gave me the idea that it was possible, since it had happened to her! But when I am in my state (I cant even say that, its not personal: its a way of being), when you have the true way of being, when you are a little conscious and have the true way of being, it CANNOT touch you.
0 1966-05-25, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding the conversation of May 18 in which Mother said that ninety percent of the visions and dreams in the vital, or even on the other, higher planes, are subjective.)
All the same, there is something disturbing about that almost total subjectivity.
0 1966-06-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Maybe what you want to write is very human? I mean, very much in the human consciousness: the human reactions, human perceptions. Because if thats the case I find it so useless, futile, uninteresting, absurd, and, ninety- nine times out of a hundred, untrue, false. So then, maybe I am responsible! I find it sickening, you know, now that there is that sort of sweetness a sweetness Its not drowsy, it has nothing to do with inertia; its a sort of (same gesture of a pendulum), its like letting oneself flow along, but on a luminous stream. So, ever since this has been there, all human stories, all their stories in all fields, from politics to artistic creation and all that, oh, I find it terribly futile and so ridiculously agitated.
My idea (if I have one), and what makes me persist in writing, is that all that I have said in an intellectual way, which appeals to peoples intellectual consciousness, Id like to say it in a deeper way, which is a rhythm (people call it poetry, but as for me I dont understand a thing about poetry). What Id like is to express an inner rhythm, to touch another layer of the being, deeper than those things of the intellect. The Adventure of Consciousness appeals to peoples intellectual consciousness, its to make them understand. But what Id like is to touch something else. To say the same thing with an inner rhythm images.
0 1966-08-10, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A Polytechnician3 came here with R. [the architect of the future Auroville]. There were nine who came with R.; among them is a Polytechnician who sent me a note asking, Are you God?
I had seen the man two days earlier: he is very fine. If I hadnt seen him I wouldnt have answered, but as I saw him and he happens to be fine, I suspected from the way he asked the question that he must be a-gentleman-born-in-a-Catholic-family. So I answered, This question may be asked of EVERY human being, and the answer is, yes, potentially. And out of consideration for his goodwill, I added (I dont remember the exact words): This is the task everyone must accomplish.
0 1966-09-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am always getting letters from people who want or dont want to do something and who tell me, My opinion is that this is true and that isnt. And always, more than ninety- nine times in a hundred, its false, silly.
One very clearly feelsits visible, anyway that the opposite opinion has as much value and its simply a question of attitude, thats all. And naturally, the egos preferences get always mixed up in it: you prefer things to be that way, so your opinion is that they are that way.
0 1966-09-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But at night, I sometimes work till 10:30 now, and it was agreed that I was supposed to retire before nine. Theres no time left. And in my case, its not sleeping, its my real work that I do at nightand I cant. In the afternoon too, I havent any time left: I am supposed to have lunch at 11:30; I have it at 12:30, so I havent any time left because I have to wash and resume work at 3. And I have never finished by 5. I tried to keep 5: 30 to 6:30 to myselfits not possible. It eats into all my hours of peace and quiet. Yet the work isnt done! If it were, I wouldnt mind, but its not done, there is still at least twice as much to be doneeveryone protests, everyone complains.
Theres no use grumbling!
0 1966-10-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, ninety- nine people out of a hundred are like that. And its more or less subconscious, meaning its not a thought they have quite clearly, so they tell you, No, thats not true!they arent aware of it, they arent aware of what goes on inside them.
(Then Mother gives Satprem flowers. She looks weary.)
0 1967-02-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And looking at it from this angle, you realize the total absurdity of judgments, which are more than ninety- nine per cent based on old habits: the old habits of what you regard as good or bad, useful or harmful, and so on. An automatic judgment, automatic acceptance or refusal
That story of little S. has taught me much. Because I saw that little girl this morning. She is black-skinned, of courseshe was all luminous. All luminous. And I dont think she is conscious of it (perhaps only insofar as Y. has flattered her thats always possible), but its very spontaneous in her, she wasnt trying to put on airs, she didnt come to strike a pose: she simply came to take the fruit and flower for Thoth. She was here in front of my table; when I saw her come in I said, Strange. This little girl who is so black-skinned she was clearer than others.
0 1967-04-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was followed by another peculiar experience. Some people in Bombay have taken it into their heads to prepare a big event for 1968, when I turn ninety (supposedly ninety!). So they have prepared brochures which they are going to distribute to lots of people and so on I am quite indifferent to it, but they sent it to me for my approval. I stuck it in a corner and didnt bother about it. They returned to the charge, went and saw Nolini, said they were in a hurry because its a big work and they needed to have it right away, so I shouldnt keep them waiting. So Nolini started reading out the brochure. And as he was reading (they included all that Sri Aurobindo said on the universal Mother, the Mothers Aspects and all that, the whole old storygenerally it leaves me quite indifferent), but while he was reading, when he gave all the quotations and sentences, there was a kind of sensation (I dont know how to explain it), a sensation of imposed limitation, with a malaise, and something that wanted to break those limits. I didnt say anything. I said, I dont want to concern myself with this, do what you like, its no business of mine. And he answered along those lines, politely. But I found it very interesting, because that sense of malaise, of constrictionlimitation, constrictionwas very, very strong. So I said, Whats going on? What is it, why do I feel this way? What is it? As I said, usually I let myself float in an indifference, like thatnot indifference, but (vast gesture). Instead of that, it was as if someone wanted to shut me in something. Then I looked, and the memory of the experience [of the pulsations] came back, and I understood. Its interesting.
All this is felt in the body; all the experiences are in the body, in thiswhich, besides I sometimes look (laughing), I look to see (I look from above), to see if theres still a form! (Mother laughs) Its peculiar. And why does it remain like this? Oh, I have stopped asking this question too. Its like that its like that as the effect of a supreme Grace, because if it were otherwise it would be intolerableintolerable for everybody.
0 1967-05-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know it is the Russian explanation of the recent trend to spirituality and mysticism that it is a phenomenon of capitalist society in its decadence. But to read an economic cause, conscious or unconscious, into all phenomena of mans history is part of the Bolshevik gospel born of the fallacy of Karl Marx. Mans nature is not so simple and one-chorded as all thatit has many lines and each line produces a need of his life. The spiritual or mystic line is one of them and man tries to satisfy it in various ways, by superstitions of all kinds, by ignorant religionism, by spiritism, demonism and what not, in his more enlightened parts by spiritual philosophy, the higher occultism and the rest, at his highest by the union with the All, the Eternal or the Divine. The tendency towards the search of spirituality began in Europe with a recoil from the nineteenth centurys scientific materialism, a dissatisfaction with the pretended all-sufficiency of the reason and the intellect and a feeling out for something deeper. That was a pre-war [of 1914] phenomenon, and began when there was no menace of Communism and the capitalistic world was at its height of insolent success and triumph, and it came rather as a revolt against the materialistic bourgeois life and its ideals, not as an attempt to serve or sanctify it. It has been at once served and opposed by the post-war disillusionmentopposed because the post-war world has fallen back either on cynicism and the life of the senses or on movements like Fascism and Communism; served because with the deeper minds the dissatisfaction with the ideals of the past or the present, with all mental or vital or material solutions of the problem of life has increased and only the spiritual path is left. It is true that the European mind having little light on these things dallies with vital will-o-the-wisps like spiritism or theosophy or falls back upon the old religionism; but the deeper minds of which I speak either pass by them or pass through them in search of a greater Light. I have had contact with many and the above tendencies are very clear. They come from all countries and it was only a minority who hailed from England or America. Russia is differentunlike the others it has lingered in mediaeval religionism and not passed through any period of revoltso when the revolt came it was naturally anti-religious and atheistic. It is only when this phase is exhausted that Russian mysticism can revive and take not a narrow religious but the spiritual direction. It is true that mysticism revers, turned upside down, has made Bolshevism and its endeavour a creed rather than a political theme and a search for the paradisal secret millennium on earth rather than the building of a purely social structure. But for the most part Russia is trying to do on the communistic basis all that nineteenth-century idealism hoped to get atand failedin the midst of or against an industrial competitive environment. Whether it will really succeed any better is for the future to decide for at present it only keeps what it has got by a tension and violent control which is not over.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1967-06-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wanted to tell you that I saw V. a few days ago, and he said that according to what he had felt or seen, he was ninety-five percent certain that a new conflict will break out around September or October, probably in the direction of Pakistan or China: between Pakistan and India or between China and India.
People are expecting that.
He told me he is ninety-five percent certain.
People are quite expecting that. And Pakistan has joined hands with China, and their ships are now sailing around India. What are they doing? I dont know.
0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was another experience I had a little later (a little later, around eighteen or nineteen), in which I suddenly found myself riding a horse, dressed as a man, leading armies to a fantastic victory; and it was the glory of the sense of the presence of the Force of Victory that made me lead the entire army to victory. Afterwards, I remembered the costume I was wearing, the peoples costumes, everything, and I saw it was Murats famous victory.3 I was (how can I put it?) the victorious spirit in Murat. And ONLY THAT. So when people tell you, I was this person, that person, its all tales: they are forces, states of consciousness that manifested in certain individuals at certain moments in their lives and which, at such moments, touched Matter concretely. And all that is gathered, collected together little by little, gradually, until it produces a conscious being.
Now, this (Mothers being) is a rather special conscious being. The psychic of this life (laughing) was rather collective! Memories of Catherine the Great, memories of Elizabeth, memories of two lives at the same time (!) at the time of Francis I,4 memories innumerable memories, and quite diverse. Each one Its not that you were in such or such person for a whole life: you were the important psychic MOMENT in those existences.
0 1967-07-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I can recall only one instance when I took things seriously, and even then (laughing), I put on a serious LOOK. It involved my brother, who was still quite young (my brother must have been twelve, or less: ten, and I eightno, nine and eleven, something like that, mere children). My brother was quick-tempered, he was easily angered and would speak very bluntly, almost harshly. One day he talked back to my father (I forget about what); my father was furious and put him across his knees (my father was an extremely strong man, I mean physically strong), he put my brother across his knees and (laughing) started spanking him; he had pulled his pants down and was spanking him. I enter and see that (it was taking place in the dining room), I see that, see my father, look at him, and say to myself, But this man is mad! And I told him, You stop at once, or Im leaving this house. (I was two years younger than my brother.) And I said it with such seriousness, oh! And I was resolute. And my father (laughing) was flabbergasted.
All those memories have come back like that. So now I remember to what extentto what extent the consciousness was already there. But it was amusing.
0 1967-08-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Message for Sri Aurobindo's ninety-fifth birthday:)
But in any case the Divine Power is working always behind and one day, perhaps when one least expects it, the obstacle breaks, the clouds vanish and there is again the light and the sunshine. The best thing in these cases is, if one can manage it, not to fret, not to despond, but to insist quietly and keep oneself open, spread to the Light and waiting in faith for it to come: that, I have found, shortens these ordeals.
0 1967-09-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Someone has taken it into his head to print a brochure for February 21 next year (when Mother will be ninety), so they sent me the brochure and asked me to write a message on the first page. And for that brochure they have solicited(!) the opinion of all prominent people: there is Indira Gandhi, the President of India, and what have you. And everyone says what has always been said millions of times over: A great personality, this and that. All the usual nonsense. So I wrote this:
There is no other consciousness than the Supreme Consciousness.
0 1967-10-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was the year he died, but months later. Less than a year later: eight or nine months. I saw him, he had come to my house (it was in the night, in dream), he was in our house, standing near the door, and I went to see him.8 But someone who was near me said, But hes dead! And that gave poor N.S. such a shock, he was in pain. So I took him with me, made him stretch out on my bed. V. was there, and I sent her to inform you.
All that in dream?
0 1967-11-08, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother begins by reading out the message for All India Radio [in English] that she intends to broadcast for February 21, 1968, on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday.)
It is not the number of years you have lived that makes you old. You become old when you stop progressing. As soon as you feel you have done what you had to do, as soon as you think you know what you ought to know, as soon as you want to sit and enjoy the results of your effort, with the feeling you have worked enough in life, then at once you become old and begin to decline. When, on the contrary, you are convinced that what you know is nothing compared to all that remains to be known, when you feel that what you have done is just the starting point of what remains to be done, when you see the future like an attractive sun shining with innumerable possibilities yet to be achieved, then you are young, howsoever many are the years you have passed upon earth, young and rich with all the realisations of tomorrow. And if you do not want your body to fail you, avoid wasting your energies in useless agitation. Whatever you do, do it in a quiet and composed poise. In peace and silence is the greatest strength.
0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its contagious. That I know. And its the only hope, because if everyone had to go through the same experience again Well, I am ninety nowat the age of ninety people are tired, theyve had enough of life. To do this work one must feel as young as a small child.
It takes a long time; I can see that it has taken a long time.
0 1967-11-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very often like that: I get nearly twenty-five or thirty letters every day; out of them, I have time to read eight or ten, and at the time of reading them, most often there is no answer: theyre at least ninety-eight percent useless. When there is something, the answer comes right away. Or when there is no answer right away, sometimes (often) I put it aside, and when I am alone, Sri Aurobindo comes and says to me, Why dont you tell him this? Then I immediately write it down. It happens very often. And always an answer, oh, with a sense of ridiculousness, of humour, touching the exact point where the weakness or unconsciousness lies. Its very amusing. So I never try to find, naturally, never ever, it comes like that quite simply. When I have to answer, it comes; then I just have to take a paper, my pen, and I write it down. Thats the part of the work which isnt work, but amusement.
***
0 1967-12-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the whole country, the number of things written about me, each one of them as stupid as the next all because of those ninety years. What a fuss they make over those ninety years!
You understand, I would have liked that it all become public once the bodys appearance is transformed then it becomes interesting, but were still a long way from it.
0 1968-02-07, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats a long time ago, nineteen hundred and when was it? It was in 1916-17, so thats forty years ago.
Fifty.
0 1968-02-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(In the weeks preceding February 21, her ninetieth birthday, Mother has had hardly any time to eat or sleep, spending hours to see people, work, write letters and so on. Satprem remarks that she does not look tired.)
If there werent peoples thought, the collective suggestion, and maybemaybea subconscious suggestion (the cells may possibly still be subject to a subconscious suggestion, thats possible), otherwise, with a few seconds of (gesture of drawing within), like that, plunging back into the Supreme Consciousness everything is fine, I am never hungry (and dont feel the need to eat), I am never sleepy (and dont feel the need to sleep). Only, there is, still the old suggestion, and also peoples whole thought that if I dont eat Ill become weak and fall ill; that if I dont sleep Ill get tired and fall ill that sort of refrain. The cells dont believe in it but You understand, they think they have a duty to eat and a duty to sleep, otherwise And I clearly see that work isnt AT ALL what tires me: I am not more tired after having seen forty, forty-five, fifty people than after having seen one ill-disposed person. Especially there are atmospheres that are corrupt, in the sense that those people instinctively loa the truth (there are such people they arent even aware of it), and it causes a malaise, it still causes a malaise. And one minute, just one minute of someone coming in with that atmosphere is enough, you understand then I have to concentrate, to make an effort. Sometimes I have to (gesture showing the Force coming down to strike), there are people to whom I say, Youd better keep still, otherwise something is going to happen to you. I dont even think it, you understand, but the Force goes like this (gesture). Not with many, but now and then there are such people.
0 1968-06-15, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Five and nine pages.
That will be for another time.
0 1968-07-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know if its because of this cold, I am not sure (I dont think so I know very well where it comes from), the whole morning (during the night and the morning), there has been a sort of perception of all kinds of states of consciousness this body has been through, groups of circumstances, and then a perception so concrete, you know, so absolute: Where is the person? Where, where is the individual? Where is the person? Where And with such a clear vision of the supreme Consciousness, which, on the other hand, is the ONLY permanent consciousness the supreme Consciousness at play in all that, all those movements, all those actions, all those But it was felt and lived in such a concrete way that I saw, for instance, that this body, which people think is the same body as the one born more than ninety years ago, isnt at all the same! Everything has changed: the cells have changed, everything! Everything: the state of consciousness is absolutely different. So then, where is the person? Where? Suddenly there was, Where, where is that personality? Where is it? There was only That (gesture above): Consciousness. And then, the vision of the whole, of things taking form and (wavy gesture of a Whole diversifying into innumerable forms).
In other words, that experience one generally has in the higher mind, in the psychic, is now the bodysits the body in its cellular constitution that has it. It had that experience this morning: That alone was permanent, That which, through innumerable changes, remains (immutable, unshakeable gesture with the edge of the hand).
0 1968-10-26, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the power to relieve (not to heal: the power to relieve), far from having diminished, has increased. When I am told that someone is ill, at least ninety- nine times in a hundred, I have already EXPERIENCED the thing, and what I am told makes me say, Ah, its so and so. I have already experienced it as being part of my physical being (gesture in the distance), an immense physical being, you know, immense and without precise form. And its this precision and this division that are (what should I say?) are they the obstacle or the cause (probably both) that prevent the Harmony from being established? Its because we REALLY are separate. But then, can you conceive how a world thats not really separate would be? Because, you understand, the question is serious: if for the world to exist as it is, it has to be really separate, and if being really separate is the cause of all misery, then And yet, in another way (I dont know how), in another way I know (its not I who knows: theres no I there), I know, I KNOW (its the great I who knows) that the desertion, the disappearance of this world is NOT the solution. But what is it?.
This is the only world where division is no longer the result of a state of consciousness, but a FACT. So? Everywhere else, its the result of a state of consciousness: if the consciousness changes, the state changesnot here. Its the only world: here. And yet it [division] is a falsehood.
0 1968-10-30, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Things repeat themselves, yes. nineteen years!
We havent made progress.
0 1968-11-09, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But never before in the (how many?) ninety years of my life have I been so occupied with someones death as with hers, precisely for that reason, because she wanted to give me proof of dispersion: No one will ever know what happened to Bharatidi.
I didnt tell her, That is childishness! because, as she no longer had a body, I treated her gently. But the moment, the transition was difficult painful. There was a painful moment when she felt very lonely. Mentally very lonely, of course. Physically, she had her little Krishna [her servant] there. It wasnt physical, it was mentalbecause of her conception.
0 1968-11-16, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Just today, I saw a German lady who worked for a while in N.s dispensary. Naturally, she noticed he lacked everything he needed from a modern viewpoint; and for a reason I dont know, she has to go back to Germany, but she wants to come back with the full equipment. And she asked to see me before leaving. Id never seen her before. She came, I told her a few words about what she should do, then she didnt want to leave anymore! She was sitting. So I simply did as I usually do, that is, the body (I dont know how to explain) seems to disappear, then the Lord (gesture of Descent) And then a thing which has happened, I dont know, maybe hundreds of times: poff! she got up and (laughing) did a pranam and left. Hundreds of times its happened! And you know its a Supergoodness (I dont know how to explain it to you), something so marvelously loving and good and but its awesomely powerful! I think what terrifies them is the power. It happens all the time. The body goes like this (gesture of standing back or disappearing), and the Presence is there. And I simply look. But nine times out of ten, they take flight!
Some are used to it and are on the contrary very happy, but they arent many.
0 1969-01-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Strangely, this year 1969 will be simultaneously marked by a general appeasement in international relations (few years have been so "peaceful" since World War II) and by the surfacing, around Mother, of a general wave of bad will and darkness. As though the safety valve were there. This is the year when the "haste [in the disciples] for it to be over" Mother will soon mention will begin to manifest. nineteen sixty- nine is the dark turning point... and luminous at the same time.
0 1969-02-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But that state, which lasted for several hours never had this body, in the ninety-one years its been on earth, felt such happiness: freedom, absolute power, and no limits (gesture here and there and everywhere), no limits, no impossibilities, nothing. It was all other bodies were itself. There was no difference, it was only a play of the consciousness (gesture like a great Rhythm) moving about.
So there.
0 1969-02-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother hands to Satprem the message she has given for February 21, her ninety-first birthday anniversary:)
It is only immutable peace that can make possible eternity of existence.
0 1969-04-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She is an eager disciple of Zen, so she writes that Zen says in one sentence what Sri Aurobindo says in millions of words. She says one could cut out nine tenths of Sri Aurobindos text without removing any of its substanceyou see the arrogance!2
It means she doesnt understand anything.
0 1969-04-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If you are interested, little K. [aged nine and a half], J.s son,1 has had a dream. Would you like me to read it to you? Its about the Pope!
Really!
0 1969-05-10, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And with demonstrations on people, imagine. Someone comes and implores me to die; so the only thing I do, and can do, is to establish contact in a constant and unalloyed way between (what should I call it?) the destiny of that body and the Supreme Consciousness, like that. And then, all kinds of things have taken place: one left in an hourdied absolutely healthy, you understand. And very recently, I had another extraordinary example: someone comes and implores me to leave; so I put the full Force on himnow hes completely cured! They had brought him to me in a wheelchair, he couldnt walk now he trots about, he comes all alone! And hes old, very nearly ninety.5 Another was clinging on; then his daughter told me, He is unhappy, miserable, cant you make him leave? I looked, and I saw, tight like this (Mother squeezes two fingers together with all her strength), a black knot there. I told the daughter, Yes, I dont mind, but I cant cut his head off! (laughing) He is clinging on like this (same gesture). Two days later, gone!
My method is always the same, of course: full concentration of the Supreme Consciousness on the person, removing all obstacles. It works like this, like that (gesture of moving about here and there). And its like a factual demonstration that ALL the rules we have established in our consciousness, all of that is absolutely idiotic. It doesnt correspond to the truth. Theres something. There is something.
0 1969-08-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had yesterday a long and interesting conversation with a nineteen-year-old boy who took part in the May revolution in Paris;2 he was one of the students Communist leaders. He read that little text I wrote, which I called The Great Sense, in which I try to say the true sense of things, which is neither in violence nor in nonviolence, but something else. He is a Communist, but he was very moved, he was deeply touched and called everything into question. So I tried to explain to him what you once told me, that idea of a silent, immobile revolution:3 hundreds of thousands of students who refuse, who dont move and say, Weve had enough of degrees, enough of the present structure of society, enough of being engineers or doctors or anythingwe want something else.
Did he understand?
0 1969-09-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He thought, But I have nothing left, neither a pendulum nor my hands nor anything. And all of a sudden he had a revelation: You have nothing left because you no longer need anything! Then he began, and he noticed that when his thought met with someones thought or call, it was done in a split second. For instance, one day a woman sent him a wire in Paris: she had given birth and had a torn perineum. He got the wire, thought, and said, Shes cured. The next morning he went and saw her: the perineum had healed. Another extraordinary case: a woman was dying in the fifth month of her pregnancy, dying of meningeal tuberculosis. The hospital was helpless, they brought her home. In reality, she didnt want her child. He went and saw her several times, and one day, she had terrible convulsions and died in his arms. Then, he says, I had a sort of prayer at the bottom of my heart, I said, But this woman hasnt followed the law of love, its right that she should die, but why should this child in her die? He had a sort of prayer. And five minutes later, the woman came back to life in his arms. She opened her eyes and said, I am cured. She was indeed cured, but unable to move anymore. Two weeks later, she gave birth to a child, who was not only normal but viable and full-grown, which means that in those fifteen days, the gestation had accelerated and the child was just as full-grown as a nine-month-old child.
Five months old
0 1969-10-18, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like that. For a PERFECT realization, the entire being must be illumined; but for an initial realization, its probably easier for a body that doesnt have a highly developed mind. Since he came here, Ive looked a good deal, and I am fully convinced of it. Thats why he You see, for us who have gone up to the highest degree of mental potentiality, its through that highest degree that we went beyondits when the mind realized its highest degree that it abdicated and thats very good for the integral realization, but generally the body is too accustomed to obeying the mind, not supple enough to be transformed. Thats the reason why my mind was sent away. But thats not a process which can be recommended to others. Because nine people out of ten would die.
The mind?
0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One can give the body an indication of the direction it should follow in order to be cured, but ninety- nine times out of a hundred, it wont do it.
Yes, people call them miracles, but to me, they are incomplete miracles! In all the transfers (what I call transfer of power), at the time of the transfer, there is in the body a sort of disequilibrium, and if you arent VERY attentive, or if the disequilibrium is a bit stronger than usual, it results in a pain. If you make the mistake of taking the wrong attitude, the pain turns into an illness. But with the true attitude, the pain can be taken away in a few seconds that experience occurs almost every day, which is to say that Ive had it hundreds of times. And for others, its the same thingyou can do it for someone else. But all that you can do is to teach the body the way to cure itself but it doesnt learn! (Mother laughs)
0 1969-12-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, theres an experiment taking place, to find out the way from the old method to the new, and then The body knows nothing. It knows nothing, its absolutely ignorantno experience, it knows nothing, it only has goodwill (Mother opens her hands). It doesnt even know It has (laughing) a certain number of sensations of what takes place, which arent always very pleasant, and thats allit doesnt know. It doesnt know the effect: how, why, all that . So then, it goes without saying that its part of the things demanded: the body has to eat. But to what extent and how? The transition: how to effect the transition? The pace of the transition, the mode of transition? It knows nothing. This poor body cannot say anything because it knows nothing; all that it thought it had learned for ninety years has been demonstrated most clearly to be worthless! (Mother laughs) Its been shown that it has everything to learn. So its like that, goodwilled, but absolutely ignorant. So what it tries to do is to be attentive to the least indication but the indications are not very clear.
It has become like this: when it puts something into its mouth, it expects a yes or a no; and its observing that it absolutely depends on its attitude, that if it doesnt attach any importance to what its doing, things generally go smoothly enough (that is, if its busy with something else), but then it doesnt learn anything! So it doesnt know.
0 1970-02-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother is ninety-two. She receives Satprem after the collective meditation. Before she speaks, Mother looks at him for a long time with an indescribable expression.)
The body has received a gift this morning. This morning, truly the Supreme Lord has taught it to be entirely His, and it was so wonderful! The whole night the whole night and morning there seemed to be an absolutely concrete demonstration of how to be perfectly His. Never, never had the body felt like that. Naturally, its perfectly aware of what grates stillwhich is in fact why there are traces (they are just traces) of that famous attack,1 but
0 1970-02-28, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a curious thing. When I am in that state, I am not asleep yet I am not awake; its neither one nor the other. Its a sort of new state I have; whether I am in my bed or sitting in my armchair makes no difference. Its a certain state I go into, in which I know things in such a clear way, and then (as I did with you) I explain them. Then when I go out of that state, pfft! finished. Its curious. Nights are very shortvery shortyet when I go to bed, its hardly nine, I think, and I get up at 4:30, which is a long time. Yet its very short. You understand, I dont sleep the way people do (but not at all), and I am not awake. Its something else. And then, things are evident, very easy to understand, I can explain them (as I explain them to you), and its a perfectly natural phenomenon there was no surprise at meeting you (it wasnt meeting, you were there), and I told you things. And then, pfft! finished. Suddenly Ill cough or have a pain here, there, and then you fall back into this ordinary imbecility.
Sometimes its like that when I am simply sitting there, in my armchair.
0 1970-04-29, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Astha is nine year old.
Rishabhch and must have left his body at that point.
0 1970-08-05, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats quite recent, its from the beginning of this new year. But then, theres the whole old habit I might say ninety years of habit. But the body knows, it KNOWS its only a habit.
But
0 1970-10-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive written nine chapters in all.
Oh! But this [introduction] stands on its own very well.
0 1971-02-21, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Laying of the foundation stone of the Matrimandir. Mother is ninety-three years old. She gives the following message:)
Let the Matrimandir be the living symbol of Aurovilles aspiration for the Divine.
0 1971-10-13, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
nine petals. Thats the new creationits the transformation for the new creation.
I see!
0 1972-02-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Yesterday was Mother's ninety-fourth birthday.)
All day long on the 21st I had a strong feeling that it was everybodys birthday, and I felt an urge to say happy birthday to everyone.
0 1972-05-29, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother sees Sujata. On this day, thirty-four years before, Sujata decided to stay with Mother. She was twelve and a half years old, the youngest disciple in the Ashram. She had made her first visit to Pondicherry when she was nine. She gives Mother a spray of "Service" flowers. This will be the last May 29th.)
Its from your tree.
0 1972-08-30, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To the ordinary and undiscerning eye, you must accept to look like a . I am sure that ninety- nine people out of a hundred think I am (smiling) cracked.
Nono, Mother! No, thats.
0 1972-12-23, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I am perplexed by whats happening with clock time. I thought it was not quite nine oclock, and I was told it was already ten. I have no idea how that happened.
I start my breakfast telling myself: Ah, Ill eat fast, I am lateit takes me an hour!
0 1973-02-21, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother is ninety-five.
***
02.07 - India One and Indivisable, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It will do no good to anyone to try to Balkanise India. The Balkan malady is no longer tolerated even in its homeland; it cannot be transported to India in this century and after this Great War. To be and remain free and strong and invincible, India must be and remain indivisible. The strength of the United States of America, of the United Soviets of the Russias, of the British Commonwealth (pace Churchill) lies precisely in each one of them being a large unified aggregate, all members pooling their resources together. India cannot maintain her freedom, nor utilise her freedom to its utmost effectivity unless she is one and indivisible. The days of small peoples, of isolated independence are gonegone for ever even like Thebes and nineveh, like Kosala of Dasarathi and Mathura of Yadupati.
India can be and is to be a federation of autonomous units. But then we must very carefully choose or find out the units, those that are real units and not fractions (especially irrational fractions) and at the same time lay as much stress on federation as on autonomy. To choose or create units on the basis of religion or race or caste or creed, that is exactly what we mean by irrationalism, in other words, mediaevalism. The Units must be, on one side, geographical wholes, and, on the other, cultural (or spiritualnot religious) wholes.
02.09 - The Paradise of the Life-Gods, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
END OF CANTO nine
03.02 - Aspects of Modernism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
How then does the twentieth century propose to mark out its difference from the past? "Science and the scientific outlook," many would answer. But to others that difference itself might appear antiquated. For, strictly speaking, science was the key-note of the nineteenth century; and although we of the twentieth are enjoying its fruits, putting it to more practical use than our predecessors did, yet it is they who embodied its spirit, its special and proper rule of light and life. We have not discarded the gift, but assimilated it and even seem to have outgrown it; we have added to it or extended and developed it.
Science indeed gave a very decided turn to the slowly advancing humanity. It brought with it something that meant in the march of evolution a saltum, a leap wide and clear; it landed man all of a sudden into a new world, a new state of consciousness. It is this state of consciousness, the fundamental way of being, inculcated by the scientific spirit that is of capital importance and possesses a survival value. It is not the content of Science, but its intent, not its riches, but its secret inspiration, its motive power, that will give us a right understanding of the change it has effected. The material aspect of the event has lost much of its value; the mechanical inventions and discoveries, bringing in their train a revolution in the external organization of life, have become a matter of course, and almost a matter of the past. But the reactions set up in the consciousness itself, the variations brought about in the very stuff and constitution of life still maintain a potency for the future and are to be counted.
03.04 - The Other Aspect of European Culture, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Nor is it a fact that Europe is and has been merely profane and materialistic in her outlook and attainment. The godless and mechanistic civilisation which is rampant today in Europe is a distemper of comparatively recent growth. Its farthest limit does not go beyond the sixteenth or the fifteenth century when the first seeds were sown by the Humanists of the Renaissance. It sprouted with the rationalists of the eighteenth century and the French Revolution cleared the ground for its free and untrammelled growth. But only in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries has it reached such vast and disconcerting proportions as to swallow all Europe's other motives and velleities and to appear as the only form of her life-expression. But in the earlier centuries, those that preceded the New Enlightenment, Europe had a different conception of culture and civilisation, she possessed almost another soul. The long period that is known as the mediaeval age was not after all so dark and unregenerate as it has been the familiar custom to represent it. Christian Europe the Europe of cathedrals and monasteries, of saints and sages, of St. Francis and St. Teresa, of Boehme and Bernard, of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine, had an enlightenment all her own, which was real and living and dynamic, possessing a far-extending and deeply penetrating influence; in as much as it was this that called into being and fashioned the more abiding forces, which underlie Europe's cultural life and social institutions, although latterly "fallen on evil days and on evil tongues".
Even the still more ancient Grco-Latin Europe which was not, to a general and apparent view, quite spiritual or other-worldly, was yet not so exclusively materialistic and profane as modern Europe. Classical culture was rationalistic, without doubt; but that rationalism was the function of a sublimated intelligence and a refined sensibility and served as a vehicle for a Higher Perceptiona ratiocinative and ultra-logical mind, like that of Socrates, could yet be so passive and upgazing as to receive and obey the commandments of a Dmon; whereas the rationalism, which is in vogue today and to which orthodox Scientism has affixed its royal sign manual, is the product of mere brain-power, vigorous but crude, of an intellect shut up in its self-complacent cunningness, obfuscated by its infinite but shallow inquisitiveness.
04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Greece and Rome may be taken to represent two types of culture. And accordingly we can distinguish two types of elevation or crest-formation of human consciousness one of light, the other of power. In certain movements one feels the intrusion, the expression of light, that is to say, the play of intelligence, understanding, knowledge, a fresh outlook and consideration of the world and things, a revaluation in other terms and categories of a new consciousness. The greatest, at least, the most representative movement of this kind is that of the Renaissance. It was really a New Illumination: a flood of light poured upon the mind and intellect and understanding of the period. There was a brightness, a brilliance, a happy agility and keenness in the movements of the brain. A largeness of vision, a curious sensibility, a wide and alert consciousness: these are some of the fundamental characteristics of this remarkable New Birth. It is the birth of what has been known as the scientific outlook, in the- broadest sense: it is the threshold of the modern epoch of humanity. All the modern European languages leaped into maturity, as it were, each attaining its definitive form and full-blooded individuality. Art and literature flooded in their magnificent creativeness all nations and peoples of the whole continent. The Romantic Revival, starting somewhere about the beginning of the nineteenth century, is another outstanding example of a similar phenomenon, of the descent of light into human consciousness. The light that descended into human consciousness at the time of the Renaissance captured the higher mind and intelligence the Ray touched as it were the frontal lobe of the brain; the later descent touched the heart, the feelings and emotive sensibility, it evoked more vibrant, living and powerful perceptions, created varied and dynamic sense-complexes, new idealisms and aspirations. The manifestation of Power, the descent or inrush of forcemighty and terriblehas been well recognised and experienced in the great French Revolution. A violence came out from somewhere and seized man and society: man was thrown out of his gear, society broken to pieces. There came a change in the very character and even nature of man: and society had to be built upon other foundations. The past was gone. Divasa gatah. Something very similar has happened again more recently, in Russia. The French Revolution brought in the bourgeois culture, the Russian Revolution has rung in the Proletariate.
In modern India, the movement that led her up to Independence was at a crucial moment a mighty evocation of both Light and Power. It had not perhaps initially the magnitude, the manifest scope or scale of either the Renaissance or the Great Revolutions we mention. But it carried a deeper import, its echo far-reaching into the future of humanity. For it meant nothing less than the spiritual awakening of India and therefore the spiritual regeneration of the whole world: it is the harbinger of the new epoch in human civilisation.
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We may follow a little more closely the march of the centuries in their undulating movement. The creative intelligence of the Renaissance too belonged to a region of the higher mind, a kind of inspirational mind. It had not the altitude or even the depth of the Greek mind nor its subtler resonances: but it regained and re-established and carried to a new degree the spirit of inquiry and curiosity, an appreciation of human motives and preoccupations, a rational understanding of man and the mechanism of the world. The original intuitive fiat, the imaginative brilliance, the spirit of adventure (in the mental as well as the physical world) that inspired the epoch gradually dwindled: it gave place to an age of consolidation, organisation, stabilisation the classical age. The seventeenth century Europe marked another peak of Europe's civilisation. That is the Augustan Age to which we have referred. The following century marked a further decline of the Intuition and higher imagination and we come to the eighteenth century terre terre rationalism. Great figures still adorned that agestalwarts that either stuck to the prevailing norm and gave it a kind of stagnant nobility or already leaned towards the new light that was dawning once more. Pope and Johnson, Montesquieu and Voltaire are its high-lights. The nineteenth century brought in another crest wave with a special gift to mankind; apparently it was a reaction to the rigid classicism and dry rationalism of the preceding age, but it came burdened with a more positive mission. Its magic name was Romanticism. Man opened his heart, his higher feeling and nobler emotional surge, his subtler sensibility and a general sweep of his vital being to the truths and realities of his own nature and of the cosmic nature. Not the clear white and transparent almost glaring light of reason and logic, of the brain mind, but the rosy or rainbow tint of the emotive and aspiring personality that seeks in and through the cosmic panorama and dreams of
A light that was ne'er on sea or land. . .
05.06 - Physics or philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Physical Science in the nineteenth century did indeed develop or presuppose a philosophy of its own; it had, that is to say, a definite outlook on the fundamental quality of things and the nature of the universe. Those were days of its youthful self-confidence and unbending assurance. The view was, as is well-known, materialistic and deterministic. That is to say, all observation and experiment, according to it, demonstrated and posited:
First, that this universe is made up of particles that push and pull each other, the particles having certain constant values, such as in respect of mass and volume. secondly, that the laws governing the relations among the particles, in other words, their push and pull, are laws of simple mechanics; they are fixed and definite and give us determinable and mensurable quantities called co-ordinatesby which one can ascertain the pattern or configuration of things at a given moment and deduce from that the pattern or configuration of things at any other moment: the chain that hangs things together is fixed and uniform and continuous and is not broken anywhere.
05.17 - Evolution or Special Creation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The point is still being debated and, it seems, is still debatable whether evolution is truly the fact behind the origin of species or is it special creation. The latter, we know, was the old- world pre-Copernican theory advocated by theologians and religious minds. It was thoroughly discredited and demolished by the new illumination that Science brought in with the nineteenth century. Till lately it was considered as a pure superstition and to be its advocate would be nothing but blind bigotry. But evidently things in Nature are not so simple; what at one time is brushed aside as a meaningless futility comes back later with a meaning and suggestiveness and truth of reality. We were once laughing at the corpuscular theory of light advocated by the great Newton and putting on a patronising air at the frailty of an otherwise mighty intelligence.But the tables are now turned and we accept it as an undoubted fact when Planck says today that a light ray consists also of particles (quanta) of light. Similarly if in some scientific quarter a doubt has arisen as to the absolute and exclusive truth of the principle of evolution and if the old conception of special creation is exhumed for fresh consideration,well, one should not be astonished at the turn over.
The most serious lacuna in the concept of evolution, at least in the Darwinian form of it, is, as is well known, the missing link. The transition stage between one form of life and another, between one species and its higher evolute is always absent, has left no trace of any kind and it is a matter of any man's guess. So the theory of mutation, saltum, sudden change, has been advanced. But that only restates the fact, clinches the matter, but does not explain it. If a sudden and thorough change is possible, if one object can be transformed into something quite different and unpredictable, one can as well call it special creation. That would, some might say, be facing the fact squarely.
07.14 - The Divine Suffering, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine's compassion, translated in the individual physical consciousness, becomes a sorrow that is not egoistic, a sorrow that is an expression of one's identification with the universal sorrow through sympathy. I have described the experience at some length in one of the Prayers and Meditations. I spoke there of the sweetest tears that I shed in life; for those tears were not for my sake, I was not weeping for myself. In almost every case man grieves for egoistic reasons, in the human way. Whenever anyone loses a person he loves, he suffers and weeps, not over the condition of the person: in ninety- nine cases out of a hundred or even more, people do not know in what condition the person gone may be, do not and cannot know if the person is happy or unhappy, if he is suffering or is in peace. It is the sense of separation that causes the grief, the feeling that he will not be with them anymore which they so much wish. At the root of all human sorrow, there lies this return upon one's own self, more or less conscious, more or less admitted. But when you feel unhappy for the unhappiness of others, there comes in a mixture. That is to say, to your personal grief is added a psychic element which I described as the reversed image of the Divine Compassion. Now, if you can distinguish between the two, the personal anguish and the disinterested sorrow, come out of what is egoistic and concentrate upon the divine element, make yourself one with it, then you can in that way come in contact with the great universal compassion, which is something immense, vast, calm, mighty, pro-found, which is perfect peace and infinite Bliss. If you know then how to enter into your suffering, go down to the very bottom of it, pass beyond the portion that is egoistic and personal, go farther on, then you arrive at the door of a wonderful revelation. Not that you should seek suffering for the sake of the suffering and in order to have the experience; but when it is there, when it has come upon you, then try what I have suggested, cross the border, the barrier of egoism in your suffering: note first where is the egoistic part, what is it that makes you suffer, what is the egoistic reason of your suffering, then step across and beyond, towards something universal, towards a greater principle. You enter then into the vast, the infinite compassion, the door of the Psychic opens for you. If, in that domain, you see me in tears, as you say you did in your dream, then you can identify yourself with me at the moment, enter into those tears as it were, melt into them. That will open the door and it will bring you an experience, a very unique experience that leaves always a deep mark upon the consciousness. It is never blotted out altogether even if the door closes again and you become once more what you are in your ordinary movements. That experience, that mark remains behind and you can recall it, go back to it, refer to it in your moments of concentration. You feel then the immensity of an infinite sweetness, a great peace, pervading all your being, it is not in your thought only; it goes out and sympathises with everything and can cure everything.
Only you must sincerely wish, you must have the will, to be cured. Everything lies there. Now I always come back to the same theme. You must be sincere. If you want an experience for the sake of the experience and, once you have it, to go back to your ordinary ways, that will not do. You must sincerely will to be curedcured precisely of the ordinary waysyou must have the aspiration, the true aspiration to overcome the obstacle, to mount up and up, above and beyond yourself, so that you may drop all that pulls you back, drags you down, to break all limits, clarify and purify yourself, rid yourself of all that lies in your way. If you have this will, the true intense will not to fall back into past errors, to rise out of obscurity and ignorance towards the light, shorn of all that is human, too humantoo small, too ignorant then that will and that aspiration shall act, act gradually, strongly and effectively bringing you a complete and definitive result. But beware, there must be nothing that clings to the old movements, that does not declare itself but hides its head and when the occasion is opportune puts up its snout.
08.05 - Will and Desire, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Precisely because they are full of desires. Perhaps when they were conceived, they were imbued with the vibrations of desire, and as they have no control over themselves, they give free vent to their feelings. Older people are also full of desires, but they are too shy to show them. They are ashamed of these things, they fear they will be ridiculed and so they hide them. Children are more simple and straightforward; when they want anything; they speak out. They do not think that it is not proper or wise to betray themselves. They do not reason in that way. People, of courseordinary people, I meanlive constantly full of desires, only they do not express themselves, sometimes they do not even avow it to themselves. But it is always there, this sense of the need for things. Directly you see a beautiful object, you are at once seized by the idea of possessing it. It is childish, it is even ridiculous. ninety- nine persons out of a hundred do not get at all the things they desire. And of the one per cent how many are interested in the thing once they have actually got it? A child is even more like that. Give him what he wants, a second after he will not even look at it.
How to help a child to get out of this habit?
08.18 - The Origin of Desire, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
From where does desire come? Buddha said that it came from Ignorance. It is almost that. Desire is something in the being which imagines that it requires an object other than itself for its satisfaction. This is sheer ignorance, proved by the fact that in ninety- nine cases out of a hundred when one has the thing desired, one no more cares for it.
At its very origin, I think, it was an obscure need for growth or increase. In the lowest forms of life we find love transformed into an instinctive and irresistible need for enlarging, swelling, absorbing, adding to it another body. This need to take in is desire. So perhaps if you go back far enough into the last depths of inconscience, you will see that the ultimate source of desire is love: it is love in its most dark and inconscient form. It is, as I said, a need for accretion, an attraction for an outside object in order to embrace it, swallow it, make it part of itself and so grow bigger. Now, suppose you have before you something beautiful, harmonious, pleasing: if you have the true consciousness, you enjoy and are happy to the full, by simply looking at the thing, by having an inner contact in consciousness with the beauty and harmony that is there. And there the matter ends. You have the joy and that is all. Such a movement is very common in the artist. He sees a beautiful person, he has the joy of observing the grace of the form, the harmony of the movements and all that. But it does not go beyond. He is perfectly happy, perfectly satisfied when he has seen something beautiful.
08.34 - To Melt into the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You have to go a long way before you can think of merging your ego, your self in the Divine. First of all, you cannot merge your ego or your self until you are a completely individualised being. And do you know what does that mean'to be completely individualised'? It means one capable of resisting all external influences. The other day I received a letter from someone who says that he hesitates to read books; for he has a very strong tendency to identify himself with what he reads; if he reads a novel or a drama he becomes the character pictured and is possessed by the feelings and thoughts and movements of the character. There are many like that. If they read something, while they read they are completely moved by the ideas and impulsions and even ideals they read about and are totally absorbed in them and become them, without their knowing it even. That is because ninety- nine per cent of their nature is made of butter as it were: if you press your finger it leaves a mark. That is the ordinary man's character. One takes in, as one comes across it, a thought experienced by another, a phrase read in a book, a thing observed or an incident the eyes fall upon, a will or wish of a neighbour, all that enters pell-mell intermixed enters and goes out, others come inlike electric currents. And one does not notice it. There is a conflict, a clash among these various movements, each trying to get the upper hand. Thus the person is tossed to and fro like a piece of cork upon the waves in the sea.
Instead of this unformed and unconscious mass, one has to become conscious, cohesive, individualised, that which exists by itself and in itself, independently of its surroundings, that which can hear, read, see anything and will not change because of that. It receives from outside only what it wishes to receive. It rejects automatically what does not agree with its purpose: nothing can leave any impression upon it, unless it wishes to have the impress. It is thus that one begins to be individualised. And when one is an individual, then only can one make a gift of it, for unless you possess a thing you cannot give it; when you have nothing or are nothing you can give nothing. So in order that the separate ego may disappear, one must be able to give oneself wholly, totally without restrictions. And to be able to give, one must exist and to exist one must be an individual. If your body were not rigid as it is the body is indeed terribly rigidif it were not something quite fixed and if you had not this solid skin around the skeleton, if you were the exact expression of what you are vitally and mentally, it would be worse than the gelatinous jelly fish. All would enter and melt into one another, what a chaos and confusion would it be! That is why a rigid form is given at the outset. And you complain: the physical is so fixed, it lacks plasticity, supplenessit lacks the fluidity that enables one to melt into the Divine! But it was a necessity. For if you were out of your body and entered into the regions behind the vital,you would see how things stand there: things get mixed, separated, intertwined, all kinds of vibrations, currents, forces that come and go, struggle and fight, seize each other, absorb each other, repulse each other! Very difficult to find a personality in all that. It is only forces, movements, impulsions, desires. Not that there are not individualities and personalities there too! But they are Powers. They who have individualised themselves in such a world are either heroes or demons!
08.35 - Love Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Divine Love is there in its full intensity, as a tremendous force. But most people, ninety- nine out of a hundred, feel nothing at all. What they feel is exactly in proportion to what they are, what they can receive and hold. Indeed, you are always bathed in an atmosphere vibrant with Divine Love. Sometimes, on rare occasions, for a few seconds perhaps, there is all on a sudden just the impression of something, and you say: "there, the Divine Love came to me!" Well, it is a way of saying: the true fact being that for some reason or other you happened to be just a little open and you had the perception of the thing that is always with you. The Love is there, the divine consciousness, too, is there in the same way. They are one, after all. They are there all the while; only you do not feel it or do so only spasmodically. Once in a way you find yourself, without any rhyme or reason as it were, in that happy state and you declare that the Divine Love has at last turned towards you! But, as I say, the matter is not like that. There came about an opening in you, perhaps no more than a pinpoint, and that was sufficient for the thing to rush in; for the atmosphere is surcharged with it and wherever there is a possibility of its being received, it is received. The same is true of all things divine. They are there: you do not receive or perceive them, because you are closed, shut off, blocked up. You are occupied, most of the time with other things. You are full of yourself, packed with it, and there is no room for anything else. You are not merely passively filled with yourself, but very actively, you are furiously busy with yourself. How can you notice then the marvellous things that are about you, around you? You get a glimpse unawares, perhaps when you are asleep; but it fades away soon. Man's ego is a formidable thing; the whole universe, to him, is a mere function of the ego. You are the centre and the entire creation revolves around you. Such is your vision of the universe. You do not see it as it is; you see only yourself when you look at it.
To begin, then, you must be able to come out of your ego. You will have to enter, as the first step, into something like a state of inexistence. Thereafter only will you begin to see things as they are, that is to say, from a height. If you want to see things as they truly are, you must become absolutely like a mirrorsilent, peaceful, immobile, impartial, with no preference, in a state of total receptivity. You will begin to see many things that did not seem to be there before, but only now becoming active. Well, you may very well have gone inside one of these things instead of being shut up into a minute spot in the infinite universe, which you call yourself. There are many ways by which you can come out of yourself. Anyhow that is the one thing to be done, if you wish to see the world as it is, not as it seems to be, a function of yourself.
09.01 - Prayer and Aspiration, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part ninePrayer and Aspiration
Prayer and Aspiration
09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
BOOK nine
The Book of Eternal Night
09.02 - Meditation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineMeditation
Meditation
09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
END OF BOOK nine
09.03 - The Psychic Being, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineThe Psychic Being
The Psychic Being
09.04 - The Divine Grace, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineThe Divine Grace
The Divine Grace
09.05 - The Story of Love, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineThe Story of Love
The Story of Love
09.06 - How Can Time Be a Friend?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineHow Can Time Be a Friend?
How Can Time Be a Friend?
09.07 - How to Become Indifferent to Criticism?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineHow to Become Indifferent to Criticism?
How to Become Indifferent to Criticism?
09.08 - The Modern Taste, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineThe Modern Taste
The Modern Taste
09.09 - The Origin, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineThe Origin
The Origin
09.10 - The Supramental Vision, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineThe Supramental Vision
The Supramental Vision
09.11 - The Supramental Manifestation and World Change, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineThe Supramental Manifestation and World Change
The Supramental Manifestation and World Change
09.12 - The True Teaching, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineThe True Teaching
The True Teaching
09.13 - On Teachers and Teaching, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineOn Teachers and Teaching
On Teachers and Teaching
09.14 - Education of Girls, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineEducation of Girls
Education of Girls
09.15 - How to Listen, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineHow to Listen
How to Listen
09.16 - Goal of Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineGoal of Evolution
Goal of Evolution
09.17 - Health in the Ashram, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineHealth in the Ashram
Health in the Ashram
09.18 - The Mother on Herself, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part nineThe Mother on Herself
The Mother on Herself
100.00 - Synergy, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
simplex constituting not only nine-tenths of physical Universe but most frequently
and most omnipresent in Universe; with asymmetrical battleships (fortunately)
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
All the serious Orders of the world, or nearly all, begin by insisting that the aspirant should take a vow of poverty; a Buddhist Bhikku, for example, can own only nine objects his three robes, begging bowl, a fan, toothbrush, and so on. The Hindu and Mohammedan Orders have similar regulations; and so do all the important Orders of monkhood in Christianity.
Our own Order is the only exception of importance; and the reason for this is that it is much more difficult to retain one's purity if one is living in the world than if one simply cuts oneself off from it. It is far easier to achieve technical attainments if one is unhampered by any such considerations. These regulations operate as restrictions to one's usefulness in helping the world. There are terrible dangers, the worst dangers of all, associated with complete retirement. In my own personal judgment, moreover, I think that our own ideal of a natural life is much more wholesome.
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It occurs to me that so far we have done nothing about the astral plane and this path of Tau of which you speak. Have you had any experience of travelling in the astral? If not, do you think that you can begin by yourself on the lines laid down in Liber O, sections 5 and 6? (See Magick, pp. 387-9). If not you had better let me take you through the first gates. The question of noise instantly arises; I think we should have to do it not earlier than nine o'clock at night, and I don't know whether you can manage this.
Love is the law, love under will.
1.00e - DIVISION E - MOTION ON THE PHYSICAL AND ASTRAL PLANES, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
a. Between the eyebrows, consisting of ninety-six petals, one-half of the lotus being rose and yellow, and the other half blue and purple.
b. The very top of the head. A centre consisting of twelve major petals of white and gold, and nine hundred and sixty secondary petals arranged around the central twelve. This makes a total of ten hundred and sixty-eight petals in the two head centres (making the one centre) or three hundred and fifty-six triplicities. All these figures have an occult significance.
Just as the Monad is the sumtotal of all the three aspects, and of the seven principles of man, so is the head centre a replica of this, and has within its sphere of influence seven other centres with itself for synthesis. These seven centres are likewise divided into the three major and the four minor centres, with their union and consummation seen in the gorgeous centre surmounting and enveloping them all. There are also three physical centres, called
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Under the regime of the Ego, the ray upon which the ego can be found holds sway. This ray is simply a direct reflection of the monad, and is dependent upon that aspect of the spiritual triad which for the man is at any particular time the line of least resistance. By that we must understand that sometimes the ray will have for its centre of force the atmic aspect, sometimes the buddhic, and at other times the manasic aspect. Though the triad is threefold, yet its egoic outposts (if one may so express it) will be either definitely atmic, or predominantly buddhic or manasic. Here again I would draw attention to the fact that this triple demonstration can be seen under three forms, making in all a ninefold choice of rays for the Ego:
Atmic aspect.
1.00f - DIVISION F - THE LAW OF ECONOMY, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
Then a third Word or phrase is added to the other two, completing the entire Word logoic and producing consummation. It is a Word of nine letters, making therefore the twenty-one sounds (5 + 7 + 9) of this solar system. The final nine sounds produce spiritual synthesis, and the dissociation of the spirit from the form. We have a correspondence in the nine Initiations, each initiation marking a more perfect union of the Self with the All-Self, and a further liberation from the trammels of matter.
When the sense of hearing on all planes is perfected (which is brought about by the Law of Economy rightly understood) these three great Words or phrases will be known. The Knower will utter them in his own true key, thus blending his own sound with the entire volume of vibration, and thereby achieving sudden realisation of his essential identity with Those Who utter the words. As the sound of matter or of Brahma peals forth in his ears on all the planes, he will see all forms as illusion and will be freed, knowing himself as omnipresent. As the sound of Vishnu reverberates within himself, he knows himself as perfected wisdom, and distinguishes [219] the note of his being (or that of the Heavenly Man in whose Body he finds place) from the group notes, and knows himself as omniscient. As the note of the first or Mahadeva aspect, follows upon the other two, he realises himself as pure Spirit and on the consummation of the chord is merged in the Self, or the source from which he came. Mind is not, matter is not, and nought is left but the Self merged in the ocean of the Self. At each stage of relative attainment, one of the laws comes into sway,first the law of matter, then the law of groups, to be succeeded by the law of Spirit and of liberation.
1.00 - Introduction to Alchemy of Happiness, #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
In form, the book contains a treatise on practical piety, but as is the case with a large proportion of Mohammedan works, the author, whatever may be his subject, finds a place for observations reaching far wide of his apparent aim, so our author is led to make many observations which develop his notions in anatomy, physiology, natural philosophy and natural religion. The partisans of all sorts of opinions will be interested in finding that a Mohammedan author writing so long since in the centre of Asia, had occasion to approve or condemn so many truths, speculations or fancies which are now current among us with the reputation of novelty. Many of the same paradoxes and problems that startle or fascinate in the nineteenth century are here discussed. He came in contact, among his contemporaries, with persons who made the same general objections to natural and revealed religion, as understood by Mohammedans, as are in our days made to Christianity, or who perverted and abused the religion which they professed for their own ends, in the same manner as Christianity is abused among us. And he engaged with earnestness now truthfully, and now erroneously, in refuting these men. His usual stand-point in discussion is equally removed from the most extravagant mysticism, and literal and formal orthodoxy. He attempts a dignified blending of reason [10] and faith, requiring of his fellow men unfeigned piety in the temper and tone of an evangelical Christian. He reminds his readers, in these discourses, that they are not Mussulmans if they are satisfied with merely a nominal faith, and treats with scorn those who are spiritualists only in language and dress.
It is too narrow a view to adopt, in regard to a man of the sublime character of Ghazzali, that he obtained his ideas from any one school of thinkers, or that being in fellowship with the Soofies, that he was merely a Soofi. He was living in the centre of Aryan peoples and religions. He may have had his doctrine of the future life shaped by Zoroaster, and have been influenced by the missionaries of the Buddhists.
1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
We have enjoined obligatory prayer upon you, with nine rak'ahs, to be offered at noon and in the morning and the evening unto God, the Revealer of Verses. We have relieved you of a greater number, as a comm and in the Book of God. He, verily, is the Ordainer, the Omnipotent, the Unrestrained. When ye desire to perform this prayer, turn ye towards the Court of My Most Holy Presence, this Hallowed Spot that God hath made the Centre round which circle the Concourse on High, and which He hath decreed to be the Point of Adoration for the denizens of the Cities of Eternity, and the Source of Command unto all that are in heaven and on earth; and when the Sun of Truth and Utterance shall set, turn your faces towards the Spot that We have ordained for you. He, verily, is Almighty and Omniscient.
Everything that is hath come to be through His irresistible decree. Whenever My laws appear like the sun in the heaven of Mine utterance, they must be faithfully obeyed by all, though My decree be such as to cause the heaven of every religion to be cleft asunder. He doeth what He pleaseth. He chooseth, and none may question His choice. Whatsoever He, the Well-Beloved, ordaineth, the same is, verily, beloved. To this He Who is the Lord of all creation beareth Me witness. Whoso hath inhaled the sweet fragrance of the All-Merciful, and recognized the Source of this utterance, will welcome with his own eyes the shafts of the enemy, that he may establish the truth of the laws of God amongst men. Well is it with him that hath turned thereunto, and apprehended the meaning of His decisive decree.
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God hath exempted women who are in their courses from obligatory prayer and fasting. Let them, instead, after performance of their ablutions, give praise unto God, repeating ninety-five times between the noon of one day and the next "Glorified be God, the Lord of Splendour and Beauty". Thus hath it been decreed in the Book, if ye be of them that comprehend.
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It hath been ordained that every believer in God, the Lord of Judgement, shall, each day, having washed his hands and then his face, seat himself and, turning unto God, repeat "Allah-u-Abha" ninety-five times. Such was the decree of the Maker of the Heavens when, with majesty and power, He established Himself upon the thrones of His Names. Perform ye, likewise, ablutions for the Obligatory Prayer; this is the comm and of God, the Incomparable, the Unrestrained.
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We have divided inheritance into seven categories: to the children, We have allotted nine parts comprising five hundred and forty shares; to the wife, eight parts comprising four hundred and eighty shares; to the father, seven parts comprising four hundred and twenty shares; to the mother, six parts comprising three hundred and sixty shares; to the brothers, five parts or three hundred shares; to the sisters, four parts or two hundred and forty shares; and to the teachers, three parts or one hundred and eighty shares. Such was the ordinance of My Forerunner, He Who extolleth My Name in the night season and at the break of day.
When We heard the clamour of the children as yet unborn, We doubled their share and decreased those of the rest. He, of a truth, hath power to ordain whatsoever He desireth, and He doeth as He pleaseth by virtue of His sovereign might.
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Say: This is that hidden knowledge which shall never change, since its beginning is with nine, the symbol that betokeneth the concealed and manifest, the inviolable and unapproachably exalted Name. As for what We have appropriated to the children, this is a bounty conferred on them by God, that they may render thanks unto their Lord, the Compassionate, the Merciful. These, verily, are the Laws of God; transgress them not at the prompting of your base and selfish desires. Observe ye the injunctions laid upon you by Him Who is the Dawning-place of Utterance. The sincere among His servants will regard the precepts set forth by God as the Water of Life to the followers of every faith, and the Lamp of wisdom and loving providence to all the denizens of earth and heaven.
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God hath imposed a fine on every adulterer and adulteress, to be paid to the House of Justice: nine mithqals of gold, to be doubled if they should repeat the offence. Such is the penalty which He Who is the Lord of Names hath assigned them in this world; and in the world to come He hath ordained for them a humiliating torment. Should anyone be afflicted by a sin, it behoveth him to repent thereof and return unto his Lord. He, verily, granteth forgiveness unto whomsoever He willeth, and none may question that which it pleaseth Him to ordain. He is, in truth, the Ever-Forgiving, the Almighty, the All-Praised.
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No marriage may be contracted without payment of a dowry, which hath been fixed for city-dwellers at nineteen mithqals of pure gold, and for village-dwellers at the same amount in silver. Whoso wisheth to increase this sum, it is forbidden him to exceed the limit of ninety-five mithqals. Thus hath the comm and been writ in majesty and power. If he content himself, however, with a payment of the lowest level, it shall be better for him according to the Book. God, verily, enricheth whomsoever He willeth through both heavenly and earthly means, and He, in truth, hath power over all things.
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It hath been decreed by God that, should any one of His servants intend to travel, he must fix for his wife a time when he will return home. If he return by the promised time, he will have obeyed the bidding of his Lord and shall be numbered by the Pen of His behest among the righteous; otherwise, if there be good reason for delay, he must inform his wife and make the utmost endeavour to return to her. Should neither of these eventualities occur, it behoveth her to wait for a period of nine months, after which there is no impediment to her taking another husband; but should she wait longer, God, verily, loveth those women and men who show forth patience. Obey ye My commandments, and follow not the ungodly, they who have been reckoned as sinners in God's Holy Tablet. If, during the period of her waiting, word should reach her from her husband, she should choose the course that is praiseworthy. He, of a truth, desireth that His servants and His handmaids should be at peace with one another; take heed lest ye do aught that may provoke intransigence amongst you. Thus hath the decree been fixed and the promise come to pass. If, however, news should reach her of her husband's death or murder, and be confirmed by general report, or by the testimony of two just witnesses, it behoveth her to remain single; then, upon completion of the fixed number of months, she is free to adopt the course of her choosing. Such is the bidding of Him Who is mighty and powerful in His command.
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Should anyone acquire one hundred mithqals of gold, nineteen mithqals thereof are God's and to be rendered unto Him, the Fashioner of earth and heaven. Take heed, O people, lest ye deprive yourselves of so great a bounty. This We have commanded you, though We are well able to dispense with you and with all who are in the heavens and on earth; in it there are benefits and wisdoms beyond the ken of anyone but God, the Omniscient, the All-Informed. Say: By this means He hath desired to purify what ye possess and to enable you to draw nigh unto such stations as none can comprehend save those whom God hath willed. He, in truth, is the Beneficent, the Gracious, the Bountiful. O people! Deal not faithlessly with the Right of God, nor, without His leave, make free with its disposal. Thus hath His commandment been established in the holy Tablets, and in this exalted Book. He who dealeth faithlessly with God shall in justice meet with faithlessness himself; he, however, who acteth in accordance with God's bidding shall receive a blessing from the heaven of the bounty of his Lord, the Gracious, the Bestower, the Generous, the Ancient of Days. He, verily, hath willed for you that which is yet beyond your knowledge, but which shall be known to you when, after this fleeting life, your souls soar heavenwards and the trappings of your earthly joys are folded up. Thus admonisheth you He in Whose possession is the Guarded Tablet.
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The number of months in a year, appointed in the Book of God, is nineteen. Of these the first hath been adorned with this Name which overshadoweth the whole of creation.
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Ye have been forbidden in the Book of God to engage in contention and conflict, to strike another, or to commit similar acts whereby hearts and souls may be saddened. A fine of nineteen mithqals of gold had formerly been prescribed by Him Who is the Lord of all mankind for anyone who was the cause of sadness to another; in this Dispensation, however, He hath absolved you thereof and exhorteth you to show forth righteousness and piety. Such is the commandment which He hath enjoined upon you in this resplendent Tablet. Wish not for others what ye wish not for yourselves; fear God, and be not of the prideful. Ye are all created out of water, and unto dust shall ye return. Reflect upon the end that awaiteth you, and walk not in the ways of the oppressor. Give ear unto the verses of God which He Who is the sacred Lote-Tree reciteth unto you. They are assuredly the infallible balance, established by God, the Lord of this world and the next. Through them the soul of man is caused to wing its flight towards the Dayspring of Revelation, and the heart of every true believer is suffused with light. Such are the laws which God hath enjoined upon you, such His commandments prescribed unto you in His Holy Tablet; obey them with joy and gladness, for this is best for you, did ye but know.
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Ye have been enjoined to renew the furnishings of your homes after the passing of each nineteen years; thus hath it been ordained by One Who is Omniscient and All-Perceiving. He, verily, is desirous of refinement, both for you yourselves and for all that ye possess; lay not aside the fear of God and be not of the negligent. Whoso findeth that his means are insufficient to this purpose hath been excused by God, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Bounteous.
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1.012 - Sublimation - A Way to Reshuffle Thought, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Swami Rama Tirtha used to make a list of his desires. He used to go into a forest with a note-book or a diary and write, "How many desires have I got? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten." Every day he would check, "How many have I finished? Or are they all still there?" To the extent of the diminution of desires, we are free in this world; and to the extent of the presence of these desires, we are bound in this world. Our bondage or freedom can be judged from the number of desires that are unfulfilled or fulfilled. If we have fulfilled all the desires and have no desires left, then we are free. But if we have not fulfilled our desires, if they are still there harassing us from inside, we are bound souls.
Before we take to a positive practice in the direction of yoga, a careful calculation of the number of desires, their nature, etc., is necessary. If there are desires, what is to be done with them? Are we to fulfil them, or are we not to fulfil them? The traditional religions tell us 'don't fulfil desires'. Parents tell us 'don't fulfil desires', and so on. This is all right, as far as it goes, because generally a desire is regarded as a kind of diversion of consciousness from its own centre to an object outside. So, theoretically speaking, this instruction is all right we must control our desires and not give them a long rope. But how will we control our desires? What is the method? There is no use in merely saying 'control desires'. This is very good and this instruction can be given, but how do we control a desire? What is the technique that we adopt? Here, book-knowledge is of no use. Even our intellect will not help us much because it will waver sometimes to this side and sometimes to that side.
1.01 - Adam Kadmon and the Evolution, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
In this they followed the spirit of their times, the nine-
teenth century, when, as one author puts it, God gradually
1.01 - Appearance and Reality, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy
I am now sitting in a chair, at a table of a certain shape, on which I see sheets of paper with writing or print. By turning my head I see out of the window buildings and clouds and the sun. I believe that the sun is about ninety-three million miles from the earth; that it is a hot globe many times bigger than the earth; that, owing to the earth's rotation, it rises every morning, and will continue to do so for an indefinite time in the future. I believe that, if any other normal person comes into my room, he will see the same chairs and tables and books and papers as I see, and that the table which I see is the same as the table which I feel pressing against my arm. All this seems to be so evident as to be hardly worth stating, except in answer to a man who doubts whether I know anything. Yet all this may be reasonably doubted, and all of it requires much careful discussion before we can be sure that we have stated it in a form that is wholly true.
To make our difficulties plain, let us concentrate attention on the table. To the eye it is oblong, brown and shiny, to the touch it is smooth and cool and hard; when I tap it, it gives out a wooden sound.
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
Concord. What has been said of the merchants, that a very large majority, even ninety-seven in a hundred, are sure to fail, is equally true of the farmers. With regard to the merchants, however, one of them says pertinently that a great part of their failures are not genuine pecuniary failures, but merely failures to fulfil their engagements, because it is inconvenient; that is, it is the moral character that breaks down. But this puts an infinitely worse face on the matter, and suggests, beside, that probably not even the other three succeed in saving their souls, but are perchance bankrupt in a worse sense than they who fail honestly. Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine. Yet the Middlesex
Cattle Show goes off here with _clat_ annually, as if all the joints of the agricultural machine were suent.
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The man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper. We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. We have adopted Christianity merely as an improved method of _agri_-culture. We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of mans struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten. There is actually no place in this village for a work of _fine_ art, if any had come down to us, to stand, for our lives, our houses and streets, furnish no proper pedestal for it. There is not a nail to hang a picture on, nor a shelf to receive the bust of a hero or a saint. When I consider how our houses are built and paid for, or not paid for, and their internal economy managed and sustained, I wonder that the floor does not give way under the visitor while he is admiring the gewgaws upon the mantel-piece, and let him through into the cellar, to some solid and honest though earthy foundation. I cannot but perceive that this so called rich and refined life is a thing jumped at, and I do not get on in the enjoyment of the _fine_ arts which adorn it, my attention being wholly occupied with the jump; for I remember that the greatest genuine leap, due to human muscles alone, on record, is that of certain wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared twenty-five feet on level ground. Without factitious support, man is sure to come to earth again beyond that distance. The first question which I am tempted to put to the proprietor of such great impropriety is, Who bolsters you? Are you one of the ninety-seven who fail, or of the three who succeed? Answer me these questions, and then perhaps I may look at your bawbles and find them ornamental. The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living be laid for a foundation: now, a taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors, where there is no house and no housekeeper.
Old Johnson, in his Wonder-Working Providence, speaking of the first settlers of this town, with whom he was contemporary, tells us that
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One says to me, I wonder that you do not lay up money; you love to travel; you might take the cars and go to Fitchburg to-day and see the country. But I am wiser than that. I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try who will get there first. The distance is thirty miles; the fare ninety cents. That is almost a days wages. I remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road. Well, I start now on foot, and get there before night; I have travelled at that rate by the week together. You will in the mean while have earned your fare, and arrive there some time to-morrow, or possibly this evening, if you are lucky enough to get a job in season. Instead of going to Fitchburg, you will be working here the greater part of the day. And so, if the railroad reached round the world, I think that I should keep ahead of you; and as for seeing the country and getting experience of that kind, I should have to cut your acquaintance altogether.
Such is the universal law, which no man can ever outwit, and with regard to the railroad even we may say it is as broad as it is long. To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet. Men have an indistinct notion that if they keep up this activity of joint stocks and spades long enough all will at length ride somewhere, in next to no time, and for nothing; but though a crowd rushes to the depot, and the conductor shouts All aboard! when the smoke is blown away and the vapor condensed, it will be perceived that a few are riding, but the rest are run over, and it will be called, and will be, A melancholy accident.
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I offered him, he had so many _intra_ ones. This ducking was the very thing he needed. Then I began to pity myself, and I saw that it would be a greater charity to bestow on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave to buy a Sundays liberty for the rest. Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there? You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; maybe you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. Society recovers only a tenth part of the property then. Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it. A robust poor man, one sunny day here in Concord, praised a fellow-townsman to me, because, as he said, he was kind to the poor; meaning himself. The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. I once heard a reverend lecturer on England, a man of learning and intelligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shakespeare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and others, speak next of her Christian heroes, whom, as if his profession required it of him, he elevated to a place far above all the rest, as the greatest of the great. They were Penn, Howard, and Mrs. Fry. Every one must feel the falsehood and cant of this. The last were not Englands best men and women; only, perhaps, her best philanthropists.
1.01 - Foreward, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
this idea. The nineteenth-century European scholarship writing
in a period of materialistic rationalism regarded the history
1.01 - Historical Survey, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Several devoted expositors of impeccable scholarship in the last half of the nineteenth century were responsible for the modern regeneration of the fundamental and saner
HISTORICAL SURVEY 27
1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
He addressed his words particularly to a young man of nineteen, named Narendranath, who was a college student and frequented the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. His eyes were bright, his words were full of spirit, and he had the look of a lover of God.
How the spiritually minded should look upon the worldly M. guessed that the conversation was about worldly men, who look down on those who aspire to spiritual things. The Master was talking about the great number of such people in the world, and about how to deal with them.
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The next day, too, was a holiday for M. He arrived at Dakshineswar at three o'clock in the afternoon. Sri Ramakrishna was in his room; Narendra, Bhavanath, and a few other devotees were sitting on a mat spread on the floor. They were all young men of nineteen or twenty. Seated on the small couch, Sri Ramakrishna was talking with them and smiling.
No sooner had M. entered the room than the Master laughed aloud and said to the boys, "There! He has come again." They all joined in the laughter. M. bowed low before him and took a seat. Before this he had saluted the Master with folded hands, like one with an English education. But that day he learnt to fall down at his feet in orthodox Hindu fashion.
1.01 - Necessity for knowledge of the whole human being for a genuine education., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Integral Yoga
And so, when a choleric teacher gets near a child and lets loose with fits of temper, anything done under this influenceif the teacher doesnt practice self-improvement in the way we have yet to discussenters the childs soul and takes root in the body. The remarkable thing is that it sinks into the foundations of the childs being, and anything implanted in the growing human body reap- pears later. Just as a seed is planted in the autumn and reappears in the spring as a plant, so whatever is planted as a seed in a child of eight or nine comes out again in the adult of forty-five or fifty. And we can see the effects of an uncontrolled choleric teachers temperament in the form of metabolic illnesses in the adult, or even in the very old.
If we could only verify the reason this or that person suffers from arthritis, or why another has all kinds of metabolic disor- ders, poor digestion, or gout, there would be only one answer: many of these things can be attri buted to the violent tempera- ment of a teacher who dealt with the child at an early age.
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We might even be able to explain widespread cultural patholo- gies in this way. Why is it that nervous diseases such as depression are so widespread today? You might be thinking Im trying to con- vince you that when the current generation of neuras thenic adults was being educated the whole teaching profession was phlegmatic! I tell you that it did consist of phlegmaticsnot in the usual sense of the word, but in a much deeper sense. Were speaking of the historical period of the nineteenth century when materialism rose. The materialistic worldview turns away from the human being, and develops a monstrous indifference in the teacher toward the most intimate movements of the souls of those being educated.
If, in an unbiased way, we can observe the cultural manifesta- tions of the modern era, we find that a person may be a phleg- matic in that sense, even though that same person might angrily react to a child who spilled ink, yelling: You shouldnt do that! You shouldnt throw ink because youre angry; Ill throw it back at you, you rascal! Such outbursts of choleric temper werent forbidden during the time I just described, nor am I suggesting that there was any shortage of sanguine or melancholic teachers. But in their actual teaching, they were still phlegmatics and acted phlegmatic. The materialistic worldview was unable to access human nature, and least of all the developing child. And so it was possible to be a phlegmatic even though one was a choleric or melancholic by birth. Phlegma became an aspect of all education in the materialistic era. And it has a lot to do with the appear- ance of nervousness, of neuras thenia, of nervous disorders in our culture. Well look at this in detail later. Nevertheless, we see the effect of phlegmatic teachers whose very presence next to children triggers nervous disorders.
1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
of clocks, and the later eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries56
Chapter I
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effigies pirouetting stiffly on top. In the nineteenth century, the
automaton is a glorified heat engine, burning some combusti-
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In the nineteenth century, the automata which are humanly
constructed and those other natural automata, the animals and
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the age of servomechanisms as the nineteenth century was the
age of the steam engine or the eighteenth century the age of
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izes a phase of nineteenth-century physics far more than the
present age, and "materialism" has come to be but little more
1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
In the nineteenth he went down the Rhine. In the twentieth he was on an
island, and again in the twenty-first. In the twenty-second he navigated a
1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The nineteenth centurys mania for history and prophetic Utopianism tended to blind the eyes of even its acutest thinkers to the timeless facts of eternity. Thus we find T. H. Green writing of mystical union as though it were an evolutionary process and not, as all the evidence seems to show, a state which man, as man, has always had it in his power to realize. An animal organism, which has its history in time, gradually becomes the vehicle of an eternally complete consciousness, which in itself can have no history, but a history of the process by which the animal organism becomes its vehicle. But in actual fact it is only in regard to peripheral knowledge that there has been a genuine historical development. Without much lapse of time and much accumulation of skills and information, there can be but an imperfect knowledge of the material world. But direct awareness of the eternally complete consciousness, which is the ground of the material world, is a possibility occasionally actualized by some human beings at almost any stage of their own personal development, from childhood to old age, and at any period of the races history.
1.01 - The Ego, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
is only since the end of the nineteenth century that modern
psychology, with its inductive methods, has discovered the
1.01 - The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
Shao Lin Monastery, where he sat facing a wall for nine years,
and met the Second Patriarch. People thereabouts called him
1.01 - The Ideal of the Karmayogin, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Parliament. Machinery is of great importance, but only as a working means for the spirit within, the force behind. The nineteenth century in India aspired to political emancipation, social renovation, religious vision and rebirth, but it failed because it adopted Western motives and methods, ignored the spirit, history and destiny of our race and thought that by taking over
The Ideal of the Karmayogin
European education, European machinery, European organisation and equipment we should reproduce in ourselves European prosperity, energy and progress. We of the twentieth century reject the aims, ideals and methods of the Anglicised nineteenth precisely because we accept its experience. We refuse to make an idol of the present; we look before and after, backward to the mighty history of our race, forward to the grandiose destiny for which that history has prepared it.
We do not believe that our political salvation can be attained by enlargement of Councils, introduction of the elective principle, colonial self-government or any other formula of European politics. We do not deny the use of some of these things as instruments, as weapons in a political struggle, but we deny their sufficiency whether as instruments or ideals and look beyond to an end which they do not serve except in a trifling degree. They might be sufficient if it were our ultimate destiny to be an outlying province of the British Empire or a dependent adjunct of European civilisation. That is a future which we do not think it worth making any sacrifice to accomplish.
1.01 - The Lord of hosts, #Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice, #Anonymous, #Various
Ten are the numbers out of nothing, and not the number nine, ten and not eleven. Comprehend this great wisdom, understand this 7 knowledge, inquire into it and ponder on it, render it evident and lead 8 the Creator back to His throne again.
SECTION 4.
1.02 - BOOK THE SECOND, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And now the moon had nine times lost her light,
When Dian, fainting in the mid-day beams,
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Kumarbi became the new sovereigns servant. nine years passed, and Kumarbi in his turn attacked Anu.
The latter fled, flying into the sky, but Kumarbi pursued him, caught him by the feet, and threw him to
1.02 - On the Service of the Soul, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Integral Yoga
64. In Black Book 2, Jung wrote down here the two pivotal dreams he had when he was nineteen years old which led him to turn to natural science (p. 13f); they are described in Memories, p.
105f.
1.02 - Skillful Means, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
I apply these nine kinds of teachings
According to the capacities of sentient beings.
1.02 - The Age of Individualism and Reason, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
They found and held it with enthusiasm in the discoveries of physical Science. The triumphant domination, the all-shattering and irresistible victory of Science in nineteenth-century Europe is explained by the absolute perfection with which it at least seemed for a time to satisfy these great psychological wants of the Western mind. Science seemed to it to fulfil impeccably its search for the two supreme desiderata of an individualistic age. Here at last was a truth of things which depended on no doubtful Scripture or fallible human authority but which Mother Nature herself had written in her eternal book for all to read who had patience to observe and intellectual honesty to judge. Here were laws, principles, fundamental facts of the world and of our being which all could verify at once for themselves and which must therefore satisfy and guide the free individual judgment, delivering it equally from alien compulsion and from erratic self-will. Here were laws and truths which justified and yet controlled the claims and desires of the individual human being; here a science which provided a standard, a norm of knowledge, a rational basis for life, a clear outline and sovereign means for the progress and perfection of the individual and the race. The attempt to govern and organise human life by verifiable Science, by a law, a truth of things, an order and principles which all can observe and verify in their ground and fact and to which therefore all may freely and must rationally subscribe, is the culminating movement of European civilisation. It has been the fulfilment and triumph of the individualistic age of human society; it has seemed likely also to be its end, the cause of the death of individualism and its putting away and burial among the monuments of the past.
For this discovery by individual free-thought of universal laws of which the individual is almost a by-product and by which he must necessarily be governed, this attempt actually to govern the social life of humanity in conscious accordance with the mechanism of these laws seems to lead logically to the suppression of that very individual freedom which made the discovery and the attempt at all possible. In seeking the truth and law of his own being the individual seems to have discovered a truth and law which is not of his own individual being at all, but of the collectivity, the pack, the hive, the mass. The result to which this points and to which it still seems irresistibly to be driving us is a new ordering of society by a rigid economic or governmental Socialism in which the individual, deprived again of his freedom in his own interest and that of humanity, must have his whole life and action determined for him at every step and in every point from birth to old age by the well-ordered mechanism of the State.1 We might then have a curious new version, with very important differences, of the old Asiatic or even of the old Indian order of society. In place of the religio-ethical sanction there will be a scientific and rational or naturalistic motive and rule; instead of the Brahmin Shastrakara the scientific, administrative and economic expert. In the place of the King himself observing the law and compelling with the aid and consent of the society all to tread without deviation the line marked out for them, the line of the Dharma, there will stand the collectivist State similarly guided and empowered. Instead of a hierarchical arrangement of classes each with its powers, privileges and duties there will be established an initial equality of education and opportunity, ultimately perhaps with a subsequent determination of function by experts who shall know us better than ourselves and choose for us our work and quality. Marriage, generation and the education of the child may be fixed by the scientific State as of old by the Shastra. For each man there will be a long stage of work for the State superintended by collectivist authorities and perhaps in the end a period of liberation, not for action but for enjoyment of leisure and personal self-improvement, answering to the Vanaprastha and Sannyasa Asramas of the old Aryan society. The rigidity of such a social state would greatly surpass that of its Asiatic forerunner; for there at least there were for the rebel, the innovator two important concessions. There was for the individual the freedom of an early Sannyasa, a renunciation of the social for the free spiritual life, and there was for the group the liberty to form a sub-society governed by new conceptions like the Sikh or the Vaishnava. But neither of these violent departures from the norm could be tolerated by a strictly economic and rigorously scientific and unitarian society. Obviously, too, there would grow up a fixed system of social morality and custom and a body of socialistic doctrine which one could not be allowed to question practically, and perhaps not even intellectually, since that would soon shatter or else undermine the system. Thus we should have a new typal order based upon purely economic capacity and function, guakarma, and rapidly petrifying by the inhibition of individual liberty into a system of rationalistic conventions. And quite certainly this static order would at long last be broken by a new individualist age of revolt, led probably by the principles of an extreme philosophical Anarchism.
--- Overview of noun nine
The noun nine has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (5) nine, 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead ::: (the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one)
2. baseball club, ball club, club, nine ::: (a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together; "each club played six home games with teams in its own division")
3. nine-spot, nine ::: (one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face)
--- Overview of adj nine
The adj nine has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (21) nine, 9, ix ::: (denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nine
3 senses of nine
Sense 1
nine, 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead
=> digit, figure
=> integer, whole number
=> number
=> definite quantity
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
baseball club, ball club, club, nine
=> baseball team
=> team, squad
=> unit, social unit
=> organization, organisation
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
nine-spot, nine
=> spot
=> playing card
=> card
=> paper
=> material, stuff
=> substance
=> matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> part, portion, component part, component, constituent
=> relation
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun nine
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nine
3 senses of nine
Sense 1
nine, 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead
=> digit, figure
Sense 2
baseball club, ball club, club, nine
=> baseball team
Sense 3
nine-spot, nine
=> spot
--- Similarity of adj nine
1 sense of nine
Sense 1
nine, 9, ix
=> cardinal (vs. ordinal)
--- Antonyms of adj nine
1 sense of nine
Sense 1
nine, 9, ix
INDIRECT (VIA cardinal) -> ordinal
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun nine
3 senses of nine
Sense 1
nine, 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead
-> digit, figure
=> binary digit
=> octal digit
=> decimal digit
=> duodecimal digit
=> hexadecimal digit
=> significant digit, significant figure
=> zero, 0, nought, cipher, cypher
=> one, 1, I, ace, single, unity
=> two, 2, II, deuce
=> three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace
=> four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternary, quaternity, quartet, quadruplet, foursome, Little Joe
=> five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe
=> six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad
=> seven, 7, VII, sevener, heptad, septet, septenary
=> eight, 8, VIII, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, ogdoad, octonary, octet
=> nine, 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead
Sense 2
baseball club, ball club, club, nine
-> baseball team
=> baseball club, ball club, club, nine
Sense 3
nine-spot, nine
-> spot
=> eight-spot, eight
=> five-spot, five
=> four-spot, four
=> nine-spot, nine
=> seven-spot, seven
=> six-spot, six
=> ten-spot, ten
--- Pertainyms of adj nine
1 sense of nine
Sense 1
nine, 9, ix
--- Derived Forms of adj nine
--- Grep of noun nine
adenine
alanine
arginine
buteonine
canavanine
canine
cat-o'-nine-tails
cinchonine
cloud nine
dihydroxyphenylalanine
feminine
guanine
iodothyronine
liothyronine
methionine
mezzanine
nine
nine-banded armadillo
nine-spot
nine iron
ninepence
ninepin
ninepin ball
ninepins
niner
nineteen
nineteenth
nineteenth amendment
nineties
ninetieth
ninety
nineveh
pheno-safranine
phenylalanine
quinine
saffranine
safranine
sixty-nine
strychnine
tetraiodothyronine
thioguanine
threonine
thyronine
tri-iodothyronine
triiodothyronine
twenty-nine
wild quinine