{"quotes":[{"text":"I consider myself a synthetic thinker in a virtual domain therefore if I’m way off there is no solid foundation or reference for authentic stupidity.","author":"Carl Henegan","tags":["reference","stupidity","synthetic","thinkers","virtual"],"id":3635,"author_id":"Carl+Henegan"},{"text":"Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.","author":"Linda Austin","tags":["career","counsel","quest","reference"],"id":46071,"author_id":"Linda+Austin"},{"text":"Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing the poem or novel as a closed entity, equipped with definite meanings which it is the critic's task to decipher, to seeing literature as irreducibly plural, an endless play of signifiers which can never be finally nailed down to a single center, essence, or meaning.Jan Rybicki, 2003.","author":"E. smith sleigh","tags":["derrida","e-smith-sleigh","foucalt","jan-rybicki","literature","poetry","post-structuralism","quotes","reference"],"id":47043,"author_id":"E.+smith+sleigh"},{"text":"This is nice,' Melody said, picking up a red leather box with a vintage watch inside.'Yes, it is nice. It's the watch I gave Walker as a wedding gift.''He gave it back?''Actually, he sold it back to the person I bought it from who alerted me and I reacquired it.''I'm sorry. That sounds upsetting.''It was. Very. Especially since he sold the watch to buy combs for my long hair and without knowing what he had done I sold my hair to buy a leather case for this watch.","author":"Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney","tags":["funny","humor","literature","reference","the-gift-of-the-magi"],"id":47438,"author_id":"Cynthia+D%27Aprix+Sweeney"},{"text":"Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing. Voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style but a voice all their own.","author":"Naveed Saleh","tags":["article-writing","journalism","reference","style-guides","writing-books","writing-craft","writing-style"],"id":50703,"author_id":"Naveed+Saleh"},{"text":"The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["comparison","hero","heroes","heroism","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","position","reference","status","status-quo","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":58229,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["command","demand","food-for-thought","forget-the-past","future","go-high","grow-up","high","leave-the-past","low","move-forward","past","present","recide","recidence","refer","reference","remand"],"id":89011,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.","author":"Kevin Alan Lee","tags":["culture","government","health-care","health-care-system","humanism","medical","medicine","memoir","mental-illness","philosophy","political-science","politics","psychiatry","psychology","reference","schizophrenia","socialism","society","split-mind"],"id":131799,"author_id":"Kevin+Alan+Lee"},{"text":"God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["almighty","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","build","cities","city","compare","comparision","compete","competition","creating","creating-future","creation","creative","destiny","future","god","ground","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","making-future","men","motivation","motivational","motivational","natural","nature","philosophy","reference","reference-point","standard","time","village","villages","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":156239,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"You know you are changing when you no longer have points of references. Mapping a new life.","author":"Natasha Tsakos","tags":["change","learning","life","new","perspective","reference"],"id":164038,"author_id":"Natasha+Tsakos"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}