December 2010
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“As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don’t know how...”
– The Wizard of Oz
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Emotions -- Revealed! →
Paul Ekman defines emotion so well: “Emotion is a process, a particular kind of automatic appraisal influenced by our evolutionary and personal past, in which we sense that something important to our welfare is occurring, and a set of physiological changes and emotional behaviors begins to deal with the situation”. All humans have the same 5 basic emotional states: happy, sad, angry,...
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson (via sibilance)
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This is honestly the most fucked-up, depressing... →
Watching a kid try to commit suicide by stabbing his own stomach with a ballpoint pen. He was going in at least 5 inches. This was on our “yearly trip” and instead of taking him to a hospital, he was forced to wait 6 hours until the rest of the house was finished. Then the bus was driven from Boston to Maine and he was thrown into the isolation room. He was not given any medical...
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oh you’re so classy… ;)
“If you had been praised for being motivated, early 20s is when you become the...”
– YouJustLostTheGame
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“This is from my heart and may be important for those who have the same brief...”
– riskeverything
lovely voice. :)
Unorthodox Strategies For Winning →
“The weak regrets his words more than his silence; the strong regrets his silence...”
– N. N. Taleb
“It wasn’t magical, but it addressed some chemical issues in my brain that...”
I have permission to let Tumblr use this under...
“If you were offered cake but no icing, or icing and no cake, and you found out...”
– fyeah
“Tarantino doesn’t just explore language’s capacity to reveal and conceal motives...”
– Matt Zoller Seitz and Keith Uhlich, The L Magazine
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“Ignore the flock of Wah-Wahs, focus on what you love to do, and earn off it. And...”
– Kevin Smith
“Non-conformity is not the adoption of some pre-existing alternative subculture.”
– Is that Julian Assange?!
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“Here’s a more abstract argument. With or without transparency, the job of a...”
Okay, I'll lay off the Wikileaks stuff for a... →
“WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with...”
– Julian Assange, Editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks.
Isolation pushes you 'til every muscle aches, down...
“In the beginning, you’re just lonely. Then after a couple of months, you begin to simply slow down. You lose your ability to initiate behavior, organize yourself around any kind of purpose.
You can begin to hallucinate. You start pacing back and forth for hours at a time. Then your thinking pattern begins to break down. There is irrational anger, obsessing on single points, and...
“His family see a gleam in his eyes that had all but died for 11 years, but the...”
– Solitary Survivor