January 2011
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“Somebody needs to take one for the team, seduce Oberst, and dump him, so he...”
– PumpkinSmasher
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus
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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
– Carl Jung
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“We are in East Alexandria. Immediately after prayer, the people came out of...”
– Eyewitness account from Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch
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Josh Ritter singing “Tonight You Belong To...
Sprezzatura →
It is defined by the author as “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.”
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Responses from Scientists asked "WHAT SCIENTIFIC... →
This is going to be one of the most interesting articles I read this year. It’s long but broken down into sections and all of the ideas that it presents are unusual and mind-altering. So excited to get time to read it all. :]
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“I come here, and imagine that this is the spot where everything I’ve lost...”
– Kathy, Never Let Me Go (2010)
You Should Date An Illiterate Girl →
chrstn:
Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in the corner of the café, you in the window of your room. You, who make my life so god damned difficult. The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life and it is bursting with...
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“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise...”
– Stephen Colbert
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“I stood with my m-16 pointed at the vehicle hoping that it would stop but it...”
– nailedtonothing
The Courage to Live Consciously →
Steve Pavlina
“Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You may endure multiple dysfunctional relationships. But these are all milestones along the path of a life lived courageously. They are your private victories, carving a deeper space within you to be filled with an abundance of joy,...
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The Hard and the Soft →
Wang Tsung-yueh
“From the greatest softness comes the greatest hardness.”
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“This article reminds me of my own childhood. I was badly abused and could not...”
– insomniac
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“You can’t help feel a little swell of pride in this 2.0 generation. They’ve...”
– Zadie Smith, Generation Why?
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“‘Why don’t you ever use your strength on me?’ she said.
‘Because love means...”
– Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via sibilance)
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“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”
– Aphorism 153, Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
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“At my Grandfather’s funeral, I had a conversation with his best friend...”
– x2650
Nobody works eighty hours a week. Not eighty real,... →
“Your best work was probably done in tremendous, focused bursts, surrounded by long periods of dullness and inactivity. So, let’s try to figure out how to maximize the probability and productivity of such a burst, rather than try and force it to be predictable and prolonged.
First, measure outputs, not inputs, in yourself and your organization. Otherwise, you will be fooled by the modern...
““Culturalists confuse cause and effect, arguing that lack of social...”
– philwelch on news.ycombinator.com
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“PEOPLE WHO THINK of themselves as tough-minded and realistic tend to take it for...”
– S. I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action
“Information is the currency of democracy.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“It’s not that fear is absent. But courage is really the intellectual...”
– Julian Assange
Do you want to live forever?
Article
Aging is a molecular and cellular disease that can, with advanced technology, be cured.
If we were able to live forever, we would need to control the population some other way. Maybe if you had a child you would have to agree with the State that you would willingly die to ‘make room’ for them. A choice would have to be made over which partner would end their life.
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“For fortune is a woman who to be kept under must be beaten and roughly handled;...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli, “The Prince”
Uncluttered benefits of learning people's names. →
Even if you have ignored someone you encounter regularly in your life, it’s never too late to extend your arm, shake a hand, apologize for never learning his or her name before, and properly introduce yourself. In my experience, you’ll immediately feel more connected to your corner of the world and see a few uncluttered benefits, too.
What a lovely thought.
Dalai Lama — Countering Stress and Depression →
[…] However, as human beings we are gifted with this wonderful human intelligence. Besides that, all human beings have the capacity to be very determined and to direct that strong sense of determination in whatever direction they like. So long as we remember that we have this marvellous gift of human intelligence and a capacity to develop determination and use it in positive ways, we...
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“So tell me not to fall in love with you.
But frankly, my dear, I think...”
– “Tambourine-N-Thyme” by Nana Grizol
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“What most really powerful people have in life is a sense that they are unique,...”
– Robert Greene
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The 48 Laws of Power
I don’t think these are beautiful and I’m loathe to place them here. Maybe they are ugly but very few are able to discern, disarm or live peacefully with them so they should be learnt.
Law 1 Never outshine the master.
Law 2 Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies.
Law 3 Conceal your intentions.
Law 4 Always say less than necessary.
Law 5 So much depends on...
How and Why to Start a Journal →
[…] Your children and grandchildren will want to read it. I know it’s hard to believe right now. Your life probably seems quite ordinary and of little interest to anyone else. And every generation believes that life will pretty much continue on like it is now. When your great-grandpa was kicking it in the 1920′s, he thought to himself, “Who would want to read about this new fangled...
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“Tomas came to this conclusion: making love with a woman and sleeping with a...”
– Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via sibilance)
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“hyperbole will literally be the death of us all.”
– AlexC04
