February 2012
11 posts
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“There is no Love greater than Love with no object.
For then you, yourself, have...”
– Rumi (via spoonerette)
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“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Introversion — along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness — is...”
– Susan Cain in Quiet, one of 7 great books by TED 2012 speakers.
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“In the oasis complex, the thirsty man imagines he sees water, palm trees, and...”
– Alain de Botton, Essays in Love
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“Is it silly and backward to wonder how the onslaught of nonstop input—most of it...”
– The Week’s editor, Bill Falk, reflects on how Facebook alters how we think (via theweekmagazine)
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““I am the snake. I am the snake of reason.”
“You’re...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
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“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less...”
– Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulations
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“The words “I am …” are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The...”
– A. L. Kitselman (via ietw)
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“Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light; I have loved...”
– Sarah Williams
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“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
January 2012
14 posts
3 tags
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping...”
– Leonard Cohen (via musingsofalibertine)
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“I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most...”
– Thomas Edison
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“The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.”
– Rumi
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“You have slept for millions and millions of years.
Why not wake up this...”
– Kabir (1440–1518), mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. By way of the incomparable Whiskey River.
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Watch”…the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo—they’re us. We’re the people getting policed.”
This is a must watch.
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“If, in everyday life, you are asked about continued existence after death by one...”
– Schopenhauer
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“If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my...”
– Jules Renard
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“Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“My understanding of truth can change from day to day and my commitment must be...”
– Ram Dass
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“It’s funny, isn’t it?
What?
The big, beautiful, noisy world....”
– A Home at the End of the World
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“Photographs state the innocence, the vulnerability of lives heading toward their...”
– Susan Sontag
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“Most people are other people; their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Feminism has had the very unfortunate effect on romantic love of making us...”
– Cassie McLean | The paradox of a beautiful life, more metaphors for love, and the unfortunate side effect of feminism
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“When at last I’m in Hell, I have no doubt my divine punishment will...”
– Brahms
December 2011
9 posts
4 tags
“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next 2 years and...”
– Bill Gates
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why...”
– Grand Master Oogway
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“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does...”
– Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing
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“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and...”
– Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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“Forgiveness is the scent of the violet that clings fast to the heel of the one...”
– Mark Twain
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“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
– Eric Hoffer
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“In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because...”
– Zooey Deschanel
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“Remember what makes one human,
animal, is not the high road
but the baseness...”
– Dante Micheaux, from “Enemies”
November 2011
11 posts
5 tags
“A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it’s better to be totally...”
– Czech Proverb
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“My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Letter to Bertrand Russell (Christmas 1921)
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“Teach kids how to think, not what to think.”
– Richard Dawkins
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“Only the dead can be resurrected. It’s more difficult with the living.”
– Stanisław Jerzy Lec - Myśli nieuczesane (Unkempt Thoughts)
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“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
– Shakespeare’s As You Like it (4.1.81-92)
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“Between the mind that plans and the hands that build there must be a Mediator,...”
– Fritz Lang’s 1927 “Metropolis”
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“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase:...”
– Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881)
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“Reality is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.”
– Lily Tomlin
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“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
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“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that...”
– Michael Crichton
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“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
– Bertrand Russell
October 2011
8 posts
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“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more...”
– Douglas Adams
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“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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“It’s very difficult to describe a feeling and not to lie a little bit.”
– Max Frisch
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“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am...”
– Charlotte Brontë
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“There is something indescribably moving in the way nature in Petersburg,...”
– White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky