February 2012
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January 2012
12 posts
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“[We] try to look like; dress like; live like the [television].
For God’s...”
– Network (1976 film)
[a portion of dialogue from, slightly edited]
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Observing Animal Subjects
fakescience:
December 2011
2 posts
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“life imitates art
far more than art
imitates life”
– oscar wilde
November 2011
9 posts
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assumption/presumption
Assumption is the mother of all fuckups
But Presumption is next of kin
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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted,...”
– from 1984 by George Orwell
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October 2011
7 posts
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ode pt.2
With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world’s great cities, And out of a fabulous story We fashion an empire’s glory: One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown; And three with a new song’s measure Can trample an empire down.
— Arthur O’Shaughnessy - Ode [stanza 2]
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“I think we ought to read only the kind
of books that wound and stab us…...”
– Franz Kafka
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We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems.
— Arthur O’Shaughnessy - Ode
September 2011
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“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE...”
– Vonnegut’s Blues For America (via irrelevantttt)
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August 2011
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IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream...
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June 2011
22 posts
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there is so much we are prepared to live for
what are we prepared to die for?
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top ten myths about introverts →
jerrybrito:
Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.
Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Shyness has nothing to…
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