July 2010
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“I don’t hate my enemies. After all, I made ‘em.”
– Red Skelton, comedian (1913-1997)
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June 2010
58 posts
“A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in...”
– Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935- )
Looking Fourward to the Fourth →
I found some really cool patriotic items on Etsy. Here they are, for your viewing/shopping enjoyment!
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“A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages,...”
– H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
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“I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called...”
– Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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It is difficult to tolerate being loved
“[Psychiatrist George Vaillant, who has long been the chief curator of the Harvard Study of Adult Development,] became a kind of godfather to the [new field of ‘positive psychology’], and a champion of its message that psychology can improve ordinary lives, not just treat disease. But in many ways, his role in the movement is as provocateur. Last October, I watched him give a...
“Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgment.”
– Roy L. Smith
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I Think Ur a Contra →
What was the best part of contra dancing?
Old men twirling in flowing, glittery skirts.
“Magic cookies,” which is how I misheard “macaroons.”
Waltzing, butnotreallywaltzing, while talking about fruit fly experiments.
A women talking to be about her quantum class when she was at Harvard….
HOLY CRAP I LOVE CONTRA DANCING!!!
Contra dance is kind of like a cross between square dancing...
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“Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them...”
– Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966)
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Dear GMAT,
In slightly less than twenty-four hours, I will pwn you. With florescent lights buzzing above me and cinderblock walls looming beside me, I will direct the entirety of my superior intellect on defeating you, and I will succeed. My brain will sufficiently solve your data sufficiency problems. It will mathemagically manipulate your math problems. It will put your critical reasoning questions in...
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“There are some who only employ words for the purpose of disguising their...”
– Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
“All men — whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese...”
– Norman Cousins, author, editor, journalist and professor (1915-1990)
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus
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To My Twenties, by Kenneth Koch
How lucky that I ran into you
When everything was possible
For my legs and arms, and with hope in my heart
And so happy to see any woman -
O woman! O my twentieth year!
Basking in you, you
Oasis from both growing and decay
Fantastic unheard of nine- or ten-year oasis
A palm tree, hey! And then another
And another - and water!
I’m still very impressed by you. Whither,
Midst...
“I have that wide-eyed look that Young People get when they realize it’s all...”
– Sick of Sitting Round Here Tryna Write This Book: The Fear
(via nogreatillusion, allthebookspress)
It would be easier to avoid that wide-eyed look if I had never heard the expression, “A woman’s life generally follows the story of Cinderella - in reverse.”
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"The Floating Rib," by Lucia Perillo
Because a woman had eaten something
when a man told her not to. Because the man
who told her not to had made her
from another man’s bones. That’s why
men badgered the heart-side of her chest,
knowing she could not give the bone back, knowing
she would always owe them that one bone.
…
And you could see how older girls who knew
their catechism armed themselves against...
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“Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction.”
– Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)
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We shop until Chinese workers drop →
azspot:
Over the past decade, an old word once used in the Maoist gulags has come back to China. It is “gulaosi” - and it is used to describe the men and women who are literally being worked to death producing clothes, electronics and toys for you and me.
Wie Meiren was a standard-issue gulaosi, the kind you can find in every Chinese town. She was a 32-year-old woman with three kids who left...
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“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via -shescalledpika)
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If I hold my MacBook Pro just right...
…I receive a mild electric shock.
That’s bad, right?
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As Oil Is Sent to Landfills, Officials Worry About... →
“BP oil is responsible for polluting our sand beaches and our estuaries. They pick it up, put it on trucks, take it four or five miles north and dump it on us again.”
– MARLIN LADNER, supervisor in Harrison County, Miss., on concerns that materials from the oil-spill cleanup will contaminate local landfills.
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“There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.”
– Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
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“‘Right Is Right’ is about the difference between partially right and...”
– Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion
(from today’s delanceyplace.com email)
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“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and author (1884-1962)
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julie911:
Noah And The Whale - 5 Years Time
Oh,...
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“Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or...”
– Steve Martin (via) (via austinkleon)
Great advice.
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Doubting Thomas, by Nickel Creek
Cover of Why Should the Fire Die?
Nickel Creek - Doubting Thomas Found at skreemr.org
What will be left when I’ve drawn my last breath, Besides the folks I’ve met and the folks who know me, Will I discover a soul saving love, Or just the dirt above and below me, I’m a doubting thomas, I took a promise, But I do not feel safe, Oh me of little faith, Sometimes I pray...
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Wealth gap between whites and African-Americans... →
newleft:
In a capitalist society, social progress is contingent upon its profitability.
Hmmm. That’s not good.
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Hayling, by FC Kahuna
06. fc kahuna - hayling Found at skreemr.org
Don’t think about all those things you fear. Just be glad to be here.
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“Think of it this way: Picture a seesaw. Take all of the passages you can find in...”
– slacktivist (via azspot)
Nicely said.
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