February 2011
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To know how to say what other people only think is what makes men poets and...
– Elizabeth Rundle Charles, writer (1828-1896)
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
– Eric Fromm
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The unfed mind devours itself.
– Gore Vidal, American writer
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The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can...
– Mae C. Jemison, American physician and astronaut
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In matters of conscience the law of majority has no place.
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Wishing I were fluent en espanol.
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I want to concoct a cocktail that contains Blue Curaçao and name it after Akira Kurosawa just because the words “Kurosawa” and “Curaçao” sound similar.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of...
– Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)
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We must be careful about what we pretend to be.
– Kurt Vonnegut
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That is my principal objection to life, I think: It’s too easy, when...
– Kurt Vonnegut
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There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got...
– Kurt Vonnegut
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Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
– Kurt Vonnegut
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...
– Kurt Vonnegut
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Spending all my time working
on a computer/the internet is starting to mess with my head. I think. Or do I? Wait, what just happened?
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Send a Digital Valentine to Your Favorite Music... →
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they...
– Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778)
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as...
– Oscar Wilde (via wiretap)
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Supposedly nobody outside the group knew there was a group. Of course we all...
– John Barnes, Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance (via libraryland)
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Between truth and the search for truth, I opt for the second.
– Bernard Berenson, art historian (1865-1959)
Does anyone else ever wish they could go all Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Minds on their brains and strategically erase memories?
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds...
– Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1819-1891)
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are...
– Thomas Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...
– Oscar Wilde
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I leaned over to retrieve my pen from the floor
and nearly hung myself when I suddenly straightened up and my necklace caught on the arm of my chair.
I guess it’s one o’ those death-defying wardrobe-malfunction kinda days.
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OMG!
My birthday is tomorrow! I will turn the ancient age of 25! Zounds! Rally the horses! Batten down the hatches! Ready thyself for thy quarter-life crisis!
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Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
– Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (1881-1973)