December 2010
79 posts
“Every relationship you’ll ever have will fail. Until one doesn’t.”
– Dan Savage
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“Once we accept the assumption that democratic change can only occur when the...”
– Micah White
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“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to...”
– Pema Chodron
'16 Phrases To Retire In 2010' →
2. Vajayjay
4. Hai
7. Synergize
9. Amazeballs
10. Sexytime
13. Obvi, totes, etc.
14. That’s what she said…
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“Reality is like a precious jewel, of which the most precious diamond is only an...”
– Tom Chetwynd
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
– Carl Jung
“I’ve always been torn between my appetite for people, the vanity and the...”
– Albert Camus
“The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come...”
– Jeanette Winterson
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole World around you, because...”
– Roald Dahl
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'Out of Our Brains' →
There is no limit, it seems, to the different tasks that elicit subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, different patterns of neural activation. Surely then, all the thinking must be going on in the brain? That, after all, is where the lights are. But then again, maybe not. […] Is it possible that, sometimes at least, some of the activity that enables us to be the thinking, knowing, agents that...
“Coming back to capitalism is like walking into a brick wall. It’s like being...”
– Aurora Morales
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'Sexual Fluidity' →
Most people assume they all go together in a nice neat package. We now actually have more good data on what folks out in the world are doing. And whether the folks who are having sex with the same sex are identifying as gay, and how they describe their attractions. One of the first large scale studies of this that was published in 1994 from a random representative sample of American adults. They...
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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is...”
– e.e. cummings
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“here is the deepest secret nobody knows / here is the root of the root and the...”
– e. e. cummings
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“And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever....”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
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'What triggers the suicide bomber?' →
[…] In Lebanon, for example, of the 32 successful suicide attackers from 1982 through 1989 whose ideology was identifiable, 22 were communists and socialists with no commitment to religious extremism; five were Christian. Religion served as an auxiliary recruiting tool, but the root cause of the attacks was foreign occupation, and the attacks were designed to coerce the occupying forces...
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Letter #6: Stranger
I don’t know you, but (of course) I do.
Because you are me. The deepest empathy you’ve ever expressed is within me, as is the most depraved malevolence. While the former finds its inspiration in love and beauty, the latter is no less real or natural; it has its roots in selfish instinct, in the beast called mankind. And so, the key is not to strive for the good and reject the evil,...
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