February 2012
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Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
– Josephine Hart (via fawun)
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Is this really the fate facing educated heterosexual women: either no marriage...
– Stephanie Coontz and other voices in the ongoing discussion of women’s education and marriage.
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What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond...
– Paul Graham, How to Do What You Love
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Biggest photo of the night sky ever →
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There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
– Christopher Morley
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Modern discourse is not really comfortable with the word “soul,” and in my...
– Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred – The Chronicle of Higher Education examines how we talk about souls, an interesting parallel to how we talk about being human. (via)
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i like my body when it is with your by E. E....
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric...
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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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Studies on the benefits of not being able to pay...
The stupor of alcohol, like the haze of the early morning, makes it harder for us to ignore those unlikely thoughts and remote associations that are such important elements of the imagination. So the next time you are in need of insight, avoid caffeine and concentration. Don’t chain yourself to your desk. Instead, set the alarm a few minutes early and wallow in your groggy thoughts. And if that...
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Today it is not the case anymore, and US content is not the most popular, especially not in prime time. Generally Czechs and Slovenians are very close to Germans and they prefer drama, while other nations like romance more. But people everywhere like comedies.
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Some people just seem to have a pact with the... →
We have achieved our new business model, one content, multiple distribution.
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I am, plus my circumstances.
– Jose Ortega y Gasset
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break-ups are not always tought on the heart
braindumps:
some can be tough on the ego. they always leave you with a strong will to get better: look better, act better, be better.
I’ll start being more feminine, more professional, more independent.
I’ll get a car, start wearing heels, dresses and red nails, get better freelance work, move out from my parents and just become too good for someone to have me. Unless I marry a guy in the...
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this is actually inspiring
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