January 2011
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Jan 1st
Is fate better or is free-will better? →
Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? | Video on TED.com Watch this video and think about the question: would you rather have free-will or fate?
Jan 1st
The paradox of choice →
This is why I will never be happy with college. Barry Schwartz, ted.com All I have been thinking about is choice because of solongsunshine.
Jan 1st
December 2010
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Dec 31st
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He shouted and no one listened.
“Real life is a dream. Real life is the waiting in between art and tomorrow’s sip of sleep,” he said. “Real life is nothing. The only thing worth living for is the production of culture and history’s slow turn. The present is nothing more than an illusory haunt in which we must forever float, for only our ignorance will save us form reality’s blows.” What...
Dec 31st
“When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up, we would no longer...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via makingdens)
Dec 30th
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Listenvia hipstertracks: Immuzikation - “Giving...
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“Innocent! Innocent! Nations shall perish in their innocence. Classes shall...”
– J.B. by Archibald MacLeish
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D: Existentialism don’t fail me now. E: Don’t fail me now, you nauseated ignoramus. D: Oh, right…
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Freaks and Geeks
This show is like watching someone shoot up heroin. Addicting and painful to watch.
Dec 26th
“In the beginning was the rock, the one Cain picked up when he was angry with his...”
– Ross Evertson
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We stride, walking across plains, hoping to find one another in the cold mornings of our desperation. By nightfall, when we receive one another it is our hearts, who collectively sigh by way of our more cold-faced minds, we spit verses of color and thoughts of purpose into our lovers arms. Inspiration takes her leave earlier each year.
Dec 24th
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense...”
– Oscar Wilde
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I would love a third Vietnam. Please...
NYTimes: U.S. Military Seeks to Expand Raids in Pakistan http://nyti.ms/hqBqmD
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“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dec 17th
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Round puns
L: Balls… D: That’s the second time you’ve said “balls” tonight. L: Yeah. You could say I am on a roll, balls wise. D: Oh, getting ballsy with our puns, are we? L: No, you could just say that I’m having a ball.      D: Because otherwise, you don’t even have balls. L: You could say that, tonight, I’m a baller. D: Whoa, now. That’s enough...
Dec 17th
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