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When I submit to mind games
Life is feeling more to me like a puzzle I have been spending my whole life solving that seems to have no reward for completion, besides the completed image of the puzzle itself. This puzzle plays less like a single transaction purchase from your local game store where you go home on a quiet night and dump out the whole box, spend time building up ( Read more... ) -
Antoine, on friends
"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down
at a little distance from me - like that - in the grass. I shall look
at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are
the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me,
every day..."
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Read a great Dali Llama quote today
"Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived ( Read more... ) -
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The difference between pseudoscience and science is the lab
After having a rousing discussion with a friendly fellow about Nostradamus, "Catholic" imagery, and aboriginal telepathy, I can't help but think one chapter from "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" would likely have been an easier recommendation than a whole book, "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark".
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gaaah!
I'm getting tired of all the uggggggh with the blech.
Who am I kidding? I'm oversaturated with the stuff.
Good news is that I have at least two more months without classes! -
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Great for today
This is just what I needed to read today. (Warning - non-sarcastic statement detected)
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Today, you. Tomorrow... ?
I've been putting the vehicle to work pretty hard lately. On the other hand, I've been getting shitty hours. This creates an imbalance, especially when you go on hours-long trips at 20mpg ( Read more... ) -
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http://www.slate.com/id/2282620/
"If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."
"[author of article], who is now a postdoctoral fellow studying social psychology ( Read more... )