2 sides of anger:
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
vs.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)

New motto:
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
--Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Josh Billings (American humorist) on laughter: "Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot."

I love this band. I'm currently stuck on "The Dark of the Matinee"... but the whole self-titled CD is amazing. Lyrics follow.

You take your white finger
Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer
Relax the fraying wool, slacken ties
And I'm not to look at you in the shoe, but the eyes, find the eyes

Chorus:
Find me and follow ( Read more... )

How to be Good, Nick Hornsby - bittersweet story of marriage after the lust is gone and the materialism of middle age sets in. B ( Read more... )

"In a way, he was like the country he lived in: Everything came too easily to him."
Description of Hubbell,
The Way We Were

Jane Austen on reticence (and my current modus operandi): "There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person."

I looked down on a daisied lawn ( Read more... )

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1. 395 paper - due tomorrow @ 8 am ( Read more... )