January 2012
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“Where is the child I was,
still inside me or gone?”
– Pablo Neruda
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“‘Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.”
– Alfred Tennyson
December 2011
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“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed...”
– Woody Allen
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“Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to...”
– Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume
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“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as...”
– Mr.Spock
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“I held hands with her all the time, for instance. That doesn’t sound like...”
– Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via reading-as-breathing)
“Well! and what if she should die some afternoon,
Afternoon grey and smoky,...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “Portrait of a Lady” (via TSElibot)
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satirically-yours:
Listening to the last (hopefully temporarily) episode of The Bugle.
Come back to me, my British podcasters… Come back to meheheheheeeeeee.
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“If a violin string can ache, then I was that string.”
– Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita
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“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
– Aristotle
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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
– Isaac Asimov
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Are we from Mars?
Are we all Martians? According to many planetary scientists, it’s conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites. If that’s the case, an instrument being developed by researchers at MIT and Harvard could provide the clinching evidence. Read More
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“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
– Woody Allen
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“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human...”
– George Orwell, 1984
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“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I...”
– William S. Burroughs
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde
Anonymous asked: You say nationality is bad: Is that because you're from a nutty country like Iran?
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“God’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.”
– Mark Twain
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“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its...”
– Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy
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Rick: And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.
Captain Renault: That is my *least* vulnerable spot.
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