January 2011
nogreatillusion:
Beck - Everybody’s Gotta Learn...
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“We do not know the way to the darkness of the word
or the excellent silence...”
– Osip Mandelstam
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Al Jazeera English is streaming live the events... →
fyeahafrica:
Alternatively, visit them on facebook and click the “Watch Live” tab.
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WatchScientists now grow body parts from our own cells on a stripped down “scaffolding” of a once living organ.
Tumbleword.blogspot
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Van Morrison “Brand New Day”
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“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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““Stories are central to life. They’re everywhere: in the law, where...”
– from Roger Rosenblatt, “And Then What Happened”
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chikuwa4649:
Rothko, “Sunset”.
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“Claude Lévi-Strauss was groomed to be an artiste. He grew up in a secular Jewish...”
– from The Nation: essay on Clause Levi Strauss
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“The great philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that nothing matters more to our...”
– essay The Places in the Brain Where Space Lives
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Start threading a needle Brush past the shuttle...
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“Tweetox
Definition: [tweet + detox] to take a break from Twitter
Example: my...”
– merriam webster dictionary
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“You cannot teach people how to write—the gift of dramatic expressiveness,...”
– Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001)
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“Others made me a slave but I must squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.”
– Anton Chekov
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand (via love-and-squalor)
gingersnaps:
The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.
- Jacques Derrida
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“We’re time travellers now. The new “technologies of...”
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“How You Can Know Her
Neither with nor without a lover.
Neither singing nor...”
– Linda Gregg
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Portishead, Glory Times
“Sometimes if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the...”
– A.A Milne
Taken from Pooh’s Little Instruction Book.
(via artpropelled)
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Exit, U2 The Joshua Tree
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“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
—Rest in peace Dr. King. We could use someone like you right now.
(via graceisred)