March 2012
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“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman
February 2012
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“Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness.”
– Moby Dick, Herman Melville
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is...”
– James Baldwin
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“Exploration! Exploring the past! We students in the camps seminar considered...”
– Bernhard Schlink
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is...”
– Charlie Kaufman
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“The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get...”
– John Green (via black-wolves)
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“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that...”
– Pablo Picasso
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“You know what’s sad about reading books? It’s that you fall in love with the...”
– Hunger Games
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Words and Wisdom.
“You pulled that out of context…”
“Don’t you know who that is? I wouldn’t be caught dead quoting them…”
I know, I know, I know. Valid criticisms.
But here’s what quotations are from my perspective. They are words strung together in a particular order that articulate something much deeper. A statement that when I read it, I say, “Yes!...
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“You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life...”
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Paulo Coelho
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“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Sallinger
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The the impotence of proofreading
Could not stop laughing and crying at this. Thanks, Laura Hewett.
By Taylor Mali
Has this ever happened to you? You work very horde on a paper for English clash And then get a very glow raid (like a D or even a D=) and all because you are the word’s liverwurst spoiler. Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence.
This is a problem that affects manly, manly students. ...
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“Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and...”
– Seth Godin
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“As the excitement mounted, so did the fear. I have never been more scared. But...”
– by Alyssa’s friend, Olivia.
This is exactly how the last year has felt since I decided to make my own way last spring. So beautifully articulated, I hope I get to meet her one day.
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“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We...”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
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No Impact Man: The Documentary
Video description: “In this engaging documentary, a Fifth Ave family goes green when writer Colin Beavan leads his wife, Michelle Conlin, and their baby daughter on a yearlong crusade to generate no trash and otherwise make no net impact on the environment.”
I think this experiment was inspiring. Here are some tidbits pulled out of context.
“It’s not about using as little...
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WatchBeautiful, inspiring, just fantastic.
I love words.
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“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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