February 2012
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Advice for Some Young Man in the Year 2064 A.D.
“dismiss perfection as an ache of the greedy but do not give in to the mass modesty of easy imperfection.
and remember the belly of the whale is laden with great men.”
- Charles Bukowski
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Sometimes it's good to be reminded
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
- Gandhi
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Minds
Meeting some interesting ones while I’m away.
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Hard Hearts
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
January 2012
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The Great Gatsby
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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December 2011
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The Odyssey
“Why cover the same ground again? … It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.” - Homer, The Odyssey
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For any other Theatre fan’s out there I read...
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Island Universes
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations,...
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The Little Prince
“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her… I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her…”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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November 2011
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Brave New World
“The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be...
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Understood
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
- George Orwell, 1984
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the...
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October 2011
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101 Damnations
The other day a friend of mine was explaining how she had to move these pixels around her computer and had to add 20 megabytes of memory to handle the operation. I had the disquieting thought that all this memory she was adding had to come from somewhere. Maybe it was coming from me because I couldn’t remember a thing that day. And then it became blindingly obvious: All the memory that...
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September 2011
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Barry Schwartz on Our Loss Of Wisdom
Barry Schwartz’s brain is my new old man crush.
I know it’s long, but so important. So if you can’t be bothered reading watch it here.
In his inaugural address, Barack Obama appealed to each of us to give our best as we try to extricate ourselves from this current financial crisis. But what did he appeal to? He did not, happily, follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, and...
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