October 2009
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this landscape isn’t beautiful exactly so much as it is mesmerizing. you...
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riding west in the morning, you’re running a losing race. you can have all the head start you want but you’re outmatched from the get go. that sun creeps up behind you and it doesn’t make a bit of difference how fast you go. it swallows your headlights, it pulls back the covers and before you know it, you’re no longer a glowing blade of light slicing through the dark, no...
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when...
– Oscar Wilde (via quote-book: kari-shma)
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Economists are Irrational: What are free-market... →
psychotherapy:
I recently read an article by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in which he described the renewed battle between so-called freshwater economists (so named because they are largely based at the University of Chicago and other Midwestern universities) and saltwater economists (based primarily at Princeton, MIT, Berkeley and other coastal universities). The freshwater...
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When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most...
– Josiah Quincy (via calidre) (via quote-book)
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Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
– Paul Strand (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves...
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via psychotherapy)
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
– Steve Martin (via quote-book)
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Now that we had paid the rent, we felt entitled to mention the cockroach situation to the landlord. He said he would send someone over but that we shouldn’t get our hopes up.
Why not?
Well, it’s not just your apartment; the whole building’s infested.
Maybe you should have them do the whole building then.
It wouldn’t do any good; they’d just come over from other buildings.
It’s the whole...
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September 2009
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