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“To work as hard as possible, and then, when you think you’re done, to work just...”
– Work Hard and Be Kind: An Interview with Chris Ware
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“My #1 productivity secret: Don’t watch TV. Ever.”
– Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired
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monachopsis
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your society as a seal on the beach—lumbering, clumsy, resting often, easily distracted, huddled in the presence of other misfits—unable to recognize the nearby ambient roar of your intended habitat, in which you’d be fluidly, brilliantly, effortlessly at home.
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“That’s the most important thing I can ever teach y’all: You all got...”
– Beasts of the Southern Wild
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“The original title was ‘Stupid’.”
– Willie Nelson to Letterman, on his song, Crazy
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“For more than 30 consecutive Thanksgivings — including this one — I’ve written about turkey in all of its guises. Occasionally I’ve protested, pleading with editors that although the bird in its wild form may be traditional and is indisputably indigenous, whether the one you buy is free-range, wild, natural, organic, pumped up with antibiotics or even injected with “butter,” it’s just about...
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"Many of us would balk at the idea of going a year...
In freshwater ponds around the world live tiny animals called bdelloid rotifers. As a group, they have not had sex for somewhere between 40 and 100 million years.
The bdelloids (pronounced with a silent b) are apparently the only group of animals to have abandoned sex for such a long time. They live in an all-female world in which mothers give birth to daughters who are genetically identical...
“If people had sex more often, I wonder whether anyone would still be intrigued...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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O, Happy Day.
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UNITED.
United.
“The role of the citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote. America...”
– President Obama
So. Much. Love.
For all of you. For us. For the future.
