April 2013
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Apr 29th
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“In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible...”
– Albert Camus “Return to Tipasa” The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Stories (Translated by Justin O’Brien)
Apr 29th
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“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human...”
– C. S. Lewis Book II: What Christians Believe, 3. The Shocking Alternative Mere Christianity
Apr 25th
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March 2013
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Mar 24th
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September 2012
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“And the King said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick?...”
– King Artaxerxes II to Nehemiah The Bible, Nehemiah 2:2 ESV
Sep 2nd
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July 2012
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Jul 3rd
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Jul 1st
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June 2012
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“I was in love with circuses and their mystery: I suppose the most important...”
– Ray Bradbury Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews Collected by Sam Weller
Jun 6th
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“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears…”
– Albert Camus May 1935 - September 1937 Notebooks, 1935-1942
Jun 6th
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February 2012
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“What is it then that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that...”
– Blaise Pascal Penseés 425, Section VII: Morality and Doctrine
Feb 20th
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“…I have noticed one overarching theme among smart people: they ask...”
– “What I’ve Learned About Smart People” Tommy MacWilliam
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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October 2011
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Oct 27th
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“These are disastrous consequences, and all the result of not having “the...”
– Charles Henry Mackintosh Chapters XXIX—XXXI Notes on the Book of Genesis
Oct 25th
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September 2011
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“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it...”
– Albert Einstein, 30 July 1947 Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives From a letter in response to an Idaho farmer who named his son Albert and requesting to give the boy a few words of encouragement.
Sep 27th
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“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow...”
– Eden Phillpotts A shadow passes
Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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August 2011
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“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone;”
– XC, Canto III Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Lord Byron
Aug 21st
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July 2011
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Jul 5th
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May 2011
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May 31st
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“Like all great travellers,” said Essper, “I have seen more than I...”
– Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli
May 26th
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April 2011
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“I’m not young enough to know everything.”
– Ernest The Admirable Crichton J. M. Barrie
Apr 29th
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Apr 7th
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March 2011
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But...”
– Kurt Vonnegut “Thoughts of a Free Thinker,” Palm Sunday Commencement address, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 26 May 1974
Mar 8th
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February 2011
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“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The...”
– Lady Chatterly’s Lover D. H. Lawrence
Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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January 2011
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“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
– Puck A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene II William Shakespeare
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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“Why, then the world’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.”
– Pistol The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene II William Shakespeare
Jan 25th
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December 2010
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Dec 13th
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October 2010
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Oct 25th
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“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States of America Televised Thanksgiving Message, 28 November 1963 A week after inauguration and John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Oct 12th
August 2010
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“The heart is the strongest muscle in the body. Use it.”
– Rule No. 455 1001 Rules For My Unborn Son Walker Lamond
Aug 31st
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Aug 30th
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Aug 27th
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“If you meet a person who cares about the same obscure things you do, hold on to...”
– Frank Chimero “What advice would you give to a graphic design student?” (In which he sums everything he knows.)
Aug 26th
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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the...”
– Coth The Silver Stallion James Branch Cabell
Aug 23rd
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“Against our deep creature-sickness stands God’s infinite ability to cure.”
– “God’s Infinitude” The Knowledge of the Holy A. W. Tozer
Aug 14th
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“Now shall I walk Or shall I ride? “Ride”, Pleasure said;...”
– “The Best Friend” William Henry Davis
Aug 10th
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How to Be Friends with an Introvert
1. If you must drag us to a party, please don’t abandon us. Don’t go rushing off to catch up with your other friends without including the introvert; the inny will die in a corner. 2. If they actually call and wants to talk, listen! These moments may not come often, since Innies usually work out their problems within their own brains, but that does not mean they are all Bella Swan “suffer in...
Aug 7th
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Aug 5th
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Aug 3rd
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
– Alan Kay In meeting with Xerox and Palo Alto Research Center in 1971.
Aug 2nd
July 2010
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“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that...”
– “On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small” Heretics G. K. Chesterton
Jul 28th
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“God, how I still love private readers, it’s what we all used to be.”
– J. D. Salinger as remembered by Lillian Ross
Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 8th
June 2010
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“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
– “The Old Astronomer to His Pupil” Sarah Williams
Jun 30th
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