February 2012
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If you read a review, an opinion, a description or a fact and you don’t...
– An internet troll’s opinion should carry no more weight than graffiti | David Mitchell | Comment is free | The Observer
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A thought-terminating cliché is a commonly used phrase, sometimes passing as...
– http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Reform_and_the_Psychology_of_Totalism
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Pay particular attention to number 3 →
via Boing Boing
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The world's most prolific goal-scorer (and you've... →
Why T.S. Eliot kept his day job →
austinkleon:
“Even after he published, Prufrock and The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot continued to work his day job at a bank.” Great article about why Eliot chose to keep working, even after all his friends basically Kickstartered him and tried to get him to quit. “…nobody wants to think about the poet at the water cooler, or, even worse, pouring over actuarial tables.”
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One objective reality is that our government doesn’t work, not because we have...
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Whenever I see a politician or lobbyist get up on the “cause”...
– Lana Polansky