June 2012
12 posts
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“Pride measures her prosperity not by her own goods but by others’ wants. ...”
– Utopia (Thomas More)
“Goodness comes from within…Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot...”
– Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (via bookmania)
Let's be honest
An apology is more about making the person at fault feel less guilty than it is about the offended. Plus, what good is an apology if you aren’t going to change your ways?
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via penseesduchoeur)
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Today is the second day that I've received a beer...
Are you trying to tell me something, Laurier?
chasingthestars:
sometimes I think about how I’ll probably never be able to have children because I spend 90% of my time with a laptop resting upon my ovaries
May 2012
86 posts
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the...”
– Allen Ginsberg (via alvinmanalo)
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Congress!
I volunteered for Congress 2012 today that’s being hosted at Laurier and UW. I had thought that it was over, but apparently it had just begun yesterday. So I spent eight hours showing people around, directing them to various buildings, etc.
The weather was crazy, and people ended up staying under our tent until the rain went away. A man from Lesotho came up to me and asked if he could...
“Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn’t. You can’t unleash it in the...”
– Naomi Klein (via arielnietzsche)
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“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main...”
– Michel Foucault
“The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people. But because...”
– Napoleon Bonaparte (via amputance)
“If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a...”
– East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– Gary Provost (via qmsd)
This might be my favourite quote on writing ever.
(via bdoing)
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via booksandnerds)
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Baby Carrot →
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Estragon: I can't go on like this.
Vladimir: That's what you think.
“It’s amazing to me that Fox is the number one studio in the country because...”
– David Fincher - [x] (via rebeccahalls)
“I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property, or anyone...”
– Anthony de Mello (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
12 Dozen Places to Educate Yourself Online For... →
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The Destruction of Sennacherib
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay...
I think that you’re only as successful as you feel you are. Too many times we determine success by the amount of approval we receive from other people. Success has become institutionalized and standardized, represented by sheets of papers with academic seals and letters that come after your name, or by paycheques and job titles. But I think success is derived from the feeling of personal...
“The argument, then, was that we had to punish Saddam for his crimes by crushing...”
– Noam Chomsky (via antisocial-socialist)
“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way...”
– T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” (thanks, lizchristine)
“We look at each other; see that we do not know each other, stare, and go off....”
– Virginia Woolf,The Waves. (via violentwavesofemotion)
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