January 2011
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Put a bird on it!
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We were instructed, via office email, to wear any Bears paraphernalia we had in honor of this Bears/Packers thing. (I hear it might be a Big Deal.) Since I don’t have any Bears gear, I opted to wear one of my Notre Dame hoodies, because I figured as fellow “Team Who’s Fans Won’t Shut Up About That Time We Were Good in the Eighties” it was close enough.
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Two roads diverged in the wood, and I…I didn’t even notice until just now. Then...
– Jay McInerney, Brightness Falls (via caryrandolph)
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Amateur: One reckless enough to risk being interesting.
– David Barringer, There’s Nothing Funny About Design
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A good scientist is never ‘certain’. Lack of certainty is precisely...
– Carlo Rovelli, physicist at the University of Aix-Marseille
Learn to love uncertainty and failure, say leading thinkers | Edge question | Science | The Guardian
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Robert F. Kennedy's speech the day after Dr.... →
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“This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives. …
Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the...
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Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability
Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass,... →
“This is not about us and them,” said Dalia Mustafa, a student who attended mass at Virgin Mary Church on Maraashly. “We are one. This was an attack on Egypt as a whole, and I am standing with the Copts because the only way things will change in this country is if we come together.”
In the days following the brutal attack on Saints Church in Alexandria, which left 21 dead on New Year’ eve,...
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I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me...
– Great House, Nicole Krauss
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I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...
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Neil Gaiman (via The Pursuit of Happyness )