February 2011
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“After I got across the road, I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via memai69)
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“We need to do something about the stigma [of math and science]. Somehow...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“To read a book early in the morning, at daybreak in the vigor and dawn of...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Ecce Homo)
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Schroedinger's Cat is Alive or Dead, but not Both,... →
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Impressive, indeed.
The way up and the way down is one and the same. - Heraclitus
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Why secondhand bookstores smell good
teachingliteracy & downlo:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a...
“Where there is evidence, no one speaks of ‘faith.’ We do not speak of faith that...”
– Bertrand Russell - British mathematician and philosopher. Jailed for six months during WWI for writing an antiwar article. His irreligion and advocacy of sexual freedom got him barred from teaching in New York by the state Supreme Court in the early 1940s. Awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in...
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“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people....”
– Charles Bukowski (via funeraire)
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“I wanted to get back to spinning the blanket of mindless incident stretched ever...”
– Wells Tower- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
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“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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“No matter when or where you live, no matter your nationality or age or aesthetic...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.”
– Antonin Artaud
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Radiohead- All I Need
I am all the days that you...
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“And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the...”
– Clancy of the Overflow, Banjo Paterson
“Being up in the middle of the night is kind of nice actually. It’s quiet and...”
– Sarah Vowell
Take the Cannoli (via whitechocolateraspberrylatte)
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“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie...”
– Albert Einstein (via atheism-) 