February 2012
6 posts
“I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to...”
– Marcel Proust (via philphys)
This is how I’ve begun to live lately, and it’s incredibly liberating. The flip side is that it means you are constantly aware that you will die one day, and there’s no way of sweet-talking your way around it (my solution to everything else).
Not only do I live and work in China....
….and am currently on my vacation. But I also have pneumonia :/ This is why I haven’t been and won’t be updating Tumblr for a while.
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via philphys)
January 2012
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November 2011
8 posts
“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order
— for...”
– Arthur Miller (via pavorst)
“I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their...”
– BILL MAHER, Real Time (via inothernews)
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Some good news tonight:
lostgrrrls:
Mississippi is rejecting the Personhood Amendment that would make abortion, and many popular forms of contraceptive, illegal.
Good job on that, Mississippi!
“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about...”
– St. Augustine (via girlwithoutwings)
A theist agreeing with atheists??
October 2011
45 posts
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“You need to know at least one foreign language well enough so that you can read...”
– John Searle (via philphys)
“[tw: depression, suicide]
Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind...”
– Pearl (via thesunshinewaitingtobefound)
wow i just started crying at this
(via eternal-apprentice)
oh wow yup yup yup
(via aphroblazia)
I think I might print this off
and give it to my dad
:|
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Hey
thank you
(via sleepingintheforest)
I wish I could have had a copy...
“The real value of a single-sex education isn’t in removing men entirely, but...”
– Margaret Hartmann ’06 in Jezebel. Read the story here. (via wellesleymag)
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Roster of Congresspeople Who Believe A Person... →
stfuconservatives:
Yea FL-24 Adams, Sandy [R] Yea AL-4 Aderholt, Robert [R] Yea MO-2 Akin, W. [R] Yea LA-5 Alexander, Rodney [R] Yea PA-4 Altmire, Jason [D] Yea MI-3 Amash, Justin [R] Yea NV-2 Amodei, Mark [R] Yea OH-7 Austria, Steve [R] Yea AL-6 Bachus, Spencer [R] Yea PA-11 Barletta, Lou [R] Yea MD-6 Bartlett, Roscoe [R] Yea ...
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“I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I...”
– The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (submitted via Confuzzzled)
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“Most of the time, we’re taking things. Neither you nor I made the clothes we...”
– Steve Jobs, 1985 interview with Playboy Magazine
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Desperate times call for desperate measures.ˆ
theanimalencyclopedia:
African Elephants have been hunted so much over the years, that whenever they hear a helicopter the herd hurry to the closest road to them and walk with the tourists/local civilians until the helicopter disappears. Why do they do this? Well, the Elephants have learnt, that if they are on the road with humans, they can’t be shot at.
Wow. Reminds me of the movie i saw...