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If you could erase all the mistakes of your past…
If you could erase all the mistakes of your past…
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You are my forever
At some point, while submariner Mikhail Averin waited at the bottom of the Bering Sea to be rescued, he wrote this short letter to his wife.
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Guillermo Del Toro on the Success and Failure
Guillermo Del Toro offers his perspective on the nature of success and failure…
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12 fucking rules for success ~ image & text versions
It’s like all the self-help bits of advice curated into one twelve item list…that repeats the f-word a lot. In case the title didn’t give it away, NSFW due to language. (more…)
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What journalism really is…
This quote, misattributed to George Orwell, gets at the “nut” of the civic role and responsibility of real journalism.
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I didn’t know what I wanted to do…
The original quote from Diane Von Furstenberg is…
“I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.”
But as a male of the species, I prefer this gender-neutral adaptation: (more…)
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Unconcerned about your losing your right to privacy?
Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to day. ~ Edward Snowden Add this quote, which is controversially attributed to Cardinal_Richelieu… If you give me Read more…
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Listen and you might learn something new ~ Dalai Lama
Nice point by the Dalai Lama. Not that speaking can or should be avoided entirely. Asking questions and sharing your views has tremendous value and is absolutely necessary for the “market of ideas” to work. Indeed, I think you can learn a lot in the process of trying to express yourself. But an emphasis on listening can hardly hurt.
Dialogue is the ideal. (more…)
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Douglas MacArthur explains why I’m feeling old
I’m intrigued how often I find the quotes of military leaders so meaningful. This one from Douglas MacArthur struck a chord; it addresses why I’m feeling so old right now 🙂 (more…)
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When one door of happiness closes…
Helen Keller Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
~ Helen Keller