June 2011
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lopezdispenser replied to your quote: To attain knowledge, add things every day. To… going to apply this to my life… and by apply i mean madlib style insert the word “pants” instead of “things”
She gets it. She knows.
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every...”
– Laozi
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nebraska-admiral:
“The Best Ever Death Metal...
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Domestic Bliss? - NY Press →
goldman:
“Young people no longer see marriage as an obligation as they did in the 1950s when it was common to move straight out of one’s parents’ house into one’s own nuclear family,” Coontz says. “Marriage is much more of an optional institution now. They organize much less of their lives around marriage than they used to but, paradoxically, they expect much more out of it. Young people...
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Online Dating: Sex, Love, and Loneliness →
The process of selecting and securing a partner, whether for conceiving and rearing children, or for enhancing one’s socioeconomic standing, or for attempting motel-room acrobatics, or merely for finding companionship in a cold and lonely universe, is as consequential as it can be inefficient or irresolute. Lives hang in the balance, and yet we have typically relied for our choices on...
Define the Ratio of People to Cake →
Lubin Lawrence: If you could describe Hershey, Godiva, and Dove chocolate as people, how would you describe them?
I went to school with Hershey. He thought he was so special, and people were all like “Ooooh Hershey,” but then I went to college and forgot all about him. Last I heard, he was cleaning windows for a living. Godiva inherited the house after her aunt died, and tried making a career...
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Radical Acceptance →
An expert on mental illness, namely borderline personality disorder and severely suicidal patients, shares her own fight:
Marsha Linehan arrived at the Institute of Living on March 9, 1961, at age 17, and quickly became the sole occupant of the seclusion room on the unit known as Thompson Two, for the most severely ill patients. The staff saw no alternative: The girl attacked herself habitually,...
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“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.”
– Jane Wagner, the New Shelton wet/dry (via nevver, see also: “Don’t be cynical.”)
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