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2019-12-23 12:51 pm

QotD: Twain again

 
 
 
Few things are harder
to put up with
than the annoyance
of a good example.


--Mark Twain
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2010-03-01 09:31 am
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QotD: Unrequited Love as Fuel

Because you are true warriors,
Despair is your call to basic goodness;
Doubt is the razor knife of clarity.
From your unrequited love springs vast vision.
From your unappeasable longing has risen
The constancy and discipline that shall restore the world.
--Gesar to the people of Ling from The Warrior Song of King Gesar
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2009-12-31 01:19 pm

Mark Twain on Health

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
--Mark Twain
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2009-08-07 09:47 am

5 Minds for the Future: Cultivating Thinking Skills

5 Minds for the Future: Cultivating Thinking Skills
by Jamie on July 15, 2009
http://selfmadescholar.com/b/2009/07/15/5-minds-for-the-future-cultivating-thinking-skills/

“…We must immediately expand our vision beyond standard educational institutions. In our cultures of today – and of tomorrow – parents, peers, and media play roles at least as significant as do authorized teachers and formal schools…if any cliché of recent years ring true, it is the acknowledgment that learning must be lifelong.”
– Howard Gardner
Great article, text behind cut )
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2008-07-16 08:33 am

The Cat Chronicles

Kitten is racing around the livingroom, batting bits of dirt on the slippery almost-wood floor. The lesbian neighbors are getting their yard done. Every week those guys are here trimming and mowing and making the place look like fantasyland. "Cierren la puerta" one of them yells, after the lady yells at him to close the gate, her dog might run away. I would run away too. I did run away. I was going to sunbathe up on the roof but her harsh voice and their mowing was incentive enough to come back inside and braindump instead.
braindump )