November 2010
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No good thing ever dies.
– Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption
…I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...
– Neil Gaiman
*A tad early to be posting this I suppose… but this year is nearing its end and a new year approaches, and there’s never an unfit moment for reflection. With much love and gratitude I quote NG as I think of the people who have moved me and carried me to this day, and whom I carry in my...
No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two...
– Michel de Montaigne
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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
– Johnny Cash
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We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...
– Albert Einstein
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and...
– John Berger
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All of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act...
– George Eliot a.k.a. Mary Anne Evans
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I am an optimist. But I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
– Harold Wilson
This is the kid from Kick-Ass, right?? Props to the stylist.
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that...
– Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
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Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very Heaven!
– William Wordsworth, The Prelude; XI. France (l. 108-109)
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to...
– Robert Frost
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When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
– Elvis Presley
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the...
– Woodrow Wilson
Imagine a world in which software companies simplified their programs every year...
– John Maeda
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that...
– Oscar Wilde
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I’m a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
– Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes