January 2011
20 posts
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in...
– John Wesley
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
– Henry Ellis
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
– Jean de la Bruyère
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...
– Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time Magazine
buzzandersen:
I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase.
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What was the NYT bestselling book during the week... →
Interesting to see The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum and A Light in The Attic by Shel Silverstein among NYT top best-sellers the week of my birth.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...
– Cyril Connolly