August 2012
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“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I...”
– Albert Camus
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“At this point of his effort man stands face to face with the irrational. He...”
– Albert Camus
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“But again it is the absurd and its contradictory life that teaches us. For the...”
– Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus
“We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but...”
– Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), rhetorician (c. 35-100)
“Find me now. Before someone else does.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via loveyourchaos)
“Before we can “do something” for the poor, there are some things we need to stop...”
– How the poor are made to pay for their poverty | Barbara Ehrenreich (via sociolab)
Yeeeeah, go on, change that discourse.
(via pridetogether)
July 2012
“I knew right away she had the potential to be great because she had this...”
– Warren Buffett talking about Ariel Hsing, America’s top-ranked under-18 table tennis player (via quotepad)
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I just watched the table tennis matchup between Ariel Hsing of the U.S. and Li Xiaoxia of China, and it’s probably the only time I’ve ever been sitting on the edge of my seat for a table tennis match.
The US has never won a medal in table tennis since it became an olympic sport, yet here is Ariel…
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via echtra)
“Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.”
– Chinese Proverb (via quotestuff)
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land....”
– Desmond Tutu (via ya-lahwi)
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”
– Harold Coffin (via showslow)
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
– Confucius (via thelittlephilosopher)
