March 2009
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“It is only when the tide goes out, that you know who was swimming naked.”
– Warren Buffet
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“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
– John Steinbeck
“I may not play an instrument but I’m going to rock it hard as nails...”
– Shephard Fairey
“My hope was that, in questioning what Obey Giant was about, the viewers would...”
– Shephard Fairey
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“I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.”
– Marilyn Monroe
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“Let us calculate [calculemus], without further ado, to see who is right.”
– Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz belived that human reasoning could be expressed as a calculation. This belief was a precursor to symbolic logic.
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“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and...”
– J.W. Goethe (via littlemiss) (via thewhitelist) (via josh)
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“For in the end, what is man in nature? A nothing in respect to the infinite,...”
– Blaise Pascal
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“One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be...”
– James Joyce, About Finnegans Wake; Letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver, 24 November 1926
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“We do it for the battle knell.
We do it because when there’s six minutes...”
– Peter Fitzsimmons, Australian Rugby News
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“Language and writing are two distinct systems of signs: the second exists for...”
– Ferdinand de Saussure, the father of linguistics, argued that linguistics should only concern itself with the study of oral language.
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“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and...”
– Johnny Depp
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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer, upon witnessing the detonation of the first nuclear bomb.
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“For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.”
– Ernest Hemingway (he once claimed he could write a great story in six words or less).
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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And...”
– Salvador Dali
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“There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days...”
– Margaret Atwood (via thresca)
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“And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts...”
– David Foster Wallace
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“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing...”
– Horace Greeley (via kec)
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WatchFifty People, One Question does a great job of showing how ordinary people are just as profound and “quotable” as anyone in the world.
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“I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live for the...”
– John Galt, Atlas Shrugged
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“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the...”
– Stephen King, On Writing
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“Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something...”
– Stephen King, On Writing
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“You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you’re suddenly,...”
– Daniel Day-Lewis
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“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
– Dr. Seuss
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“The day is done,
I’m having fun.
I think I’m dumb
Or maybe just...”
– Kurt Cobain, Nirvana Dumb
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“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said “This is...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1754
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“All right, I’ll count to 8, and if you haven’t smiled, I’ll...”
– Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) to Patricia (Jean Seberg), Breathless
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“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your...”
– James Dean
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“But when it moves to the peaceful years I hate it. Not because I love chaos but...”
– Mao Zedong
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“Dance has always been my silent partner. We communicate each day and, like every...”
– Wendy Whelan, excerpt from Why I Dance, Dance Magazine March 2009
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“Someone commended me for being “approachable.” Okay. The truth is that I’m...”
– Christopher Walken, via his twitter.
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“Eat, see, live — and to hell with everything else.”
– Anthony Bourdain
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“It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really...”
– Steve Jobs, at age 29, in Playboy, February 1985
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“And one day, they - and your sons and daughters - will tell their own children...”
– Michelle Obama
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“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
– J.D. Salinger
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“Who says i like right angles? These are not my laws these are not my rules.”
– ani difranco “i’m no heroine”
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“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble....”
– Johnny Cash
“All good things are wild, and free.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via sydkneeeee)
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“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
– Martin Heidegger
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“Just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it.”
– Don Draper
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“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole...”
– Immanuel Kant
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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Honey is sweet because we like it, not we like it because honey is sweet.”
– Dan Dennet talking about Darwin’s strange inversion of reasoning.
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“I, too, dream in color and in rhyme.”
– Saul Williams
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“That’s what she said.”
– American Proverb
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“This guy’s walking down a street, when he falls in a hole. The walls are...”
– Leo to Josh, the second best television show ever The West Wing
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“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Beer speaks, people mumble.”
– Lagunitas Brewing Company
“On se fait a tout avec me temps.
(One gets accustomed to everything in time)”
– French proverb