December 2010
33 posts
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The...”
– A. A. Milne
Ratatat - Loud Pipes
My friend just gave me a...
“No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.”
– Buddha (via quote-book)
Remains raise questions on human origin →
“The accepted scientific theory is that Homo Sapiens originated in Africa and migrated out of the continent. Gopher said if the remains are definitively linked to modern human’s ancestors, it could mean that modern man in fact originated in what is now Israel.”
Go to Sleep! →
College Humor wants to remind you that sleep is better than the internet.
“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
On Second Thought...
I walked over to the playground, which is about a half mile down the road, all the while trying to remember how well-lit the place is in the dark. I had thought that it would be dark enough that I would need a flashlight (which I had brought), but that there would be enough light for me to enter the area. There was not enough light. :/ The last time I was there when it was dark outside, there was...
Lunar Eclipse
So I’ve been trying to finish two papers all day and haven’t made much progress. The subject matter is something in which I am HUGELY interested, but I’ve just had immense difficulties focusing for the past week. I somehow managed to finish two papers between last Thursday and Friday, but have been brain dead ever since. I got a lot of reading done yesterday, and created a couple...
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a...”
– Jean Paul Richter
“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.”
– Victor Borge
“I never know how much of what I say is true.”
– Bette Midler
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
– Abraham Maslow
Ken Wilber used this quote without citing it in his book ‘No Boundary’ (on page 40). AHA- I caught you Ken! Maslow said it first; I looked it up and multiple sources attribute the quote to Maslow and not Wilber including this one (page 37), this one, this one and this one...
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
– George Jean Nathan
This is part of why I consider myself a Pangean; I do not look down upon the States, but I do not favor them over the rest of the world either. Also, I hold my principles close to me.
Shinedown - The Crow And The Butterfly
“If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.”
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
