March 2012
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“Anything you can acquire is only another thing you’ll lose.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
February 2012
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“Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control,” she...”
– The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids — New York Magazine
“Giving kids the label of “smart” does not prevent them from underperforming. It might actually be causing it.” Truth.
Fascinating article.
“I am smart, the kids’ reasoning goes; I don’t need to put out effort....
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hair dye: brown
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“The passengers that have contacted us all have... →
That would be because the train accident happened two days ago. Of course people are still distraught. But after 2 days, you can’t establish a pattern like “chronic headaches” or “not sleeping at night”.
It’s misleading for a law firm to release a statement like that but understandable due to their invested interest; it’s shameful for the news to report...
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“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about...”
– Iyanla Vanzant
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theemotionmachine:
100 breaths and let it go.
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“What if death is nothing but sound?”
– White Noise by Don Delillo
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“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow,...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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Straight From The Top by Lucky Boys Confusion
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People who defend smoking cigarettes. →
I don’t get it.
The following is the dumbest logic I’ve ever seen. If your lungs are in working order, the tar and other chemicals isn’t going to automatically just sit there and accumulate because that’s not what bodies are designed to do. It will take years of damage to make your body less efficient at processing the chemicals, and at a different rate for each person....
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Good news of the day
I don’t have to continue in Biology! Woooooooooooooo! If I can survive the next 3 labs and final exam, I won’t have to worry about this anymore!
And even more exciting: in the summer I might be taking a History course all about witch craft!
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Minor differences →
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jtotheizzoe:
The Forgetting Pill: Can We Erase Painful Memories?
If you could take a pill that would erase any memory, would you take it? Traumatic memories can be painful, debilitating baggage, persisting for decades and often difficult to control. Previous therapies involved discussing traumatic memories in detail, but new models of the elastic and networked basis of memory have demonstrated...
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“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible....”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their...”
– Rollo May
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“Madness, like crime, was a loss of self-control, a straying from the path of...”
– Michael Ignatieff
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“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
– Cormac McCarthy; No Country for Old Men
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“The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities...”
– Robertson Davies, The Manticore
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Can’t focus on my History homework because all I can think about is how much I hate Biology. Four days until I see an advisor.
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“But all our lives we’ve been treading paper in the space between the...”
– Thrice
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“Money is terrible. It’s just a depressing way of boiling our wonderful world...”
– Charlie Brooker
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“When enough is enough, that’s when you know that you’re halfway...”
– Rise Against
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“And now you know that you can choose to lose
the part in your heart where your...”
– Linkin Park
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Too stressed out to study for my midterm in 5 hours.
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“Of the 29 experts writing DSM-5, 21 received honoraria, consultancy fees or...”
– Reason #1 you and I should not put blind faith in psychiatry.
Why full disclosure is healthy - New Scientist
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