January 2012
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December 2011
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“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit,...”
– Albert Einstein
November 2011
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“The safest thing you can do feels risky, and the riskiest thing you can do is to...”
– Seth Godin
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“Revolutionaries are the graffiti artists of history.”
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life expectancy and zombies
I reduced my life expectancy by 43.6 minutes last night by watching 2 hours of The Walking Dead, episodes one and two which I Sky +’d to watch after I came back from Portugal. It’s awesome show, if you haven’t watched it yet, I do recommend it. The show is spooky in places, but that’s not what has shaved minutes off of my life. What has is the new statistic from the...
October 2011
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Early morning start to Faro.
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“Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s...”
– Phillip Lopate
“I don’t necessarily agree with Churchill’s words but I love the...”
– Winston Churchill
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the importance of living
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I just received my copy of Lin Yutang’s book, The Importance of Living. Lin Yutang was a Chinese philosopher of the early 20th century who became an apostle of loafing. The Importance of Living was his opus. He described it as an:
Idle philosophy born of an idle life.
I’m looking forward to reading and digesting it.
Here are a few Yutang quotes that I like:
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“I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head (for it is only experience...”
– Francis Bacon
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“Anger at things that happen shows small wit;
For all our wrath concerns them...”
– author unknown
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“Don’t just live; live well.”
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“Nothing is in itself more this than that.”
– Pyrrho of Elis
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the cure
Complete the blank with something meaningful to you:
“When your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is…”
My cure is to turn into a wolf and roam the wilderness. What’s your cure?
Note: I borrowed the quote from hunter thompson’s fear and loathing in las vegas.
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September 2011
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Live, live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.”
– lambert strether
Watcha good mountain day
