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Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and...
– Mark Kingwell, Philosopher
November 2009
6 posts
I just plugged a gap in dialogue with “SOMETHING ABOUT RESONANCE.” Maybe I will have the character scream that line in lieu of elaborating.
Nice one, Alysia. RT @AlysiaBranChroi: Remember marky mark? Such a shame mark walberge killed him…
I know I’m late to the party, but I just started watching @legendofneil and my informed opinion is it’s hilarious. http://tinyurl.com/nbhpoe
The old man went away sufficiently discontented to find that his reasonings had...
– Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson
October 2009
2 posts
You’re good. Get better. Stop asking for things.
– Don to Peggy, Mad Men. Season 3, Episode 7: ”Seven Twenty-Three”
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be...
– Samuel Johnson
September 2009
3 posts
Achieving Financial Independence
It’s always iffy to recommend a thing I feel strongly about because the odds are slight someone else will experience the same epiphany as a result of the same stimulus. Still, when I read “Your Money or Your Life,” I realized it was one of the few books that forced me to think about its content. Really and deeply think.
There is so much in life we assume or take for granted....
A Mad and Furious Master
“How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles —Are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.”
— from The Republic, Plato