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the casual supplement
(a commonplace book)
Mar 17
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Mary-Louise Parker reads from Alice in Wonderland

Mar 16
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We’re all endowed with curiosity, but a lot of us, for very good reasons, stop using it after a certain point.
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These embassies are the artefacts of fear.
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its people are too complacent, too reasonable, and too confused.
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Mar 15
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This is the Sicilian in Sinatra; he permits his friends, if they wish to remain that, none of the easy Anglo-Saxon outs.
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fuckyeahcharleseames:

- Charles Eames [100 images x 100 words Exhibit; Seoul National Arts Center] (via m0onbeem)

jaredgeller:

fuckyeahcharleseames:

- Charles Eames [100 images x 100 words Exhibit; Seoul National Arts Center] (via m0onbeem)

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At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we choose to combat that challenge is often life-defining. You can face difficulties head-on, or run from them, or ignore them until they consume you. But no one escapes conflict. No one.

Bill O’Reilly, Culture Warrior

An amazing book.

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Controversy sells. But it sells for pennies. News publishers should be chasing the big bucks instead.
Mar 14
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and the mercurial orchids offer an adaptive flexibility that neither can provide alone. Together, they open a path to otherwise unreachable individual and collective achievements.
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Gene variants generally considered misfortunes (poor Jim, he got the “bad” gene) can instead now be understood as highly leveraged evolutionary bets, with both high risks and high potential rewards