June 2010
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if you wrote a letter or directive in the Braun Company telling somebody to do...
– Y Combinator: Elementary Worldly Wisdom
If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into...
– Jim Coudal does Design Glut
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This is a strange way for an animal to spend its days.
– The Pleasures of Imagination
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It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.
– Steve Jobs on The Next Insanely Great Thing
he dined with life-size French boudoir dolls and insisted that the wait ers...
– World-Class Hotel | Geist
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If I were a couple decades younger, I’m not sure I could still experience the...
– I Walked the Brooklyn Bridge Without Facebook - Tweetage Wasteland
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There’s a level of travel that you can achieve wherein you almost cease to exist...
– (via jhnmyr) On my to-do list this summer. (via thetrapezeswinger)
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I asked him to tell me what he knew, after 50 years of research, about the...
– William Dement, the retired dean of sleep studies at Stanford, a co-discoverer of REM sleep, and co-founder of the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center interviewed for National Geographic
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Just about everyone on the planet, one way or another, will feel the impact of...
– Sylvia Earle, the National Geographic Society’s explorer in residence and former chief scientist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
quoted by the Globe and Mail
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They’re trying to make people think it’s not safe to protest and that it’s...
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G20 protesters say they won’t be intimidated by police tactics - The Toronto Star
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it’s the public discourse that is puerile
– Griping About Obama | Mother Jones
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all these peoples lives are touching for a split second often without...
– April White commenting on Russell Smith talks about his novel Girl Crazy on CBC’s The Next Chapter
Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull (by Sean Stiegemeier)
the discovery that it is possible and proper for a poet to mean two differing or...
– Operation Mincemeat and spycraft in World War Two : Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker
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As is the way with girlfriends, once you start to like the character, you begin...
– Jeremy Clarkson on the Porsche 911 GT3
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Paper Dreams (by Kenneth Onulak)
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We knew that the prefrontal cortex of young children functioned in this chaotic...
– Why teenagers can’t concentrate: too much grey matter | Science | The Guardian
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