March 2012
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“Selon Schopenhauer, «si l’on s’aperçoit que l’adversaire est...”
– Schopenhauer, ce coach média de Sarkozy… - Libération
February 2012
1 post
“Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.”
– T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral (via proustitute)
January 2012
9 posts
“Nous ne voyons jamais qu’un seul côté des choses ;
L’autre plonge en la...”
– Victor Hugo (via regardintemporel)
“Gods always behave like the people who make them.”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via nevver)
Les mécaniques de jeux de SCVNGR révélées, votre... →
“« Que de choses il faut ignorer pour agir. » Paul Valery”
– Ignorance rationnelle | Le Cercle Les Echos
“Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for...”
– E. B. White (via theparisreview)
this isn't happiness.: William Safire's Rules for... →
nevver:
Remember to never split an infinitive.
The passive voice should never be used.
Do not put statements in the negative form.
Verbs have to agree with their subjects.
Proofread carefully to see if you words out.
If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of…
“If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the...”
– Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard (via)
December 2011
6 posts
“Imagine that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and...”
– Understanding and modelling how pedestrians behave is a youngish field for researchers. Anticipating pedestrian flows makes crowd events smoother and safer, and accounting for the peculiar propensities of different nationalities is key to getting it right. (via theeconomist)
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who...”
– Five from Isaac Asimov (via nevver)
kateoplis:
“There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.”
— Warren Buffett
[…]
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.”
— Elizabeth Warren
think-progress: 11 Quotes From 2011
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
– Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
OK, now I’m off to work. You put the pieces together… (via kvetchlandia)
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in...”
– Walking - Henry David Thoreau (via treenuhclow)
November 2011
13 posts
“People love telling war stories: Because we mostly purchase cheaply manufactured...”
– Black Friday Shopping Is Like War, That’s Why We Love It
by Michael Brendan Dougherty (via mwfrost)
“The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in...”
– B. H. Liddell Hart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“If we’re not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?”
– Gregory Orr, Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (via soulsublime)
Televised Debates: A Strange Way to Pick... →
utnereader:
Presidential debates, says NBC News Political Director and Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd, are now part of the winnowing process. Instead of going to a small state and wooing caucus-goers, Republican presidential hopefuls are going on national cable to see if they can resonate with the voters.
With 26 GOP debates currently scheduled between May 5, 2011, and March...
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin (via vikingpenguinbooks)
“The exhausted are attracted by what is harmful.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Case Of Wagner (1888). (via circulationwithinmyskull) (via itnumberpi)
“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”
– William Burroughs (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
– Dorothy Parker (via theparisreview)
itnumberpi:
« Obéissez à vos porcs qui gouvernent. Je me soumets à mes dieux qui n’existent pas. » (178)
~~ René Char, Les Feuillets d’Hypnos, 1946.
“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
– Roland Barthes (via sometimesagreatnotion)
October 2011
12 posts
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Thomas Common (via proustitute)
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in...”
– Marcel Proust
thanks to La Lettre
(via billyjane)
“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
– Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
“C’est au moment où l’on triche pour le beau que l’on est artiste.”
– Max Jacob, Art poétique (via deligne)
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“Let me tell you a wonderful old joke from communist times.
A guy was sent from...”
– Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street (via kateoplis)
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“People ask me, ‘Don’t you ever run out of ideas?’ In the first place I don’t use...”
– Robert Rauschenberg (via merrickb)
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“Those who make antitheses by forcing the words are like those who make false...”
– Blaise Pascal, Pensées, quoted in Rudolf Arnheim’s “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Order and Disorder.” (via touslesdeux)
“Sexy is a strange thing. I’m not sure it has to do with sex. Sexy has to do with...”
– Christopher Walken
(via deadeyesyouarelikeme)
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“A work of art need not contain any statement of a political or of a social or of...”
– Ezra Pound, from “Patria Mia,” in Selected Prose: 1909-1965 (via proustitute)
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“Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130...”
– Warren Buffett (via youmightfindyourself)
September 2011
11 posts
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“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.”
– Henry David Thoreau
(via nezartdesign)
“The better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”
– Julian Barnes (via nevver)
“The night is oracular.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via incomplete-insecure)
“Nice guys finish last.”
– Leo Durocher
Actual Quote: Durcher later claimed that what he said, referring to crosstown rivals the New York Giants, was: “Take a look at them. They’re all nice guys, but they’ll finish last. Nice guys. Finish last.” Pictured: Durocher (center), Dolph Camilli, and Lyn Lary at Ebbets Field in...
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“We love to buy books because we think we’re buying the time to read them.”
– Warren Zevon (via rhea137) 