January 2011
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The Billion Prices Project at MIT →
December 2010
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Irrawaddy: Refugees hide after forced... →
“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody...”
– Mark Twain (via flavorpill)
“Reading great books and reading them well is what is important. Meditative...”
– John Piper, on the sanctifying power of books (via Desiring God)
The Great Islamophobic Crusade →
“Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the...”
– Mark Twain (via thespaghettibrain)
Leveraging Inequality →
“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks...”
– - Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet (VIA ESTHERGLASSS)
“He’ll give you a paragraph, a page, even three or four pages at a time, of...”
– Angela Carter on William S. Burroughs via thusevenzarathustra. SELF: Gotta get in on his work. Am ashamed to admit I am not too familiar with it…. (via tobia)
“A landlocked nation of steppes and desert, Mongolia is now known mostly as a...”
– Mongolia is famed for its vast, open spaces, but calling it “empty” would be a misnomer. Not only does the country host a rich and largely pristine environment, but beneath the steppes and desert lie mineral riches worth an estimated $1.3 trillion. (via utnereader)
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“…To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn’t have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending. ‘Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself...
“The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be...”
– William Faulkner (via silveronthelining)
