October 2011
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Loving the Chambered Nautilus to Death →
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WELLSTONE! →
On this day in 2002, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash. I can’t help but think that he’d be out on the lines with the OCCUPY! demonstrators. A true liberal lion, who is deeply missed.
“The hapless nymph with wonder saw:
A whisker first and then a claw,
With...”
– Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes” (1747)
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“I hate books. They only teach one to talk about what one does not know.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau. Emile, or On Education (1762)
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“As if God did make Creatures for Mans meat,
And gave them Life and Sense for...”
– Margaret Cavendish, “The Hunting of the Hare”, Poems, and phancies (1664)
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his...”
– Abraham Lincoln, letter to Henry L. Pierce and others on April 6, 1859. (via Chris Stedman on HuffPo.)
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“If you don’t find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire...”
– Sears, Roebuck & Co., Consumer Guide, ca. 1900 (via Ana K.)
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LYKKE LI — UNCHAINED MELODY
Occupy Wall Street Library →
I think it’s fantastic that one of the first things the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators did was establish a free library.
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....”
– Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 