July 2010
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Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.
Talkin’ to myself and feelin’ old Sometimes I’d like to quit Nothing ever seems to fit Hangin’ around Nothing to do but frown Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.
What I’ve got they used to call the blues Nothin’ is really wrong Feelin’ like I don’t belong Walkin’ around Some kind of lonely clown Rainy Days and Mondays always get me...
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“Good early education can impart skills that last a lifetime — patience,...”
– DAVID LEONHARDT, The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers, The New York Times
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Janet Fitch's 10 rules for writers →
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“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“…the inclination and ability to protect one another and to enforce a...”
– SUSAN ENGEL and MARLENE SANDSTROM
Susan Engel is a senior lecturer in psychology and the director of the teaching program at Williams College, where Marlene Sandstrom is a professor of psychology.
in There’s Only One Way to Stop a Bully, New York Times
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“I mean, first of all, you have to play the cymbal just as you would have to play...”
– Elvin Jones.
Source: Elvin Jones At 75, Viewing The Drum Set As A Totality.
“…As A Single Instrument, Rather Than As A Bunch Of Components.” © Jos L. Knaepen
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“Medicine is not an exact science. Treatment options are based on information...”
– Charleen R. Szabo Director of West Palm Beach V.A. Medical Center
Quoted in Prone to Error: Earliest Steps to Find Cancer, The New York Times
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“There are a billion people in the world today malnourished and another billion...”
– Adrian Dolby (@TEDGlobal)
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“Making infographics is a skill that has to be learnt. You don’t become Rembrandt...”
– John Grimwade, graphics editor at Conde Nast publications. [link]
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“Not everyone is going to turn out to be brilliant — any more than everyone will...”
– Dr. Richard A. Friedman
Professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan
(in Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds, The New York Times)
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[nyt] Empty Chairs, Empty Tables, Empty Beds →
Mari Bastashevski documents what’s left behind after a chilling series of unlawful abductions (and possibly murders?) by the military in Russia.
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How to Lose a Legacy by Ellen Lupton →
What makes us want to keep certain inherited treasures — and throw other ones away?
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“It’s a fluke of marketing that Helvetica now is this incredibly popular...”
– Bruno Magg (@CR)
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“Indeed, the ability to be completely transfixed by mundane objects seems to be...”
– BSNYC
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An "Up" Engagement
amusemi:
Lynnette and James photographed by Wildflowers Photography
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June 2010
11 posts
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“I don’t see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words”
– Mark Twain
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