February 2012
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Ugh, I can’t stand it when people say ‘if you fall out of love, you were never in love’.
Keep your prescriptive and wholly unrealistic view of human sociability to yourself.
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Sometimes it hits me how lucky I am to be able to...
The fact that my family have the economic resources to support me through this is something I try very hard never to take for granted.
That’s not a sentiment that gets articulated very much here. While I know it might not be representative of people’s inner thoughts, the cavalier attitude towards money at my university can be disgusting.
Some people seem to be treating this first...
Strangely, the more I read, the more I realise how...
I think this is justification enough to lock Rick Santorum in a library for a couple of weeks.
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“The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back,...”
– Norman Cousins
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Overcompensating →
alienjournal:
You dont seem “abnormal” to me - A friend
Absolutely love this blog.
People with disabilities are never more disabled than when they are overcompensating.
For so many of us on the spectrum who can “pass” to one degree or another, especially those of us who were diagnosed in mid-life, overcompensating is how we have lived our lives. For most of my life, I...
“There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even...”
– L.M. Montgomery
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“The conventional wisdom of the Tower of Babel story is that the collapse was a...”
– Toni Morrison, from her 1993 Nobel Lecture.
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“Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars...”
– Edward Sapir
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“Don’t worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine...”
– Albert Einstein
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“I never had, and still do not have, the perception of feeling my personal...”
– Claude Lévi-Strauss
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“All white women in this nation know that their status is different from that of...”
– bell hooks
In Michele Bachmann's home district, evangelicals...
abaldwin360:
Every morning, Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School, her nerves already on high alert, bracing for the inevitable.
“Dyke.”
Pretending not to hear, Brittany would walk briskly to her locker, past the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs.
“Whore.”
Like many...
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“It is not rare for a pastor to imagine that he has no authority and carries no...”
– 1691 commentary, quoted in Reformation Europe by Ulinka Rublack.
“The meaning of books lies before them and not behind: it is in us. A book is not...”
– A Consideration of the Writings of Emily Dickinson by Richard Howard
Response to the question 'So, what've you been up...
Things I want to say: Trying to consume as many fragments of poetry and philosophy and theory as possible, spending long hours alone in my room considering my role in the world, sleeping far too much, meditating, listening to the wind.
Things I say: Not much, you?
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I...”
– The Rainbow Calendar by Kate Sanborn, 1888.
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Stress Impacts Good Parenting →
Good parenting requires psychic resources. Complex decisions must be made. Sacrifices must be made in the moment. This is hard for anyone, whatever their income: we all have limited reserves of self-control, and attention and other psychic resources. In that moment, fretting about the deadline, your psychic resources were depleted. Facing pressure at work, you did not have the freedom of mind...
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“Gradually, typically Protestant modes of handling books evolved, relating to...”
– Ulinka Rublack, Reformation Europe
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“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is,...”
– Winston Churchill (on the Allied victory at El Alamein)
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“Mysticism closely linked speaking with a sense of taste and eating. The divine...”
– Reformation Europe, Ulinka Rublack
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What Makes Institutions Bad →
The worst institutions have lots and lots and lots of staff. They have beautiful grounds that people are more or less free to walk around on. Every room is decorated in ways that suggest a regular, pleasant house — and if anything is stained or broken someone fixes it, washes it, and paints over it within a day. There are no locks on the doors.
All of the staff are gentle and would never...
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“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.”
– Ruth Benedict
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“History would surely judge your absence.”
– Joseph Joffre, Marshal of France, on British participation in WWI.
