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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Love First
"I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally." -Zelda Fitzgerald
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Saturday, July 28, 2012
The Moment
"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown." -Achilles. Read more Olympics-inspired poetry at NPR.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
My Chariot of Fire
"Such men are immortal in their moments of glory, Aubrey thought. We need their memory to inspire us in our great race.
For after all life is a great race and what are we but runners." -last lines of Chariots of Fire, by W.J. Weatherby
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Little Things
"The slowest beauty can rush me. And here I am, all of my defenses down." -Ingrid Wendt
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
Bike Fuel
"Only in Iowa ... can a 500-mile bike ride help give you a spare tire." -a WSJ article about the culinary delights of RAGBRAI.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Composing
"my novel is going noplace
absolutely noplace
like it dont even tell a story
it's about a million scenes long
an takes place on a billion scraps
of paper...certainly I cant make nothin out of
it."
-Bob Dylan
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Risky Walkers
"I've been a law breaker twice today, and you are, too -- at least once." -an old lady and I scurry across Broadway while the "Don't Walk" sign flashes.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
What Goes Around
"Even if people don't actually believe in karma, they may still have an intuitive sense that good things happen to good people. If that intuition moves us to donate to a good cause and make us a little more optimistic in the meantime, that seems like a good thing." -UVA assistant professor Benjamin Converse, on his recent study Investing in Karma: When Wanting Promotes Helping
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Happy World
"May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and that freedom for all." -Sanskrit devotional mantra
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Stubborn?
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." -Mahatma Gandhi
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Covenant
"If I am happy, will you give me an apple?
If I am anxious, you may twist my arm.
And if you would like to, I would like you to hole me
close to your heart forever and do me no harm." -Tennessee Williams
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Happy Monday
"Breakfast is a hedge against a lousy day. If you eat something delicious first thing in the morning, no matter what happens to you later on, you'll have had something to enjoy. " -Diana Shaw, The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
Veg
"Nothing will benefit human health and the chance of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution of a vegetarian diet." -Albert Einstein
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Friday, July 6, 2012
Undone
"I was struck (lightly) the other day by the following wonder: if lawyers become disbarred, and priests unfrocked, how might people in other paths of life be read out of their profession or calling? It occurred to me then that electricians get delighted, and musicians possibly denoted. If these assumptions are correct, surely it follows that cowboys must be deranged, that models are deposed, and judges are obviously distorted." -great letter by Marian Forer
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Pressing On
"More than 2,000 people have now shown their support for the University of Missouri Press on that Facebook page, and more than 4,000 have signed an online petition to support the press. ... books published by scholarly presses like Missouri may not be well known, but that doesn't mean they're not important." -the University of Missouri Press closure debate makes it onto NPR Friday.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
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