Category: Quote
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Oliver Burkeman on Joseph Goldstein on Generosity
What’s truly most likely to happen if you put it off, which is that you’ll never get around to sending that message.
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Kevin P. Hand on Oceans and Airport Security
Beneath that is a rocky seafloor, which may be teeming with hydrothermal vents and bizarre otherworldly organisms. So the next time you’re in airport security and frustrated…
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Robert Hayden’s poem “American Journal”
much here is beautiful, dream like vistas reminding me of home
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The tragic actor departs: a poem paired with oil paintings
And they are right, I think. We all hate home And having to be there.
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Carl Sagan on the dumbing down of America and how science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time.
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Billy Collins on how no man is lonely while eating spaghetti
This time, I was at a corner table at Pasta Vivace! on that side street next to the old music store.
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The same man who wrote “… I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
Seek out some simple and true feeling.
