Bolstering my opinions
A collection where I make it easier for myself to bolster the ideas and opinions I form with media/quotes from the internet
Bolstering my opinions
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9 Life Lessons by Tim Minchin
You don’t have to have a dream. Be micro-ambitious, work with pride on whatever is in front of you. Be careful on long term dreams, if you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.
Don’t seek happiness. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy and you might find you get
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attention as inner ecology—and then, I could see ways that a holistic system was imperiled. I could see an inner landscape as a patch of thriving rainforest, a complex, interdependent ecology slashed back and stripped bare to accommodate the incursions of an export crop (and as we know, export crops don’t feed the locals). The long-rooted, sustaina... See more
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
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The seeking was passive, the reward pale, the sense of agency bled dry. I checked reflexively, without intention.
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
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If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that the foods of Culinary Modernism — egalitarian, available more or less equally to all, without demanding the disproportionate amount of the resources of time or money that traditional foodstuffs did — a... See more
Rachel Laudan • A Plea for Culinary Modernism
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