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“If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”
Austin Kleon • You’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do - Austin Kleon
”A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.”
-John Updike
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight... See more
Rhett Allain • 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know
Society which scorns excellence in plumbing because it’s a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
~ John W. Gardner,
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
~ John W. Gardner,
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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree.