January 2012
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If you want to think that they’re secretly in love with each other, then you...
– Martin Freeman (via tardis-blue-diary)
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Harmony-Seeking Idealist →
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No matter how many different tests I take, I get the exact same outcome. every. single. time.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
– Zora Neale Hurston (via nevver)
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It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she...
– “Bittersweet” by Shauna Niequist (via julie911)
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And that is all so long ago. Though when you forget
the last time: most likely...
– Luke Davis, from “Totem Pole [Abandoned in a field near Yass]” (via aubade)
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Her heart was exceptionally loud—not with love,
But with knowing. Knowing...
– Rex Wilder, from “Séverine in Summer School” (via aubade)
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I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these...
– Pinball, 1973 (via harukimurakami)
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Woke up in a winter wonderland this morning...
We haven’t had a winter to speak of so far, and just when I thought (and hoped!) it was going to be spring soon, this happens. Under normal circumstances I would be thrilled by this amount of snow, but now it’s just a reminder of how far away spring really is. Ah well, I’d better make the best of it and take Darwin for a long walk this afternoon.
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Novak Djokovic has won the longest Grand Slam final in history to defend the...
– australianopen.com
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I’ve nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make...
– The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield (via overturetoalabasterskin)
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Caffeine Alters Estrogen Levels in Younger Women →
“A new study of women ages 18 to 44 found that drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages can alter levels of estrogen. But the impact varies by race. In white women, for example, coffee appears to lower estrogen, while in Asian women it has the reverse effect, raising levels of the hormone.”
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Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget...
– Michael Michaelko (via stoppingandseeing)
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Old Mice Made "Young"—May Lead to Anti-Aging... →
Aging mice can be made “young” again, according to findings one scientist initially found unbelievable. The key is muscle-derived stem cells, which—like other stem cells—are unspecialized cells that can become any type of cell in the body. When injected with muscle stem cells from young mice, older mice with a condition that causes them to age rapidly saw a threefold increase in their...
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It is a great sorrow for me to fear that the thoughts which have come down into...
– Simone Weil (via sileam) (via airwalker)
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Vegan alternatives are not inherently better for animals or the planet. Pleather...
– Vegans miss the larger point (via voorwaarts)
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» The Habits That Crush Us :zenhabits →
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People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and...
– Ned Vizzini (via dishevelment)
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together...
– Margaret Mitchell (via 1beauty)(via biendansapeau)
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Third, Nadal seems like someone who would have really enjoyed War Horse. I don’t...
– Brian Phillip, “Federer/Nadal: The Rapture, Once Again” on Grantland (via ihaveexcellenttaste)
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Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want...
– Unknown (via kari-shma)
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