Wed Oct 29
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Synchronized debating
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grang•er•ize
[greyn-juh-rahyz]
— verb
To collect illustrations from books for decoration of other books.
Mon Oct 27
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Thortons ‘Stuck’
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“ I’m pretty much like everybody else. The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever almost made me die. ”
David Foster Wallace
Sun Oct 26
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pro•pae•deu•tic
[proh-pi-doo-tik]
— adjective
(of an area of study) serving as a preliminary instruction or as an introduction to further study.
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“ He held scrappy, apostate opinions: he liked Rimbaud, Kabuki, Looney Tunes, Ronald Firbank. Poulenc was better than Wagner; Auden was better than Yeats. These opinions, decanted from a complex personality that partook equally of passion and parody, were essentially a social tactic, a means of drawing a line between those who were subtle or hip enough to hear all the tones and those who weren’t. ”
Dan Chiasson, on Frank O’Hara
Sat Oct 25
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John Cage
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“ I am from the school of thought that believes sentences ought to have verbs. ”
Annie Clark
Fri Oct 24
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“ Il y a un instant, entre la quinzième et la seizième gorgée de champagne, où tout homme est un aristocrate. ”
Amélie Nothomb
Thu Oct 23
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welt•an•schau•ung
[velt-ahn-shou-oong]
— noun
A comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity’s relation to it.
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“ I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. ”
Will Rogers
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The Batman/Penguin Debate
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“ Man is by nature a political animal. ”
Aristotle
Wed Oct 22
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“ Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. ”
Clarence Darrow
Mon Oct 20
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“ I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing. ”
Warren Buffett
Sun Oct 19
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This – Brian Eno
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“ All frisks that avoid the sensitive regions are by definition symbolic. ”
Jeffrey Goldberg
Fri Oct 17
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Ripples – Jim Henson
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“ Greatest weakness? It’s possible that I’m a little too awesome. ”
Barack Obama
Tue Oct 14
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You Don’t Own Me – Lesley Gore
Mon Oct 13
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“ My only ambition is to enjoy the peace and quiet that I require in order to work. ”
Giorgio Morandi
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If
Sat Oct 11
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“ History does not change, but what we want from it does. ”
Voltaire
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Greed – Milton Friedman
Wed Oct 8
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“ By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you’re most likely to need it. ”
Mail Goggles
Tue Oct 7
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“ A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. ”
George Bernard Shaw
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pam•pro•dac•ty•lous
[pam-proh-dak-tuh-luhs]
— adjective
Having all toes pointing forward, as in certain birds.
Sat Oct 4
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“ In terms of academic brownie points, you don’t get many unfortunately. ”
Simon Peyton-Jones
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par•a•lan•guage
[par-uh-lang-gwij]
— noun
The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.
Fri Oct 3
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Valentine for Perfect Strangers
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“ I don’t know if you know this, but Haskell has a sort of unofficial slogan: avoid success at all costs. ”
Simon Peyton-Jones
Thu Oct 2
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“ You can not be any more than you can imagine being. ”
Tobias Wolff
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par•a•phil•i•a
[par-uh-fil-ee-uh]
— noun
Any of a group of psycho-sexual disorders characters by sexual fantasies, feelings, or activities involving a nonhuman object, a nonconsenting partner such as a child, or pain or humiliation of one’s partner.
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