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The greatest & least visible cost of civilization is the need to make an effort for bodily and mental exercise (and call it “work”), compared to the effortless life under natural stimuli (both physical and mental).

— Nassim Taleb

Posted May 30, 2012 at 9:43am

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The exam was a philosophy essay: “What is Risk?”. Someone handed a nearly blank sheet, on which was written a single sentence “This is risk”.

Posted May 30, 2012 at 9:37am

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Posted May 25, 2012 at 3:21pm | 1,161 notes

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Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

— Mortimer Adler in “How To Read A Book”

Posted May 22, 2012 at 11:09am

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Money and tears don’t mix, get over it. Life’s hard, money doesn’t care.

— Kevin O’leary

Posted May 17, 2012 at 2:57pm

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When you start to like pain things get interesting. Pain is the common result of a subordinate position. Traditionally, suffering is uncomfortable and undesirable. Perhaps it is more intelligent to cultivate pain as a means of liberation? Is it possible that enjoyment of pain can be subversive? When one does not fear pain, one cannot be manipulated. When aroused by suffering, one can control any relationship. When agony ceases to be a barrier, death is not forbidding. The implications are marvellous. Pain is not oppressive, but strengthening and most sublime. It is necessary only to deny the pleasure/pain dichotomy.

— Jenny Holzer says many brutal and true things. (via agonyauntmunch)

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Posted May 8, 2012 at 1:09pm | 734 notes

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She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddamn hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they’d bore you or something. Jane was different. We’d get into a goddamn movie or something, and right away we’d start holding hands, and we wouldn’t quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

— The Catcher in the Rye (via 33113)

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Posted May 8, 2012 at 1:09pm | 124 notes

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The man who is dependent on another is no longer a man, he has lost his standing, he is nothing but the possession of another man

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