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gotmunchys asked: You'z hawt
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“C’est l’histoire d’un homme qui tombe d’un immeuble de 50 étages. A chaque étage...”
– La Haine, 1995
July 2011
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“When you talk about the equation it makes me uneasy. I want paint to work as...”
– Lucian Freud 1922-2011
Snipped from the wall of Lucian Freud, L’Atelier, Centre Pompidou 2010
June 2011
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“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the...”
– Pascal
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May 2011
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“Once the brain stops working, you are on the road to death.”
– Alex Ferguson, on why he’s not retiring any time soon.
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From "The New Yorker"
How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life.
The conscious mind gives us one way of making sense of our environment. But the unconscious mind gives us other, more supple ways. The cognitive revolution of the past thirty years provides a different perspective on our lives, one that emphasizes the relative importance of emotion over pure reason, social connections over...
December 2010
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“After a couple of games this season, I have retired from umpiring hockey matches...”
– My (92 year old) Grandad
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Paxman x Brand →
Twenty kinds of brilliant.
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