January 2010
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The old women, when they hear my name, fall upon their knees and beg me for...
– Otto von Bismarck.
December 2009
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And...
– St. Augustine (via vild) (via orientaltiger) (via quiettragedy) (via nostalgicdreams) (via xineann)
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MIT FML: “When I graduated from MIT I thought,... →
I have wayy too much fun reading other colleges’ FMLs.
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By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions:...
– Anton ‘Russia’s Most Elusive Literary Bachelor’ Chekhov (1860-1904)
Apparently the eventual Mrs. Chekhov was totally cool with this…
(via ontheborderland)
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From the beginning, Ananda, I have taught you that whenever things are...
– The Buddha in the Mahaparinirvana Sutra. Translated by D.L. Snellgrove.
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William Rankin →
readmorewikipedia:
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In the summer of 1959, Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin was flying over a thunderhead (about 45,000 feet in the air), when his airplane’s engine made a loud noise and the RPMs fell to zero. He was forced to eject himself from the airplane, and he fell for 45 minutes through a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud.
Falling through a storm cloud. How poetic.
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Chi-lu asked how the spirits of the dead and the gods should be served. The...
– The Analects of Confucius. Translated by D.C. Lau.
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To mock the monastic teaching of the spiritual inferiority of women, a low,...
– Paul Williams on the Asokadattavyakarana Sutra. Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations.
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Ju Pei wanted to see Confucius. Confucius declined to see him on the grounds of...
– The Analects of Confucius. Translated by D.C. Lau.
Again. LOL.
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Tsai Yu was in bed in the daytime. The Master said, ‘A piece of rotten...
– The Analects of Confucius. Translated by D.C. Lau.
LOL
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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the...
– Ecclesiastes 9:11. KJV.
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