July 2010
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Watchmeghanasha:
I got chills watching this trailer…
For anyone interested in exploring women’s under-representation in positions of power please check out Miss Representation. I met the creator, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and am in absolute awe of her cause.
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you say to them, people will forget...”
– Maya Angelou (via lionofbedstuy) (via maryrambin)
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Learning Forgiveness
colorsoftheday:
They used to read this to us once a year in assembly. It came to me tonight and I think that if boarding school taught me nothing else, it taught me the power of non sibi
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered; Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win...
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“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live...”
– Swami Vivekananda (via lisadianenonsociety) (via juliaallison)
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"First Passion" by Mary Kinzie
unwerthy:
Running there I am at fourteen
I have been scolded
by my father for something I hadn’t done
or hadn’t not done who knows the dishes nothing
serious like my smoking
or ineptness with people and bad
choices
It was unjust
and the almost irrelevant injustice grew so pure and tiny
in its atmosphere of truth
which rose like sky
that I fell in love with it and it...
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Live at the Museum of Science & Industry for a... →
juliaallison:
Sent to me by reader Katherine, I think this may well be one of the coolest ideas since AOL’s Ambassador of Lifestream. As Paris Hilton would say: Loves it!
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“Where there is great doubt,
there will be great awakening;
small doubt,
small...”
– Zen proverb (via commondense) (via constantflux) (via saidonce)
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musicforyourcoffee:
Tom Petty – Learning to Fly
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NYT: Chinese Factories Now Compete to Woo Laborers →
High demand for factory labor has emboldened workers and inspired a spate of strikes, resulting in higher salaries and better treatment for some laborers.
“Guo Yuhua, a sociologist at Tsinghua University, said the new cohort of itinerant workers was better educated, Internet-savvy and covetous of the urban niceties they discovered after leaving the farm. “They want a life just like city...
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“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,...”
– Gabriel Gárcia Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (via thoughtsdetained) (via suzywire)
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“He stretched out his hands desperately, as if to grasp only a wisp of air to...”
– The Great Gatsby
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“My distraction is as large as life.
When I feel like being with her,
I almost...”
– Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa) (via recklessmelancholy)
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“Sometimes late at night I think about all the...
suzywire:morganmartinez
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“There is no such thing as a person without an erotic story. It’s a motion...”
– susie bright, full exposure (via tissie)
