“We’re all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It’s a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it’s true, but then so’s everything.”
—Charles de Lint
November 2011
“More than 1 million secrets have been created and shared using the PostSecret App generating an Amazon server bill of more than $30,000.”
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“A few days ago, I called HopeLine. The woman I talked to said that she didn’t know what to tell me or how to make it better but that she wished that she did. The honesty of that response was so much more comforting than the bullshit I have been fed recently from my family and friends. Thank you.”
—PostSecret
“Oh my God. People are stupid aren’t they?”
—Sharon, Senior Sister at King’s College Hospital, 24 Hours in A&E
“She’s traveling low-cost, so why does she have such high demands?”
—VO. Customer service on Airways, part 2.
“Michelle is not going to let this go, so Christy has to work out how to deal with this problem.”
—Customer service on Airways
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“Yeah, well those records you requested? Sealed by a federal order.”
“No idea what that means. I live in a monarchy.” —Leverage
“No idea what that means. I live in a monarchy.” —Leverage
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Leaving an activity half finished is a big source of stress. Whenever something is only half done, it gnaws at you and stops you from focusing on other activities.
On the other hand, when you complete a task a rush of endorphins is released into your system making you happy, pleased and relaxed. It gives you the energy to go on and complete the next activity.
Use this, once you start something, finish it. Get the endorphin rush and channel the new energy into completing the next task, giving you another boost and so on.
” —7 tips to work more efficiently
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“Because paper has more patience than people.”
—Anne Frank (via pavorst)
University to pay medical bills of pepper spray victims →
edition.cnn.com
University of California officials said Tuesday they will pay the medical expenses of students who were pepper sprayed during an Occupy Davis protest last week.
Authorities have also decided to drop charges against 10 people who were arrested during the Friday protest on the campus of UC Davis. The university system has also created an advisory panel to look into the incident, University of California President Mark Yudof said.
Bill Bratton, who has led police departments in Los Angeles, Boston and New York, will head the panel, Yudof said. “My intent,” Yudof said, “is to provide the chancellor and the entire University of California community with an independent, unvarnished report about what happened at Davis.”
Perhaps too little, too late? It’s a good move, but a better one would have been not dousing students in pepper-spray.
Wonder how much those medical bills are.
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A group of frogs were hopping contentedly through the woods, going about their froggy business, when two of them fell into a deep pit. All of the other frogs gathered around the pit to see what could be done to help their companions.
When they saw how deep the pit was, the rest of the dismayed group agreed that it was hopeless and told the two frogs in the pit that they should prepare themselves for their fate, because they were as good as dead.
Unwilling to accept this terrible fate, the two frogs began to jump with all of their might. Some of the frogs shouted into the pit that it was hopeless, and that the two frogs wouldn’t be in that situation if they had been more careful, more obedient to the froggy rules, and more responsible.
The other frogs continued sorrowfully shouting that they should save their energy and give up, since they were already as good as dead. The two frogs continued jumping as hard as they could, and after several hours of desperate effort were quite weary.
Finally, one of the frogs took heed to the calls of his fellows. Spent and disheartened, he quietly resolved himself to his fate, lay down at the bottom of the pit, and died as the others looked on in helpless grief.
The other frog continued to jump with every ounce of energy he had, although his body was wracked with pain and he was completely exhausted. His companions began anew, yelling for him to accept his fate, stop the pain and just die. The weary frog jumped harder and harder and — wonder of wonders!
Finally leapt so high that he sprang from the pit.
Amazed, the other frogs celebrated his miraculous freedom and then gathering around him asked, “Why did you continue jumping when we told you it was impossible?”
Reading their lips, the astonished frog explained to them that he was deaf, and that when he saw their gestures and shouting, he thought they were cheering him on. What he had perceived as encouragement inspired him to try harder and to succeed against all odds.
” —The power of words.
“There is life and death in the power of the tongue.”
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