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Aren't People Absurd!

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:47:20 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

aren't people absurd!

Aren't people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have but demand those they don't have; they have freedom of thought, but demand freedom of speech.

--Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (Diapsalmata)

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Diminished by Words

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:33:06 GMT

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Clip Source: alenaswebpage.blogspot.com

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revalations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."

- Stephen King

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Quote: Bad habit of creative talents

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:27:18 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alionline.net

the bad habit of creative talents

it may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.

--theodore roszak
in search of the miraculous

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Supreme Irony of Life

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:34:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.quoteworld.org

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."

-- Robert Heinlein

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A Book Quote Worth Reading

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:36:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No, in my case.

Clip Source: homepage.eircom.net

What if a demon were to creep after you one day or night, in your loneliest loneness, and say : "This life which you live and have lived, must be lived again by you, and innumerable times more. And there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and every sigh - everything unspeakably small and great in your life - must come again to you, and in the same sequence and series...". Would you not throw yourself down and curse the demon who spoke to you thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment, in which you would answer him : "Thou art a god, and never have I heard anything more divine!"

- Frederick Nietzsche, "The Gay Science", 1882

Email Etiquette

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:55:35 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.guykawasaki.com

The Effective Emailer

Because of my recent post about schmoozing, you might think I'm a warm, fuzzy, and kumbaya kind of Guy. Most of the time I am, but I have strong feelings about email etiquette and what it takes to get your email read--and answered. As someone who gets dozens of emails every day and sends a handful of emails every day to get strangers to do things (“digital evangelism”), I offer these insights to help you become a more effective emailer.

Craft your subject line.

Limit your recipients.

Don't write in ALL CAPS

Keep it short

Quote back

Use plain text

Control your URLs

Don't FUQ (Fabricate Unanswerable Questions), I

Don't FUQ, II

Attach files infrequently

Ask permission

Chill out.

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Silly Quotes: It's a he! :|

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:07:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nicefacts.com

Quote #109:

"Yes, maam? Right here, this lady. No, she! Yes, right, second row. Next to the guy in the blue shirt, holding her left hand up. It's a he? Sorry about that. Gotta be careful. I'm very sorry. Go ahead! I'm, excuse me, I'm very sorry. Go, ah, I, a thousand apologies, go ahead."

George Bush Sr., Former U.S. President, at a press conference