May 2012
14 posts
“Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix...”
– Julia Cameron (via thehealthyeverythingtarian)
“You are very important, but only to certain people. Make sure you identify them...”
– John Pavlus (via cleversimon)
“When you’re confronted by a werewolf—now this is important—you need to...”
– Mike Nelson, MST3K “Werewolf” (via vanessacsketch)
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Ehrlich's Rule
“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.”
- Paul Erlich
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Rosenbaum's Rule
“The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.”
- Jack Rosenbaum
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Kirkup's Law
“The sun goes down just when you need it the most.”
- Jon Kirkup
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Hippocrates' second law
“Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgement difficult.”
- Hippocrates
“The confusing thing about falling in love is that the symptoms of falling in...”
– Sean Lock (via alyisacunt)
mathcat345: The next time you think you’re in love, check the flue first.
The mathcat345 rule
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Bucy's Law
“Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.”
- Fred Bucy
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Weiler's Law
“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.”
- A. H. Weiler
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Feuerbach's Law Of Consumption
“Man is what he eats.”
- Ludwig Feuerbach
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (via afewreasonablewords)
Life is simply too short. Find some happiness....
atsirhc:
you don’t have to do it every day, but for fuck’s sake - do it before you can’t do it any longer.
April 2012
17 posts
1 tag
“Be kind, be honest, work hard and always be awesome.”
– Wil Wheaton (via moochingwarwidows)
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.”
– Laird Hamilton
“some days you’re the ass, some days you’re the stick”
– me, in the car, giving a student a ride to somewhere nearby. I don’t know either (via janetisserlis)
“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast...”
– Louis C.K.
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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with...”
– Galileo (via dascola)
“1. Never give up, trust your instincts.
2. Use the boost to get through.
3....”
– Peppy Hare (via samspratt)
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"A Kissed Mouth..."
“A kissed mouth doesn’t lose its freshness, for like the moon it always renews itself.”
- Giovanni Boccacio, the Decameron
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Ginott's rule
“Treat a child as though he already is the person he’s capable of becoming”
- Haim Ginott
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The Lebowitz Demarcation
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”
- Fran Lebowitz
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Peer's Law
“The solution to a problem changes the problem.”
- John Peers
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Nixon's Principle
“If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.”
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Putney's Law
“If the people of a democracy are allowed to do so, they will vote away the freedoms which are essential to that democracy.”
- Snell Putney
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Gray's Law of Programming
“n+1 trivial tasks are expected to be accomplished in the same time as n trivial tasks.”
- Paul Gray
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Kerr's Law
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.”
- Mrs. Jean Kerr
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Kelly's Law
“Nothing is ever as simple as it first seems.”
- Kelly
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Barnum's Law
“There’s a sucker born every minute.”
- P.T. Barnum
March 2012
31 posts
“Begin somewhere; you can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do.”
– Liz Smith
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The Knowledgesponge Warning Sign
“You know you are in trouble when your support person asks you how to fix the problem you sent to them.”
- Knowledgesponge
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Pastore's Truths, #1
“Even paranoid people have enemies.”
- Jim Pastore
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Kristol's Law
“Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.”
- Irving Kristol
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Dunn's Discovery
“The shortest measurable interval of time is the time between the moment I put a little extra aside for a sudden emergency and the arrival of that emergency.”
- Marvin Dunn
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First Thesis
“Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore everything is nothing.
Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore everything is nothing.
Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. Protons are also nothing. Fifty billion electrons placed...
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Udall's Law
“If you can find something everybody agrees on, it’s wrong.”
- Morris K. Udall
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The Taxi Principle
“Find out the cost before you get in.”
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and...”
–
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, better-known as the author of The Little Prince ᔥ Neil deGrasse Tysonᔥ BrainPickings.org
(via rjfromva)
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Virgil's Law
“Fear Greeks even when they bring gifts”
- Virgil, The Aeneid
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Kant's Categorical Imperative
” Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time wish that it should become a universal law”
- Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
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“Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely...”
– Homer J. Simspson
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Valary's reminder
“If I had a wish, it would be that all of us could see ourselves through the eyes of those who love us. As a wise man told me tonight, we all view ourselves through the filter of our flaws. But those who love us see us through the filter of their love, which makes truer and more beautiful images.”
- NOLAGrrlNYC
Edit: Emphasis mine, for remembering.
“Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.”
– Ron Swanson, Parks & Rec
Sheer brilliance.
(via alittlejstillz)
