(from 17/6 to 21/7)
"The happiness of your life depends upon the character of your thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD, Roman emperor as well as philosopher)
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"When its black plenty y'all tin run across the stars."
- Charles Austin Beard
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"All who have got accomplished non bad things have got had a non bad aim as well as have got fixed their gaze on a finish that is high - i that sometimes seems impossible."
- Orison Swett Marden (author, 1850-1924)
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"It is impossible to live on both grateful as well as depressed. Those alongside a grateful mindset tend to run across the message inwards the mess. And fifty-fifty though life may knock them down, the grateful observe reasons, if fifty-fifty small-scale ones, to acquire up."
- Steve Maraboli
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"What tin live on asserted without proof tin live on dismissed without proof."
- Christopher Hitchens
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Entrepreneur Derek Sivers alongside a skilful text on "Fragile Plan vs Robust Plan": http://goo.gl/5NcYT
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THE ALPHABET OF LOVE:
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 - Absolutely adore each other
B - Be best friends
C - Compromise
D - Discover novel things together
E - Encourage each other
F - Forgive as well as forget
G - Gaze into each others eyes
H - Hold hands as well as hug a lot
I - Inspire as well as intrigue each other
J - Joke as well as express mirth as well as have got fun
K- Kiss Kiss Kiss
L - Love alongside all your hearts
G - Marvel at each other's talents
due north - Nature each other's soul
O - Overcome job together
P - Play game
Q - Quiet each other's fears
R - Remember the piffling things
southward - Say "I dearest you" everyday
T - Take fourth dimension for tenderness
U - Understand as well as attention deeply
V - Value everything y'all share
W - Wish on stars together
X - X-press your truthful feelings
Y - Yearn for each other's touch
Z - Zzzzz inwards each other's arm
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Do y'all desire to brand coin using Facebook? Here are iv tardily steps:
1) Click "account"
2) Click "account settings"
3) Click "deactivate account"
4) Start working!
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Langt og interessant intervju med norsk-pakistanske Jeanette i Nettavisen: http://goo.gl/XPA1E3
Hun ble selv tvangsgiftet bort som 16-åring, og ville med sine spørsmål til Hadia Tajik (via Human Rights Service) sette i gang en debatt om hvor frie de "arrangerte" ekteskapene til mange muslimske jenter er.
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I but had some non bad days inwards Seville, Spain, a really beautiful as well as tranquil metropolis - yet withal big as well as interesting plenty to pass a lot of fourth dimension in. The locals know how to savor life, inspired past times the unique mix of a rich history, many architectural styles as well as various cultures.
Here's a 360° #PhotoSphere painting I shot at Alameda de Hercules, a relaxing spot nigh the centre where people go inwards the evenings to have got tapas as well as drinks, as well as their children tin play also: https://goo.gl/F3Oyae
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Veldig interessant kronikk av norsk-pakistansk-engelske Deeyah, om hvor sterkt selvsensuren i vesten er blant kunstnere: http://goo.gl/iEYsL
Mange kunstnere tør rett og slett ikke skape, fordi "de kan bli redde for å krenke eller provosere frem voldelige reaksjoner fra publikum og media, der sensuren tildekkes i noble konsepter som 'kulturelle hensyn'."
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"The Middle East is a really very religious place. No i has sex, but they scent similar they but did."
- Dave Attell (in "Captain Miserable", 2007)
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To brighten your mood, hither are 100 of the best truthful cat pictures of all time, collected past times BuzzFeed: http://goo.gl/YD7hlf
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Veldig godt og sobert Aftenposten-essay av Bjørn Stærk om hvorfor dry ground som Norge trenger en ny innvandringspolitikk, og hvilke hensyn som må tas både for "vertene" og "gjestene": http://goo.gl/f5TC8
"Både åpnere og strengere grenser har en pris – i penger, helse, og samvittighet."
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David Lowery has written a truly skilful blogpost nigh why nosotros should all BUY music instead of downloading it illegally. The best arguments I've ever read on the matter, delight have got a look: http://goo.gl/vNftT
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"A skilful grapheme is, inwards all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is non inherited from parents; it is non created past times external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the outcome of one's ain endeavors - the fruit as well as wages of skilful principles manifested inwards a course of teaching of virtuous as well as honorable action."
- Joel Hawes, pastor
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"Det finnes ingen historiske belegg eller overbevisende indikasjoner for så godt som alle aspekter ved Jesus, altså hans fødsel, gjerninger, helbredelser, undere, lære, omgangskrets og død. Dersom det for rundt 2000 år siden levde og døde en religiøst forvirret jøde i Palestina som aldri gjorde noe av det han har blitt tillagt - da er kristendommen totalt meningsløs."
Hentet fra Bandoli: http://j.mp/iuK1p6
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What to practice inwards the midst of a horrible as well as senseless riot inwards Vancouver? Kiss, of course! Check out the cuteness: http://j.mp/joSGgt
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If the matadors died 50% of the time, I would gladly back upward bullfighting.
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In most Western countries people give less as well as less blood. Sweden are trying to struggle this negative tendency past times doing at to the lowest degree 2 things:
1) After y'all donate, the county council volition text y'all when your blood is used.
2) Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 website shows residents a live on nautical chart of how much blood is left.
Hopefully other countries volition follow these examples as well as also come upward up alongside fifty-fifty to a greater extent than innovative ways to inspire people to donate blood. Article inwards The Independent: http://goo.gl/KNlx7F
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Funny post on a forum from a concerned woman raise - "My 12 twelvemonth old boy is having sex": http://goo.gl/lXYge
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I am a procrasti
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Some people compare so-called laurels violence alongside domestic violence. Activist as well as ex-Muslim Maryam Namazie explains the really of import differences:
"Though the results may live on the same, in that location are many differences inwards the acts of laurels violence versus domestic violence. For one, alongside laurels violence, multiple solid unit of measurement members are almost ever involved, which is non the instance for domestic violence.Perpetrators of laurels violence believe that their comport is warranted — as well as perchance fifty-fifty required — because of the victim’s behavior. With domestic violence, perpetrators know their actions are criminal as well as ofttimes experience guilty.
With laurels violence, a perpetrator’s belief that his comport is justified past times the victim’s behaviour is ofttimes shared past times his solid unit of measurement as well as community, both men as well as women. He may also have got the back upward of his religious leaders as well as community. But a perpetrator of domestic violence volition non typically savor the back upward or encouragement of either his or the victim’s family. His abusive comport is non unremarkably condoned past times solid unit of measurement or community."
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"He loved Big Brother."
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Bali = amazing climate + international crowd + friendly locals + stunning nature + beaches + mountains + really comfortable cost score + few consequences = total feeling of freedom
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James Gandolfini ("Tony Soprano") passed away today. In retention of him, here's a brusk as well as really inspiring text written past times Neil Strauss: https://goo.gl/d4XwpW
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"A twelvemonth from forthwith on y'all volition wishing y'all had started today."
- Karen Lamb
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I but watched the first-class BBC documentary serial "The Power Of Nightmares" past times Adam Curtis, nigh the connexion betwixt radical Islam as well as neoconservatives: https://goo.gl/XYv77s
"Both the Islamists as well as Neoconservatives were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to create a improve world. And both had a really similar explanation for what caused that failure. These 2 groups have got changed the world, but non inwards the agency that either intended.
Together, they created today's nightmare vision of a secret, organized evil that threatens the world. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fantasy that politicians as well as then institute restored their ability as well as authorisation inwards a disillusioned age. And those alongside the darkest fears became the most powerful."
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I hope England's finest instrumentalist - John Hurt - never dies.
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So practice y'all desire to operate from e.g. Bali, similar many people do? Check these links to acquire inspired:
- http://j.mp/luEHwg
- http://j.mp/m6a6i2
- http://j.mp/lBqv0n
Imagine yourself past times beaches (http://j.mp/kc0iC4), as well as eating truly inexpensive as well as delicious dishes (http://j.mp/jTT3SO).
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of people believe they can't practice it, but if they truly run across how tardily it is, they would live on surprised. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 skilful mass to acquire y'all seriously inspired is the updated edition of "The 4-Hour Workweek" past times Timothy Ferriss.
I recommend anyone inwards their 20's to assay living for a few years inwards other countries as well as dissimilar continents. And recollect - almost anything is reversible, y'all tin ever go dorsum if y'all don't similar the lifestyle changes y'all assay out. :)
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Interesting tidbits nigh USA #1: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 poll demo that 41% of Americans believe Jesus volition render past times 2050. And 48% of Republicans as well as 83% of Democrats think Earth volition acquire warmer: http://bit.ly/cYSeNb
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Interesting tidbits nigh USA #2: Only 22% ain a passport as well as are able to leave of absence the country. However, in that location are various reasons for this, for instance lack of coin to go internationally as well as brusk vacations. Interesting article here: http://bit.ly/czkw3J
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You ever have got to create what YOU desire to come upward into Earth - no affair if it's music, words, stories, films, fine art or other forms of expression.
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How "Mrs. Doubtfire" should have got been directed - cheque out this trailer, re-editing it into a psychological horror film: https://goo.gl/t5CLfv
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"If you're only interacting alongside me through the Internet, your overall impression of me volition live on unnaturally lopsided because some aspects of my life won’t have whatever meaningful facial expression through this medium. It may seem to almost have got the intimacy of a confront to confront connection, but it’s non the same. Even though I’m really opened upward nigh my life, in that location are gaping holes inwards what I select to percentage publicly."
- Steve Pavlina inwards a blogpost: http://j.mp/kvPCBm
I think this goes for a lot of online communication, nosotros truly have got to live on careful nigh judging people exclusively past times what nosotros run across they communicate online.
(For instance I write really piffling nigh my part-time task every bit a weapons dealer, since I don't desire people to compare me to Nicolas Cage.)
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"It does non affair how many times y'all acquire knocked down, but how many times y'all acquire up."
- Vince Lombardi (football coach, 1913-1970)
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Funniest positive stereotype I read so far today:
"If Jews were secretly running America, it wouldn't live on $14 trillion inwards debt."
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"I shall transcend through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I tin practice or whatever kindness that I tin demo to whatever immature homo creature, allow me practice it now. Let me non defer or neglect it for I shall non transcend this agency again."
- Stephen Grellet (1773-1855, missionary)
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I was trying to observe pictures of cats alongside scary expressions.
Word of advice - never ever go to Google Images as well as type inwards "scary pussy". Because y'all cannot unsee what has been seen...
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Tim Ferriss writes inwards The 4-Hour Workweek nigh dramatically increasing productivity:
There are 2 synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other:
* Limit tasks to the important, to shorten operate fourth dimension - the 80/20 rule.
* Shorten operate fourth dimension to bound tasks to the of import - Parkinson's Law.
The best solution is to purpose both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to your results, as well as and then schedule them alongside really brusk as well as clear deadlines.
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Never wait. Always practice what y'all tin alongside what y'all already have.
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"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, non inwards the futurity but correct now. Realize that null is likewise good. Allow absolutely null to hamper y'all or concur y'all upward inwards whatever way."
- Eileen Caddy (author, 1917-2006)
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Great article - "How to utter to piffling girls": http://j.mp/lXlShM
Basically practice it inwards a agency that encourages their thinking as well as appreciates their minds, rather than the appearance-focused "oh, you're so cuuuute, that wearing clothing looks so skilful on you".
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Regjeringen har lagt ned siviltjenesten i Norge (uten å gå innom Stortinget), så her er den siste sivilarbeider i Norge. http://j.mp/mrXIey
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Classic "Peep Show". Jeremy is talking nigh how he volition have got sexual activity alongside Elena:
Jeremy: We'll likely practice doggiestyle for a bit, as well as and then graduate to some backdoor action!
Mark: Why practice y'all insist on seeing the anus every bit some sort of human USB port but waiting to have got all kinds of hardware plugged into it?
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"It takes many years to live on an overnight success."
Here are nine examples of success stories that took a long fourth dimension to build, as well as most do: http://goo.gl/AEqD6
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"I've missed to a greater extent than than 9000 shots inwards my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to have got the game winning shot as well as missed. I've failed over as well as over as well as over in i lawsuit to a greater extent than inwards my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (former NBA instrumentalist as well as entrepreneur)
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Bottled H2O is extremely bad for the environment, as well as nosotros should all halt drinking it completely.
Please read this Gizmodo article to acquire exactly why bottled H2O should disappear, as well as what y'all tin drinkable instead: http://goo.gl/e5F4lR
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Orgasms! We all dearest them, as well as AsapSCIENCE explicate why inwards their video "The Science of Orgams": https://goo.gl/PRz6eI
How does the encephalon response during an orgasm? Is in that location a departure inwards the duration betwixt virile mortal as well as woman mortal orgasms? What practice fMRI scans show? Watch the video to acquire more.
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"The really get-go fellowship I started failed alongside a non bad bang. The 2nd i failed a piffling flake less, but withal failed. The tertiary one, y'all know, proper failed, but it was sort of okay. I recovered quickly. Number iv almost didn’t fail. It withal didn’t truly experience great, but it did okay. Number 5 was PayPal."
- Max Levchin, old CTO of PayPal
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I nominate this the best championship ever for an electronica album - "Where have got y'all been? What have got y'all done? And why?" By Ontayso/Sense/Tim Koch.
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"What personal stories have got y'all locked away inwards the hole-and-corner vault of your mind, vowing never to percentage them publicly? What would shame y'all terribly if it were ever posted on the Internet as well as connected alongside your existent quest anyone to see? What events or habits from your past times or acquaint would y'all experience embarrassed to utter about?
This is just what y'all demand to percentage alongside others — openly as well as publicly."
Read the first-class essay "Share your shame", past times Steve Pavlina: http://goo.gl/E3mSIA
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"In vocal as well as inwards trip the lite fantastic toe I limited myself every bit a fellow member of a higher community.
I have got forgotten how to walk as well as speak. I am on the agency toward flight into the air, dancing.
My really gestures limited enchantment.
I experience myself a god.
Supernatural sounds emanate from me.
I walk nigh enchanted, inwards ecstasy, similar the gods I saw walking inwards my dreams.
I am no longer an artist.
I have got go a operate of art."
(From the intro to Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Real Altered)": https://goo.gl/HoIUKm
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What if Barbie looked similar a existent woman? Then she would await similar this: http://goo.gl/7b6YP
Here's a blogpost nigh the whole project, explaining why children unconsciously perceive Barbie's impossible measurements every bit an ideal to strive for: http://goo.gl/O3lBt
P.S. Don't EVER purchase a Barbie doll (or anything else from Mattel) for your children, obviously.
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"Transitions tin live on pretty tough. You may shed some tears along the way. But inwards the end, you’ll emerge inwards a much brighter place. Escaping a cocoon isn’t supposed to live on tardily — it’s the procedure of struggling to leave of absence that makes y'all stronger for what lies ahead."
- Steve Pavlina inwards "Building a happier life": http://goo.gl/GQSRjw
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"Women are really sexual creatures on a fundamental, biological level. In fact, they likely savor sexual activity fifty-fifty to a greater extent than than men. Ever notice how women moan much to a greater extent than during sexual activity than men do? [..]
Unfortunately, the misogynistic systems of organized religious belief as well as monastic tell repress women’s sexuality, as well as because women tend to live on social creatures, labels such every bit 'slut' or 'whore' have got a strong, negative effect on them.
None of these penalties apply to men who have got lots of sex. Thus, the supreme tragedy of the modern monastic tell is that men everywhere have got to a greater extent than of a challenge inwards getting sexual activity than they would if they were living dorsum inwards pre-civilization times when women were wild as well as uninhibited. So your task every bit a homo is to acquire around a woman's societal conditioning as well as depict out the natural adult woman inside her."
- John Alexander inwards "How To Become An Alpha Male"
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"Average people have got wishes as well as hopes. Confident people have got goals as well as plans."
- Brian Tracy
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"Discipline is the span betwixt goals as well as accomplishment."
- Jim Rohn
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"Don't say, 'If I could, I would.' Say, 'If I can, I will.'"
- Jim Rohn
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"I began learning long agone that those who are happiest are those who practice the most for others."
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915, educator as well as author)
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"If it is to be, it is upward to me."
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"Nothing volition operate unless y'all do."
- John Wooden/Maya Angelou
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"A non bad burden was lifted from my shoulders the hateful solar daytime I realized that no i owes me anything."
- Harry Browne (author as well as politician, 1933-2006)
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Two quotes nigh the same thing:
"By challenging basic assumptions, it’s possible to stumble upon unproblematic as well as odd solutions to long-standing problems."
- Timothy Ferriss inwards "The 4-Hour Body"
"Fifty per centum of what nosotros know is wrong. The job is that nosotros practice non know which 50% it is."
- Timothy Noakes
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"If y'all can't tell it clearly, y'all don't empathise it yourself."
- John Searle
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"THE COOKIE THIEF
There’s a prissy poesy form past times Valerie Cox circulating on the Internet nigh a adult woman who bought some cookies as well as a mass at an airdrome as well as sat downwards to read as well as nibble piece waiting for her plane. She presently noticed a homo sitting adjacent to her, who casually took a cookie from the bag.
Although shocked as well as seething, the adult woman remained soundless every bit the man, without the slightest sign of shame or gratitude, quietly helped himself, matching her cookie for cookie.
When in that location was i cookie left, she watched inwards amazement every bit he picked it up, smiled at her every bit if he were beingness gracious, as well as broke it inwards half. He ate i one-half as well as gave her the other. Congratulating herself for maintaining her cool, she said null to this rude cookie thief, astonished at the nervus of some people.
Later, when she was settling into her topographic point on the plane, she rummaged through her purse as well as discovered the handbag of cookies she’d purchased, withal unopened. The moral message is contained inwards the poem’s closing stanza:
'If mine are here,' she moaned alongside despair,
'Then the others were his, as well as he tried to share.'
Too belatedly to apologize, she realized alongside grief,
That she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.
Being certain is non the same every bit beingness right. Certainty without humility tin atomic number 82 to self-righteousness that distorts our persuasion as well as agreement of Earth as well as of people.
Humility doesn’t require us to live on equivocal or doubtful nigh our deepest convictions. What it asks is that nosotros concur as well as advocate our beliefs without dismissing the possibility that others may live on correct instead.
Character counts.
Michael Josephson
www.charactercounts.org"
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Here's a really of import motto I live on by:
The limitations of other people are non yours - y'all tin hit something they thought impossible. Never assume something is out of your reach, assay it get-go as well as truly observe out for yourself where your electrical current limits are.
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"Productivity without vision = running inwards circles FASTER."
- Steve Pavlina
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"We must honor the other fellow's religion, but only inwards the sense as well as to the extent that nosotros honor his theory that his married adult woman is beautiful as well as his children smart"
- H. L. Mencken
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"The best agency to predict the futurity is to create it."
- Peter Drucker (or Alan Kay or Abraham Lincoln)
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"You tin practice anything, but non everything."
- David Allen
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"Never complain. Never explain."
- Henry Ford II
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Great dialogue from Archer:
- C'mon, acquire me drunkard enough, as well as I mightiness have got sexual activity alongside you.
- [Looking up, hopefully.] Really?!
- No, it's a Catch-22. The amount of alcohol I would demand would literally kill me.
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"We tin only live on said to live on live inwards those moments when our hearts are witting of their treasures."
- Thornton Wilder (playwright as well as novelist, 1897-1975)
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Interesting article inwards The New York Times nigh animals seeking pleasure, as well as how they are to a greater extent than similar to us than nosotros mightiness think: http://goo.gl/4Xdzj
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"Most people dabble their agency through life, never deciding to master copy anything inwards particular."
- Tony Robbins
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"Find out exactly what y'all desire as well as focus on that. You tin non hitting a target y'all can't see."
- Brian Tracy
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Sterkt anbefalt - Marte Solbakkens svært gode radiodokumentar "Epilog for herr Bodin" på NRK, om livet til en psykopat. Lytt her: https://goo.gl/I16rad
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Detroit is broken. Article inwards The Guardian: http://goo.gl/QVctL
Here's the coming timeline:
- 2013: bankruptcy
- 2022: organized law-breaking takes over most of the city
- 2028: the police line subdivision creates a existent Robocop (remember that RoboCop truly was from Detroit)
Excerpt from the article:
"Citizens hold off 58 minutes for the police line to response to calls, compared to a national average of eleven minutes. Only a tertiary of ambulances were inwards service inwards the get-go quarter of 2013. There are unopen to 78,000 abandoned buildings inwards the city. The unemployment charge per unit of measurement had nearly tripled since 2000 as well as the homicide charge per unit of measurement was at its highest score inwards xl years."
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How to sell farm mechanism inwards Belarus: http://goo.gl/aHcrl5
This is from the spider web log "Sälj Grej Med Tjej"/"Sell Stuff With Girls", which volition operate for y'all whether y'all loathe adverts exploiting women ("see how they are humiliating women"), or y'all but dearest to cheque out hot chicks ("what a babe").
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I cirka 10 sekunder trodde jeg seriøst at Kiwis "B & T"-avtale sto for bæsj og tiss (og altså ikke bind og tampong).
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"You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills."
- Jim Rohn
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"It is improve to lite i candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese saying (probably)
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Three really interesting articles nigh Taylor Swift, describing why she seems to live on both a music concern genius as well as a really empathic person: http://goo.gl/2Gy6oL
Articles past times The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker as well as Planet Money, compiled past times Longreads.
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"We volition have non what nosotros idly wishing for but what nosotros justly earn. Our rewards volition ever live on inwards exact proportion to our service."
- Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)
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Interesting article inwards The New Yorker nigh exactly why summertime makes us lazy: http://goo.gl/T0bikU
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"One of the secrets of life is to brand stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."
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"It's amazing how much tin live on done when it doesn't affair who gets the credit."
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Great advice past times Lydia Netzer - "15 ways to remain married for fifteen years": http://goo.gl/wc3XT
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Never compare yourself to anyone else. Don't fifty-fifty compare yourself to who y'all in i lawsuit were.
Only ever compare yourself to the mortal y'all desire to become, as well as observe out what y'all demand to practice to go that person.
Then, every day, brand small-scale but concrete steps towards that.
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"Whatever dearest y'all tin acquire as well as give, whatever happiness y'all tin filch or provide, every temporary mensurate of grace, whatever works."
- Larry David inwards Woody Allen's "Whatever Works" (2009)
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If y'all brand a military camp for ADHD kids - is it a concentration camp?
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"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, non inwards the futurity but correct now. Realize that null is likewise good. Allow absolutely null to hamper y'all or concur y'all upward inwards whatever way."
- Eileen Caddy (1917-2006, author)
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"My doctors told me I would never walk again. My woman raise told me I would. I believed my mother."
- Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994, Olympic gilt medalist)
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"You go what y'all think nigh most of the time. The top 10% successful people think nigh what they want, as well as how to acquire it. Unsuccessful people think nigh what they don't want, what they are worried about, what has happened inwards the past, as well as specially who is to blame for their situation."
- Brian Tracy
- http://j.mp/m6a6i2
- http://j.mp/lBqv0n
Imagine yourself past times beaches (http://j.mp/kc0iC4), as well as eating truly inexpensive as well as delicious dishes (http://j.mp/jTT3SO).
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of people believe they can't practice it, but if they truly run across how tardily it is, they would live on surprised. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 skilful mass to acquire y'all seriously inspired is the updated edition of "The 4-Hour Workweek" past times Timothy Ferriss.
I recommend anyone inwards their 20's to assay living for a few years inwards other countries as well as dissimilar continents. And recollect - almost anything is reversible, y'all tin ever go dorsum if y'all don't similar the lifestyle changes y'all assay out. :)
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Interesting tidbits nigh USA #1: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 poll demo that 41% of Americans believe Jesus volition render past times 2050. And 48% of Republicans as well as 83% of Democrats think Earth volition acquire warmer: http://bit.ly/cYSeNb
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Interesting tidbits nigh USA #2: Only 22% ain a passport as well as are able to leave of absence the country. However, in that location are various reasons for this, for instance lack of coin to go internationally as well as brusk vacations. Interesting article here: http://bit.ly/czkw3J
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You ever have got to create what YOU desire to come upward into Earth - no affair if it's music, words, stories, films, fine art or other forms of expression.
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How "Mrs. Doubtfire" should have got been directed - cheque out this trailer, re-editing it into a psychological horror film: https://goo.gl/t5CLfv
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"If you're only interacting alongside me through the Internet, your overall impression of me volition live on unnaturally lopsided because some aspects of my life won’t have whatever meaningful facial expression through this medium. It may seem to almost have got the intimacy of a confront to confront connection, but it’s non the same. Even though I’m really opened upward nigh my life, in that location are gaping holes inwards what I select to percentage publicly."
- Steve Pavlina inwards a blogpost: http://j.mp/kvPCBm
I think this goes for a lot of online communication, nosotros truly have got to live on careful nigh judging people exclusively past times what nosotros run across they communicate online.
(For instance I write really piffling nigh my part-time task every bit a weapons dealer, since I don't desire people to compare me to Nicolas Cage.)
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"It does non affair how many times y'all acquire knocked down, but how many times y'all acquire up."
- Vince Lombardi (football coach, 1913-1970)
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Funniest positive stereotype I read so far today:
"If Jews were secretly running America, it wouldn't live on $14 trillion inwards debt."
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"I shall transcend through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I tin practice or whatever kindness that I tin demo to whatever immature homo creature, allow me practice it now. Let me non defer or neglect it for I shall non transcend this agency again."
- Stephen Grellet (1773-1855, missionary)
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I was trying to observe pictures of cats alongside scary expressions.
Word of advice - never ever go to Google Images as well as type inwards "scary pussy". Because y'all cannot unsee what has been seen...
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Tim Ferriss writes inwards The 4-Hour Workweek nigh dramatically increasing productivity:
There are 2 synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other:
* Limit tasks to the important, to shorten operate fourth dimension - the 80/20 rule.
* Shorten operate fourth dimension to bound tasks to the of import - Parkinson's Law.
The best solution is to purpose both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to your results, as well as and then schedule them alongside really brusk as well as clear deadlines.
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Never wait. Always practice what y'all tin alongside what y'all already have.
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"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, non inwards the futurity but correct now. Realize that null is likewise good. Allow absolutely null to hamper y'all or concur y'all upward inwards whatever way."
- Eileen Caddy (author, 1917-2006)
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Great article - "How to utter to piffling girls": http://j.mp/lXlShM
Basically practice it inwards a agency that encourages their thinking as well as appreciates their minds, rather than the appearance-focused "oh, you're so cuuuute, that wearing clothing looks so skilful on you".
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Regjeringen har lagt ned siviltjenesten i Norge (uten å gå innom Stortinget), så her er den siste sivilarbeider i Norge. http://j.mp/mrXIey
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Classic "Peep Show". Jeremy is talking nigh how he volition have got sexual activity alongside Elena:
Jeremy: We'll likely practice doggiestyle for a bit, as well as and then graduate to some backdoor action!
Mark: Why practice y'all insist on seeing the anus every bit some sort of human USB port but waiting to have got all kinds of hardware plugged into it?
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"It takes many years to live on an overnight success."
Here are nine examples of success stories that took a long fourth dimension to build, as well as most do: http://goo.gl/AEqD6
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"I've missed to a greater extent than than 9000 shots inwards my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to have got the game winning shot as well as missed. I've failed over as well as over as well as over in i lawsuit to a greater extent than inwards my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (former NBA instrumentalist as well as entrepreneur)
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Bottled H2O is extremely bad for the environment, as well as nosotros should all halt drinking it completely.
Please read this Gizmodo article to acquire exactly why bottled H2O should disappear, as well as what y'all tin drinkable instead: http://goo.gl/e5F4lR
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Orgasms! We all dearest them, as well as AsapSCIENCE explicate why inwards their video "The Science of Orgams": https://goo.gl/PRz6eI
How does the encephalon response during an orgasm? Is in that location a departure inwards the duration betwixt virile mortal as well as woman mortal orgasms? What practice fMRI scans show? Watch the video to acquire more.
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"The really get-go fellowship I started failed alongside a non bad bang. The 2nd i failed a piffling flake less, but withal failed. The tertiary one, y'all know, proper failed, but it was sort of okay. I recovered quickly. Number iv almost didn’t fail. It withal didn’t truly experience great, but it did okay. Number 5 was PayPal."
- Max Levchin, old CTO of PayPal
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I nominate this the best championship ever for an electronica album - "Where have got y'all been? What have got y'all done? And why?" By Ontayso/Sense/Tim Koch.
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"What personal stories have got y'all locked away inwards the hole-and-corner vault of your mind, vowing never to percentage them publicly? What would shame y'all terribly if it were ever posted on the Internet as well as connected alongside your existent quest anyone to see? What events or habits from your past times or acquaint would y'all experience embarrassed to utter about?
This is just what y'all demand to percentage alongside others — openly as well as publicly."
Read the first-class essay "Share your shame", past times Steve Pavlina: http://goo.gl/E3mSIA
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"In vocal as well as inwards trip the lite fantastic toe I limited myself every bit a fellow member of a higher community.
I have got forgotten how to walk as well as speak. I am on the agency toward flight into the air, dancing.
My really gestures limited enchantment.
I experience myself a god.
Supernatural sounds emanate from me.
I walk nigh enchanted, inwards ecstasy, similar the gods I saw walking inwards my dreams.
I am no longer an artist.
I have got go a operate of art."
(From the intro to Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Real Altered)": https://goo.gl/HoIUKm
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What if Barbie looked similar a existent woman? Then she would await similar this: http://goo.gl/7b6YP
Here's a blogpost nigh the whole project, explaining why children unconsciously perceive Barbie's impossible measurements every bit an ideal to strive for: http://goo.gl/O3lBt
P.S. Don't EVER purchase a Barbie doll (or anything else from Mattel) for your children, obviously.
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"Transitions tin live on pretty tough. You may shed some tears along the way. But inwards the end, you’ll emerge inwards a much brighter place. Escaping a cocoon isn’t supposed to live on tardily — it’s the procedure of struggling to leave of absence that makes y'all stronger for what lies ahead."
- Steve Pavlina inwards "Building a happier life": http://goo.gl/GQSRjw
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"Women are really sexual creatures on a fundamental, biological level. In fact, they likely savor sexual activity fifty-fifty to a greater extent than than men. Ever notice how women moan much to a greater extent than during sexual activity than men do? [..]
Unfortunately, the misogynistic systems of organized religious belief as well as monastic tell repress women’s sexuality, as well as because women tend to live on social creatures, labels such every bit 'slut' or 'whore' have got a strong, negative effect on them.
None of these penalties apply to men who have got lots of sex. Thus, the supreme tragedy of the modern monastic tell is that men everywhere have got to a greater extent than of a challenge inwards getting sexual activity than they would if they were living dorsum inwards pre-civilization times when women were wild as well as uninhibited. So your task every bit a homo is to acquire around a woman's societal conditioning as well as depict out the natural adult woman inside her."
- John Alexander inwards "How To Become An Alpha Male"
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"Average people have got wishes as well as hopes. Confident people have got goals as well as plans."
- Brian Tracy
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"Discipline is the span betwixt goals as well as accomplishment."
- Jim Rohn
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"Don't say, 'If I could, I would.' Say, 'If I can, I will.'"
- Jim Rohn
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"I began learning long agone that those who are happiest are those who practice the most for others."
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915, educator as well as author)
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"If it is to be, it is upward to me."
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"Nothing volition operate unless y'all do."
- John Wooden/Maya Angelou
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"A non bad burden was lifted from my shoulders the hateful solar daytime I realized that no i owes me anything."
- Harry Browne (author as well as politician, 1933-2006)
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Two quotes nigh the same thing:
"By challenging basic assumptions, it’s possible to stumble upon unproblematic as well as odd solutions to long-standing problems."
- Timothy Ferriss inwards "The 4-Hour Body"
"Fifty per centum of what nosotros know is wrong. The job is that nosotros practice non know which 50% it is."
- Timothy Noakes
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"If y'all can't tell it clearly, y'all don't empathise it yourself."
- John Searle
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"THE COOKIE THIEF
There’s a prissy poesy form past times Valerie Cox circulating on the Internet nigh a adult woman who bought some cookies as well as a mass at an airdrome as well as sat downwards to read as well as nibble piece waiting for her plane. She presently noticed a homo sitting adjacent to her, who casually took a cookie from the bag.
Although shocked as well as seething, the adult woman remained soundless every bit the man, without the slightest sign of shame or gratitude, quietly helped himself, matching her cookie for cookie.
When in that location was i cookie left, she watched inwards amazement every bit he picked it up, smiled at her every bit if he were beingness gracious, as well as broke it inwards half. He ate i one-half as well as gave her the other. Congratulating herself for maintaining her cool, she said null to this rude cookie thief, astonished at the nervus of some people.
Later, when she was settling into her topographic point on the plane, she rummaged through her purse as well as discovered the handbag of cookies she’d purchased, withal unopened. The moral message is contained inwards the poem’s closing stanza:
'If mine are here,' she moaned alongside despair,
'Then the others were his, as well as he tried to share.'
Too belatedly to apologize, she realized alongside grief,
That she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.
Being certain is non the same every bit beingness right. Certainty without humility tin atomic number 82 to self-righteousness that distorts our persuasion as well as agreement of Earth as well as of people.
Humility doesn’t require us to live on equivocal or doubtful nigh our deepest convictions. What it asks is that nosotros concur as well as advocate our beliefs without dismissing the possibility that others may live on correct instead.
Character counts.
Michael Josephson
www.charactercounts.org"
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Here's a really of import motto I live on by:
The limitations of other people are non yours - y'all tin hit something they thought impossible. Never assume something is out of your reach, assay it get-go as well as truly observe out for yourself where your electrical current limits are.
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"Productivity without vision = running inwards circles FASTER."
- Steve Pavlina
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"We must honor the other fellow's religion, but only inwards the sense as well as to the extent that nosotros honor his theory that his married adult woman is beautiful as well as his children smart"
- H. L. Mencken
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"The best agency to predict the futurity is to create it."
- Peter Drucker (or Alan Kay or Abraham Lincoln)
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"You tin practice anything, but non everything."
- David Allen
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"Never complain. Never explain."
- Henry Ford II
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Great dialogue from Archer:
- C'mon, acquire me drunkard enough, as well as I mightiness have got sexual activity alongside you.
- [Looking up, hopefully.] Really?!
- No, it's a Catch-22. The amount of alcohol I would demand would literally kill me.
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"We tin only live on said to live on live inwards those moments when our hearts are witting of their treasures."
- Thornton Wilder (playwright as well as novelist, 1897-1975)
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Interesting article inwards The New York Times nigh animals seeking pleasure, as well as how they are to a greater extent than similar to us than nosotros mightiness think: http://goo.gl/4Xdzj
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"Most people dabble their agency through life, never deciding to master copy anything inwards particular."
- Tony Robbins
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"Find out exactly what y'all desire as well as focus on that. You tin non hitting a target y'all can't see."
- Brian Tracy
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Sterkt anbefalt - Marte Solbakkens svært gode radiodokumentar "Epilog for herr Bodin" på NRK, om livet til en psykopat. Lytt her: https://goo.gl/I16rad
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Detroit is broken. Article inwards The Guardian: http://goo.gl/QVctL
Here's the coming timeline:
- 2013: bankruptcy
- 2022: organized law-breaking takes over most of the city
- 2028: the police line subdivision creates a existent Robocop (remember that RoboCop truly was from Detroit)
Excerpt from the article:
"Citizens hold off 58 minutes for the police line to response to calls, compared to a national average of eleven minutes. Only a tertiary of ambulances were inwards service inwards the get-go quarter of 2013. There are unopen to 78,000 abandoned buildings inwards the city. The unemployment charge per unit of measurement had nearly tripled since 2000 as well as the homicide charge per unit of measurement was at its highest score inwards xl years."
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How to sell farm mechanism inwards Belarus: http://goo.gl/aHcrl5
This is from the spider web log "Sälj Grej Med Tjej"/"Sell Stuff With Girls", which volition operate for y'all whether y'all loathe adverts exploiting women ("see how they are humiliating women"), or y'all but dearest to cheque out hot chicks ("what a babe").
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I cirka 10 sekunder trodde jeg seriøst at Kiwis "B & T"-avtale sto for bæsj og tiss (og altså ikke bind og tampong).
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"You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills."
- Jim Rohn
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"It is improve to lite i candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese saying (probably)
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Three really interesting articles nigh Taylor Swift, describing why she seems to live on both a music concern genius as well as a really empathic person: http://goo.gl/2Gy6oL
Articles past times The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker as well as Planet Money, compiled past times Longreads.
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"We volition have non what nosotros idly wishing for but what nosotros justly earn. Our rewards volition ever live on inwards exact proportion to our service."
- Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)
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Interesting article inwards The New Yorker nigh exactly why summertime makes us lazy: http://goo.gl/T0bikU
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"One of the secrets of life is to brand stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."
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"It's amazing how much tin live on done when it doesn't affair who gets the credit."
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Great advice past times Lydia Netzer - "15 ways to remain married for fifteen years": http://goo.gl/wc3XT
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Never compare yourself to anyone else. Don't fifty-fifty compare yourself to who y'all in i lawsuit were.
Only ever compare yourself to the mortal y'all desire to become, as well as observe out what y'all demand to practice to go that person.
Then, every day, brand small-scale but concrete steps towards that.
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"Whatever dearest y'all tin acquire as well as give, whatever happiness y'all tin filch or provide, every temporary mensurate of grace, whatever works."
- Larry David inwards Woody Allen's "Whatever Works" (2009)
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If y'all brand a military camp for ADHD kids - is it a concentration camp?
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"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, non inwards the futurity but correct now. Realize that null is likewise good. Allow absolutely null to hamper y'all or concur y'all upward inwards whatever way."
- Eileen Caddy (1917-2006, author)
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"My doctors told me I would never walk again. My woman raise told me I would. I believed my mother."
- Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994, Olympic gilt medalist)
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"You go what y'all think nigh most of the time. The top 10% successful people think nigh what they want, as well as how to acquire it. Unsuccessful people think nigh what they don't want, what they are worried about, what has happened inwards the past, as well as specially who is to blame for their situation."
- Brian Tracy
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