December 2010
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The obligatory end-of-year and end-of-decade post
It’s been quite a year (and quite the understatement there too). I got myself employed in a sucky job and got to live in sucky places. Eventually I mustered the courage to quit my job with the best excuse ever — that I’m going back to school. And so I did. Studied so hard for my NMAT exam, aced the physics part (my prof would be so proud :>), and got myself a 100k-a-year-worth...
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James (via quote-book)
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listening to "Hall And Oates: You make my dreams... →
full stock of thoughts and dreams that scatter / and you pull them all together / you make my dreams come true :) (Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams)
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Come to think of it, I was spot on the first time. Got myself what I wanted, everything else was just messed up. I don’t know, maybe it’s because of you that I like what I like now, but you see, there’s this template I’ve created over the years, and so far you’re the only real person who well, actually fits it best. Then again, there hasn’t been anyone else (in...
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To Risk by William Arthur Ward
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement, To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return, To live is to risk dying, To hope is to risk despair, To try is to...
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“When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a...”
– Jane Welsh Carlyle, letter writer (1801-1866)
“Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?”
– Laurence J. Peter, educator and author (1919-1990)
November 2010
“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain (via fauxprose)
