March 2012
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“No. I’ll tell you the problem with engineers and scientists. Scientists have an elaborate line of bullshit about how they are seeking to know the truth about nature. Which is true, but that’s not what drives them. Nobody is driven by abstractions like ‘seeking truth’. Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never...
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Hope and Love
Is it just me, or does the progression of age come along with a subsequent progression of emotional immunity? Back in high-school and the years prior, I remember living life with an impulse to be with somebody, with a kindling crush in my heart and mind everywhere I went. Not only did my sentiments project themselves at significant and potential significant others, but at friends and family as...
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“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don’t see many people doing it.”
– Sue Grafton
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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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A little thought that led to another:
I’m convinced that listening to music with lyrics is disruptive to my thought processes and detrimental to my thought-endurance, if you will. All it takes is one catchy song for a lyric to begin reeling through my mind for hours upon hours. I’ll be attempting to penetrate a topic of thought and that particular lyric will come around, orbiting through the lobby of my mind, and break...