July 2012
29 posts
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Why do we spend at least 1,000 times more money protecting ourselves from terrorism than we do protecting ourselves from gun violence? I’m not necessarily suggesting that we spend less on anti-terrorism programs. Like everyone else, I am grateful there have been no mass casualty terror events since 9/11. I’m just wondering, instead, what possible justification there could be for spending so relatively little to try to reduce the casualties of gun violence. […]
Our government has asked us consistently since 9/11 to sacrifice individual liberties and freedom, constitutional rights to privacy for example, in the name of national security. And we have ceded these liberties. Yet that same government in that same time hasn’t asked anyone to sacrifice some Second Amendment rights to help protect innocent victims from gun violence.
What's your secret?: you’ll be tall and slender with messy hair and pretty eyes. but more... →
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you’ll be tall and slender with messy hair and pretty eyes. but more importantly, you’ll be loving, loyal, honest, and kind. you’ll like snuggling and bonfires and kid movies like i do. you’ll go to concerts with me. i won’t wear makeup around you and you won’t care. you’ll be silly and goofy…
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
—Abraham Lincoln (via kari-shma)
Fiona Apple on WTF with Marc Maron.
- Marc: Does your songwriting seem to put things into context for you? I mean, is it that personal?
- Fiona: Uh yeah, well, there are different reasons why I write songs - why I do write songs. Um. A lot of it is - uh, a lot of it comes from just an earnest desire to say something to somebody real that won't allow me to say it to them in person.
- Marc: Hmm.
- Fiona: Or who hasn't understood me properly. And then -
- Marc: Like giving that speech to your parents.
- Fiona: Right, exactly! So, so, well I just need to have it said right -
- Marc: Right.
- Fiona: - out there in the world.
- Marc: Right.
- Fiona: Because maybe you don't understand now, but I need the truth to be told.
- Marc: Right.
- Fiona: I mean, when I made my first record I really did, really really did, think that was going to solve everything because I thought this will be my "Hello, I am - this is me, nice to meet you. Let's skip it all and if you like this then let's be best friends forever and I'll always be loyal and let's hug and -" You know, like, that's what I wanted.
- Marc: So you created a lot of best friends, way more than you could have ever had.
- Fiona: Well, that's how - that's not what happened.
“Lucky people increase their odds of chance encounters or experiences by interacting with a large number of people”
—Peter Sims on engineering your own luck by increasing your “social surface area” in Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries (via explore-blog)
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via allthingssoulful)
“Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.”
—Mahatma Ghandi
“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
—Ray Bradbury
