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    Turn My World Around

    Irma Thomas

    Relationships eh?

     
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    Faster

    by Janelle Monáe

    In love with this album right now.

     
  4. Speaking frankly and speaking the truth are two different things entirely. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of the ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously.
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    Haruki Murakami 

    A Wild Sheep Chase

     
  5. Don: “I would have my secretary do it, but she’s dead!”

    Don: “I would have my secretary do it, but she’s dead!”

     
  6. But the larger answer, I’d argue, is that by making up stories about our current predicament that absolve the people who put us here there, we cut off any chance to learn from the crisis. We need to place the blame where it belongs, to chasten our policy elites. Otherwise, they’ll do even more damage in the years ahead.

     
  7. On basic questions of morality and human decency — issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights — the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.
     
  8. (via Photos of Earth Taken From Space | EgoTV)
     
  9. (via Pictures of the day: 26 April 2011 - Telegraph)
     
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