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Notes"If everyone in the U.S. ate no meat or cheese just one day a week, over a year, the effect on emissions would be the equivalent of taking 7.6 million cars off the road. (Another aside: if for two days a week you don’t eat any meat or cheese until dinnertime, you’ll accomplish something similar.)"Mark Bittman, “More Weight on Less Meat” (7/18/11)
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Notes"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." -
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Notes"Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it’s not something where — if you missed it by age 19 — you’re finished. It’s never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world — at any age. At least try."Writer Elizabeth Gilbert, who today celebrates her 42nd birthday
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Another good one, from Six Word Story Every Day.
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Notes"…Sexual restraint rather than sexual prowess was once the measure of a man."-NYT Op/Ed contributor, Prof. Sara Lipton, on why so many powerful men have been caught cheating, behaving badly, lately.
“Those Manly Men of Yore” 6/17/2011
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Notes"I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights sleep, worked too long and too hard in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment."John Steinbeck (via caleyhustle)
(Source: thesemightysecrets, via caleyhustle)
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Notes"This is not the future Minnesota wants for itself. Young people are appalled. It’s a sad day and my heart is broken…It’s a sad and shameful day. Those who voted for this are going to be ashamed of themselves."Sen. Dibble, after passage of an anti-gay marriage amendment
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"However, government is not and should not be a church, synagogue or mosque. Marriage under the law is a next-of-kin, legal arrangement that includes important property, benefits, child custody and health care rights. Those legal rights should be available to all couples."
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Notes"Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest."~Sri Chinmoy
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Love it. See more at Music Philosophy (thanks for pointing out the broken link, infosmart!)
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The recent birth of my son at Fairview Southdale Hospital put my wife and me into the thick of it. There we were, on the heels of a life-changing,...
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TODAY!
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Pitch Perfect cast in MTV Movie Awards photobooth
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“Oh brother. I don’t want to marry any of them! Impossible! I guess I’d marry…Sterling? Fuck Don. And I guess I...
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“I’m really excited to host a show that starts today instead of tomorrow” Jimmy Fallon
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Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.
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Anonymous asked: if you were a stripper/porn star what would your stage name be?
Walter Cronkite
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