February 2012
2 posts
3 tags
January 2012
6 posts
525. You can't be friends with everyone.
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“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?”...”
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Si Hay Dios
Podrás llevarte aquellos que me importan,
despojarme de mis ropas, desviarme de la luz.
Podrás llenar de obscuridad mis sueños, podrás porque eres tú.
Podrás romper de nuevo el juramento
desaciendo las cadenas que te ataron una vez
Pero dame tu el valor que tengo miedo
O puedes darme una esperanza
o arrancarme al fin las ganas de seguir por ti
buscando entre mi almohada que es una dama...
“When the dust settled after the companies that Bain restructured were downsized...”
– Bain, Barack and Jobs - NYTimes.com
289+77
December 2011
5 posts
“Never mind, I’ll find someone like you. I wish nothing but the best for...”
– Adele
“We should do our best to decide the fate of the war on the very first day.”
– A Reluctant Enemy - NYTimes.com
November 2011
1 post
“Consider that we trust military and homeland security personnel with our lives,...”
– End Bonuses for Bankers - NYTimes.com
October 2011
8 posts
“How can there be a labor shortage when nearly one out of every 11 people in the...”
– http://nyti.ms/rsrS1y
“Disrupt is right. It would be an earthquake for the majority of colleges that...”
– The University of Wherever - NYTimes.com
“Lo que queremos es que la ciudad se pueda cruzar en dirección este-oeste y...”
– Leonel recorre túnel de la Ortega y Gasset - Listín Diario Digital
September 2011
11 posts
“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation...”
– Paulo Coelho Discusses ‘Aleph,’ His New Novel - NYTimes.com
“In some ways our parents see “success” and “independence” as synonyms, though no...”
– Why Rent When You Can Nest? - NYTimes.com
“The window of opportunity is limited. Israel will not always find itself sitting...”
– Ehud Olmert, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/opinion/Olmert-peace-now-or-never.html?_r=1&hp
On International Peace Day, the United States and all nations should commit themselves to achieving a true, just, permanent and lasting peace, be it neighbors or distant peers and rivals, allies and competitors. The history of the creation of the United Nations indicates the universal desire for increased cooperation and recognition of the rights of man, woman and child, as well as the community...
“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to...”
– Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1913-1960)
Rickrolling
verb, transitive verb. Duping someone into watching a supposedly interesting or entertaining video that in reality plays Rick Astley music video from the 1980s. First appeared in 2008.
Wikipedia defines it as
an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up”
“Oh, yes,” Rockefeller replied, “the whole thing was led by the blacks.”
– Rockefeller Told Nixon Lethal Attica Raid Was ‘Beautiful’ - NYTimes.com
August 2011
16 posts
“In 1986, he bought the company which would become Pixar from George Lucas for $5...”
– Steve Jobs Reigned in a Kingdom of Altered Landscapes - NYTimes.com
“poverty is an economic catastrophe, inseparable from the power of greedy...”
– Cornell West, Martin Luther King Jr. Would Want a Revolution, Not a Memorial - NYTimes.com
504. Don't leave a wedding until you've danced...
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave...”
– Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
“Obama has been more conservative than regard for public opinion requires him to...”
– ‘The Persistence of the Color Line’ by Randall Kennedy - Review - NYTimes.com
“S.& P. gave Lehman Brothers, whose collapse triggered a global panic, an A...”
– Credibility, Chutzpah and Debt - NYTimes.com
WatchHand coming out of a building
July 2011
24 posts
