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Website to distract you at work or in school

Check out www.bettercopy.org ! a site about psychology in advertising!

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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Henry David Thoreau (via quotes-shape-us)

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And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.

E.E. Cummings (via quotes-shape-us)

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New words for millennials

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Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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Autism; Or, Emerging From The Dumpster

April is Autism Awareness Month; please take some time in the next few weeks to help, because every day we dont fight to create more integrated and functional members of society is a missed oppor...

My piece on ThoughtCatalog in honor of Autism Awareness Month!

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6 Ways to End Any Conversation

How to end any conversation. Made with Rights Reserved TV!

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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Sylvia Plath (via quotes-shape-us)

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No act of kindness, however small, was ever wasted.

Aesop

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The Sun Also Rises

"Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together."

"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

THE END

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There are two kinds of people in this world - people who pee in the shower and dirty fucking liars.

Louis CK

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Internet Search History

How I imagine every argument between bros ends.