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Is Obama Too Thin? (Wall Street Journal)
“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.” — Bertrand Russell
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ffffound is a social bookmarking service specifically for images of a personally inspirational nature. This is great because I don’t currently collect this stuff anywhere unless the whole site is bookmark worthy.
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“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.” — Thomas A. Edison
“2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.” — Grabel’s Law
“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.” — Gore Vidal
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.” — Arthur Koestler
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“The avant-garde is defined more by what it is against than what it is for. This leads to an oedipal succession of contradictions where each generation says the opposite of the previous. And if your agenda is dependant on being the opposite of someone else’s, you are simply a follower – in reverse.” — Bjarke Ingels [source]