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Friday, August 20, 2010

Dostoyevsky on the persecution complex

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"Come, can a man who attempts to find enjoyment in the very feeling of his own degradation possibly have a spark of respect for himself...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Links - 19th August 2010

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"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president." - Johnny Cars...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Talk on Bond Breaking (28th August)

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"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a w...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Opposing unwise juxtaposition of sites of tragedy and symbols of their causes, and bigotry

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"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a w...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Free shows are expensive

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss ...

Le charme versus la beauté

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"Tu trouves que j’ai du charme ? C’est ce qu’on dit à quelqu’un quand on le trouve pas beau !" "Mais le charme, c’est mieux ...

Why more girls seem to be attached than guys

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"India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator." - Winston Churchill *** One observation that I...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Quotes - 14th August 2010

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"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all." - Joan Robinson ...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

NSFW Chart

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I've always been a fan of NSFW4
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Jobs, long hours and personal fulfilment

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"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau *** Tribal Workers Fi...
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Why you should shop at Ikea

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Malaysia/Singapore as Immigrant Societies

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"What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?" - Logan Pearsall Smith *...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Links - 10th August 2010

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"We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head." - Dennis Mi...

You wouldn't download a car

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Why I don't watch French films

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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." - Samuel Johnson *** "Aural...
Monday, August 09, 2010

Winston Churchill on Democracy, Constitutional Safeguards and the Separation of Powers

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"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." - John Updike ...

NDP Pledge Time

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The bells of St Teresa's Church started ringing, which they are not wont to often do. Perhaps this was to remind people that no Man ma...

Differential outrage

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"Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin." - Stanislaw J. Lec *** The reaction to Ev...
Sunday, August 08, 2010

Divine Ecstasy

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Sex is a religious experience for some. And some religious rituals involve sex: "I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the i...

Obscurantism in Philosophy

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philosophy bites: Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism "[On Sartre being on Speed when writing his later works] It was appalli...
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