Enduring philosophies and favorite quotes

They would twirl the emotional kaleidoscope until it gave them a picture that was comfortable.

From Washington Post article How the Brain Helps Partisans Admit No Gray by Shankar Vedantam on 31 July 2006, quoting Emory University psychologist Drew Westen [via, source]

Playlist pieces

Bright lights might say your name, but they only light the stage —
nothing there to prove.

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I’ve grown accustomed to your long goodbye.

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Excuse me, are you lost? Perhaps you would care to visit the site map

“you know you’re in college when you have seven dollars left in quarters to last you throughout the rest of the term, and you spend four bucks on a box of girlscout cookies.”

John G. 8Mar00 #link ridiculi

“It seems like an easy concept to grasp, but people don’t seem to understand it as easily as they should.”

Watson C. 3Mar00 #link ridiculi

“alicson, i swear to god…wait…i don’t [necessarily] believe in god… i swear to you….”

Amit P. 3Mar00 #link ridiculi

“you’re getting random numbers 816 998 509 131 35 991 625 6556 256 <secret messege could be here> 2 2272 410 134 979 836 964”

Matt K. 2Feb00 #link ridiculi

“A buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor and says, ‘Make me one with everything.’”

unknown #link ridiculi

“you better still be you. i’d ditch you if you weren’t.”

John G. 11Nov99 #link ridiculi

“you keep on crashing my computer. It’s your karma. Since you’re more than a thousand miles away, my computer doesn’t behave. Remedy that.”

John G. 10Oct99 #link ridiculi
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