October 2011
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“Surveys in Japan have suggested that women who work full-time then go home and...”
– Asian women seem to bear an unusually large share of the burden of marriage. That may be one reason why they are marrying later, and less, than in the past. (via theeconomist)
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“The average American three-year-old can recognise 100 brands. Many can also...”
– The advertising industry is far more sophisticated than it was in the 1950s, but just as cynical. Many people imagine they can hide from the hidden persuaders, yet marketers have a way of triumphing nonetheless. (via theeconomist)
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'Earthscraper' concept hides a 1,000-foot...
did-you-kno:
Mexican architecture group BNKR Arquitectura have conceptualised an “earthscraper,” 65-story inverted skyscraper that hides a mini city underground.
The top ten floors — which, here, would be the “bottom” ten — is a museum and cultural center dedicated to the Aztecs. Below that you’ve got retail space, then apartments and finally, deep underground, businesses.
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“Oh, I can’t explain. When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to...”
– Basil Hallward (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...”
– Sylvia Plath
You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t... →
- Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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“To define is to limit.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“There is something fatal about a portrait. It has a life of its own.”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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clientsfromhell:
Client: “I don’t like that button, it sorta sticks out…” Me: “Yeah, it’s supposed to do that.” Client: “It doesn’t look like the rest of the website. It doesn’t blend in with the colours, y’know.” Me: “It’s a Call To Action—we want people to notice it, and click it.” Client: “Well, I don’t like it. I don’t want stuff that sticks out.” Me: “Doorknobs stick out, and people use...
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“There is no such thing as a good influence… All influence is immoral - immoral...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (London, 1891)
I love this book!! All the characters are wonderful. I think I’ll read this one again.
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Top 10 Lost Works of Literature →
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“Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.”
– Antonio Machado
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“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose...”
– John Keats
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“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those...”
– Lord Byron
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“She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
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– George Gordon Byron
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When We Two Parted
In secret we met In silence I grieve That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears.
- Lord Byron
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Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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September 2011
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