| #1401: | Among the animals, our closest relative is really the dog. We are eager to please, loyal to a fault and willing to follow others anywhere.
— Sat Sep 05 2009 10:26 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1402: | If psychic phenomena are real, it is clear they are an unreliable tool for interacting with the world.
— Sat Sep 05 2009 11:00 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1403: | The biggest cosmic joke of all would be that there is a God but He doesn't give a shit about you.
— Sat Sep 05 2009 11:17 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1404: | The connundrum of romance is that once you are committed to someone, you're also imprisoned with them.
— Sat Sep 05 2009 15:57 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1405: | Wisdom overheard in Bar Harbor: "Eating take so much time. We could see a lot more if only we didn't spend so much time eating."
— Sat Sep 05 2009 16:23 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1406: | A "craft fair" should never be mispronounced "crap fair," but I keep doing it. Look at all this crap! Future garage sale material.
— Sat Sep 05 2009 17:44 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1407: | My new philosophy essay: "The Shamanism of Luxury" http://bit.ly/jv0Tg (Kilroy Cafe #52)
— Sat Sep 05 2009 21:18 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1408: | Wisdom overheard from tourists: "Eating takes so much time. We could see a lot more if we didn't spend so much time eating."
— Sat Sep 05 2009 22:18 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1409: | Art is a medium for a message. If you don't have a message, you have vanity, not art.
— Mon Sep 07 2009 00:45 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1410: | Art is a medium for a message. If you don't have a message, all you have vanity, not art.
— Mon Sep 07 2009 01:33 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1411: | Creative writing classes are a fraud. You can't teach creativity. Either you figure it out on your own and do it, or you don't.
— Mon Sep 07 2009 01:39 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1412: | An adorable little puppy is just the Trojan Horse for an expensive 10-year burden.
— Mon Sep 07 2009 09:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1413: | Being good looking tends to stunt your growth.
— Mon Sep 07 2009 10:35 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1414: | LA Times: "Vegas dreamers go all in" http://bit.ly/GmTQf - The city of bright lights is now the city of broken dreams.
— Tue Sep 08 2009 00:25 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1415: | LA Times: "Borderline personality disorder grows as healthcare concern" http://bit.ly/a7flG - Almost 6% of the US population!
— Tue Sep 08 2009 00:27 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1416: | In Borderline disorder, the most effective treatment is the patient directly experiencing the consequences of her own actions.
— Tue Sep 08 2009 09:52 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1417: | NY Times: "In Taming Dogs, Humans May Have Sought a Meal " http://bit.ly/3M4Q35 - Dogs are the animal most entwined with us.
— Tue Sep 08 2009 11:58 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1418: | NY Times: "Birth Order: Fun to Debate, but How Important? " http://bit.ly/Odgs4
— Tue Sep 08 2009 12:13 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1419: | Obama to students: "Every single one of you has something you're good at... You have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is."
— Wed Sep 09 2009 10:13 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1420: | Carbonation corrodes teeth, more so than sugar. If you bathe your teeth in soda every day--even diet--you will eventually start losing them.
— Wed Sep 09 2009 17:43 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1421: | The world is full of crap because crap has a higher profit margin than things you really need.
— Wed Sep 09 2009 18:09 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1422: | This past Labor Day weekend, I stayed on my own private island in Maine for $15/day. My report: http://bit.ly/1553ad
— Wed Sep 09 2009 22:15 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1423: | My dental hygienist: "When I was single I had plenty of money, but now I'm married, two incomes, but no money. What happened?"
— Thu Sep 10 2009 01:53 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1424: | "Two can live cheaply as one" is a fallacy. When you marry, costs tend to increase due to bureaucratic inefficiency.
— Thu Sep 10 2009 01:58 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1425: | Anyone can play "Guitar Hero". Almost no one can write decent songs that others want to sing.
— Thu Sep 10 2009 09:10 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1426: | "Conspicuous meditation" is when you publically display how spiritually aware you are, by meditating in parks, wearing tie-dyed shirts, etc.
— Thu Sep 10 2009 12:08 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1427: | My, my, lo
— Sat Sep 12 2009 11:57 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1428: | Did you know that dogs in the desert have neither ticks nor fleas? Yet another reason to "live dry" whenever you can!
— Sun Sep 13 2009 05:26 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1429: | Silly me! When I was thirsty, I just drank water. Little did I know that I needed my electrolytes rebalanced!
— Sun Sep 13 2009 05:31 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1430: | Paranoia usually assumes that the world cares more about you than it actually does.
— Mon Sep 14 2009 04:52 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1431: | A single face-to-face meeting can sometimes accomplish more than 10,000 email messages.
— Mon Sep 14 2009 04:53 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1432: | It's getting harder to detect the schizophrenics. They're the ones talking to themselves WITHOUT the Bluetooth in their ear.
— Tue Sep 15 2009 03:43 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1433: | It is impossible to tell "good news" from "bad news" until time has tested it, since one can easily transform into the other.
— Tue Sep 15 2009 12:59 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1434: | Good luck can easily become a curse and bad luck a blessing. You never can tell until time and free will have acted upon them.
— Tue Sep 15 2009 13:18 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1435: | The tendency of every "expert" is to ridiculously overprotect you from whatever threat he is supposed to be an expert about.
— Tue Sep 15 2009 14:38 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1436: | AMAZING new exercise machine! Gets you out of bed every morning and makes you walk! Yours for $99/mo for 10+ yrs. CALL NOW! 1-800-GET-A-DOG
— Thu Sep 17 2009 03:20 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1437: | Richer or more powerful does not mean invulnerable. They are just as constrained as you are but in different ways.
— Thu Sep 17 2009 14:14 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1438: | Rich or famous does not mean more free or less vulnerable. Those people are just as constrained as you are but in different ways.
— Thu Sep 17 2009 20:00 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1439: | The greatest tragedy of mankind is that the people who are least capable of raising children are the most likely to have them.
— Fri Sep 18 2009 01:18 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1440: | In every big workplace there's some dipshit who's impossible to work with because he rigidly obeys every rule. Nothing gets done!
— Fri Sep 18 2009 14:29 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1441: | The willingness to follow others is man's greatest asset and his worst flaw.
— Sun Sep 20 2009 10:04 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1442: | Internal inconsistency is the precursor of violence. When someone is at war with themselves, they will soon be at war with others.
— Sun Sep 20 2009 10:29 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1443: | The dangerous thing about the night is its anonymity. People can do things without being seen, and that brings out their dark side.
— Sun Sep 20 2009 10:37 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1444: | It is good to be generous, but you also don't want to disrupt a local economy so it becomes unsustainable without you.
— Sun Sep 20 2009 10:54 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1445: | Real men don't use sunscreen. A simple hat will do.
— Mon Sep 21 2009 17:33 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1446: | Las Vegas one of the 10 worst cities to raise children. News: http://bit.ly/ZElkF - In my neighborhood, most kids dropped out of school.
— Mon Sep 21 2009 18:46 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1447: | Photo: My "Top Secret Toilet Truck" from the Area 51 era. http://bit.ly/1PpwLq - The cammo is SO last century.
— Mon Sep 21 2009 18:57 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1448: | Day after day, month after month, year after year, the news is full of dead people. When is this epidemic going to end?
— Tue Sep 22 2009 01:01 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1449: | I bet more people have died driving to the store for hand sanitizer than have died directly from the dreaded swine flu.
— Tue Sep 22 2009 04:49 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1450: | If you think you need religion to make sense of your life, so be it. Just don't go around thinking you're God's chosen one.
— Tue Sep 22 2009 05:36 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1451: | Advice from the car I'm driving: "WARNING: Death or serious injury can occur." An omnipresent threat but thanks for reminding me.
— Tue Sep 22 2009 12:59 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1452: | "AVERTISSEMENT: Il y a risque de mort ou de blessures graves," dit ma voiture. Oui, c'est la vie!
— Tue Sep 22 2009 13:07 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1453: | A dark cloud over the economy is that consumers aren't wasting money like they used to. Come on people: Get out there and squander!
— Tue Sep 22 2009 15:50 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1454: | Don't try to upsell me, young lady! I'll have just the product I ordered, no fries, no shake, just the burger, thank you!
— Wed Sep 23 2009 05:04 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1455: | People with a conflict of interest rarely perceive themselves as having one. Their own needs just happen to coincide with their client's.
— Wed Sep 23 2009 05:48 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1456: | Caffeine, like other addictions, is an illusion. It gives you "energy" only by stealing it from someplace else.
— Wed Sep 23 2009 06:18 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1457: | Tedious displays of nature: mountains, canyons, waterfalls, coastlines, cliffs, islands. Exciting at first, boring when repeated.
— Wed Sep 23 2009 11:44 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1458: | The artist's greatest enemy is his own ego, which prevents him from seeing his work as the outside observer sees it.
— Wed Sep 23 2009 22:38 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1459: | In fiction, there can be a magical problem, but there shouldn't be a magical solution. The hero must solve it through his own resources.
— Fri Sep 25 2009 09:55 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1460: | In fiction, there can be a magical problem, but there shouldn't be a magical solution. The hero must prevail through his own resources.
— Fri Sep 25 2009 10:07 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1461: | Luke Skywalker's "trust the force" is a weak and phony resolution because the hero isn't finding his own strength, only trusting fate.
— Fri Sep 25 2009 10:15 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1462: | One of the greatest challenges in life is learning to see yourself as others see you.
— Fri Sep 25 2009 11:32 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1463: | "Cornell University" - My new photo album: http://bit.ly/cornell-rph
— Fri Sep 25 2009 13:00 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1464: | "Corning Museum of Glass" - My new photo album: http://bit.ly/corning-glass
— Fri Sep 25 2009 13:03 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1465: | "Harvard University" - My photo album (from 2008) http://bit.ly/harvard-yard - Also "Peabody Museum": http://bit.ly/MiQnU
— Fri Sep 25 2009 13:06 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1466: | "Ghost Church in Nebraska" - My new photo album: http://bit.ly/GtS2a - Abandoned church and schoolhouse in a soybean field.
— Fri Sep 25 2009 20:54 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1467: | Wine and cheese are the junk food of the Middle Ages. They've got nothing to offer the body except carbs.
— Sat Sep 26 2009 00:10 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1468: | Wine is one of the world's oldest frauds. Each generation convinces the next that it's important, but no one asks "Why?"
— Sat Sep 26 2009 00:16 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1469: | The only thing more absurd than spectator sports is spectator sports on the radio. You can't even spectate!
— Sat Sep 26 2009 01:24 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1470: | There is no natural "right to health care" because health care is infinitely expensive and there will never be enough of it to go around.
— Sat Sep 26 2009 02:13 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1471: | It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Never too early to flog my "Wal-Mart Christmas Carol" http://bit.ly/walmartxmas
— Sat Sep 26 2009 02:35 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1472: | I believe no one should be persecuted for his sexual preferences, religious beliefs or political affiliations. They're all equally insane!
— Sat Sep 26 2009 05:06 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1473: | Safety aside, London is the world's worst city to live in. Crappy weather and unbelievable costs. How/why do people live there?
— Sat Sep 26 2009 11:17 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1474: | Book readers see themselves as a cultured bunch, but it can be just another form of addiction. Don't you have something better to do?
— Sat Sep 26 2009 13:04 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1475: | Life is hard mainly because you make it hard, overcommitting your future and spending more than you have on things that aren't important.
— Sat Sep 26 2009 13:10 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1476: | The biggest cosmic joke of all would be that there is a God but He isn't listening to your prayers and couldn't care less about you.
— Sat Sep 26 2009 14:20 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1477: | "People Living in Drains Below Las Vegas". UK Sun: http://bit.ly/vegasdrains
— Mon Sep 28 2009 03:43 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1478: | Between the good and the bad is the interesting.
— Mon Sep 28 2009 09:34 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1479: | Belief follows necessity. People believe what they need to believe to support their ego and make their circumstances emotionally tolerable.
— Mon Sep 28 2009 12:50 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1480: | The best predictor of someone's future behavior is their past behavior. This is their personality at work.
— Mon Sep 28 2009 20:28 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1481: | The "America Dream" is apparently to trap yourself in a single location with tons of possessions and little opportunity to change.
— Mon Sep 28 2009 21:42 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1482: | Never trust any foodstuff with a "y" at the end: "buttery", "chocolatey", etc. It's a product of chemical engineering!
— Tue Sep 29 2009 12:18 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1483: | In youth, we gain all our basic assumptions about life. Our adulthood is concerned with unlearning them.
— Tue Sep 29 2009 13:50 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1484: | Most adults have so many excuses for not changing that they need a crisis before anything gets done.
— Tue Sep 29 2009 13:52 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1485: | Observation of married couples suggests their main activity is home acquisition, maintenance, improvement and decoration. That must be love!
— Tue Sep 29 2009 14:18 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1486: | The best predictor of someone's future behavior is their past behavior.
— Tue Sep 29 2009 14:23 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1487: | All those automatic light switches and toilet flushers are merely training people not to turn off lights or flush toilets.
— Tue Sep 29 2009 20:03 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1488: | A cool video on the subject of "beauty" http://bit.ly/105Rom "Dove Evolution" 1:15
— Wed Sep 30 2009 00:59 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1489: | “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?” -- Jalal ad-Din Rumi
— Wed Sep 30 2009 04:44 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1490: | The primary activities of pair-bonded humans appear to be centered on nest-building and only incidentally the rearing of young.
— Wed Sep 30 2009 05:05 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1491: | "Gender at Time of Birth" now appears on government health forms, because "Gender" alone doesn't cover everything.
— Wed Sep 30 2009 15:08 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1492: | I could claim that I was a computer battery, but I would be Li-ion.
— Wed Sep 30 2009 18:47 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1493: | Cliché of the Day: "You CAN make a difference!" When an ad campaign says this, you can be sure what they want you to do will change little.
— Wed Sep 30 2009 21:59 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1494: | The worst fashion monstrosities are strapless gowns and thong bikinis. Go naked if you must; otherwise, more fabric needed!
— Thu Oct 01 2009 08:34 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1495: | The convicted murderer died in his sleep before he could be executed, robbing society of the satisfaction of killing him.
— Thu Oct 01 2009 13:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1496: | Nothing says Christmas like festive holiday products made by Chinese slave labor.
— Thu Oct 01 2009 21:28 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1497: | "The camera doesn't lie," they say. Not true! The camera takes things out of context and presents a false purity.
— Fri Oct 02 2009 03:47 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1498: | Photography is a fraud that distorts reality to serve the photographer's aims, yet it's the medium people are least skeptical about.
— Fri Oct 02 2009 04:27 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1499: | The first bite tastes great! The 2nd is good. The 3rd is okay. By the 4th or 5th it's routine and boring. Same applies to everything!
— Fri Oct 02 2009 16:13 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1500: | L'ennui est un défaut de personnalité, pas un état du monde.
— Fri Oct 02 2009 17:11 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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