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too many have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows
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- Martin Luther King Jr in Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
May this never be said of my generation.
388. If you don’t know what a knob does, don’t fool with it.
(via rulesformyunbornson)
COROLLARY: buttons are made to be pushed.
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Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
— Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933) - found via
JLM
On Urban Outfitters now selling fixies
A friend of mine, known around here as DJ Double A, had this to say about Urban Outfitters now selling fixies:
How cheap are these things to produce, if urban outfitters sells $25 tshirts but can sell these for 400 bucks. They must be total crap.
But what does it matter when you can get double-takes on your bodacious pink rims with checkered slip-on vans, tight girl jeans rolled to the calf, white punk rock belt, and a sleevless tshirt to show off your arm tats on the way to sit at the heroin-chic, bohemian, 2-cool-4-school, coffee joint to sip an organic free-trade 6 dollar espresso so you post tweets from your smartphone while reading dharma bums, hoping somebody notices.
Best hipster rant ever.
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She replies that life never presents us with a single big question, that every day, he’s being asked to choose, and that each time he misses an appointment or doesn’t make it home, he’s making his choice.
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Chris Yeh in a comment on Steve Blank’s post about the ugliness of startup workaholics.
I think this is true beyond the context of just this comment - most of my big decisions were made daily over time and rarely in one moment.
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This generation will determine if the world can avoid the apocalypse that will come if the fear-ridden establishments continue to dominate global politics, motivated by terror, armed with nukes, and playing old but now far too dangerous games.
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from Andrew Sullivan.
As my friend Justin said: I do hope the next generation will end the dangerous war games of our fathers. That is something to hope for.
