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"I saw an interview with him a few years ago. I was interested to see what he would be like behind the television persona. And there was no difference. He talked about how he was well aware of the fact that many children have no reassuring adult..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by magstheaxe
9 days ago
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"help me avoid looking back and regretting a wasted youth
Sleep with a lot of girls (or boys, as you prefer).
Drink too much, take too many drugs, learn your limits and how to deal with addiction.
Talk bullshit with your friends about your dreams..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by JDHarper, malapropist, The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew, ramenopres, ames, QueSeraSera, advicepig, ManInSuit, emd3737, methylsalicylate, aye, paddingtonb, CAnneDC, kaydo, infinityjinx, rongorongo, headspace, miss tea
2 months ago
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"I started working in an office when I was 16, and by 35 I was completely burned out. Luckily, I had started saving agressively when I was 21, and so I had enough savings to start thinking about not working, but it took me until 40 to actually admit..." [
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favorited 32 times, recently by Mapes, entropy, medpt, shotgunbooty, LobsterMitten, flyoverstate, kensanway, lumosh, avagoyle, kdar, ifjuly, Jaybo, cdadog, revgeorge, donovan, theiconoclast31, hackwolf, brain cloud, schroedinger, i_am_joe's_spleen, logic vs love, TochterAusElysium, Nelson, safetyfork, amtho, growabrain, MegoSteve, horsemuth, mathowie, Blazecock Pileon, Brandon Blatcher, NekulturnY
3 months ago
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"Congratulations! What you've done is like going on a successful diet; now the challenge is to keep it up.
Once you've gotten out of debt slavery, the next step is to break the shackles of living paycheck-to-paycheck with no savings. First, take..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by streetdreams, cosmic osmo, librarina, flibbertigibbet, CliffDiving44, The Bishop of Turkey, melorama, Zosia Blue, SemiSophos, Optamystic, j3s, buddha9090, scarylarry, santojulieta, somanyamys, Dizzy
3 months ago
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"... I really just want to be able to make out with other guys if/when the mood/opportunity strikes ...
... Intercourse=no; heavy petting=yes ...
... I think I would be crazy jealous and insecure if he wanted to do the same ...
... I don't really..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ThePinkSuperhero, Optimus Chyme, mdn
8 months ago
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"I had the same problem. I was never able to touch my toes, no matter how much stretching I did. After I developed some serious back problems this year, I started doing physical therapy and Pilates. A few months later, I can touch my toes and my hands..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheyCallItPeace
8 months ago
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"Check your fund fees. If you're not in low-cost index funds, you could wind up losing a lot of money to fees over the long term.
If you have actively managed funds, check your funds' holdings regularly to make that they are really allocating..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oaf
9 months ago
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"Don't ask people to tell you about things in their life, ask them to tell you how it feels to be them:
- "I'm a lawyer"
- "Do you enjoy your job?"
- "I live in Brooklyn"
- "Do you like living there?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BaxterG4
11 months ago
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"It's the exact same recipe as the allioli that people make here in Spain. Some people get it to work consistently, others are never able to get it to gel. I seem to have the luck, and sometimes it drives people crazy that a foreigner can do it. Some..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mek
11 months ago
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"This stuff might have been mindblowing for ordinary adults in the 1970s, but if you were a kid playing with the technology, it would have seemed obvious. Almost all the pieces were already there.
In 1977 I used to go with my friends after school..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by The Light Fantastic, showbiz_liz
Last year
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"Tell them that you need some more time to show the document to your tax lawyer, in order to make sure that the stock grant doesn't have any tax consequences for you...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Jaie, melt away
Last year
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"How do I move on from this whilst still retaining respect for her, and for myself?
You can't. You can either move on, or stay trapped, but there's no way to stop her from taking advantage of you and still put a happy face on the whole story. I've..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by different
Last year
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"allow the crapper to have the last word
People who worry about having the last word are the reason why we need thread closings in the first place." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Alvy Ampersand
Last year
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"I second everything Pater Aletheias says. I'm an introvert who can be extroverted if I want to, but it's a conscious effort.
I learned how to "work the room" at events where I wanted to make a lot of contacts, but I didn't actually care..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
Last year
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"Maybe an obvious recommendation, but Oliver Sacks writes with a lot of compassion about people struggling with their sense of their own identity in the face of serious neurological disorders. He's particularly interested in people who can reinvent..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by thebrokedown, jamjam
Last year
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"Why is it okay to post lies to the front page?
Why are you so afraid? When Matt creates the Department of Metafilterland Security in order to enforce truth on the front page, then the conservatives will have already won...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nofundy
Last year
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"I was never a top salesman, but I went from being useless to being able to close some big deals. I found the single most useful sales tool to be the Scotsman qualifying checklist:
Solution: Do we have the right solution for the customer?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ooga_booga, quadog
Last year
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"I was there last November. I did part of the trip in a sedan with 4WD, a part of it in buses, and a part of it in a real 4WD with high clearance. The road from Puerto Natales to Torres del Paine is in construction, don't even think about attempting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by furtive
Last year
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"Maybe this has nothing to do with feminism. I've known plenty of women and gay men who don't take unattractive people seriously, are jealous but feel entitled to fool around, and give themselves the right to be verbally agressive in ways that they..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by thebrokedown, grobstein
Last year
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"The main achievement of the anti-war protestors of the 60s was getting Richard Nixon elected. Twice.
The US didn't get out of Vietnam until 1974. Before that, the anti-war movement's approach made it impossible to build a political coalition..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Falconetti, melorama
Last year
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"It might be the medicine, or something hormonal, but it might just be normal. Until I was 25, I could eat and drink any kind of shit, in any amount, and not gain weight. Then suddenly I gained a lot of weight over the course of a year and I had to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
Last year
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"I grew up in the US, and I find the whole dating etiquette system to be ridiculously complex and formal. I've never been able to explain it adequately to a European.
On the other hand, I arrived in Europe with the American idea that you have to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by awesomebrad
Last year
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"The Cold War lasted 45 years and 7 presidential administrations. For most of that time, the US media promoted a constant climate of background fear. Every few years there was a crisis that scared the daylights out of everyone.
The US military was..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Dreamghost, ZenMasterThis, anotherbrick
Last year
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"There's something about your question that bothers me intensely, but I can't put my finger on exactly what it is. Here's a rambling, half-baked attempt at something I can't quite articulate. I may be overstating things, so take it with a grain of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phred182
Two years ago
