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What exactly is Patton Oswalt saying?
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"My advice is Bukowskian: "Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fueling our anger. Amazing how one moment, we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. Not hours of this, or days,..." [
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"The header to his 2003 final:
Constitutional Law Exam - Autumn 2003 - Prof. Obama
He called himself Prof. Obama... Badass." [
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2 months ago
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"Okay bear with me for a minute... a few months back I figured out how to turn firefox into a movie theater, this favicon thing reminded me of the idea.
If you open up each one of the links below in a new tab and then press and hold Ctrl Tab to..." [
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2 months ago
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"When I took metaphysics in college the theory that I liked the best is that the universe expands and contracts like a heartbeat, big bang to completely expanded back to big bang.
I don't think that the universe came from "nothing" but..." [
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2 months ago
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Brass tongue
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3 months ago
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"How to get rich: an hour long lecture from one of my college Professors in bullet points.
- Rich = enough resources to be free and to be able to live life as you wish
- Stop wasting money. No smoking, no gambling, and drink in moderation
- Get..." [
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3 months ago
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"Most times when I stop doing something that I need to do it gets progressively harder to start again. The longer I wait the worse it gets (I can name a couple college courses where I had zero interest and skipped about 3 weeks). Seems like you've..." [
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4 months ago
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"The Libertarian Party: important proof of concept while simultaneously useless." [
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4 months ago
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"Wow, you guys will never be happy. We have airplanes, internets, cell phones, cancer treatments, nuclear powered submarines, solar powered cars, video game consoles, bullet proof vests, night vision goggles, THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE!... I feel like..." [
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4 months ago
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"I love how people misunderstand the word dead. It means things are over, done for, finito. Death = the end of the life of an organism. If "dead" people can still talk, well then they aren't dead.
Alive, alive, alive, dead. Not..." [
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4 months ago
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"From their conclusions: By democratizing knowledge sharing, YA has accomplished a large feat - everyone knows something, and through our analysis, we know that many know even several things and can share them on YA.
Humans know things, sometimes..." [
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5 months ago
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"Also another thing that I forgot to mention-> if you meet someone else at a conference like sxsw or barcampboston where it's likely that they will have a twitter account as well you can add them as a contact by text messaging "add..." [
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5 months ago
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"Seeing as your a fan of Vivaldi, why don't you keep in mind that he wrote 500 concertos, 46 operas, and 73 sonatas among other works and died at the age of 63.
Next time you find yourself doing chores just think "how fast would Vivaldi be..." [
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6 months ago
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"I've always liked Rushkoff's take on futurists: they suck.
Q: How do they (futurists) get inside our consciousness and make us fear being left behind, or not being cool enough, or being too fat, or being too ugly. How do they do that through the..." [
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6 months ago
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"So if metafilter is only blue when people are reading it... what color is it when nobody is paying attention?
or
Metafilter reeks of the internet.
wow why am i so..." [
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6 months ago
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"Caveat: this web site will make more sense if you are a robot." [
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7 months ago
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"Maybe she has failed you a little bit because two of her kids have a broken relationship. Did she not see any of this awful behavior happening? If she truly didn't, stop being the victim here. You don't have to hide from your mom that your brother..." [
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7 months ago
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"Yeah its in the mail.... really though? pestering? Did I call you during dinner?" [
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7 months ago
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"We could throw in any comic book hero because they all fit the bill. Batman for example tasked himself with saving Gotham (easily seen as a metaphor for the world) without anyone really asking him to do so. Saving the world is at the heart of..." [
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7 months ago
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Trebek: the glue that holds television together.
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8 months ago
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"A picture in some cases is worth a thousand words. This picture is worth a million. So is this one.
It may not seem like I'm answering your question... but bare with me because I think you've framed your question incorrectly. Faith is more..." [
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8 months ago