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Chalk Art

Wonderful story, wonderful illustration, wonderful quotes. A Couple Of Anonymous Students Sneak Into a Classroom Every Week And Blow Everyone’s Mind – The Meta Picture.

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Margaret Thatcher – As It Happens

I waited for hours yesterday to hear Billy Bragg’s reaction to Thatcher’s death. (He’s in Calgary and slept through all the cell phone messages relaying the news.)  Not disappointed in the final word, courtesy of As It Happens. Margaret Thatcher allowed cynicism and greed to come out from under its ugly stone and become part […]

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I do not fear death – Roger Ebert

A beautiful quote from Roger Ebert’s autobiography.  Words to live – and die – by. “Kindness” covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a […]

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Nuts to that, Winston, I Like My Sleep

“An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.”     —Winston Churchill via Fall back: 2012 time change happens Sunday, November […]

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StumbleUpon.com: Personalized Recommendations to Help You Discover the Best of the Web

http://daphoenus.stumbleupon.com/review/34417004/ Jen posted this quote with a comment: Yep. And I’ve gotten pretty good at not taking people’s crap anymore. I have a few ex-friends as a result, but I’m a happier person for it. Amen, sister. The catharsis for me was a few summers ago, when the parallel lines of a disease diagnosis and […]

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