December 2009
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“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease...”
– Emily Dickinson
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“No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.”
– Dwight Eisenhower
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“Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.”
– Zen proverb
Your Present
There is much to fear about the future, if you let yourself worry It’s easy to miss the present when you’re always in a hurry
The past can be painful, if you let yourself resent It’s easy to miss the present, even though it’s so pleasant
Jump in and live life — forget the woes time brings Push aside your strife, follow your heart as it sings
Alex the Parrot →
Alex (1976 – September 6, 2007) was an African Grey Parrot and the subject of a thirty-year (1977–2007) experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg, initially at the University of Arizona and later at Harvard and Brandeis University. Pepperberg bought Alex in a regular pet shop when he was about one year old. The name Alex is an acronym for Avian Learning EXperiment. His successor was...
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“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to...”
– Paulo Coelho
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“You will never win if you never begin.”
– Robert Schuller
Wikipedia: Valentich Disappearance →
The Valentich disappearance is a mysterious event that occurred on October 21, 1978, in which 20-year-old Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait to King Island, Australia.
During a 125-mile (201 km) “training flight”, Valentich contacted Melbourne air traffic control, saying he “was being buzzed...
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“The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind....”
– Napoleon Hill
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“Time heals what reason cannot.”
– Seneca
Wikipedia: Turing test →
The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine’s ability to demonstrate intelligence. It proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which tries to appear human. All participants are placed in isolated locations. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the...
Wikipedia: Luddite →
The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanised looms—against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their entire way of life.
This English historical movement should be seen in the context of the era’s harsh economic climate...
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“We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the...”
– Sigmund Freud
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“For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.”
– Dag Hammarskjold
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Ancient astronauts →
What Famous Unbearded Characters Would Look Like... →
Space Invaders →
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“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”
– Robert Half
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“Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work.”
– Vincent Lombardi
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“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss...”
– Michelangelo
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“The common denominator for success is work.”
– John D. Rockefeller
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“Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.”
– Art Linkletter
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“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable...”
– Peter Senge
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“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on...”
– Arnold Glasgow
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“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, “I’m possible!”
– Audrey Hepburn
Wikipedia: Universal Darwinism →
Universal Darwinism refers to any of several concepts which apply the ideas and theories of Darwinism beyond their original sphere of organic evolution on Earth. The term was perhaps first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1983 to describe his conjecture that any possible life forms existing outside the solar system would evolve by natural selection just as they do on Earth. The philosopher of science...
