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"Precious” is a film that makes you think, “There but for the grace of God go I.”..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:12:58 -0500

““Precious” is a film that makes you think, “There but for the grace of God go I.” It’s a potent and moving experience, because by the end you feel you’ve witnessed nothing less than the birth of a soul.”

- Review: ‘Precious’ displays power of film - CNN.com

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Thats what you need to accomplish in order to bring a person truly into another person’s world and problems. To create true empathy.

"Part of the great power of movies is that they can take us perilously close to the life of someone..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:01:27 -0500

“Part of the great power of movies is that they can take us perilously close to the life of someone we might otherwise feel perilously far from.”

- Review: ‘Precious’ displays power of film - CNN.com

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Mirror effect. Empathy. Global consciousness.

"Opponents of President Obama’s approach to health care reform have outspent supporters by more than..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:15:49 -0500

“Opponents of President Obama’s approach to health care reform have outspent supporters by more than $7 million in the past 30 days in what has become the most expensive one year, single issue advocacy campaign on television in the nation’s history.”

- CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - First on the Ticker: Health reform critics saturate TV airwaves « - Blogs from CNN.com

"Apple in my entire time never tested a thing in print or on TV,” Segall says. “Everybody else tests..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:46:24 -0500

““Apple in my entire time never tested a thing in print or on TV,” Segall says. “Everybody else tests everything.””

- Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different | Cult of Mac

"Travel is a spiritual affair that delights the senses, nourishes the intellect, and opens the heart"

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:38:01 -0500

“Travel is a spiritual affair that delights the senses, nourishes the intellect, and opens the heart”

- Hole In The Donut Travels

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Indeed.

Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro -...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:09:34 -0500

Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro - CNN.com

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We need to go before they’re gonne so that we can tell the kids what we let disappear.

“We all know that war is stupid…” (via...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:00:21 -0500

“We all know that war is stupid…” (via Kittykatzen)

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Indeed.

"Somewhere, in a sparsely populated galaxy, there is a planet like any other. The creatures of this..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:41:15 -0400

“Somewhere, in a sparsely populated galaxy, there is a planet like any other. The creatures of this world have four limbs. The two lower limbs enable them to move forward and backward, and the two upper limbs enable them to kill”

- Somewhere, in a sparsely populated galaxy, there is a planet like any… - but does it float

"Scientific studies over the last decade have shown that adolescent brain development occurs into the..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:35:33 -0400

“Scientific studies over the last decade have shown that adolescent brain development occurs into the 20s, which makes it hard for teens to make decisions, criminologists say. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court took this research into consideration when it ruled that children could not be given the death penalty.”

- Alleged rape raises questions about bystanders - CNN.com

"If you are in a crowd and you look and see that everyone is doing nothing, then doing nothing..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:32:24 -0400

““If you are in a crowd and you look and see that everyone is doing nothing, then doing nothing becomes the norm.””

- Alleged rape raises questions about bystanders - CNN.com

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Stop being a bystander, speak up. Be a leader.

"Reporter: “What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?”..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:51:52 -0400

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Reporter: “What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?”

Sendak: “I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I will not tolerate.”

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- Commentary: ‘Wild Things’ is scary, but so is life - CNN.com

"It reminds us that to err is human, and not wanting to deal with err… well that may be the..."

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:57:49 -0400

“It reminds us that to err is human, and not wanting to deal with err… well that may be the most common human trait of all.”

- Commentary: Don’t blame Limbaugh for our faults - CNN.com

"“Imagine what that will do to our schools and our universities. We don’t have enough..."

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:23:34 -0400

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“Imagine what that will do to our schools and our universities. We don’t have enough books. If you are connected, you have the whole libraries of the whole world.”

He said he was surprised that major corporations like Google and Microsoft were not investing in the area, arguing that the potentially huge user base could provide massive revenue opportunities through advertising.

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- BBC NEWS | Africa | Mo Ibrahim’s mobile revolution

Mo Ibrahim's mobile revolution

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:20:37 -0400

Mo Ibrahim's mobile revolution:

In 2008, he was named Britain’s most influential black person. He has wealth beyond the comprehension of his family and peers. “I’m the same African boy who grew up, came here and worked hard. And I was fortunate enough that things I have done worked. So there’s nothing unusual or fantastic.

“I’m the same person. I still drive the same type of car. I live in the same house. Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa, or is going back to Africa. I decided the money will go into something really effective and worthwhile. That’s what I hope our foundation will do.”

"Mr Ibrahim believes no country - especially in Africa - can prosper if it is disconnected."

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:17:56 -0400

“Mr Ibrahim believes no country - especially in Africa - can prosper if it is disconnected.”

- BBC NEWS | Africa | Mo Ibrahim’s mobile revolution

BBC NEWS | Africa | Mo Ibrahim's mobile revolution

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:16:38 -0400

BBC NEWS | Africa | Mo Ibrahim's mobile revolution:

He accuses big networks of ignoring the opportunity of Africa, saying that stories of tyrants and corruption strikes fear into international investors. “Africa is not that bad. “Two or three terrible tyrants, which is still too many, but there are 53 countries in Africa. Corruption exists everywhere. Corruption exists in [the UK] also. We have to have a balanced view of governance.” “How would you feel if I came [to Europe] and all I talk about is Hitler and Milosevic - you had your bad guys. “Let us be a little bit balanced in the way we view things.”

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HERO

Carl Sagan, spaced out on pot - Boing Boing

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:11:07 -0400

Carl Sagan, spaced out on pot - Boing Boing:

The heightened sensitivity in all areas gives me a feeling of communion with my surroundings, both animate and inanimate. Sometimes a kind of existential perception of the absurd comes over me and I see with awful certainty the hypocrisies and posturing of myself and my fellow men.

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Indeed.

The Divisible Individual

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:58:54 -0400

The Divisible Individual:

This corresponds to a condition anticipated by Elias Canetti of “a society in which every person is depicted, and prays before his own image”

"Obama saw that before the world could move to a more stable and better global equilibrium, it had to..."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:21:39 -0400

“Obama saw that before the world could move to a more stable and better global equilibrium, it had to believe it could — and this is what Obama has done in ways that no other leader has in memory.”

- Commentary: Obama’s ‘unclenched fist’ won the prize - CNN.com

"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:13:48 -0400

“To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.”

- English Proverb quotes