No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.
Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.” Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and...
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Rachel Caine
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
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Neil Young
Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.
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Suzanne Collins
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end.
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Daniel C. Tomas
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Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next...
I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents?
Learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next–and...
If memory is our means of preserving that which we consider most valuable, it is also painfully linked to our own transience. When we die, our memories die with us. In a sense, the elaborate system of externalized memory we've created is a way of...
