April 2012
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Don’t strive for perfection. You will not get there. It’s better...
– Peering The Veil
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Don’t strive for perfection. You will not get there. It’s better...
– Peering The Veil
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We are not attached to people, places and things but the energy they invoke. ...
– Peering The Veil
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine...
– Adrienne Rich, What Does a Woman Need to Know? (1986)
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MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual... →
So basically, every memory we have ever had is physically imprinted in our brain and is represented by its own tangible neuron?
Astonishing.
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The World is Your Oyster
The phrase originated from William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, circa 1600. The line reads:
“Why then the world’s mine oyster/Which I with sword will open.”
Unfortunately, time has weathered away the last part of the phrase, thus invoking a sense of entitlement without work. We must see that we are the only ones who can open the shell. Then, we will...
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Let the music carry your mind back to that place and you will feel sadness. But...
– Peering The Veil
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Congratulations to Lena Dunham and HBO for... →
A refreshingly realistic look at life in the city for 20 somethings that is the antithesis of Sex and the City. The glitz and glam of our generation of party girls is replaced with the morbid reality of post modern economics and a job market that is almost extinct for recent college graduates. For this, I will turn the tv back on.
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I don’t want to live just to survive. I want to live to thrive.
– Peering the Veil
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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of...
– Stephen Hawking
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I don’t take sides. I much prefer to build them.
– ~ Peering The Veil