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Maria Popova
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Brooklyn, NY
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Reader. Writer.
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Maria Popova
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On Bob Dylan's birthday, his 1970 gem "If Dogs Run Free" adapted in a lovely picture-book brainpickings.org/2013/09/24/if-… pic.twitter.com/hD6jRdNfsy
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Maria Popova
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On Bob Dylan's 77th birthday, "Forever Young" illustrated brainpickings.org/2013/01/18/bob… pic.twitter.com/DTEHx2Id0t
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"Some are influenced by the love of wealth while others are blindly led on by the mad fever for power and domination, but the finest type of man gives himself up to discovering the meaning and purpose of life itself."
Pythagoras on the meaning of wisdom: brainpickings.org/2018/05/23/pyt…
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“People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.”
Bob Dylan, who turns 77 today, on creativity: brainpickings.org/2014/05/21/bob…
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"we could wake up to what we were
— when we were ocean and before that
to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was
liquid and stars were space and space was not
at all — nothing...
before this awful loneliness."
Beyond beautiful: brainpickings.org/2018/05/22/sin…
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How to be alone – an antidote to one of the great anxieties brainpickings.org/2014/09/03/how… pic.twitter.com/Ez7ZkC10HZ
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Remarkable glimpse of @NYPL's rare copy of the first book illustrated by photographic images — a stunning volume of sea algae cyanotypes by Anna Atkins, a self-taught Victorian botanist and the world's first woman known to take a photograph. See them here: brainpickings.org/2015/04/08/ann… pic.twitter.com/pBMLWfgu9S
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“The mind is not … a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.”
Happy birthday, Margaret Fuller, forgotten genius to whom we owe so much of the women's movement toward equality brainpickings.org/2017/07/05/mar…
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"My biggest fear is that I don't have any feelings — I only have ideas. That in am reactive, not responsive — that I lose the ability to feel." The magnificent Ann Hamilton in conversation with Susan Meiselas at @LIVEfromtheNYPL pic.twitter.com/T6CDYHCFh3
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Robert Penn Warren on how the notion of "finding yourself" is keeping you from being yourself brainpickings.org/2017/06/07/rob…
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Ann Hamilton's perfect 7-word autobiography for @holdengraber's @LIVEfromtheNYPL: "Hands in motion: reading, feeling, patching, finding." More 7-word autobiographies of great artists and writers: brainpickings.org/2013/07/11/nyp…
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The heavenly scholarly glory that is @NYPL. Thanks @holdengraber for the delicious clandestine tour. pic.twitter.com/zCEMO77z5W
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Maria Popova
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"Some are influenced by the love of wealth while others are blindly led on by the mad fever for power and domination, but the finest type of man gives himself up to discovering the meaning and purpose of life itself."
Pythagoras on the meaning of wisdom: brainpickings.org/2018/05/23/pyt…
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I am late to everything (granted, usually by decades or centuries) and have just fallen in love with @MrBClementine. As I said to @amandapalmer yesterday, it's like she and Nina Simone had a lovechild with a Y chromosome and strong opinions all his own amzn.to/2GKhmdt
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Maria Popova
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Infinity and Me – a lovely picture-book at the nexus of science, philosophy, and love brainpickings.org/2015/09/14/inf… pic.twitter.com/vcH7TJtmH1
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Janna Levin
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Jaron. Lanier. Uhhu. Inventor of Virtual Reality. Brilliant radical. @PioneerWorks_ Jaron will discuss his new book, "Ten Arguments to Delete Your Social Media Accounts Right Now." With exactly no irony, I am promoting his talk on social media. Uhhu. RSVP pioneerworks.org/programs/jaron…
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Maria Popova
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“All truth is comprised in music and mathematics.”
My hero Margaret Fuller, born on this day in 1810, on the power of music: brainpickings.org/2017/12/04/mar…
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Maria Popova
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"Mr. Weinstein Will See You Now" — stunning, stirring new @amandapalmer song inspired by the #MeToo movement, featuring @JasziePower, all proceeds benefiting the @timesupnow legal defense fund amandapalmer.bandcamp.com/track/mr-weins…
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Maria Popova
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This is lovely: The poetry and philosophy of Rumi, Rilke, Mary Oliver, and Tagore, set to music brainpickings.org/2015/12/17/sha…
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Maria Popova
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"we could wake up to what we were
— when we were ocean and before that
to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was
liquid and stars were space and space was not
at all — nothing...
before this awful loneliness."
Simply stunning: brainpickings.org/2018/05/22/sin…
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