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Maria Popova
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Maria Popova
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52 นาที |
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“All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.” brainpickings.org/2015/04/29/dav…
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Maria Popova
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2 ชม. |
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We lost Maya Angelou 4 years ago today. Remember her with her timeless poem "Phenomenal Woman" brainpickings.org/2014/04/04/may…
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Maria Popova
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3 ชม. |
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“There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
Remembering Maya Angelou, who died 4 years ago today: brainpickings.org/2014/08/19/may…
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Maria Popova
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13 ชม. |
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“Against this cosmic background the lifespan of a particular plant or animal appears, not as drama complete in itself, but only as a brief interlude in a panorama of endless change.”
How Rachel Carson, born 111 years ago today, changed our view of nature: brainpickings.org/2017/02/28/und…
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Maria Popova
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13 ชม. |
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Weekly highlights: A beautiful tribute to Stephen Hawking, Olivia Laing on life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers, how to befriend the universe, and more eepurl.com/dwbF8P
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Maria Popova
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14 ชม. |
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The culture-shifting courage to speak inconvenient truth to power – how Rachel Carson, born 111 years ago today, awakened the modern environmental conscience brainpickings.org/2017/01/27/rac…
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Maria Popova
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15 ชม. |
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"That’s what’s so extraordinary about life—it’s a cycle of generation,degeneration, regeneration.'I' am just a collection of particles…arranged into this pattern…to reorganize into another pattern."
How to live with our finitude and fragility, beautiful: brainpickings.org/2018/05/24/emi…
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Maria Popova
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16 ชม. |
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"It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within."
Astounding prescience from Rachel Carson, born OTD in 1907: brainpickings.org/2017/02/08/rac…
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Maria Popova
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17 ชม. |
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"If your process is untidy, if it is done in defensive crouches in between making money or wiping butts, please know that you are not alone. And not any less of an artist."
Wonderful @courtwrites commencement address on the reality of making art onbeing.org/blog/courtney-…
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Maria Popova
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19 ชม. |
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"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature..."
Happy birthday, Rachel Carson brainpickings.org/2013/12/23/rac…
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Maria Popova
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20 ชม. |
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“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”
John Cheever, born on this day in 1912, on loneliness: brainpickings.org/2017/01/12/joh…
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Maria Popova
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21 ชม. |
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Astonishing to think that less than a century ago, the seas of our own world were more mysterious than the moon – until Rachel Carson, born 111 years ago today, invited the human imagination into them: brainpickings.org/2017/02/28/und… twitter.com/brainpicker/st…
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Maria Popova
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21 ชม. |
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The geometry of kinship. pic.twitter.com/WPD6bmEpTl
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Maria Popova
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22 ชม. |
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“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in… you will interest other people.”
Advice from Rachel Carson, born 111 years ago today,whose uncommonly poetic writing about nature awakened the modern environmental conscience brainpickings.org/2017/08/28/rac…
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Maria Popova
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22 ชม. |
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"The largest and deepest body of water known to us has never been sailed upon... This dark ocean can’t be found on any map of Earth — it’s more than 300 million miles away, on Europa, one of at least 69 moons that orbit Jupiter." aeon.co/essays/in-a-ga…
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Maria Popova
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23 ชม. |
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Napoleon reportedly recognized only three powers in Europe: Britain, Russia, and Germaine de Staël. Lord Byron considered her the greatest living writer. The first modern woman on ambition and the crucial difference between ego and genius: brainpickings.org/2018/05/21/ger… pic.twitter.com/7ilId0An7s
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Maria Popova
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24 ชม. |
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“The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.”
On Rachel Carson's birthday, her prescient 1953 protest letter: brainpickings.org/2017/02/08/rac…
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Maria Popova
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27 พ.ค. |
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“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in… you will interest other people.”
Rachel Carson, born 111 years ago today, on writing and the loneliness of creative work: brainpickings.org/2017/08/28/rac…
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Maria Popova
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27 พ.ค. |
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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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Maria Popova
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27 พ.ค. |
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The culture-shifting courage to speak inconvenient truth to power – how Rachel Carson, born 111 years ago today, sparked the environmental movement brainpickings.org/2017/01/27/rac… pic.twitter.com/5QugjO47N3
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