May 2012
Why We Lie →
poptech:
By Dan Ariely (PopTech 2009)
Over the past decade or so, my colleagues and I have taken a close look at why people cheat, using a variety of experiments and looking at a panoply of unique data sets—from insurance claims to employment histories to the treatment records of doctors and dentists. What we have found, in a nutshell: Everybody has the capacity to be dishonest, and almost...
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution...”
– John F. Kennedy. Today would have been his 95th birthday.
READ: John F. Kennedy: 15 quotes on his birthday
(via csmonitor)
See also the Professor Brothers’ amazing JFK History Lesson (via climateadaptation)
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““If you are eager to find the reason I became the Kvothe they tell stories...”
– ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
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“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to...”
– Ender Wiggin, Ender’s Game
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
– Mark Twain (via blua)
