December 2010
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“You have to pay attention, take the world in before you can accurately let it...”
– As Simple As Snow by Gregory Galloway (via quote-book)
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James (via quote-book)
Haiti: Where the Aid System has Failed to Stop...
doctorswithoutborders:
Today, the Guardian published an op-ed by MSF International President: “Haiti should be an unlikely backdrop for the latest failure of the humanitarian relief system. The country is small and accessible and, following last January’s earthquake, it hosts one of the largest and best-funded international aid deployments in the world. Why then, have at least 2,500 people died...
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“I gave a talk last week on International Women’s Day, saying that if you think...”
– Sandi Toksvig (via justjasper)
giving credit
from here on out i’m not posting or re-bloging anything unless i know who made it.
““Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...”
– — Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
A stranger gave me this book in Oaxaca, Mexico. The book took me forever to read but it was worth it.
Yay books.
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100.
01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06 The Bible (good chunks of it)
07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09 His Dark Materials - Philip...
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