November 2011
14 posts
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empty notice
The problem with ignoring something is noticing it once it’s gone.
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a dagger pressed
To make fun of one’s self-esteem is to press a dagger against one’s chest.
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Maaari na bang magpakilala? - Smokey Mountain, Kailan
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tough because you stopped
It’s tough growing up because you stopped growing up.
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What meaning is conditioned to which sign is basically quite arbitrary and therefore there is an element of randomness or absence of logical necessity in the relationship of sign and object signified. - Hans Hörmann
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placeholder
Amiss. A mess.
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pagsagi
‘Di naman Setyembre ngayon pero naalala kong bigla si Renato Constantino. Naalala ko rin na ayos lang kahit na may suot akong sambalilo sa loob ng silid-aralan. Dati ay binibilang ko pa kung gaano katagal bago marating ni Ma’am Lina ang ikalawang palapag mula sa unang baitang ng hagdanan. Sa klase niya, sa huling hanay ng mga upuan, bandang dulong kanan malayo sa pinto ako madalas...
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the wanting
You are the wanting that keeps me smiling.
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A gesture is worth a thousand words. - Anonymous
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for it
It can, and will, make you do great things. It ain’t if you’re not doing something for it.
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the short and long of it
Hindi matumbasang pagkukulang. Hindi mapantayang pagmamalabis.
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eon flux
This timeline is a changelog.
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the comment behind the like
I want to know the comment behind the like.
October 2011
60 posts
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the plan
A plan bigger than your window. Put up with something you can’t throw.
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unpokable
You can choose who to hang out with, but you can’t choose your friends.
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Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. - John Sterling
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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. - Thomas C. Haliburton
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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion. - Anonymous
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He is miserable indeed that must lock up his miseries. - Anonymous
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no eyeglasses
I don’t need eyeglasses. Things are not what they seem.
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your shit
No matter how great you are, you won’t like the sight and smell of your own shit.
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isang tanong, isang sagot
Isa lang naman ang tema ng tanong mo. Kahit na marami akong paliwanag na maibibigay, alam kong sa bandang huli ay iisa lang din ang kahulugan ng lahat ng ito.
But some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there. - Anonymous
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The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle. But yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed, by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there...
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. - Josh Billings
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden
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The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. - Minna Antrim
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bother to lie
Some people lie to avoid bothering others. Others lie to avoid being bothered.
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failed surprise
It’s hard to hide beneath a failed surprise attempt.
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intend
The simplest explanation will reveal the grandest intention.
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keep me
It does not console me. I don’t want to be just another happy memory.
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to the point
Ang taong walang takot, hindi kailangan ng palusot.
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People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. - Dagobert D. Runes
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blood bond
I look up to you and you look after me.
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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I apologize for inconveniencing my learning community. - Asher, The Giver (1993)
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I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do. - Shadow, American Gods
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like your way
You can’t like your way to my heart.
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the bar
Never make a good first impression you can’t keep up with.
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the wild card friend
The wild card friend will forever seek the friendship wild card.
But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door. - George, Blow (2001)
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name. - Ernest Dimnet
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take me
Come with me, we’ll go to a cemetery. They’re all taken there, you might as well take me.
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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. - Robert Burns, Tam o’ Shanter (1790)
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In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell
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mali na, galit pa
Makitid na pang-unawa, ‘di maaasahang memorya at ‘di kanais-nais na ugali. Lunurin sa usok ng yosi. Ibabad sa alak. Iwasang mapahamak.
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say no more
Ah, silence. What more is there to say?
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value
Cost is what you spend. Value is what you get.