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Cops With Cameras: New Problems.

It's almost impossible to say that Police shouldn't be wearing cameras these days, particularly in the context of the deaths last year of unarmed people as well as the abuse by some who wear uniforms...

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Marketing: How to sell marketing.

You're smart - after all, you found this here on a site your friends never told you about. Not many make it here, but your need to know what others don't lead you here.You know how to engage people...

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Landmark: Looking at 2015

I had one friend on Facebook note that all the proclamations and predictions about 2015 suck. They do. I've lived long enough to impart a bit of knowledge to those not in the know: the cycle continues....

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R..A. Salvatore

The hope is that this will be the end of that road we chose to walk, the peaceful and secure rewards for a life of trials. Yet, it never comes to that, for peace is not a place, whether lined by hedges...

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R.A Salvatore

But beyond any physical securities there lies yet another form of unrest, one that neither king nor the peasant will escape. Even that great king, even the simplest beggar will, at times, be full of...

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Resolution: Less Facebook

I've spent more than a fair amount of time on Facebook, and since 2015 is only hours away it seems appropriate to make some resolution that I'll stick with.I asked myself why I use Facebook and the...

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Daniel J. Boorstin

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)

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Jack Kerouac

He saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo a thousand fondlings, revisings, moldings, addings,...

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ARC: The End of the Innocence.

The day that I publish this, December 26th 2014, will mark 10 years since the 2004 South East Asian tsunami. It was a truly horrible loss of life, and in it's wake came a wave of humanity that, at...

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Taran Rampersad

People have a propensity for playing with problems rather than solving them, just as people have a propensity for fighting instead of winning. If you're going to play with a problem, solve it. If...

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Osage saying

If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree.The Fourth and by far the Most Recent 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said [Edited by Robert Byrne]

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John Cowper Powys

Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his...

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R. Scott Bakker

For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.The Warrior Prophet: The Prince of Nothing, Book Two (2005)

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Henry David Thoreau

And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.OpenDepth: costValueLifePerspectiveJournals (1838-1859), after December 6th, 1845

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The Recharge Indicator

Back in 2011 I picked up a solar powered watch (on left) because I thought it was a good investment - it has been. No batteries to change and it's a solid watch that looks decent.But it has another...

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Ernest Hemingway

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.OpenDepth: LifePerspectivefunTrue at First Light: A Fictional Memoir (1999)

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Ellen Goodman

Normal is getting dressed in clothes you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car you're still paying for - in order to get the job you need for the clothes and the car, and the house you...

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Ernest Hemingway

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to...

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Ernest Hemingway

The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.OpenDepth: LifePerspectiveageperiod"The Age Demanded" in Der...

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Albert Einstein

I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from...

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