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In celebration of World Book Day, we’re revisiting the power of the great books that stand the test of time, not just because they’re relics of the past, but because they continue to speak to who we are today, across cultures and change buff.ly/EYguR8m Photo by Martin Parr/Magnum #worldbookday

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This World Book Day, we’re resharing this timeless guide on how to build a daily reading habit buff.ly/YxBRVpY Photo by Jeenah Moon/Reuters #worldbookday

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Excerpted from the Katha Upanishad, translated by Eknath Easwaran ©1987: They who see themselves in all and all in them help others through spiritual osmosis I just really like the idea of "spiritual osmosis." It's a nice way to underscore the importance of choosing friends wisely.

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It's just weird to me that if the police ask to search your car, and you say "No," that then they ask a dog. And if the dog says "Okay," then that's who they listen to.

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www.theguardian.com/wellness/202... Excerpt: In the process, she discovered that personality was not a consistent, immutable truth. “You have certain proclivities, but it is flexible – you do evolve over time, and if you want to change, you can change even faster,” she says.

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You are like a fresh cup of warm coffee, first thing in the morning. I am tired; weary with the burden of long-closed eyes and slumber, and the prior day’s exhaustion. But if my day begins with you I know no task can challenge me. by oa-ao ( oa-ao.tumblr.com )

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"I read the news today– oh, boy." ~Lennon/McCartney

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I would like to see the internet replaced by a series of interconnecting pneumatic tubes.

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In this episode of the 1959 programme, ‘The Search for America’, philosopher Paul Tillich and writer and poet Mark Van Doren discuss the search for happiness in trying times

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Issac Asimov's "Foundation" series is about a society based on the predictions of an algorithm, and how it all fell apart when someone showed up who didn't fit their expectations. There's a lesson in there.

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“While bees have long been understood to be conduits between the living and the dead, bearing witness to tears from God and the grief of common villagers, less is known about the grief of bees themselves.” Listen to “Telling the Bees” by Emily Polk. buff.ly/geOZH2J

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youtu.be/zfaOf70M4xs?... Ozzy wrote the song about losing a girlfriend, but Charles Bradley sang it about the death of his mother. Wow…

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"Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters is a neat little book. Residents of a local cemetery discuss their lives– how they lived and what they learned– through a series of short poems. It may be read online or downloaded for free from Project Guenberg, here: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1280

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Technically it's a book excerpt, but it reads like a poem. (Transcribed in the Alt-Text, via julesofnature.tumblr.com)

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‘Consciousness is illumination. As the light of a blazing lamp brightens a dark room, so consciousness lights up life.’ Delve into the depths of selfhood through the lens of classical Indian philosophy

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Boy, I sure hope no streakers show up to mar trump's military parade. That's the sort of lunacy that could ruin his whole day.

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It's usually pretty easy to figure out what book I'm reading.

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Priceless when the rich advise the poor on how to survive an economic crisis, especially when they voted it in.

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Excerpted from "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" by Thomas Robbins, ©1976:

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The poem "Shift" by Leath Tonino was my favorite part of this month's edition of The Sun Magazine: www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/592...

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The fact that trump put a tariff on penguins shows that he has surrounded himself with people who are afraid to tell him when he makes a mistake. That strategy did not work out well for Michael Jackson, Howard Hughes, Elvis Presley, or Muammar Gaddafi. 🐧

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I noticed when I visited Manhattan several years ago that there were very few overweight people, and I think it's because everyone walks everywhere. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

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"The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it." ~poem by Mikko Harvey (via www.tumblr.com/vexheart)

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youtu.be/zNwWZvskjq0 It's not easy being green It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water Or stars in the sky…

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I wondered why all my library books were stamped MARC, so I looked it up. It stands for MAchine Readable Cataloging– basically it just means it has an RFID chip tied to a database. #booksky www.osti.gov/what-are-mar...

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