Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Tweets from Twitter



"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."    - George Bernard Shaw



“You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.” 
— Annie Dillard

"A life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness."
— Gary Snyder

“But why shouldn't my work be hard? Almost everybody's work is hard. One is distracted by this notion that there is such a thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff, to come up with my payload.”
— Leonard Cohen

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
— Franz Kafka


Dec 5
Dare to advance in the love which has redeemed [you]...and to laugh at the preposterous idea of 'worthiness.'
 









I've just undertaken the toughest swim of my life to launch the campaign. Please share our message.
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Some of the biggest names in finance fight for control of London's $5 trillion gold market





  • In 2017, the NHL will turn 100, and turn its focus to hockey lore, outdoor games—and even a brand new team:

     






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  • Open Culture ‏@openculture 
    A Clockwork Orange Author Anthony Burgess Lists His 5 Favorite Dystopian Novels:
     




  • Trump has chosen the chief executive of one of the world's biggest polluters to oversee American diplomacy
      
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  • Post-Brexit Britain faces a pay squeeze
     




  • Iran officials: Russia’s role in OPEC deal very important; oil will reach $65
     



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  • The Supremes looking fantastic outside of Manchester Square, London, 1963.
     


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  • We live but for a moment.
     


  • Less is More, Less is Freedom
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  • Gustav Klimt



  • The Guardian ‏@guardian


    Nigeria's $10bn strategy to stem its vast flows of stolen oil 
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  • Putting space between you and your reaction allows you to respond with kindness and gets you out of autopilot mode.



  • That helps a lot with self confidence. Marilyn suffered partly from her beauty overshadowing her real personality... 

    “All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.” Marilyn Monroe
  • There is nothing here to win or lose ...... And I sit and I drink of my opium tea!
  • 'Cause I am what I am and what will be will be I wonder if my kids are thinking of me And I smile and I sip my opium tea

     


  • La vie sans musique est tout simplement une erreur, une fatigue, un exil... Friedrich Nietzsche


  • Back to alchemy and the language of the birds
     


  • Nick Knight An old favorite I found on an even older account on fb tonight.
      

     


    "Black holes are where God divided by zero." Albert Einstein (1879– 1955)




  • 2h2 hours ago
    Let's Fly to Earth from a Distance ;-) 1920 by El Lissitzky



  • Madame Marie Curie. The only person to hold two Nobel Prizes is a woman
     

  • In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth is a revolutionary act
     
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    No matter how many times you fall, you gotta be strong and get back up.




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  • Military operations halted in Aleppo as Assad army expels rebels


  • Snow is beautiful
     
    Pier Francesco
     




  • Sigmund Freud Martha Freud
  • Victor Hugo
     




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    1. #Modigliani#AlbertArthurAllen Painting v/s Photography

       
      26 Sep 2015
      Joel Santos


    Je tiens le flot de la rivière comme un violon. Paul Eluard
    Translated from French by
    I would like the flow of the river like a violin. Paul Eluard


    Patti Smith at New York's Chelsea Hotel, 1971 by David Gahr

     



    “Some birds are not meant to be caged... Their feathers are too bright, Their songs too sweet and wild." ―Stephen King Ph:© Dragan Todorović



    From "The Watt" series 1936 Alfred Ehrhardt


    "A book can be a star.. A living fire to lighten the darkness" Madeleine L' Engle.


    'My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before' Robert Mapplethorpe Lisa Lyon shot by Mapplethorpe,1982



    'Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun' Pablo Picasso Photo: Irving Penn


     


    Andy Warhol shooting Debbie Harry at the Factory in NYC
    Chris Stein, 1980


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