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Calvin’s inception moment.
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In the end, what we pay the most attention to defines us. How you choose to spend the irreplaceable hours of your life literally transforms you.
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At the first-ever formal UN Human Rights Council inter-governmental debate on violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people held on 7 March 2012, Ban Ki-moon told countries that he sees a pattern of violence and discrimination directed at people just because of their sexual orientation and gender identities.
To those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, Ban Ki-moon said:
You are not alone. Your struggle for an end to violence and discrimination is a shared struggle. Any attack on you is an attack on the universal values the United Nations and I have sworn to defend and uphold. Today, I stand with you … and I call upon all countries and people to stand with you, too.
Related resources
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity (PDF)
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Try not.
– Yoda
Do.
Or do not.
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Arrival of the first Indian student to Dresden, East Germany, in 1951.
There are very few places left in the world where Indians would get such a reception.
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I always knew there was a risk in the bohemian lifestyle… I decided to take it because it helped my concentration, it stopped me being bored — it stopped other people being boring. It would make me want to prolong the conversation and enhance the moment. If you ask: would I do it again? I would probably say yes. But I would have quit earlier hoping to get away with the whole thing. I decided all of life is a wager and I’m going to wager on this bit… In a strange way I don’t regret it. It’s just impossible for me to picture life without wine, and other things, fueling the company, keeping me reading, energising me. It worked for me. It really did.
– Christopher Hitchens4 months ago / Source:
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The dear leader liked to look at things.
looking at sausages
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This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.
– Gary Provost
