Invictus

“Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.”

[Invictus @Taliilee31]

Perspective

[Stephen Gibbons @Gibboanxious]

The iconic scene from Harold Lloyd's silent film Safety Last from 1923

[MyopicEeyore @MyopicEeyore]

Brief thread on "Back to Blood" which is underrated novel and one of Wolfe's best ...

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

But seriously, imagine actually believing this.

[Invictus @Taliilee31]

Dostoevsky

[Invictus @Taliilee31]

https://t.co/LOUUjSNmC4

[Sean Berube @SeanBerube4]

Few novels were quite as controversial as Dostoevsky’s The Demons

Publishers censored the story — they said it was vile and graphic

Dostoevsky said it was brutal, but necessary

Here’s what he wrote, and why it was deemed too dangerous for print…

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

"One of the great things I learned from studying Billy Wilder's films is that no matter how dark the subject matter is, you could put humour in it."

--- Spike Lee

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"welfare states of Europe as a whole have been adapted to provide a new form of welfare for the college-educated, aspirational managerial classes...provide make-work jobs for university graduates who would otherwise become potential social agitators."https://t.co/IXCLadLVB0

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"Lee Kuan Yew took Singapore from Third World to First...If there is a lesson from Singapore’s development it is this: forget grand ideologies and others’ models. There is no replacement for experimentation, independent thought, and ruthless pragmatism." https://t.co/oceYIXBMiO

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"men conferred prestige by fellow males also considered to be more attractive by women...women outsource the cognitive burden of mate selection onto the men. Men organize some kind of contest, women stand back and observe, and then choose the victor" https://t.co/bx05emB69T