You are a little hotter than we are up north, but not by much. With high humidity, it's like a swamp here---so maybe that's the Creature from the Black Lagoon...
Such a commonsensical and relatively inexpensive way to protect the future. I just heard a 99% Invisible that noted the effect concrete has on city temperatures — raising them ten to fifteen degrees.
“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. “Orange Crate Art” is for me one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.”
Don’t look for premiums or coupons, as the cost of the thoughts blended in ORANGE CRATE ART pro- hibits the use of them.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I’m not afraid to get it right I turn around and I give it one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
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I did immediately see Godzilla.
You are a little hotter than we are up north, but not by much.
With high humidity, it's like a swamp here---so maybe that's the Creature from the Black Lagoon...
Yikes — the Gill-Man! Given the humidity, I guess he might be able to survive out of water.
C'mon, maybe it's just yawning.
Already bored and waiting for school to begin.
Austin, Texas has a city ordinance that parking lots must have a shade canopy of 50 per cent by 2030.
I just read about it in a BBC feature on the U.S. heat proofing cities.
Such a commonsensical and relatively inexpensive way to protect the future. I just heard a 99% Invisible that noted the effect concrete has on city temperatures — raising them ten to fifteen degrees.
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