September 2011
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Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely...
– Noam Chomsky (via cwnl)
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the world according to nouns: Historical deaths... →
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Historical deaths attributed to laughter
In the third century B.C., the Greek stoic philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after giving his donkey wine, then seeing it attempt to feed on figs.
King Martin of Aragon died from a combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughter in 1410.
Pietro Aretino, who died in 1556, “is said to have died of suffocation from laughing too...
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
– Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies (via itnumberpi)
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via modernhepburn)
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