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1. Common in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and French, where it means a misunderstanding; taken from French.

2. English usage is do ut des (Latin for "I give so that you may give").


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Reblogged from aumnipresence
“ Be like the flower
who even gives its fragrance
to the hand that crushes it Imam Ali (via bachs)

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Reblogged from moneyisnotimportant
moneyisnotimportant: Follow @mini_utne

moneyisnotimportant:

Follow @mini_utne

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Reblogged from washingtonpoststyle
“ The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Thoreau

True dat, Henry David. True dat.

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Reblogged from iansimkins
.ian.: This Sentence Has Five Words

iansimkins:

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…



Reblogged from luccas-cafe
“ Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris (1834–1896)

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“ Be tough on ideas, gentle on people. Milenko Matanovic (via poptech)

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“ It’s tough to associate creativity with mental illness because obviously if you’re very ill, it gets in the way. … But one of the theories now is that the terrible swings of the mental illness – of bipolar depression – you get these manic highs, these euphorias, where the ideas just pour out of you. And you need to write them down. That’s followed by this dismal low period when maybe you’re a better editor. Maybe it’s easier for you to focus and refine those epiphanies into a perfect form. … The thinking is maybe the correlation exists because the swings of mental illness echo the natural swings of the creative process. Jonah Lehrer, on the link between depression and creativity. [complete interview here] (via nprfreshair)

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