"Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading."

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Source : "Instapaper inventor links inattentive reading to information obesity" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2010.

Marco Arment

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“Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.”

Source : Andrew Weil, M.D. (2013). “8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power”, p.20, Ballantine Books
“It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.”
“I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.”

Source : Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.114, Gibbs Smith
“I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.”
“What you have to assess is whether you have the will to fight.”
“I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.”
“Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.”
“The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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