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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [...].

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.

How to Be a Woman

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

How to Be a Woman

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

I've often thought that beauty can be a deterrent to love,” Fern's father mused. “Why?” “Because sometimes we fall in love with a face and not what's behind it.

Making Faces

Love songs or poetry? Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music. And you can't dance to poetry.

Making Faces

making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath.

Making Faces

Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.

Moranthology

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.

Moranthology

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

One for the Books

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays