Posts tagged “stoicism”

  1. POINT: "Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men...I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together."
    COUNTERPOINT: Honestly, fuck you.

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  2. Thanks for listening. Thanks for joining us. Sorry it had to end like this.

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    Join us this afternoon on Marketplace as Kai Ryssdal wakes up to find he's been buried alive with only a pocketwatch and headlight...and 40 minutes left on the clock. Cue Stormy Weather.

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    Join us tomorrow on This American Life as Ira Glass realizes the soundproof recording booth is slowly filling with seawater. "Don't go anywhere," Ira…

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