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FILTER RESULTS ►Required Reading List: Jay Gatsby
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten,” Ralph Waldo Emerson famously quipped, “even so, they have made me.” In this … Read More
GUESS WHO?
They didn't know it at the time, but the students of Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles were sitting in the company...
Required Reading: Schmidt
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten,” Ralph Waldo Emerson famously quipped, “even so, they have made me.” In this … Read More
An Attack on America’s Self-Confidence and Mythology (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany)
Like the shots that launched the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, immortalized by celebrated American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson as the ‘shots heard round the world,’ the attacks in Boston are also reverberating around the world. Sueddeutsche Zeitung columnist Stefan Kornelius writes that the Boston Marathon bombings, occurring on Patriots’ Day, appear well-timed [...]
Freedom From Fear: Boston is Liberated As Suspect is Captured
“O happy town beside the sea,” philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson called Boston, “whose roads lead everywhere to all.” Friday would have saddened him. Oliver Wendell Holmes preferred to call Boston “the hub of the solar system.” But while the planets spun in their orbits, the hub fell ominously silent, its roads as empty as the day after Armageddon. Show More Summary
Green Mountain Surface Skating In Vermont
This is the first skate video we’ve seen in a while to kick things off with a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote. And that’s a nice surprise, as we don’t remember ever reading anything by Ralph Waldo Emerson in our lives. But he’s someone you’re supposed to know and appreciate when you see his name, and [...]
Required Reading List: Don Draper
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten,” Ralph Waldo Emerson famously quipped, “even so, they have made me.” In this new bi-weekly series, Flavorwire plays professor to some of our favorite pop culture...Show More Summary
Ralph Waldo Emerson on ideas
What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to every new thought of his time? Have you leisure, power, property, friends? you shall be the asylum and patron of every new thought, every unproven opinion, every untried project, which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking. All the newspapers, all [...]
Vagina Murder Gate: The Tweet That Launched 1,000 Quips
In today's Tweet Beat, Amanda Bynes' monumental decision to broadcast her desire that Drake "murder [her] vagina" continues to reverberate through the universe, LL Cool J and Paris Hilton tweet the same Ralph Waldo Emerson quote (Who Tweeted It Better?), and, on a sadder note, Twitter says goodbye to celebrated author Chinua Achebe. More »
Quote of the Day
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's Your Favourite Quotation?
I used to have a t-shirt that said "I hate quotations." Ralph Waldo Emerson. I also had one emblazoned with "OBEY ME", but that's a story for another day. Frankly, I don't know what the hell Emerson is talking about....
4 Stocks On My Shopping List
By Marc Courtenay: "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson That's one of the reasons I enjoy being a contributing writer, analyst and editor. Show More Summary
Which Stocks I'm Buying Next
By Marc Courtenay: "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson That's one of the reasons I enjoy being a contributing writer, analyst and editor. Show More Summary
10 Weeds Every Gardener Should Consider Growing
By Alisa Rutherford-Fortunati, Care2.com “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878 Keeping your garden tidy can seem like Read More The post 10 Weeds Every Gardener Should Consider Growing appeared first on Ecorazzi.
The Winds Of Faith
In a follow-up to his essay on his idiosyncratic Christian faith, Justin E. H. Smith finds Ralph Waldo Emerson better able “to express what I myself would like to say”. Here’s Emerson: Every man’s words, who speaks from that life, must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their [...]
The quandary of resident involvement in surgical procedures
Skill to do comes of doing. -Ralph Waldo Emerson We are in the last steps of getting surgery arranged; the counseling is complete and the consent is on the clipboard. Just as the patient is putting pen to paper, she asks, “When I’m asleep, you’re not going to let some trainee practice on me, are [...]
"Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moments."
“Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moments.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What Makes You Happy?
By Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger For Ralph Waldo Emerson it was the triumph of principle. Washington found it inexorably linked to virtue, and George Bernard Shaw said it was “health and a course to steer.” Singer Cheryl Crowe said it is whatever doesn’t make you sad, and comedian Johnny Carson said it is “a tiger [...]
Video: Unhinged Subway Performance Of "Beat It" Is Something Else
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." By that understand, there has never been anything greater than what is achieved by the hysterically enthusiastic man in the video below. Show More Summary
Hello Taxes... Goodbye MLPs
"For every benefit you receive a tax is levied." Ralph Waldo Emerson It seems to me that we're in an age where cliches and "sound-bites" have taken the place of research and analysis. Just a few days ago, I was watching a financial network panel discussing year end planning. Show More Summary
