An Algiers story

"I cured him of his drug addiction by turning him into an alcoholic."

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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ”
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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Will Munny:

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

- From 1992's Unforgiven

a place for bagels and lox in new york

www.russanddaughters.com

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"Limitations bring genius."
- Terrance Howard

routine

"Work hard. Collapse. Work hard. Collapse. Tick Tock."
- Charles Darwin

"We learn the most through trials."
- Rose Rose, Haven of Rest, Akron, Ohio

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Modus operandi

"If there are any rules they should be broken."
- Photographer Lincoln Clarkes

father of wireless

Guglielmo Marconi was indifferent about his studies and failed to get into university.

Heads were shrunk and lips were sewn to keep the victim's soul from avenging his death.

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"You shouldn't honour consistency over genius."
- Nigella Lawson

on comfort

"The mind is different before you go to the washroom, and after you come out."
- Korean proverb

World War I army chief Lord Kitchener drowned in 1916 when his ship was hit by a German mine.

"If you've lived a good life you've been knocked about."
- Sandra Bullock

Creationism vs Evolution

"Acting is difficult at least for me."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman

a place to have pizza in New York City

http://www.johnspizzerianyc.com

"Writers write to live twice."
- Christopher Richardson

what the owner of the Seattle Seahawks does in his spare time

Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.

- T.S. Eliot

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
- Socrates

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"We're only as sick as our secrets."
- Carrie Fisher

Mentally Ill On The Job

JAN 31 2014 @ 8:26AM

Rob Lachenauer contrasts how large corporations and family-owned businesses treat workers with mental-health problems:

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prevents employers from discriminating against people who have a mental illness. But my experience as a consultant at a very large strategy firm whose clients are giant corporations had been that if someone admitted that he or she struggled with depression or mental illness, that would often be career suicide. Indeed, a former vice president of a major investment banking firm, when told about this blog, warned me against publishing it: “Clients are afraid to work with firms that have mentally ill people on the professional staff.”  …

I myself seldom heard people talk openly of depression in the workplace until I left the consulting firm where I’d worked to begin advising owners of leading family businesses. Much to my surprise, I found that these extremely successful family business owners don’t draw a sharp (and artificial) line between “us” and “them” – the mentally healthy and those less healthy. They don’t because they know they can’t. Those who suffer from mental illness are not anonymous shareholders, or nameless employees, but rather brothers, mothers, cousins, grandfathers, sons, and daughters. In family businesses, “they” are “us.”

Previous Dish on mental illness and employment here.

"As a talk show host you do different jokes in the same place; as a stand up comedian you do the same jokes in different places."
- Jay Leno

"As long as you think your past is bad, you must be improving."
- Louis C.K.

"Two thirds of the stars in the night sky have Arabic names."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium

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As a young man Gandhi thought that eating meat was necessary to produce the strength needed to drive the British Empire out of India.

"No drug has ever come close to the high of writing."
- attributed to Hunter S. Thompson

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
- Ernest Hemingway

routine

"I'm fairly unbearable if I'm not working."
- Thom Yorke

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