where Tina Fey eats in Chicago

Here.

string

french polish

"Alcohol takes the polish off of furniture and people."

3 months

In World War II, the life expectancy of a Jeep was 90 days.

whaling

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
– Herman Melville

Primary Takeaway

"In space you can put on your pants two legs at a time."
- Commander Chris Hadfield

a look inside

Notre Dame post fire here.

on obsession

"I can think of nothing else than this machine."
- James Watt

height, width, depth

"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know."
- Harry Truman

The point of medieval structures

To make you feel awe.

on modesty

"Not the greatest architect that has ever lived. The greatest architect that ever will live."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

on volunteerism and voting

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
- Edmund Burke

thrasher

Neal “The Dude” Unger has an internet following as the oldest, coolest skater. He can't think of anything else when he's skating other than skating, so it's a great stress reliever. Video here.

portuguese shakespeare

“Time changes, and our desires change. What we 
believe – even what we are – is ever-changing. The world is change, which forever takes on new qualities.”
– Luís Vaz de Camões

greatest still life

Francisco de Zurbarán, Baroque Gravitas

how to go bankrupt

“How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Klondike

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London

on Vermeer

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go for it

“Since the danger of living in wretchedness is greater than the danger of dying soon, he is a fool who refuses to stake a little time and win a hazard of great gain.”
– Attributed to Seneca the Younger

vocab

"Schlimmbesserung": A German word which describes an effort to make things better that actually ends up making things worse.

Global Hospice Care Ranked

Source here.

lantern of light

Chartres Cathedral

super moon

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

walking through Van Gogh

Story here.

stone carving

progenitor

“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”
– Jacob Burckhardt

Happiest cities in America

Source: WalletHub

bohemian

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” – Denis Diderot

enlightenment groundwork

“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
– Baruch Spinoza

Inferno

"Here's the path out of Hell to Paradise."
- On Dante