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“Justin Bieber came in last night and decided to get a small cross tattooed near the corner of his eye. It represents his journey in finding purpose with God.”

— “JonBoy” Valena, This Is The Meaning Behind Justin Bieber's New Face Tattoo

“The market for ad impressions is a lot like the market for used cars. Think of lemons, where the buyer of the used car knows a lot less about what’s inside it than the seller. Information asymmetry creates a real problem when there is a lack of transparency, or what we call in economics a moral haza…”

— Andrew Shebbeare, Change Or Die? Essence’s Co-Founder On Why The Ad Industry Needs To Re-Evaluate Its Priorities | AdExchanger

“Ad blocking is a bit like polluting the planet or overfishing the oceans. It’s a little like what economists call the tragedy of the commons. Individual actors do what is independently rational for them according to their own self interests at the expense of the common good and the resource gets dep…”

— Andrew Shebbeare, Change Or Die? Essence’s Co-Founder On Why The Ad Industry Needs To Re-Evaluate Its Priorities | AdExchanger

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, Thought Of The Day

“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou, Still I Rise

“The biggest challenge of being in a relationship is relearning to be comfortable. I am in my element only when I am miserable.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, Thought Of The Day

“'We were told that if we saw something, a news story that was on the front page of these ten sites, like CNN, the New York Times, and BBC, then we could inject the topic,' said one former curator. 'If it looked like it had enough news sites covering the story, we could inject it—even if it wasn’t na…”

— Michael Nunez, Anonymous Facebook News Curator, Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

“Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with an ill bringing-up, are far more fatal than total ignorance.”

— Plato, Laws

“Comedy isn’t about hurting peoples feelings, it’s about making people laugh.”

— Arin Hanson, via Tumblr

“So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”

— Mark Twain, Teachers: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes

“Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.”

— Sigmund Freud, caption on the wall of Freud Museum in Vienna

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”

— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“The honest to god truth? In the year prior to becoming a full-time producer and writer, I wrote over 350 pieces for various publications. I worked to get where I am today. It wasn’t just lucky. It was work. But I’d do it all over again.”

— Kendra Syrdal, 5 Things (5.8.16)

“Will someone decide they know exactly who I am without getting to know me outside of a 900 word essay?”

— Kendra Syrdal, 5 Things (5.8.16)

“We may not have been built for monogamy, but interestingly enough, it’s the one animalistic trait we aren’t always trying to transcend. We weren’t built to eat at tables or work in fluorescent-lit offices each day, we weren’t built to internalize shame or gamble or consume copious amounts of alcohol…”

— Brianna Wiest, Transcendence

“Imagine what you’ll lose when you gain everything you want. You'll grow up eventually, you'll find love beyond your current comprehension, you'll do work you're proud of, you'll make money. But what of those beautiful days you got to spend alone? What did you do with the sacred hours you had to your…”

— Brianna Wiest, Aloneness

“Emotion is where learning begins, or, as is often the case, where it ends. Put simply, it is literally neurobiologically impossible to think deeply about things that you don’t care about.”

— Jessica Lahey, To Help Students Learn, Engage the Emotions

“The sky is mauve lucite. The light lies intact and folded. You can anticipate the wind. A slight cloud drifts contrary to the planet.”

— Lisa Roberston, The Weather

“You should maybe try to learn things that would be good for all time. Unquestionable scientific value.”

— John Nash, Transcript from an interview with Dr. John Nash at the 1st Meeting of Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany, September 1-4, 2004