May 23, 2012
Note to self

being stubborn is the excuse of a loser

2:10pm
May 8, 2012
"To all those who lie awake at night thinking of what might be—sweet dreams."

11:55pm
May 8, 2012
Roberts, 116

Economists understand better than anyone that it’s not really about money but about striving and living and dreaming.

11:54pm
May 8, 2012
"The next time America has a recession and America’s trade balance ‘improves’, pundits will say that the ‘improvement’ in America’s trade balance is the silver lining to the recession. But it is nothing of the sort."

— David ‘Dave’ Ricardo, from Russell Roberts’ The Choice

9:16pm
May 4, 2012
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

— Calvin Coolidge

6:14pm
May 4, 2012
"It wasn’t won by the stronger side. It was won by the side who had the least to lose."

— Ozgur on the Vietnam War

5:31pm
April 28, 2012

I’m writing my paper on Pro-Japanese Collaborators in Korea, and my youtube playlist started playing (A Special Song for Japan) Sunshine - “a special collaboration by renowned Korean singer-songwriter Yoon Gun and guitarist Sungha Jung to deliver their heartfelt message to devastated Japanese people”. I’m listening to the kindness that permeates their music while reading and relieving the horrific acts done by Imperial Japan to their country. Look how far we have come, unimaginable just less than half a century ago. 

I felt the waves of centuries of histories crash through me. 

4:33pm
April 26, 2012

(via shahirzag)

6:12pm
April 26, 2012
"For this simple reason: neither you nor I are much better than them. Indeed, the call to be merciful to those who sin comes from this humbling realization — that, if we were put in the same situation as those who sin, there is great likelihood that we would sin just the same."

— The Korean

6:09pm
April 10, 2012
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

— Robert Collier

10:03pm
April 3, 2012
"We will be defeated today, but history will lead us to victory"

— Kwangju Uprising, 1980

10:38pm
March 22, 2012
"Look me in the eye. It’s okay if you’re scared. So am I. But we’re scared for different reasons. I’m scared of what I WON’T become, and you’re scared of what I COULD become. Look at me. I won’t let myself end where I started. I won’t let myself finish where I began. I know what is within me, even if you can’t see it yet. Look me in the eyes. I have something more important than courage - I have patience. I will become what I know I am."

9:17pm
March 6, 2012

(Source: broken-porcelaine, via freetobefreee)

9:20pm
March 6, 2012
Old Singapore

terroirmag:

Downtown Singapore

Raffles Place in 1966/1967. Beautiful.

7:21pm
March 4, 2012

(Source: shahirzag.com, via m-aua)

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