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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. Virginia Woolf  (via stxxz)

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When living in a foreign country, immigrants often find comfort in seeing things and people from home. But new research suggests that such familiar surroundings can also decrease one’s ability to speak the language of that foreign country.

Researchers say the outcomes are the result of a process called priming, in which a cultural reminder shifts a person’s frame of reference from that of the host culture and language to those from home. Seeing a person or meaningful object associated with one’s home culture causes thoughts and words to drift toward the home language as well.

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Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you       Deepak Chopra (via somebodylovesyousostaystrong)

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And so maybe the way human beings combine these random snippets of information to create something new, maybe the connections we make and the way we remix the things we know and transmit them to others are what gives us the edge over the machines. Maybe our creativity is the real key to our survival. We can take that information and not just reduce it, we can make something new out of it. And the machines can’t do that. Yet. Julian Simpson (via burningfp)

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