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...hours, and maybe inhale a bag of Cheez-Its or two along the way. Not very productive. Then I realized, if you’re going to commit to work, commit to it. If you’re not going to be productive, then don’t bother trying??do something else that’s fun and get it out of your system. In other words, work hard, play hard. It might be a cliché, but only because it’s true. Why unproductively toil away in the library when you could be hanging...
...There was now a small group of us sitting in a booth, skipping school, and trying??for some of us, for the first time—to deal with the loss of someone who had been a part of our lives...
...want to change the world, but the proprietors of Revolution Books are actually trying??one shelf at a time. This bookstore at 1156 Mass. Ave. specializes in Marxist tracts from all sectors of the great red globe. A door to the shop’s storage room is covered with buttons featuring the unsmiling face of Mao Ze Tung, which may have something to do with the reason that, according to 15-year bookseller Ben O’Leary, Revolution Books gets an “unpredictable” number of customers...
...down, failure feeds on itself. Confidence erodes as losses mount. If someone concludes that there’s no point in trying??he might as well be late to class or skip practice, other people will only let him down, no one is interested in an imaginative idea (or whatever his negative thought might be)—then the outcome is foreordained. The self-fulfilling prophecy is fulfilled...
...only has the texture of the songs been modified through the use of synthy guitar lines and down tempo beats, but more importantly, the entire attitude of the album has shifted away from the shy “can’t you see I’m trying?? desperation of the debut to a new, unspeakably enviable position of power, greed, and control that Julian can now genuinely exude without feeling presumptuous. “Please don’t slow me down if I’m moving too fast,” he sings...