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Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.

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There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.

Looks, Map, Maps, Our World, Wall, Way
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Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

Argued, Ethnicity, Government, Klinghoffer, Powerful, University

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

Accurately, Earth, Firsts, Man, Measure, Men

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

Brain, Decision, Fingertips, Google, Moment

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

Kids, Vacation, Comic, Sans, Printed

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

Gps, Latitude, Longitude, Simple, Space
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