Two boffo Ted talks and a bunch of stunning sentences

by Jeremy on 24/8/2010

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  1. “You can’t wake a person who’s pretending to be asleep.” Jason Clay thinks differently about sustainability.
  2. str_replace(“Negroes”, “Women”, “Negroes want to be treated like men: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only seven words.”) Sheryl WuDunn on gender equality.
  3. “Negroes want to be treated like men: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only seven words.” is just one of Esquire magazine’s 70 great sentences (in Esquire magazine), by James Baldwin, from his article “Fifth Avenue, Uptown,” published in July 1960.

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