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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:42:51 -0500

"He was the least selfish reporter I ever met, and he was the one who had the most to share, which he..."

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:47:33 -0500

“He was the least selfish reporter I ever met, and he was the one who had the most to share, which he did compulsively.”

- Thanassis Cambanis on his friend, Anthony Shadid

Really?! With Seth and Amy: Birth Control

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:51:00 -0500

Really?! With Seth and Amy: Birth Control

"It’s a bit like somebody toasting you, then mispronouncing your name at the end. We’re a growing..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:31:58 -0500

“It’s a bit like somebody toasting you, then mispronouncing your name at the end. We’re a growing city learning a lesson every growing child learns—people don’t always see you in the same way you see yourself.”

- On writers who mistakenly place Charlotte, North Carolina in South Carolina (via WCNC)

Sign of the times: Consumption of tissue, including toilet...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:53:27 -0500

Sign of the times: Consumption of tissue, including toilet paper, has surpassed newsprint use in the U.S. (via @wsjgrahics)

"The world may scorn me if it will; I care but little for its scoffing."

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:19:00 -0500

“The world may scorn me if it will; I care but little for its scoffing.”

- Ella Swain, the daughter of UNC president David Swain, on her impending marriage in 1865 to a Union general she met during the federal occupation of Chapel Hill.

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Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:47:28 -0500

via the very talented benkling

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:03:31 -0500

via the very talented benkling

"Yes, I acknowledge myself conquered - but my opinions, my heart and soul are unchanged and always..."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:31:45 -0500

“Yes, I acknowledge myself conquered - but my opinions, my heart and soul are unchanged and always will be.”

- A Confederate supporter and Chapel Hill resident, writing to his son on the tenth day of the Union soldiers’ occupation of Chapel Hill in 1865.

"To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses sports; it is locals..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:05 -0500

“To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses sports; it is locals against outsiders, elitists against populists, even good against evil… The rivalry may be a way of aligning oneself with larger philosophic ideals — of choosing teams in life — a tradition of partisanship that reveals the pleasures and even the necessity of hatred.”

- Will Blythe, on the greatest rivalry ever.

"The thing about Duke was, every time they sent me a letter, they wouldn’t spell my name right. They..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:23:06 -0500

“The thing about Duke was, every time they sent me a letter, they wouldn’t spell my name right. They would have ‘T.J. Harrison’ or something like that. And I’m like, ‘OK. How can I go here? You can’t even spell my name right.’ It’s only two letters and HAIR and STON. I’m trying to figure out how that’s so hard.”

- P.J. Hairston (via the News & Record)

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Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:14:06 -0500

"With the close of the football season of 1913 all eyes are now turned to basketball. It is a sport..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:05:06 -0500

“With the close of the football season of 1913 all eyes are now turned to basketball. It is a sport that is practically new with the University, having been in vogue here for only a few years, but one that is gaining ground.”

- The Tar Heel in 1913 (via the North Carolina Collection)

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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:56:15 -0500

"That there is this sense that there’s lots of little things to hate about Duke, but overall, people..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:13:29 -0500

“That there is this sense that there’s lots of little things to hate about Duke, but overall, people feel like they’re getting away with something that’s un-American.”

- Andy Bagwell, co-author of a new book, Duke Sucks, on why people hate Duke. (via newsobserver.com)

It’s Halftime America

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:21 -0500

It’s Halftime America

"That’s one of the great things about the social web. The good stuff rises to the top —..."

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:49:58 -0500

“That’s one of the great things about the social web. The good stuff rises to the top — there’s a cool precision about that — and it’s easy to help people, too.”

- Alexis Ohanian (The Atlantic)

Facebook by numbers (via The Economist)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:10:10 -0500

Facebook by numbers (via The Economist)

"It’s not that the Internet is going anywhere. You are not going to get rid of it with a review. It’s..."

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:05:53 -0500

“It’s not that the Internet is going anywhere. You are not going to get rid of it with a review. It’s just that you, if you are going to spend that much time on it, you want it to be better and better.”

- Zadie Smith

"Yeah! How you like me now, F.E.C.? I’m rolling seven digits deep! I got 99 problems but a..."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:52:56 -0500

“Yeah! How you like me now, F.E.C.? I’m rolling seven digits deep! I got 99 problems but a non-connected independent-expenditure only committee ain’t one!”

- Stephen Colbert, in a Federal Elections Commission filing for his super PAC. (via officialssay)