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It turns out that if you start with all of them at once, you’ll fail.
And if you start with the big one, you’ll fail.
But if you line up all the dominos one by one, in the right order, you may just have enough energy to push over the first one. That one, of course, adds momentum so that when you crash into the second one, that one goes too.
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— Seth Godin
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2009.07.19 Sunday
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It is possible to affect the past, but not to change it.
The Novikov Principle does not allow a time traveller to change the past in any way, but it does allow them to affect past events in a way that produces no inconsistencies — for example, a time traveller could rescue people from a disaster, and replace them with realistic corpses seconds before it occurs.
— Wikipedia
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2009.07.17 Friday
PART ONE: The Adventure of the Hero
Chapter I: Departure
* 1. The Call to Adventure
The adventure begins with the hero receiving a call to action, such as a threat to the peace of the community, or the hero simply falls into or blunders into it. The call is often announced to the hero by another character who acts as a “herald”. The herald, often represented as dark or terrifying and judged evil by the world, may call the character to adventure simply by the crisis of his appearance.
* 2. Refusal of the Call
In some stories, the hero initially refuses the call to adventure. When this happens, the hero may suffer somehow, and may eventually choose to answer, or may continue to decline the call.
* 3. Supernatural Aid
After the hero has accepted the call, he encounters a protective figure (often elderly) who provides special tools and advice for the adventure ahead, such as an amulet or a weapon.
* 4. The Crossing of the First Threshold
The hero must cross the threshold between the world he is familiar with and that which he is not. Often this involves facing a “threshold guardian”, an entity that works to keep all within the protective confines of the world but must be encountered in order to enter the new zone of experience.
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Chapter II: Initiation
* 6. The Ultimate Boon
The hero is now ready to obtain that which he has set out, an item or new awareness that, once he returns, will benefit the society that he has left.
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Chapter III: Return
* 1. Refusal of the Return
Having found bliss and enlightenment in the other world, the hero may not want to return to the ordinary world to bestow the boon onto his fellow man.
* 4. The Crossing of the Return Threshold
The hero returns to the world of common day and must accept it as real.
* 5. Master of the Two Worlds
Because of the boon or due to his experience, the hero may now perceive both the divine and human worlds.
* 6. Freedom to Live
The hero bestows the boon to his fellow man.
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— Wikipedia, on The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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2009.05.11 Monday
The time-traveling is just too dangerous. Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe: women!
— Doc Brown
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2009.05.09 Saturday
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中道，簡單而言是不苦不樂（不追求痛苦、不追求快樂）的修行方法。
中道的最初靈感，是佛陀在長期苦行苦修後卻覺得一無所獲，而在近河的地方打坐時，聽到河船上的人唱?：「琴弦太鬆、太緊都無法彈出悅耳的聲音。」佛陀以此進行推思，凡夫俗子追求慾望、快樂，死後將墜入地獄，而苦行僧的森林苦行雖可在死後生為天人，得到比人世間更好的快樂，但福報用盡也依然要離開天界，再次輪迴，因此認為不該在苦樂中計較，以不追求痛苦、不追求快樂的方式修行，才有可能擺脫生老病死與六道輪迴。
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— 維基百科
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2009.05.06 Wednesday
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1998 Following
2000 Memento
2002 Insomnia
2005 Batman Begins
2006 The Prestige
2008 The Dark Knight
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2009.05.05 Tuesday
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因為他, 我找到人生目標, 變成一個有靈魂的人.
沒有他, 我不能完成會考.
祝早日康復!
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2009.04.21 Tuesday
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P.S. 你的困難會比他大嗎?
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The movie is fixed. You see it differently next time because you are different.
— 12 Monkeys
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2009.04.20 Monday
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Then he meditates on the meaning of eternity, using a figure of which Eliot is very fond, “the still point of the turning world” (the center of a turning wheel remains in the same place) is really the source of movement:
[…] Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance
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— Wikipedia, on Four Quartets
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2009.04.13 Monday
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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現實世界比科幻世界, 更加科幻.
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— Me
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2009.03.13 Friday
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In 1895, in his novel, The Time Machine, H.G. Wells wrote, “There is no difference between time and any of the three dimensions of space except that our consciousness moves along it.” He added, “Scientific people … know very well that time is only a kind of space.”
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— Wikipedia
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2009.03.12 Thursday
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What you are seeking is seeking you.
– Richard Nelson Bolles
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2009.02.14 Saturday
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I am 10555 days old today.
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2009.01.01 Thursday
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閏秒 = 加多一秒
閏月 = 加多一個月
閏年 = 加多一年
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2008.12.31 Wednesday
我的1997
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1949年，中華人民共和國成立後，基於國際戰略考慮，雖然不承認英方對香港的殖民「主權」，但是表明暫時不會收回香港，也不干預制止前中華民國軍眷及逃民在香港的活動。1950年，英國承認中華人民共和國政府，成為第一個承認中華人民共和國政權的西方資本主義大國。同時，英國政府在軍事上也做出部署，包括使用核打擊阻止中國武力收復香港的可能。
自1971年聯合國大會2758號決議，中華人民共和國取得聯合國合法席位後，便開始為香港與澳門的主權問題採取外交行動。時任國務院總理周恩來對此非常關注，中國駐聯合國代表黃華亦於1972年3月為此致函聯合國非殖民地化委員會申明中國政府的立場：「香港和澳門是被英國、葡萄牙佔領的中國領土，解決香港、澳門問題是中國主權範圍內的事，是作為一個主權國家的中國要對被佔領的領土恢復執行主權的問題，而完全不是屬於通常的殖民地範疇的問題，更不是使其獲得獨立的問題。」同年11月8日，聯合國大會通過了決議案，將香港和澳門於殖民地名單剔除，此舉為中國和平解決香港與澳門的主權問題製造了有利的背景條件。
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— 維基百科
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一九九七年五月, 我在英國人的地方考會考.
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一九九七年八月, 我在中國人的地方領取會考成績單.
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2008.12.06 Saturday
追憶逝水年華
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《追憶逝水年華》一書即透過他特殊的敘事風格，營造出一個獨特的個人世界。他的敘述時時中斷，小說中夾雜了大量的議論、聯想、心理分析，一個失眠的夜可以花40頁來描述，一個三小時的聚會可以用掉190頁的篇幅。時間可以做無限的鋪陳，自然也可以隨意壓縮；過去、現在、未來可以在意識流中顛倒、交疊、相互滲透。
由於《追憶逝水年華》卷帙浩繁，4000多頁、200多萬字，委婉曲折，細膩至極，難讀難譯，有專家認為要先看第五卷，再回頭看第一卷。普魯斯特的弟弟羅貝爾笑着說：「要想讀《追憶逝水年華》，先得大病一場，或是把腿摔折，要不哪來那麼多時間？」當年《追憶逝水年華》第一卷出版時，許多出版社拒絕出版，《新法蘭西評論》的著名作家紀德（Andre Gide）拒絕推薦出版這部小說，奧蘭夫出版公司的阿爾費萊德·安布羅看了書稿大惑不解，「為什麼要在開頭用三十頁描寫自己睡不着覺？」因此普魯斯特還得自掏腰包印書出版。
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— Wikipedia, edited by Me
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2008.11.16 Sunday
累積時間觀
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Wrong: past –> present –> future
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Right:
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— Me, Inspired by Richard Koch’s The 80/20 Principle
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2008.11.11 Tuesday
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T. S. Eliot
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2008.02.24 Sunday
The intent here is
to gain a clearer perception of ourselves,
of humanity in general:
where we’ve been,
where we’re going,
the pitfalls and the possibilities,
the perils and the promise …
perhaps even an answer to
that universal question:
Why?
— Back to the Future 2
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2008.01.23 Wednesday
What if I tell you
your path is the best of all possible paths?
–Me
2007.08.22 CHK2
Physics Town 
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