The average New York City taxi cab driver makes $90,747 in revenue per year. There are roughly 13,267 cabs in the city. In 2007, NYC forced cab drivers to begin taking credit cards, which involved installing a touch screen system for payment.
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loathe to disappoint them … A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (via tanya77)
I’ve retained the phrase, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” since I first read it in high school.
So congratulations, North Carolina. Last night, you struck a decisive blow for loneliness. And tonight, as you go to sleep beside your heterosexual life mate, you can rest assured that all across your great state, a gay man or lesbian woman is crying themselves to sleep in solitude and making your relationship stronger with each tear.
— STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report (via redsuspenders)