January 2010
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“Seriously, think about this. I have never been anywhere that I haven’t been....”
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— Jesse, Before Sunrise
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13 words not found in the English Language
1. Waldeinsamkeit (German): the feeling of being alone in the woods
2. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time
3. Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the same as our concept of a compromise – everyone wins)
4. Litost (Czech): a state of torment...
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“Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the...”
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— Liz Stanley and Sue Wise
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“Find me a man who’s interesting enough to have dinner with and I’ll...”
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— Lauren Bacall
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“Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell...”
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— Abbie Hoffman
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“Why must every literary examination of Robert Lowell, of John Berryman, of Anne Sexton, of Jean Stafford, of so many writers and artists, keep perpetuating the notion that their individual pieces of genius were the result of madness? While it may be true that a great deal of art finds its inspirational wellspring in sorrow, let’s not kid ourselves about how much time each of those people...
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“Unless we are going to float our way to equality on rivers of white tears, I am...”
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— Latoya (via amandaw) (via champagnecandy)
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“Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals: an...”
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— Jeanette Winterson
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zeroisme:
Blue Veins, The Raconteurs
then I...
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[love is more thicker than forget]
by ee cummings
love is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is more mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than...
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“The people in power will not disappear voluntarily; giving flowers to the cops...”
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— William S. Burroughs
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“Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.”
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— Clare Boothe Luce
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“If you never take it seriously, you never get hurt. If you never get hurt, you...”
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— Penny Lane, Almost Famous (via movieoftheday)
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Howard Zinn: A Radical Treasure →
I always wondered why Howard Zinn was considered a radical. (He called himself a radical.) He was an unbelievably decent man who felt obliged to challenge injustice and unfairness wherever he found it. What was so radical about believing that workers should get a fair shake on the job, that corporations have too much power over our lives and much too much influence with the government, that wars...
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