March 2010
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“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to...”
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— Francis Bacon (via mfs) (via tobia)
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February 2010
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“Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are...”
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— Barack Obama
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parrino:
Psycho Killer, Talking Heads
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“Women getting angry for a sensible reason seems extraordinarily threatening to...”
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— How come Men are “Angry” But Women are “Unreasonable”? (via resmc) (via babylonisburning)
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Watchthink4yourself:
Jon Stewart interviewing Ricky Gervais
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bettyann:
An excerpt from Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States:
“[Most] histories understate revolt, overemphasize statesmanship, and thus encourage impotency among citizens. When we look closely at resistance movements, or even at isolated forms of rebellion, we discover that class consciousness, or any other awareness of injustice, has multiple levels. It has many...
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“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who...”
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— Toni Morrison
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alexmariedavis:
Jealous Guy, John Lennon
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“If [a] book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning,...”
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— Thomas Jefferson
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I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger. Your body will age, you will continue to need. You will want the earth, then more of the earth— Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond. It is encompassing, it will not minister. Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish...
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“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the...”
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— Mark Twain (via wordpainting)
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Troubbble, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks
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“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
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— Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
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“That’s the only purpose of any form of art: that it adds something to people’s...”
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— Francesco Bonami (via artnotartnot) (via tobia)
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sexual: (via daraly)
“Hal, who’s empty but not dumb, theorizes privately that what passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human (at least as he conceptualizes it) is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be in some basic interior way forever infantile, some sort...
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“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”
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— David Bowie (via thingsgohazy) (via palahniukandchocolate)
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notemily:sunnydale:aredhel:jujubinha:fuckyeahstarks...
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“History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in…. I read it a...”
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— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
