April 2010
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“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.”
– — Gabriel García Márquez (via robot-heart-politics)
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learninglog:
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. ‘This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,’ she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first...
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March 2010
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Raphaël, Carla Bruni
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“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo...”
– — Richard Wright
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“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses...”
– — Mildred Lisette Norman (via hunsonisgroovy) (via quote-book) (via anotherdeadhead)
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five-story house in laleli
by Gisela Kraft
one lies in rags on the street and his stomach is empty and he wishes for death one sits with friends at tea and backgammon and his mind is empty and he wishes for death one sits in a straight-backed chair at a desk and his bank account is empty and he wishes for death one lies in bed staring out to sea and the place next to him in bed is empty and he wishes for death one flies...
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bohemea:turnlizer:
One of Us Cannot Be Wrong,...
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“Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to...”
– — Edward Abbey (via anotherdeadhead)
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“He believed that nothing can be finally known that involves human motive and...”
– — Don DeLillo from Libra (via walkwhilereading)
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“The more privileged you are, the easier it is to envision human beings as pure individuals, unconnected to other individuals in any way that matters.
It sometimes puzzles conservatives that progressives are so concerned with what people think. What is racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, after all, other than a way some people think about some other people? And as long as I’m free to pursue my own...
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hedonismus:
A Clearing, Brian Eno
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“When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,...”
– — Cree Prophecy (via heartmindspirit) (via whisperingwillow) (via anotherdeadhead)
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“The west won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion...”
– — Samuel P. Huntington (via lastchatwithphontaine)
See guns, germs, and steel by Jared Diamond for a fuller treatment.
(via buffleheadcabin) (via nosex) (via tobia)
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crashinglybeautiful: (from: korut, saramdle &...
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“If everyone were cast in the same mold, there would be no such thing as beauty.”
– — Charles Darwin
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Barbarians
by John Fowles
They do not come with furred caps, Smelling of maresmilk, scimitared, Dour, as tellable as kites.
They live quietly next door, Speak almost the same language, Wear almost the same clothes.
Inside the walls. But Do not think they lack Precisely the same intentions.
poetry365
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“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism;...”
– — Jawaharal Nehru (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via simplyadreamer) (via booklover) (via tobia)
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unicornology:thedarkspark:
I Don’t Want To Get...
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