February 2012
“For a country that gets more upset about a middle finger during the superbowl...”
– Joshua Pann
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“Life was immeasurably better once I forced myself to stop taking it seriously.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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“I’m a big fan of this whole movement of, like, the smart girls with glasses who...”
– Kirsten Vangsness
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“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain
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“If you’re angry about people dressed in black burning cars, you should probably...”
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“We are going to go from a linguistic mode that is heard to a linguistic mode...”
– Terence McKenna - The Archaic Revival.
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“Take the case of a man who is suffering from a severe attack of what I might...”
– Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov in Love and Sexuality: Part Two (1900-1986)
“He is a poor observer who does not notice that a stimulating conversation...”
– Ludwig Fleck, 1949.
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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...”
– Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
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“There are two separate indefinite military detention provisions in this bill,...”
– Rocky Anderson
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“We really must take into account the totality. This isn’t just a human...”
– John Perkins
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“Austerity and debt reduction will get us nowhere, in this view. In particular:...”
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Why Going ‘Back To Normal’ Is No Longer An Option for the American Economy — And Where We’re Headed Now
Stop waiting around, because “normal” as we know it isn’t coming...
“Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in...”
– Charles Bukowski, Let it Enfold You
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Why Going 'Back To Normal' Is No Longer An Option... →
Former IMF chief economist Joseph Stiglitz has a message for everybody who’s sitting around waiting for the economy to “get back to normal.”
Stop waiting. ‘Cause that train’s gone, and it ain’t coming back. And the sooner we accept that “normal,” as post WWII America knew and loved it, will not be an option in this century, the sooner we’ll get ourselves moving forward on the...
“So we have become a society in which less-educated men have great difficulty...”
– Paul Krugman
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“I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time. There’s a...”
– Whiskey river
“No Blame.
Be Kind.
Love Everything.
- Terrance Keenan
St. Nadie in Winter”
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“In the midst of total uncertainty, we can love.”
- Terrance Keenan”
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“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness....”
– Lao Tzu
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“That people must submit is taken for granted pretty much across the spectrum. In...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“I think one response we see too often is that in attempting to comfort ourselves...”
– Richard Drinnon
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This is what I am saying…stop supporting a system, as much as you can,that you know is the source of so much misery.Give it no support and it will dry up.
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“There is nothing stranger or more precarious than the relationship between...”
– Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
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Tomato History: From Poison to Obsession →
Americans may be in love with tomatoes today, but the relationship got off to a rocky start. During Colonial Times, we wouldn’t put a tomato near our mouths, let alone try to eat one. Folklore had it that if you ate a tomato, its poison would turn your blood into acid. Instead, the colonists grew tomatoes purely for decoration. Origins and Travels We came around in the end of course, but the...
“It’s no wonder we don’t defend the land where we live. We don’t live here. We...”
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“WHEN we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don’t blame...”
– The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries
This is very true, and unfortunate.
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“I will travel you without a map
or compass, I will navigate
by the stars and...”
– Elizabeth Cohen
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