January 2010
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If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
– John Wooden (via meestarman)
Sometimes it is better to do it quick and get it over with — perfection is an oft stifling goal.
Violence is not the only form of power. Sometimes it is the least effective....
– Howard Zinn, Just and Unjust War (via champagnecandy)
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do...
– J. Miles (via maluna) (via quote-book) (via nijuukyu) (via starsmending) (via fotophreak89)
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...
– Ray Bradbury (via booklover) (via voryvzakone) (via newforest)
this makes me laugh — not a bad thing most days.
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” —...
xineann:
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy...
– David Hume (via quixote)
My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child...
– South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer Compares His State’s Poor Children to ‘Stray Animals’ — Daily Intel (via bmckinney)
WTF
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Man, I knew Andre Bauer was a fucker but this is impressive even for him.
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I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
– Jean Cocteau (via aliasinkhorn) (via isaac-lonetree)
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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it....
– Chief Seattle, 1854
War doesn’t determine who’s right - only who’s left.
– Bertand Russel (via rispostesenzadomanda) (via clairefisher) (via booklover) (via sitasays)
Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
– Terry Pratchett (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
– Lynn Hall (via bitchville) (via coccaonthinks) (via booklover)
My mother tells me this on occassion.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am...
– Margaret Atwood (via xineann)
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be...
– Nelson Mandela (via caraobrien) (via glass86)
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When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they...
– GW Bush - Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000
Bush at his best
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...
– Bertrand Russell. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia (via giantrobotlasers)
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Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
– Dr. Seuss (via tapwaterjackson)
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
– Oscar Wilde (via tapwaterjackson)
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We’ve been too kind to those who are destroying the planet. We have been...
– Derrick Jensen