May 2013
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April 2013
1 post
“God is dead: but considering the state of the species Man is in, there will...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Die frohliche Wissenschaft
March 2013
2 posts
February 2013
2 posts
“Civilisation is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.”
– Brian Aldiss
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January 2013
7 posts
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I...”
– Mark Twain
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“You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“As you walk and eat and travel be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of...”
– Siddhartha Guatama (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
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“Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.”
– Stanislavsky
If you haven’t seen it, watch Ving Rhames give his Golden Globe to Jack Lemmon
December 2012
3 posts
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“It’s that sort of scene, that remembering that we die alone. We’re born alone....”
– Bill Murray
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Watchhttp://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/
This Land Is Mine from Nina Paley on Vimeo.
Who’s Killing Who? A Viewer’s Guide
Because you can’t tell the players without a pogrom!
Early Man This generic “cave man” represents the first human settlers in Israel/Canaan/the Levant. Whoever they were.
Canaanite What did ancient Canaanites look like? I don’t know, so this is based on...
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“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care...”
– Marcus Aurelius
November 2012
1 post
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“Fable should be taught as fable, myth as myth, and miracles as poetic fancies....”
– Hypatia of Alexandria (370 - 415 BC)
October 2012
16 posts
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“Seth Meyers just nails it with regards to Hurricane Sandy, albeit in front of an...”
– Seth Myers on Jimmy Fallon
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“There’s plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this...”
– Grandpa George (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005 Tim Burton)
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“So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little...”
– T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
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“THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down...”
– L. Ron Hubbard Technique 88
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“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the...”
– Louis L’Amour
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“Voting for the president these days is a lot like cheering on WWE. You probably...”
– Joe Rogan (via countrymudofva)
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“Yet there’s not much to do, but to bury a man
When the last of his dreams...”
– William Herbert Carruth
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“We are at war now — with somebody — and we will stay at War with that mysterious...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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“Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about cleanliness
Worry...”
– In 1933, renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with a list of things to worry about, not worry about, and simply think about. It read as follows. (Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters; Image: F. Scott Fitzgerald with his daughter, Scottie,...
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“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not...”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was...”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with...”
– Michel de Montaigne
September 2012
31 posts
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“I quote others only to better express myself.”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“The time has come to rise up against the unthinking, immoral acts that are...”
– Victor Stenger
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“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence of a...”
– Havelock Ellis
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“I distrust those people who know so well what god wants them to do, because I...”
– Susan B. Anthony
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs (via missroze)
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole universe was made for them,...”
– Camille Flammarion
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“Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus...”
– Bart Ehrman
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“Atheism is not a conscious act of turning away from all gods. It is simply the...”
– Guy P. Harrison
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“There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far,...”
– Carl Sagan
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“Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts...”
– Andy Rooney 