December 2010
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No, we should go forward, groping our way through the darkness, stumbling...
– Camus, The Plague, Part 4.
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No, we should go forward, groping our way through the darkness, stumbling...
– Camus, The Plague, Part 4.
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The trouble with Socialism is that it takes too many evenings
– Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
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The trouble with Socialism is that it takes too many evenings
– Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
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The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things, if you look at it right.
– Richard “Dick” Feynman
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I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the...
– Christopher Hitchens
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I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the...
– Christopher Hitchens
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As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that...
– Hunter S. Thompson
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As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that...
– Hunter S. Thompson
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Reality suffers perception
– Uncle Fishbits, coined 27th December 2010, 1.47 EST
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with...
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with...
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There are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they’re an...
– Banksy
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There are no exceptions to the rule that everyone thinks they’re an...
– Banksy
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as...
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as...
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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else...
– Hunter S. Thompson
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have...
– Steven Weinberg, American physicist
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that...
– Stanley Kubrick (via politefight)
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I think you are going finally to displace me as the most hated man in American...
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I think you are going finally to displace me as the most hated man in American...
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Trop de choix tue le choix (too much choice kills the choice).
– French saying from Economist article
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There is no such thing as a Christian child; there is only a child of Christian...
– Richard Dawkins
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The fact that the headmaster held the prayerbook and the bible during the...
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The fact that the headmaster held the prayerbook and the bible during the...
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
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Sometimes I feel so sick about the state of the world I can’t even finish...
– Banksy
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Sometimes I feel so sick about the state of the world I can’t even finish...
– Banksy
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The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is...
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The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is...
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At all events, at the age of about nine I was listening to a bit of gossip about...
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At all events, at the age of about nine I was listening to a bit of gossip about...
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Ain’t no shame in holding on to grief … as long as you make room for...
– Reginald “Bubbles” Cousins
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Lay her i’ the earth:
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets...
– More information about the saying after the jump!
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Lay her i’ the earth:
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets...
– More information about the saying after the jump!
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This was the place where I first learned to see the picture of Catholicism as...
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There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future...
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Timor Motris conturbat me
“the fear of death distresses me”
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The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think...
– Banksy
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To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain and more...
– - Isaac Newton, “Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy”, Principia Mathematica, 1687
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The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be...
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
– Albert Camus
(via ellobofilipino)
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Your own private matrix: a special report on smart... →
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“If I were to fight you, the weapon I would choose is words”
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Having a technologically advanced military at the disposal of a scientifically...