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Sep 28, 2014 21:16



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-Novelty
-"As Hillel the Elder had stated, whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."
-Challenge self.
-This has become bloated because I see so much as significant.
-"Your memory frightens me." ~Coworker to me
-The ballcock is an early control system with proportional control and negative feedback. Tee hee.
-"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." ~Henry David Thoreau
-I am inspired by your enthusiasm.
-"It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?" ~Henry David Thoreau
-Simply irreducible.
-"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."
-I like what I got
I like where I've been
I know this world is so full of sin
But it can't get me where I ain't
-The environment matters. I can't believe this is a discussion.
-"you gotta die from something"
-"all one lucky nightmare"
-Potential changes geometrically.
-Believe in the small.
-Stealing more and more lines from everyone.
-"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
-Meant to be corpses.
-You have that chance.
-"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." ~Ernest Hemingway
-So often I find myself rhyming aloud and following the random path.
-"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden." ~Thomas Mann
-It's all interesting.
-"I accumulate lots of knowledge to counteract my lack of self-confidence."
-Nuanced but direct truth.
-Fame pays because of what comes with it.
-"Couldn't keep it in"
-It is not about them. Can't be.
-"We want revenge, we don't want justice."
-Blame no one.
-"I write a book so that other books are possible"
-Got no way.
-Never have one thing to say.
-They are funny and with that comes a sense of humor.
-"If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it." ~Andy Rooney
-Buddha short or Jesus tall?
-I mean no offense, but that's not really the point is it?
-"Of course, no one didn't."
-Learning in pairs.
-Masks, memories, magic, mortality.
-Find it's way onto the page.
-"all that glitters is not gold in actuality"
-Is the significance due to small sample size?
-What if prayers were answered? We seem to only expect a yes.
-Now is later.
-"Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice." ~Michael Crichton
-"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." ~Virginia Woolf
-I certainly love him.
-You can learn from bastards.
-"There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory." ~Alison Goodman
-"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it." ~Elizabeth Peters
-Unwritten thoughts.
-Sweet and captivating.
-"communication richness"
-Careful with requirements.
-How much people believe what you say.
-That does not bother me because, first of all it's obvious.
-After urinating I felt like a god.
-Charming anonymous.
-Drunken guffaw.
-Embarrassing objects.
-"...complete lack of shame or self-consciousness becomes increasingly endearing over time"
-Now that I reflect, he said no words.
-"...show a level of thoughtfulness that’s really quite irresistible."
-Yeah. But it's easy to talk.
-"when all is understood all is forgiven"
-Lost to thee.
-If it is meant to be you'll make it be. Might be bad advice.
-Grace with grace.
-Wish I knew how to proceed.
-"The next time you see someone who is different than you, think about what their day might be like, think about all the events of their life leading up to that point, and think about their day - and think about what part of their day you want to be?"
-In more than one way.
-Didactic is the apropos.
-"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." ~Ernest Hemingway
-"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." ~Oscar Wilde
-I can't believe you got this place to live and die without disgrace.
-Just because I do not understand does not mean I disapprove.
-Sincere puppetry.
-Think about it.
-"incentivise bad behavior" "implicitly encouraged"
-So damn harsh.
-"We should not have to prove that his body did not deserve to be riddled with bullets."
-Ambiguity without body.
-That look in your stare.
-I didn't do it for you.
-I said yes.
-"I have come to believe that advertising is the original sin of the web,"
-Impenetrate.
-Get life done.
-Considering how unforgiving nature can be, we really do live in an advanced world.
-As dumb as darth.
-40 Higher
-Things don't have to be bad but they have to be something.
-"Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker?" ~Joan Rivers
-They can get you to break your rules.
-Endless is over.
-On the scale of dragons.
-Don't retreat.
-Inclination and disposition.
-Don't you hear that didgeridoo?
-Meters not miles.
-My every time could be your sometime.
-It is your mind that I need, your body that I want.
-"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire." ~George Bernard Shaw
-Bright morning.
-Self balancing silverware.
-A green occasion.
-"flawed but not an antihero"
-Shamrock diamond hearts.
-Violence can't be mysterious.
-To be an artisan.
-Socialistic.
-Sweaty back.
-The first proves it is not impossible, the second shows it is not a fluke.
-What you choose to do matters more than skill.
-"embrace the near win"
-"one cannot not communicate."
-Elbows of reckoning.
-Oh, thighs.
-I love that shit. I mean I really scarf down some real shit and really love it.
-"emotionally attractive"
-Brave desperation.
-Aggregate appreciation.
-Oh no, there are many different types of people and by the way it is a spectrum so you aren't as rigidly defined as you may have preferred.
-"We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence. If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong… It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals."
"I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too-reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves." ~Emma Watson at the United Nations
-Flower gull.
-"When things seem daunting you have to think of how far we have come."
-Quantum German lady Nazi hunter.
-My threshold.
-"Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." ~Theodore Roosevelt
-Exogeopolitical
-One zero, zeroes ones.
-Word plays.
-"writing is primarily about seduction, not precision"
-Teary dawn.
-Iron works.
-"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives." ~Howard Zinn
-All these features at once.
-Gross urine.
-Blasphemous blaxploitation.
-Awkward spoon fixing.
-"The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations."
-Emotions are part of truth.
-Learn to lose pieces.
-"We can do anything now that scientists have invented magic!" ~The Simpsons
-You are taking something that could be changed for the better and delaying it as much as you can. Why?
-Enough of your dismissive negativity and even your clever optimism. Act.
-Don't like this one sided nature.
-Embracing the common.
-I do not want you to love me if you love someone else. Sounds difficult.
-Can't we all just agree that if you use faith as a weapon it no longer counts as faith?
-I can't explain it but I know it comes from a place.
-"What does it say about our culture when games routinely bend or break the laws of physics and no one bats an eye. When Dragons, Ogres and magic are inserted into historical influenced settings without objection. We're perfectly willing to suspend our disbelief when it comes to multiple lives, superpowers, health regeneration and the ability to carry dozens of weapons in a massive invisible backpack. But somehow the idea of a world without sexual violence and exploitation is deemed too strange and too bizarre to be believable." ~Anita Sarkeesian
-"this other thing is bad so we shouldn't do something about the other bad thing"
-Need laurels apparently.
-Even science is dangerous enough to fail. Still beats most else.
-Confidence on these shoulders.
-"Hate is a lack of imagination." ~Graham Greene
-"Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love." ~Margaret Atwood
-Not necessarily malicious but in our power.
-Should be tired and accomplished.
-"attentive but not fussy"
-Rational explanation of emotional reasoning.
-Correct, it is terrible.
-Popular turncoats.
-"It's Supposed To Be Automatic But Actually You Have To Press This Button"
-The printed word is a technology, too
-Random ads almost never make sense for me. Targeted ads are creepy and still rarely relevant. Figure out a better way.
-I hate staunch prescriptivism.
-"You can't have it both ways - you can't ask for specific examples and then scream cherry picking when they are brought up."
-A one on one person.
-Inconsiderate technology.
-"distorted idealism"
-"Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy" ~Tupac Shakur
-Ignorance is not bliss, but knowledge can be misery.
-There are no kingdoms left as none were right.
-"Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance." ~Julian Barnes
-"Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power." ~Gloria Steinem
-Huracan.
-Solving from within.
-"'I have a boyfriend' is the easiest way to get a man to leave you alone. Because he respects another man more than you."
-Calm isolation.
-With life or span.
-Does your anger come from not understanding?
-"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men." ~Neil Gaiman
-"A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen." ~Virginia Woolf
-Elephant dick.
-Not quite satisfying.
-"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute." ~Rebecca West
-"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn." ~Gloria Steinem
-Uncomfortable with survival.
-I will defend your vulnerability as it is valuable.
-"We cannot ignore the inequities that persist in our justice system," ~Hillary Clinton
-Intension.
-Black pepper and black tea.
-"When you're walking backward is your butt still your rear?"
-A milestone not an endpoint.
-Sorry.
-Careful and observant.
-"what was hope?"
-If only we could overcome association.
-"You seem to be misunderstanding how the sheer volume of things effects the perception of people"
-Our tolerance seems arbitrary.
-It's nerve wracking.
-Inspire dreams and memories.
-A single terrible event to alter the course.
-You seem nervous. I'm sure that helped.
-Sex reminds us we are grotesques. And that we can love the grotesque.
-I've been all sorts of uncool.
-"This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism." ~Gloria Steinem
-"Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." ~Gloria Steinem
-Not of the moment.
-Individuals should not be targeted based upon their group identity.
-These words are the search not the answer.
-"treat me as gentle as you would a million dollar glass"
-"You have diplomatic immunity as long as you are diplomatic."
-Yes, women like charismatic men but how can you say that makes them vain? Magnetism is the definition of charisma.
-As a general rule, let no generals rule.
-"They are, in fact, sometimes mistaken for extroverts because they appear so outgoing and are so genuinely interested in people"
-"Extroverts may find you too laid-back and wallflowers may think you're too much."
-"How many games have you heard of that are based on famous poetry?"
-Stories are for love.
-Can you over think character?
-"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." ~Plato
-"Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks." ~Shannon L. Alder
-How to have energy for the unknown? Frustrated and can't decide. Indecision. Paralysis. Separate notes. Can't see my path. Can't be enthusiastic and stalwart without conviction.
-You hate them for your weakness.
-Fast then slowed.
-"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday." ~Dennis Gabor
-Developed verbal skills as a defense.
-"As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin." ~Pablo Neruda
-But it's okay. Sections of my brain don't know that yet.
-In love with ideas. But now the ideas breathe.
-We learn broad lessons.
-"It was a sign of great intelligence to get things wrong and come last."
-True engineering is making a great design with incomplete information.
-Listomaniac.
-Distant not cold.
-"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college." ~Kurt Vonnegut
-What is wrong with those things? Though I agree with the claim.
-"Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning." ~T.S. Eliot
-"It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it." ~T.S. Eliot
-I can think of several reasons but I want to know yours.
-"At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship." ~Gene Kelly
-Kindly unwound.
-"Part of the joy of dancing is conversation."
-Like a dance, you start slow.
-This is the part of the job I... Argh.
-Addressing it can't make it much worse.
-"Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting." ~Michel Foucault
-Controlling and emotionally manipulative.
-"You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot." ~John Green
-I do not think you can know right away for sure if you found truth. It needs to be examined first.
-Hard to crush on paper.
-You are as dark and deep as anything.
-"To a concern troll there is always a more pressing problem than the one being talked about."
-"it's hard to argue with people's instincts"
-You aren't the only one. Does that make it worse?
-Restored inclusion.
-Surprise coconut.
-"so close that your eyes close with my dreams."
-A singular reason for raising the stakes.
-"Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,"
-"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." ~T.S. Eliot, about radio
-How do you measure cultural resistance if even in the ideal they may not be balanced?
-Dance with 'em.
-Flame ends in futile sparks.
-"The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send." ~Robin Hobb
-Counterphobic behavior.
-"you just don't realize What you do to me"
-I know I probably need to find things to do in the world.
-I don't care that I keep doing this.
-"Everything stinks till it’s finished." ~Dr. Seuss
-No fingers to slip.
-Conflicting conundrum.
-"But proficiency in his craft is essential to every artist."
-Can't sense these things.
-Talking is fun.
-"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." ~Noël Coward
-"I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male." ~Kurt Cobain
-Their survival trumps your compensation.
-Hungry eyes.
-"...the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us." ~Michel Foucault
-No last chance.
-"If whats happening in Ferguson was happening to an all white community, it would be called a dystopian novel."
-It's rude to speak up and cowardly not to.
-Be good you idiot.
-"Shame derives its power from being unspeakable." ~Brené Brown
-"He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior." ~Emilie Autumn
-I just think it's crazy that we have a law that equates to don't have sex with statues.
-Harold a maudlin maudit.
-Wanton wants
-"Probably not, but we can pretend."
-Attracted to doubt.
-"There's always a good reason and a real reason"
-Are you trying to ruin oral sex for everyone?
-"mourning fatigue."
-"Depression robs you of all joy - not just present joy.  It convinces you that every smile that's ever crossed your face was a lie, and that you will never, ever be happy in the future."
-Risk compensation and moral hazard.
-"Stop focusing on tiny made-up reasons to kill each other and start focusing on the enormous actual things that will kill all of you."
-Need to lead to be leader.
-"If I didn't mean for some people to be gay, I wouldn't have made cock so delicious." ~God on Twitter
-Might need to calm down on the quotes for a little bit.
-"The accidentally killed are just as dead as the intentionally killed."
-"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ~Winston Churchill
-It is fun to be fun.
-"their actions instigate and perpetuate public unrest."
-A few can influence so many. Can we blame the crowd for the instigators? Do we have to always rise above? Is it enough just to try to make the influence a positive one?
-Do we deserve anything above anarchy?
-Foreshadow in hindsight.
-"...sacred idleness."
-I might drive the conversation but I try to make all the stops.
-I don't chew pens I just hold them in my teeth.
-"The idea that you evolved from apes is disgusting. Isn't it nicer to believe you descended from one couple and their incestuous children?"
-FUUUUCKKKKKKKKK....
-Try to get the quiet to speak up.
-A responsibility unmet is murderous.
-"...keep trying to change the subject."
-Try some silence.
-Taboo is part of it. As you drive it deeper down you make it enticing.
-A device for framing.
-"Idea: Soccer with two balls."
-I hope this is not an extension of that.
-"To a lifelong love letter"
-There are more effective ways to deal with crime than to just be harder on crime, however tempting.
-Desire or greed.
-Some old thoughts it took a while to verbalize.
-"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long." ~Sylvia Plath
-"When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth." ~Jodi Picoult
-What next? Which path to make or cliff to leap or water to wade deep?
-"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
-Comfort is frightening.
-Everybody gets critiqued or nobody does. That's how it has to work.
-"Alice is fictional. This isn't."
-"Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny." ~Jess C. Scott
-Though it helps.
-"you need discipline."
-Why don't you know what I know.
-A sign should not say "no illegal dumping of trash." But instead it should be informative. "It is illegal to dump trash."
-"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are." ~Jess C. Scott
-"Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer." ~Jasper Fforde
-You can't just crawl away deep. Only for a while.
-"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong." ~Jasper Fforde
-"I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to Glimpse you in every window." ~Pablo Neruda
-Put it all into one piece. You will have more to give later and even if not you will have at least spent your potential.
-"I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly." ~Aldous Huxley
-We have not developed the tools to discuss these topics because we do not discuss them.
-"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk." ~Charles Chaplin
-Adverbalize.
-"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures." ~Jessamyn West
-Accept the crazy.
-You can change you and it.
-"Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key." ~Henry Van Dyke
-"Genius is talent set on fire by courage." ~Henry Van Dyke
-"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done." ~Linus Torvalds
-Throwing a rock forward into water causes ripples in all directions.
-Days are long. Fill them up.
-"Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd." ~Annie Besant
-Marriage is sexy teamwork.
-"Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree." ~Annie Besant
-"You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it." ~Robert Anton Wilson
-It is needed for actors to exist.
-Not a nervous breakdown but a nervous norm.
-"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." ~Albert Camus
-"An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike." ~Spiro T. Agnew
-He is pretentious. Is that required?
-Swordplaya.
-"It takes guts to be gentle and kind"
-You are competent in everything.
-We want a self starter means we aren’t willing to put the effort required to train you.
-"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." ~Timothy Leary
-"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it." ~George Carlin
-The abyss is the worst case.
-Usually get along really well.
-"How cool is water? No, come on, focus, I told myself."
-Tongue and tone.
-"We make jizz they make people."
-A cause.
-"Sometimes what's obvious to you is not obvious to everyone. Sometimes truths, which we may hold to be self-evident, need to be expressed anyway."
-Instead of arguing about who should do the dishes we should figure out a way around the whole issue. Like eating out of bread bowls with our hands over the sink. That sounds preferable right?..
-"I think writing our own Socratic dialogues is a bad way to have a conversation."
-"If you're not willing to blow strangers so that race relations can progress, you must be a racist." "It's a good thing your mom is so open-minded."
-Psalms omen.
-I'd emulate your console before I buy it.
-Their weakness is no excuse for inaction.
-"You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?" ~Jodi Picoult
-Nice try at a misdirection.
-Do not expect perfection in revolutionaries.
-"Being oppressed means the absence of choices" ~Bell Hooks
-"Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want." ~Doris Lessing
-The challenge and desire should be focused on making media without making it expensive.
-"That's pretty deep. I should tweet that."
-What would I utter?
-"'Sesame Street' is named after the 'Arabian Nights' phrase 'Open, Sesame!'"
-I like looking at stuff.
-"Accusations made by the accuser shall be investigated, and the accused shall be presumptively innocent unless the investigation proves otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt."
-This culture war will not be lost. And will not be a war.
-It may have some truth but the way you focus on it is far more telling.
-"It assures the persistence of inequality through terror"
-"That line of thinking is standing on the right side of the issue for the wrong reasons."
-They don't want to crush you. But if they did I do not see how you could blame them.
-It is not race. It is class and it reinforces racism. And we need to address it.
-What realm do I want to be part of?
-"acts of complicity."
-"a shared definition"
-"To love well"
-The best ever.
-Respect vs empathy vs duty.
-"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture." ~Thomas Paine
-"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters." ~Gloria Steinem
-Stepping forward reveals the dead weight.
-We are one people. And we need to care about all of us.
-Your grandchildren will make excuses for you.
-"I wish nothing but good; therefore, everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel." ~King George III
-The nuance of justice.
-If you harangue them at every turn can you act surprised when they resent your advice?
-"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
-"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others." ~Douglas Adams
-Your thoughts come from hate, no matter how justified it may feel.
-This is not newly created but just now surfacing.
-"being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right." ~Charles Bukowski
-"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." ~Jodi Picoult
-So much fear. There are better paths.
-"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." ~Vincent van Gogh
-"...it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky."
-Look at yourself, your hands, your eyes, your mouth.
-There is never one answer, no final solution. There are reasons for everything and it is rarely simple.
-A way out may require walking against the stream.
-"We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive."
-"I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better." ~Thurgood Marshall
-"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery." ~Frederick Douglass
-Your response proves its ineffectiveness.
-All humans act like animals or none do.
-Fan the flames to burn the rot.
-We need to find a way to prevent every act or judgment from dividing us further.
-Searching for words.
-"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
-"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love." ~John Steinbeck
-Torn into bits by groups that are not homogeneous.
-If possible even more concerned with self.
-"super sophisticated"
-Does patriotism begin and end with following the laws?
-"Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess." ~Thomas Paine
-This is awesome.
-"The anxiety of mankind to intervene on behalf of nature...is an altogether unnecessary solicitude. What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing." ~John Stuart Mill
-""I deny that any one knows or can know, the nature of the two sexes, as long as they have only been seen in their present relation to one another. Until conditions of equality exist, no one can possibly assess the natural differences between women and men, distorted as they have been. What is natural to the two sexes can only be found out by allowing both to develop and use their faculties freely." ~John Stuart Mill
-Mediation or meditation.
-Can lies create more than webs?
-"In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks."
-Do you know why politicians use fallacies and hyperbole and straight up lies? Because it works. Can that even be changed?
-"The real solution to poverty is to make it as unpleasant as possible to discourage poverty."
-Hit the ball far but in the wrong direction.
-"The denial of the existence of various forms of oppression, or of the offensiveness of a given statement are strategies used to derail or undermine people working to advance the interests of marginalized groups."
-Weird pride.
-Not a man of moderation but avoidance.
-Averse to aspersions.
-"you are actually in control of this situation"
-The question should not be should we use it, but should we have it. If we have it we will use it.
-Looking for pride spots.
-Gaul gets you most everywhere.
-"furtive eye contact"
-Found that pinnacle of empathy.
-Is it the visual limiting me? Or is there something fundamental that is making me so cautious?
-Overgrown and full of weeds.
-"When violence is the medium, violence is the message."
-You fools! Chirality matters.
-Shamelessly particular.
-"It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism." ~Fredric Jameson
-The easier to describe excuse.
-"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it." ~Ursula K. Le Guin
-"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back." ~Abigail Van Buren
-I want that right here.
-Lips on lips.
-Take reliably, give absolutely
-"shining a harsh light on my bullshit"
-"Only a crisis-actual or perceived-produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around."
-The horrors in the news actually make me optimistic. There is so much darkness possible in the world and yet light persists. The fact that in some places people walk around without fear or security makes me see how good we can be.
-Ringing bells.
-Painfully intellectual
-Pretending I'm a memory
-Compliments are hard to resist.
-"...this fascinating notion that we live in a post-prejudice age, soiled only by the whining of people of colour, women, homosexuals, etc, who cling to the 'victimhood' of ages past, who for some reason believe documented history and observable systems of causality are to blame for their disadvantaged social/economic/political position."
-"The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything."
-Infinite Windows.
-Discontinuity
-Noticing little details about people.
-"you do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others."
-"A kind of social glamour with a strange, self-sustaining momentum driven by false irony and unexamined pride."
-We forgive a lot of of sin. Look at founding father's and slavery. Look at George Washington surprising soldiers at Christmas eve night. Was that okay because he was an underdog? What terrorist acts are we justifying?
-If now you know then how you act now is what matters.
-That rule that you say applies to everyone is only really relevant to a particular group.
-You must defend.
-"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
-"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."
-Instinct may be useful but it ain't truth.
-How the mighty have fallen slightly.
-Earnens.
-Is time a resource?
-"The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." ~Havelock Ellis
-"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive." ~Havelock Ellis
-I care in bursts.
-You will have to turn around.
-Some line about a well turned phrase.
-"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
-"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."
-Watch their prejudice evolve to find a way to keep thinking the same way.
-Dismiss carefully.
-Focus on posture
-"It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men."
-"They explained to me that I was bigger and stronger, and that I therefore was obligated to restrain myself. "
-We can only pass through the ideal, we cannot stay there.
-Can these traits be isolated?
-Not going to have that same discussion with you again.
-Sloppy momentum.
-"There's hope, but not for us." ~Graffiti in Brooklyn
-Time and tears.
-Why would they care?
-An occasional burden.
-"Student loans are one of the top three things teenagers can do to ruin their lives. The others are heroin and pregnancy."
-"mountain you scaled without thinking of size"
-A slight mystery
-Why lie when you can live? Why starve when you can give?
-"You can get better at something but that doesn't mean you will ever get good at it."
-"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." ~Francis Bacon
-You got a little poo on your face.
-We have made money so important yet we still feel uncomfortable discussing it.
-Street urchin
-"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."
-"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
-Done for thee
-get there anyway.
-Well and right away.
-"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated." ~George Bernard Shaw
-"Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks." ~Shannon L. Alder
-Earlier on.
-Got to do something. Right?
-"He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances."
-"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
-Breathe and think about other paths without regret. Fantasy can teach certain things.
-Bummed on one level but luckily I'm layered.
-Looking for something that may not persist.
-"A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do never does all he can."
-"I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof."
-A lone bard who has grown.
-Out of focus but still in frame.
-"There is a tendency to judge the actions of those with the least amount of power the same as those with more power and then ask, 'Isn’t that what equality means?' It’s a clever rhetorical evasion of the issue. Equality is the goal, but to pretend that we actually exist as equals right now is to ignore reality. Like it or not, we all carry history with us in our personal interactions."
-"You probably honestly think you’re being an objective observer whose only interest is the truth. You are delusional."
-Anybody at all gets to make that determination.
-Thrust, stab, slash and spin.
-"Remember that all is opinion." ~Marcus Aurelius
-"Very little is needed to make a happy life."
-Inactive stress.
-If I won the lottery I might open a tutoring company and let it exist at a loss.
-Satan doesn't want anything to do with you.
-"We have created mechanisms that enhance the power of psychopaths."
-Don't require internet unless it requires internet.
-He's full of endearing while I'm full of it.
-"It's endearing how much it matters to them."
-"that is arcane and nerdy and picky and pedantic in a delightful way."
-Epiphany without trauma.
-Excited learning about it, not doing it
-"The usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion."
-"He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts."
-Bum hands
-Bouts of intercourse.
-Ogling those eyes you despise.
-"Those who have no interest in putting their lives at risk should probably opt for a career other than law enforcement."
-Driven into skulls
-"Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime." ~John Stuart Mill
-"...the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner." ~John Stuart Mill
-Preservation is for corpses
-Pleasantly high
-"If Jesus was alive I'd totally fuck him."
-There are roads from wherever you are.
-Oh these, no big deal. I just use them to see.
-"Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is." ~Barbara Bush
-"A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory." ~Mark Twain
-Sky boat or flying car?
-It's a little generic but you must admit it is evocative.
-"Mentally, I'm all boy - plus extra girl" ~Eddie Izzard
-"it's tempting to say that all this worrying was prophetic, spurred by a vague premonition of some future tragedy."
-Adolescence survives.
-Cruelty with a smile.
-"Insomnia is my greatest inspiration." ~Jon Stewart
-Waste don't have feet.
-Pumpkin snickers?
-"I find myself living within a matrix of stories about myself and about others which I am continually and to some extent automatically creating, interpreting, and revising."
-"A true philosopher, you are happiest when you can use your intuition to help others find meaning."
-I need an assistant who threatens me with a gun.
-Sight vs vision.
-How to be assuring without definitive lies.
-Judge actions and words, not character.
-"When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment." ~Bell Hooks
-"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." ~Virginia Woolf
-Difficult employee.
-I convert money to guilt with a high exchange rate.
-The blurry line between flexibility and compliance.
-All or what?
-"Baby Don't hurt me."
-Seeing the maelstrom before it is inescapable.
-Black hole sunday.
-Remember life is a thing.
-Certain accolades stick in the brain.
-"Customized Christian"
-Nonspecific rush.
-"When you love someone you let them take care of you." ~Jodi Picoult
-An award to work harder.
-"No one was worried about seeming stupid or possessive of his or her code. We were all just learning together."
-Lacking work ethic.
-Awesome lady
-Where would I be active?
-Knowledge is not power on it's own. But it is something worthwhile.
-"let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"
-"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape." ~Bell Hooks
-Half of the world and you expect them to have a unified stance.
-You need to get over the fact that it makes your soul want to cry.
-"The perception of beauty is a moral test." ~Henry David Thoreau
-Darkness and screams, ya know.
-It has not just gone away because that would be convenient.
-"when thinking about aliens, beware of anthropocentrism. In other words, don't assume that they will be similar to us ethically, culturally, or cognitively."
-Carpets do not bomb.
-It felt like we were learning magic.
-"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
-A misquote still comes from someone.
-"We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes."
-"The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free."
-Try to remember that you do not actually know.
-"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest." ~Henry David Thoreau
-I excel when it is presented one thorough task at a time.
-You don't got what I need, got what I gotta squeeze, got where I'm going, baby please.
-"eternal obsolescence"
-"A name made great is a name destroyed. He who does not increase his knowledge decreases it."
-"Stereotype threat"
-Fuck water. It always spills itself and it is never my fault.
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