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(paraphrasing Wm Faulkner)

Don't be afraid to raise your voice in favor of honesty, and truth, and compassion - and against injustice, and lying, and greed.

If people everywhere did this, it would change the world.

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Almost straight outa The Daddy State Awareness Guide.

This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.

With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

Hannah Arendt

14 OCT 1906 - 04 DEC 1975

German historian and philosopher

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Knowing your own darkness

is the best method for dealing

with the darkness of others.

--Carl Jung

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"It doesn't take 60 thousand bucks to bury a fucking Mexican."  --Donald Trump

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No one is more arrogant toward women - more aggressive or scornful - than the man who is anxious about his virility.

--Simone de Beauvoir

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So long as men are not trained to withhold judgement in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.

                                                                                  --Bertrand Russell

Trump Quotes

20 quotes from DonOLD Trump.

My current favorite:

"A second brand new coal mine, where they're going to take out clean coal - meaning they're going to take out the coal, they're going to clean it..."

Paraphrasing Mr Clemens

I'm an old man now. I have known many troubles, and I have feared many more that never happened.

Worrying about such things is like paying a debt that you never owed.

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Assuming there's someone around to write that history...

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

We'll go down in history

as the first society

that wouldn't save itself

because it wasn't

cost-effective.

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Keep your imaginary friends

out of my government

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Find the enemy that wants to end this American experiment in democracy and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

--Gen Jim Mattis, USMC

Today's Religion Stuff

• Hindus have been waiting for Kalki for 3,700 years
• Buddhists have been waiting for Maitreya for 2,600 years
• The Jews have been waiting for the Messiah for 2,500 years
• Christians have been waiting for Jesus for 2,000 years
• Sunnah waits for Prophet Issa for 1,400 years
• Muslims have been waiting for a messiah from the line of Muhammad for 1,300 years
• Shiites have been waiting for Imam Mahdi for 1,080 years
• Druze have been waiting for Hamza ibn Ali for 1,000 years

Most religions adopt the idea of a “savior” and state that the world will remain filled with evil until this savior comes and fills it with goodness and righteousness.

Maybe our problem on this planet is that people expect someone else to come solve their problems instead of doing it themselves.

The first thing you do is get up off your fuckin' knees. And then, if you're paying attention, The Evil will show you what's next.

“Speak up, speak out,

get in the way.

Get in good trouble,

necessary trouble,

and help redeem the soul of America.”

--John Lewis

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Sez

I'm alive in the universe,

but I feel small.

No.

The universe is alive within you,

and you should feel large.

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We are like books. Most will never see more than our cover. Many will believe the critics. Some will read only the foreword. Very few will ever know our true content.

Émile Zola

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If you look closely at nature

with a little of luck

you can catch a glimpse

of something deeply hidden

-- A Einstein

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One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did, but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live.

-- Primo Levi

Some Quotes

Happy birthday, Monsieur Arouet.

aka: Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet  21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778

French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

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Politics is a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles; the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to make understandable a world too complex for their comprehension. Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism - all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary people adopt in the hope of thereby finding The Answer, because the concept that maybe there is no answer, never has been, never will be, terrifies them.

--John D MacDonald - A Deadly Shade Of Gold