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Mark Twain

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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Nothing is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

-- MLK Jr

Like Grandma Said

Wear your pretty on the inside,

and it'll shine through

for the whole world to see.

Wear your ugly on the outside,

and that inside pretty

won't mean nuthin' to nobody.

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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.  --FDR, 1941

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Bill Burr

Are we really gonna

fuck this whole thing up

just because Elon Musk

couldn't get any pussy

in high school?

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"The man who views the world at 50

the same as he did at 20

has wasted 30 years."

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To those who do not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

--Bertolt Brecht

A Quote For The Times

Sadness can be caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them.

--Charles Bukowski

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I knew him better than even his family did, because I bore witness to the real man - in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist.

--Michael Cohen

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Teddy Roosevelt

To announce that there be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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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 people, you can do whatever you want.

--Hannah Arendt

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Paraphrasing Freddy:

I hate who steals my solitude without,

in exchange,

offering me good company.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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If it's true there are as many minds as there are heads.

Then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

--Leo Tolstoy

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The story of villains

is much more entertaining

than the story of heroes,

because monsters are not born,

they are made.

--Mary Shelley

It would seem we are living a very interesting story.

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There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself.

--Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Death Throes

"This toxic patriarchal energy we're experiencing right now - this is an age coming to an end. And what we're seeing is that energy clinging and clawing for survival, cuz it knows it's dying. We're headed towards something very beautiful, and we just have to go through some dark shit for us to get there. So love everybody around you, don't accept anything other than that - and fuck shit up."

                                        --Strugill Simpson 11-24-2024

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Faith is often the boast of a man

who is too lazy to investigate. 

-- FM Knowles

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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