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The philosophies we hold, and the policies we put in place because of those philosophies, don't just determine how our children and grandchildren will live, but how they will die.

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There are moments in history when the great struggle between freedom and tyranny comes down to one fight, in one place, which is waged for all of humanity, and for all to see.

In 1863, that place was Gettysburg.

In 1940, it was the skies over Great Britain.

Today, in 2022, it is Kyiv.

 

Christia Freeland - Deputy PM, Finance - Canada

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary, 1856

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A liberal is someone so broad-minded,

he won't take his own side in a quarrel.

--Robert Frost

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You don't have much of a war

if nobody shows up to fight.

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Being a science writer is harder than being a sports writer because you don't have to deal with people who think basketball doesn't even exist.

--Carl Zimmer

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Barbara Brown Taylor

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"Give us the ballot and we will place judges on the bench ... who will do justly and love mercy. Give us the ballot and we will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement the Supreme Court's decision of May 17, 1954."

“I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting.“ - MLK

59 years later, we are facing the same tragedy. pic.twitter.com/xEgLTTgVTC

— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) January 13, 2022

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CHANGE HAPPENS WHEN ENOUGH PEOPLE HAVE EITHER SEEN THE LIGHT

OR FELT THE FIRE.

Ayanna Pressley

Because right now, the women in the Democratic Party

are the ones with the balls.

(Kyrsten Sinema being one notable exception)

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"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish."

— Benjamin Disraeli

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The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce

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Morning Toilette - Jean-Frédéric Schall

“Let someone love you the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

Mark Hack

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Most of us have been conditioned to regard military combat as exciting and glamorous - an opportunity for men to prove their competence and courage.

Since armies are legal, we feel that war is acceptable. In general, nobody feels that war is criminal, or that accepting it is a criminal attitude.

In fact, we have been brainwashed. War is neither glamorous nor attractive. It's monstrous. Its very nature is one of tragedy and suffering.

--Dalai Lama

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War is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

--John Steinbeck

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Disney teaches us to hate our step-mother,

whereas PornHub takes a slightly different approach.

-- Stephen King

Understand Something

It wasn't a buncha workin' slobs who got together to lobby congress in order to insert 60,000 pages of shelters, loopholes, write-downs and exceptions into the IRS Tax Code.

Rich people hold an out-sized share of power over government, and they use their wealth very effectively to feed us a steady stream of propaganda, convincing us that they're no different from the rest of us, that they're just being smart, and that everything they do comes from a place in their hearts that's the very essence of purity, love, and charity.

It's bullshit and we know it, but we walk around acting like it's god's own truth - we eat it up like it's one of Grandma's fresh-baked mulberry pies with homemade ice cream.

If any of it were true, then guys like Branson and Bezos and Musk wouldn't be in a race to space - they'd be trying to end the cycle of poverty ignorance and crime.

"Never be deceived that the rich will let you

vote away their wealth."

-- Lucy Parsons

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Watching "I Am Not Your Negro" on Netflix - the thing on James Baldwin - and this reference to his friend stuck out for me.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

- Elaine Hansberry

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The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes.

- Aldous Huxley

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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweat shops.

--Stephen Jay Gould