June 2012
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May 2012
“Commencement words 2012”
– Madeleine Albright
…today stability is an alien concept…be grateful because the quest to learn more is a vital part of what it means to be alive.
Geoffrey Canada
…the team that rallies us around the common good, that emphasizes self-sacrifice and altruism, is losing. Their team,...
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“It is difficult to see whether the radical contraposition of ‘civilization’ and...”
– Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process (via thepovertyoftheory)
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“So to sum up, one candidate is portrayed, accurately, as being extremely rich,...”
– Conor Friedersdorf (via langer)
Not to be… you know… whatever… but didn’t the Orwellian turn already happen? I mean, isn’t Obama just going in an Orwellian straight line?
(via sexartandpolitics)
Remember when the USA was good? Conor Friedersdorf does.
(via jasencomstock)
I don’t
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“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via theweirdthewonderful)
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“Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of...”
– Noam Chomsky (via antisocial-socialist)
“Kids play T-ball, then baseball; they play games and have practice every week...”
– Meira Levinson talking about her new book No Citizen Left Behind. (via bostonreview)
Wow. Just, wow. Quote of the week.
(via motherjones)
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“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages...”
– Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Spring has its hundred flowers, Autumn its many moons. Summer has cool winds,...”
– Wumen Huikai
(via thatkief)
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