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"We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."

Charles Bukowski

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no. 314

"[W]hen I told friends and colleagues that I was resigning from my academic job to focus on writing, I was warned that I was making a dangerous mistake, that I could not possibly live on an income that was between twenty and thirty thousand dollars a year. When I pointed to the reality that families of four and more live on such an income, the response would be “that’s different”; the difference being, of course, one of class. The poor are expected to live with less and are socialized to accept less (badly made clothing, products, food, etc.), whereas the well-off are socialized to believe it is both a right and a necessity for us to have more, to have exactly what we want when we want it."

bell hooks, where we stand: Class Matters, chapter 4

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no. 313

"Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing you might have to kill."

Hunter S. Thompson

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no. 312

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t."

Steve Maraboli

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"If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got, and you’ll always feel what you always felt."

Unknown

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no. 307

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”

Groucho Marx

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no. 306

"When I was little I thought being an adult meant not having a bed time but I’ve come to realize that it just means being in charge of my own bed time and it turns out that I am not equipped to handle that responsibility."

jebiwonkenobi

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no. 305

"I don't know what makes you tick, but I really hope it's a time bomb"

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"The problem w/ the Zimmerman verdict isn’t that he got away with murder. It’s that even in 2013, citizens of society refuse to be humble, to be teachable, to be pliable. Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall. Society has consistently fallen short of truly being human. Coercion replaces compassion; fear replaces love; complacency replaces being proactive. People have resolved that 'this is just the way it is', shrug their shoulders, and move on with the life, leaving the grieving families of displaced, misplaced, replaced, and dead children in the wake, then they wonder why 'kids these days' never learn. Who’s teaching them to be unteachable? Who’s teaching them to be passive and aggressive in the wrong areas of life? Who’s teaching them that murder is okay, sex tapes are the norm and will make you a lot of money, and selling your soul for a reality show is the ultimate goal in life? Who’s teaching them that more time & money are spent on trying to be pretty, in-shape, attractive, and/or appealing to the masses, rather than teaching them humility, generosity, compassion, and love? A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

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no. 301

"There’s a shortage of perfect films in the world; it’d be a shame if you haven’t seen this one."

justerino, refering to The Princess Bride.

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no. 300

"Everyone tells you that life gets better. Well, I’m not sure it does. Maybe you just become desensitized. Maybe after kicking you in the balls for twenty years the universe doesn’t just stop kicking. Maybe it’s that you get to point where you just can’t feel your balls anymore."

Ag

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no. 299

"If girls are asking to be raped because their clothes don't completely cover all of their bodies, then boys are asking to be kicked in the balls just because they don't wear cups everywhere."

iseeavoice

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no. 298

"I’m starting to reach that point of scifi inebriation again where the thought that I’m actually confined to a single planet is really weird to me."

toidarian

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no. 297

"The invisible hand does indeed allocate the efforts of private industry to the best possible uses, as long as 'best' and 'most profitable' can be used interchangeably."

Gin and Tacos, from the post Better Living Through Chemistry, or: Thanks, Free Market!

no. 296

“The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.”

Paul Gauguin

no. 295

"It seems to me that the notion of high and low art is a false construct, inconsistently upheld by an unrealistic system of categorization, informed primarily by class."

Danielle Ezzo

no. 294

"So I do happen to pay some attention to football, because I’m emotionally stunted, and christ. These people have nothing to say."

Matt Lubchansky

no. 293

"Art is simultaneously a reflection and reaction to society; its mere intention is to be honest and unfiltered."

Danielle Ezzo

no. 292

“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”

Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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no. 291

"The internet will never smile when you make it harder to masturbate."

Sam Biddle, Tumblr Is Pushing Porn Into an Internet Sex Ghetto

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no. 290

“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”

Emily Haines

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no. 289

“The wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.”

Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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no. 288

“I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don’t listen to the women’s liberation rhetoric because they know that it’s nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles. They say things like they don’t want men opening doors for them anymore, and they don’t want men lighting their cigarettes for them anymore. Big deal. Black women have been opening doors for themselves and lighting their own cigarettes for a couple centuries in this country. Black women don’t quibble about things that are not important.”

Wilma Rudolph

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no. 287

"I think that if they make abortion illegal, they should make men deserting women who they got pregnant illegal as well. Because if a women can’t back out of a pregnancy a man should be able to either."

Keely @ This is a wasteland

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no. 286

"If I’d had children and had a girl, the first words I would have taught her would have been 'fuck off' because we weren’t brought up ever to say that to anyone, were we? And it’s quite valuable to have the courage and the confidence to say, 'No, fuck off, leave me alone, thank you very much'."

Dame Helen Mirren

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