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Which explains why really getting something right seems like such an awesome victory.

no. 447

"It's weird, they're words, but you're lining them up stupid."

Skull, in Corporate Skull

no. 446

"You boffed him so hard, he went Walden."

Amy to Shelley, in John Allison's Bobbins.

no. 445

"We’re haunted by terrible fears and paranoias. We’re frightened beings. When people are afraid, fear takes over and brings out all kind of irrationality. So, yes, we’re constantly striving to be rational, but we’re not wholly rational beings."

Karen Armstrong

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"We’ve separated religion and politics, and this was a great innovation. But so deeply embedded in our consciousness is the desire to give our lives some meaning and significance that no sooner did we do this than we infused the new nation-state with a sort of quasi-religious fervor. If you regard the sacred as something for which we are willing to give our lives, in some senses the nation has replaced God, because it’s now not acceptable to die for religion, but it is admirable to die for your country."

Karen Armstrong

no. 443

no. 442

"I would respect postmodernism if it called itself mad humanities"

Zach Wiener in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (bonus button)

no. 441

"First rule of superlatives, there have to be at least two participants."

from Ty Halley's comic "Jerk-Off"