March 2012
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“That was always my experience— a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli
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“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“The left needs a new paradigm. The collapse of communism and the abandonment by...”
– Peter Singer, A Darwinian Left
February 2012
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“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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Performative Utterances:
“Utterances can be found, satisfying these conditions, yet such that
A. they do not ‘describe’ or ‘report’ or constate anything at all, are not ‘true or false’; and
B. the uttering of the sentence is, or is a part of, the doing of an action, which again would not normally be described as saying something.”
-J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words
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“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list...”
– John Green
Anonymous asked: I got a feeling I'd really like talking to you in real life.
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“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
– Khaled Hosseini
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“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
– Plato
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“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...”
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via inothernews)
I adored his speech. Well done.
(via mohandasgandhi)
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“A good way of ridding yourself of certain kinds of dogmatism is to become aware...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“I hate homework.”
– Rumi (via stuffrumineversaid)
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“I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“My love,
We have found each other
Thirsty and we have
Drunk up all the water...”
– Pablo Neruda
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“Idols of the Theater are those which are due to sophistry and false learning....”
– Francis Bacon, Four Idols
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“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on Richard Dawkins' approach to theism?
Anonymous asked: Why did Bertrand Russell smoke if he knew it was unhealthy? That doesn't seem very logical
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“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Sex is a natural human need like food and drink. It is true that men can survive...”
– Bertrand Russell, The Place of Sex Among Human Values
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