December 2011
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“However distasteful is the bitterness of patience, it will eventually taste...”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
“A psychotic is a guy who’s just found out what’s going on.”
–
William S. Burroughs
(via cusackclone)
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“[T]he evolution of media sees control of the story move away from the teller,...”
– Douglas Rushkoff, from Reality as Subversion (via chileanstudentmovement)
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“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your...”
– Lawrence Krauss (via allhailtheinfidel) (via ageofreason, neightkelly) (via ludi-vine)
“Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the...”
– Chuang Tzu (via light-essence)
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“I cannot help you understand. In the realm of the ultimate, each person must...”
– Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume (via internetcupcakes)
“A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied...”
– Sigmund Freud (via hippierev0luti0n)
Cities that broke up Occupy camps now face... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Most major Occupy encampments have been dispersed, but they live on in a flurry of lawsuits in which protesters are asserting their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly and challenging authorities’ mass arrests and use of force to break up tent cities.
Lawyers representing protesters have filed lawsuits — or are planning them — in state and federal courts...
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“We ought to be slient or speak things that are better than silence.”
– Pythagoras (via nirvikalpa)
“Accept the words “strange,” “eccentric,” and “quirky” as the highest of...”
– (via journalofanobody)
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
– Maya Angelou (via inhaletherain)
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“Everything is more beautiful
because we’re doomed.
You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer, The Iliad (via thefarfromfeed)
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“A work that 10 people love passionately is more important than one that 10,000...”
– music critic Charles Rosen (via bohemianarthouse)
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via infinitives)
(via theaestheticattitude)
“Society is split into so many directions. Look at the disintegration. So many...”
– Merce Cunningham (via bohemianarthouse)
“It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via forgot-forgotten)
“Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the...”
– Chuang Tzu (via light-essence)
“ “The pattern, and it alone, brings into being and causes to pass away and...”
– Isaiah Berlin, British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian, (1909-1997), The proper study of mankind: an anthology of essays, Chatto & Windus, 1997, p. 129. See also: ☞ ‘To understand is to perceive patterns’ - B. Fuller, Powell, Johnson, West, Kurzweil & video...
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via libraryland)
“ “If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then,...”
– Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is remembered most for developing the theory of general semantics (1879-1950), Science & Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics, Institute of GS, 1994, p.61. See also: Map–territory relation - a...
“ “We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages. The...”
– Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist (1897-1941), 1956, p. 213, cited in Does language determine thought? Boroditsky’s (2001) research on Chinese speakers’ conception of time (pdf)