At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I'm 'passing the torch.' I explain that I'm keeping my touch, thank you very much—and I'm using it to LIGHT THE TORCHES OF OTHERS, because only if each of us has a torch will there be enough light." ~Gloria Steinem
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Nancy Pelosi has just arrived at the Capitol and I want to run up to her screaming, "Mom! Mom! Thank God you're home! The babysitter is batshit cray and starting fires!" ~ Amee Vanderpool
Same. So Much Same.
"My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars." ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Be Careful What You Ask For
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us." ~ Khaled Hosseini
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Be careful who you call your friends. I'd rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies." ~ Al Capone
A Shout Out
You know who you are. Thank you.
Agreed.
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Sometimes I think it's useful to think of this presidency as a hostage-taking situation. We have a president holding liberal democracy hostage, empowered by a cult following. The goal is to get through this without killing any hostages, i.e., without irreparable breaches in our democratic system. Come at him too directly and you might provoke the very thing you are trying to avoid. Somehow, we have to get the nut job to put the gun down and let the hostages go, without giving in to any of his demands. From the moment Trump took office, we were in this emergency. All that we now know, in a way we didn't, say, a year ago, is that the chances of a successful resolution are close to zero." ~Andrew Sullivan
When Andrew Sullivan starts sounding sane, you know we're in trouble.
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Social Media is the abattoir. We are both the butcher and the pig." ~ Source unknown
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In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude." ~ Robert Brault
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There were people who called themselves Satanists who made Crowley squirm. It wasn't just the things they did, it was the way they blamed it all on Hell. They'd come up with some stomach-churning idea that no demon could have thought of in a thousand years, some dark and mindless unpleasantness that only a fully-functioning human brain could conceive, then shout, "The Devil Made Me Do It" and get the sympathy of the court when the whole point was that the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn't have to. That was what some humans found hard to understand. Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind." ~ Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
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Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future."– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
It was too hot outside so we offered him a cold drink. He went for a full body soak instead 🐸
https://t.co/xi8TXMNZz7— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 20, 2018
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My demons are not remotely tackled. They're just mildly concussed." ~ Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) on HBO's Sharp Objects
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Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it's wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always gotten there first and is waiting for it." ~ Terry Pratchett
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He is a titanic—and I mean titanic—fraud. We have listened to this guy for many, many years in this country, on his moral high horse assaulting the dignity of gay people, across the board. His moral preening is famous throughout the land. Yet he is the most obsequious of all Trump's cultists in the cabinet.
There have been occaions, as George Will points out, where speaking on Trump, in front of Trump, Pence compliments him on an average of every 3.2 seconds.
We have never seen such slobbering servility by a high government official in this country than we do in Mike Pence and Donald Trump. It is amazing. He's supposed to be service the American people. He's the Vice President of the United State,s and he acts like he's the house butler at Mar-a-Lago." ~ Republican Steve Schmidt
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The veneer of civilization, I concluded, was quite thin—a natural thought for an intelligence officer whose profession trends pessimistic and whose work is consumed by threats and dangers. Over the years I had learned that the traditions and institutions that protect us from living Hobbesian "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" lives are inherently fragile and demand careful tending. In America today, they are under serious stress.
It was no accident that the Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year in 2016 was "post-truth," a condition where facts are less influential in shaping opinion than emotion and personal belief. To adopt post-truth thinking is to depart from Enlightenment ideas, dominant in the West since the 17th century, that value experience and expertise, the centrality of fact, humility in the face of complexity, the need for study and a respect for ideas. ~ Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA, in an op-ed for The New York Times
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People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up." ~ George R. R. Martin
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There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on." ~ Zayn Malik
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I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars." ~ Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
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All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors." ~ Jacques Lacan
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None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you're carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There's no time for anything else." ~ Sir Anthony Hopkins
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
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The President said he was going to run America like his businesses. Apparently we have reached the part where he would usually just declare bankruptcy and run away." ~ Jason Kander, Let America Vote
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I can't believe I'm living in a timeline where the 'in thing' is to ignore all medical and scientific sense. Like, I cannot believe that there are people out there honestly willing to drink unfiltered water, eat cyanide filled peach pits for 'health,' and not vaccinate their kids. Those 20 year olds in Medieval times didn't routinely die of an abscessed tooth or a minor cough for this." ~ Sodomymcscurvylegs on Tumblr
And let's not forget coffee enemas.
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