February 2012
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“There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may...”
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Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice - Yahoo! News (via brooklynmutt)
Well, no. Let’s not use the same logic that tried to say black people were dumb because of their population IQ scores. This is bad analysis for the same reason The Bell Curve was. Just a roundup:
1. IQ does...
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“The art of teaching consists in large part of interesting people in things that...”
– Robert Maynard Hutchins
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“Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a...”
– Mark Twain
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observando:
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Rules for Living
Rule #1
If you are not enjoying yourself, you are doing it wrong.
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“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big...”
– The Catcher in the Rye (via thdandeliongirl)
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“Any ordinary source of happiness, if we become overly attached to it, can become...”
– Rinpoche Dzogchen Ponlop
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It's Frank And It's Fucked But I'm Learning Now:... →
halloweenjesus:
Not the place where you got it, no. More along the lines of how that piece of paper was created. That piece of paper, you see, holds the entirety of the universe in it.
That paper was made from resources put to use in a factory.
Those resources arose from timber.
The timber came from forests.
The forests stemmed from seeds, nurtured by the Sun.
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“Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang...”
– Terence McKenna (via didgefish)
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
– MLK (via dewdropsoflove)
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“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“Upon the whole, I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“We have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture. Don’t...”
– Terence McKenna
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“Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or...”
– Ram Dass (via shaktilover)
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“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a...”
– Buckminster Fuller (via alteredperception) 