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"In the midst of winter, I found, within me, an invincible summer." –Albert Camus, "Return to Tipasa" (1954)
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"In the midst of winter, I found, within me, an invincible summer." –Albert Camus, "Return to Tipasa" (1954)
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"Life has become immeasurably
"Life has become immeasurably better since I have stopped taking it seriously." Hunter S. Thompson
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"Life is mysterious and
"Life is mysterious and beautiful and it sucks." - me
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Awww Judit I want to laugh
Awww Judit I want to laugh and cry at the same time
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judit, your post made me
judit, your post made me think of an old Woody Allen bit:
“There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, 'Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.' The other one says, 'Yeah, I know; and such small portions.' Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.” –Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay
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After two years in prison, on
After two years in prison, on January 17, 2023, Alexei Navalny wrote:
“I’m not going to surrender my country to them, and I believe that the darkness will eventually yield. But as long as it persists, I will do all I can, try to do what is right, and urge everyone not to abandon hope.
Russia will be happy!”
“We must do what they fear - tell the truth, spread the truth.
This is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. Everyone has this weapon. So make use of it.”
-Alexei Navalny from prison on June 19, 2023
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"Shut the fuck up Donny."
"Shut the fuck up Donny."
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Nolite Te Bastardes
Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum - by Megan Bowler
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"invincible summer"
"invincible summer"
^also the wonderful title one of my man's fave records, by kd lang
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If you don't know whether to
If you don't know whether to shit or go blind
try shitting first
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I can't believe I am the
I can't believe I am the first to remind you to "Buckle Up Kids"
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We're not here to fuck
We're not here to fuck spiders
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FAFO-?
FAFO-?
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"We're here to help each
"We're here to help each other through this thing, whatever it is." –Kurt Vonnegut's son Mark.
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when all else fails
when all else fails
read the instructions...
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"Pobodys Nerfect"
"Pobodys Nerfect"
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"I don't get laid, nobody
"I don't get laid, nobody gets laid."
Bill Hicks doing an impression of Ted Turner
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7le907eZ20g
Hicks might not have been too far off. The 4B movement in South Korea is trending with groups of American women:
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/nx-s1-5182888/4b-movement-trump-south-korea
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We cross our bridges when
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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"I'm a work in progress.
"I'm a work in progress. Please wait." (from the internet)
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A Nazi in every dumpster.
A Nazi in every dumpster.
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Look for the helpers
Look for the helpers
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"We're Fucked!!!" - 100
"We're Fucked!!!" - 100 million Americans.
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This is the phrase I wanted
This is the phrase I wanted to post at 6:20 but I didn't remember all of it and messed it up.
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“Life moves on, whether we
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.” ― Henry Miller
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Tell people there's an
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
- George Carlin
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Never underestimate the power
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group.
- George Carlin
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"Hey wait! They can't do that
"Hey wait! They can't do that!"
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Here's another cool million
Here's another cool million for you to "invest" for me Mr. Madoff.
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Do I contradict myself?
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself.
I am large, I contain multitudes.
-Walt Whitman
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Reminds me of something my
Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say say, "I'm goin' upstairs to fuck your grandmother". He was an honest man, and he wasn't going to bullshit a four-year-old.
- St. George
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Roberto:
Roberto:
It is a sad and beautiful world.
Zack:
Yeah, it's a sad and beautiful world buddy.
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Everybody understands Mickey
Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Hermann Hesse. Only a handful understood Albert Einstein. And nobody understood Emperor Norton.
Principia Discordia
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Reality is the original
Reality is the original Rorschach.
Malaclypse the Younger
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"A Few Words I Wrote Today"
"A Few Words I Wrote Today" by Patti Smith
November 6. 2024
Audio: https://pattismith.substack.com/p/a-few-words
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You're not Dylan Thomas
You're not Dylan Thomas
I'm not Patti Smith
This ain't the Chelsea hotel
We're modern idiots
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"We have met the enemy, and
"We have met the enemy, and he is us" ~ Pogo~ Walt Kelly.
This was paraphrased from the original quote of Commander Oliver Perry, who said "We have met the enemy and they are ours", after capturing a British fleet in1813.
Walt made it more meaningful.
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In stormy times, wise people
In stormy times, wise people remain calm, even when the world around them is in turmoil. Turbulence may destroy structures that lack a firm foundation, but this is necessary to build stronger ones.
- Stephen Hill
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History's page will thus be
History's page will thus be carved in stone
The future's here, we are here
We are on our own.........
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Hunter seems timely.
Hunter seems timely.
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Someone the other day said
Someone the other day said “If you’re not invited to the table, it means you’re on the menu.” It comes through my mind occasionally.
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"The weak are meat and the
"The weak are meat and the strong do eat."
Said a couple times in the movie Cloud Atlas.
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Any intelligent fool can make
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
-- E. F. Schumacher
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" Oh fuck" - Woz
" Oh fuck"
- Woz
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"HUH?"
"HUH?"
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I love yous guys.
I love yous guys.
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"Never criticize anyone until
"Never criticize anyone until you walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you do, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."
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"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Kevin Roberts
President of The Heritage Foundation
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I saw a sigh today that said:
I saw a sign today that said:
Don't stop until you are proud
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we're fired up, can't take it
we're fired up, can't take it no more!
we're fired up, can't take it no more!
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"It is up to each of us to
"It is up to each of us to Practice happiness, joy and Love every day. You are the medicine."
-- Gaspar Rengifo
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"Social security is the biggest ponzi scheme of all time"
Elon Musk
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Improvisation kills fascism.
Improvisation kills fascism.
...Me (with a nod to Seeger and Guthrie)
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"The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision"
Dmitry Peskov
Kremlin spokesman
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“A really efficient
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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The Party seeks power
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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The cost of sanity, living
The cost of sanity, living in this society, is a certain level of alienation.
-- Terence McKenna
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Reality leaves a lot to the
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
-- John Lennon
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Terence McKenna: "Culture is
Terence McKenna: "Culture is Not Your Friend" (1999)
TM: “What civilization is, is 6 billion people, trying to make themselves happy by standing on each-others shoulders and kicking each others teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation. And yet, you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have; the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific knowhow, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us; the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons. This is something…I mean, I don’t really want to get off on this tear because it’s a lecture in itself but…culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people’s convenience and the convenience of various institutions; churches, companies, tax-collection schemes and what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well treated by culture, and yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual, we understand the felt presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion; it fetishizes objects, it creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrely religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines; meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue and Hollywood and what have you.”
Audience member: “How do we fight back?”
TM: “I think that by creating Art--Art--Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or, the God that put man on this planet to toil in the mud is no God I want to have any part of. It’s some kind of Gnostic demon. It’s some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected. By putting the ‘Art’ peddle to the metal, we really, I think, maximize our humanness…and become much more necessary and incomprehensible to the machines.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0JneoZwQ_E
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Life's but a walking shadow,
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
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Dance like you're working for
Dance like you're working for the money
Work like nobody's watching
~ Eric Combs
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"We'll drive off that bridge
"We'll drive off that bridge when we come to it." -Was Ted Kennedy, now Robert Kennedy
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"All war is a symptom of man
"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal." –John Steinbeck