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What doth life?

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  • iswaterwetJan 30 at 5:39 PM

    "Life comes to miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives." --Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)

    https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/484951.Mary_Harris_Jones I was thinking about the labor rights movement today. The US President signed an executive order require that 2 Federal regulations be removed for every regulation that is enacted. Folly! ...
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  • iswaterwetJan 29 at 11:10 AM

    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

    Donald Trump is proof that anti-intellectualism is on the rise. He announced a ban on refugees on the Holocaust Remembrance Day. I feel that it is appropriate to post some Eistein quotes. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9810.Albert_Einstein “A c...
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  • jojopeanutJan 07 at 11:33 AM

    Music is human magic.

    It's certainly not supernatural- most people can produce some sort music intentionally from their earliest childhood. We can start to explain music and its influence scientifically. We know some chords sound good because of where wavelengths match up and ...
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  • iswaterwetJan 07 at 9:24 AM

    “Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.” (Octavia Butler quotes)

    Kindred is my favorite book that I read in 2016. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/29535.Octavia_E_Butler “You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That...
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  • iswaterwetJan 07 at 8:35 AM

    Racism didn't magically go away just because we refuse to talk about it... (Patricia Hill Collins quotes)

    https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/33867.Patricia_Hill_Collins Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requ...
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  • iswaterwetJan 07 at 8:27 AM

    “To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.” ― Nnedi Okorafor

    https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/588356.Nnedi_Okorafor “Silence is the best answer to a fool.” “Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.” “Just because you are American does not make you American.” “We pref...
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  • iswaterwetJan 07 at 8:16 AM

    “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” (Dr. Seuss quotes)

    https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/61105.Dr_Seuss “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” “We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them...
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  • iswaterwetDec 15, 2016 at 9:44 PMΔ

    “If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?” ― George Carlin (paradox quotes)

    More paradox quotes @goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/paradox “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.” ― Frank Herbert “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that yo...
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  • iswaterwetDec 15, 2016 at 9:42 PMΔ

    carl rogers quotes (founder of humanistic approach to psychology)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be...
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