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A quotation from Bertrand Russell

If you wish a man to commit some abominable crime, from which he would naturally recoil in horror, you first teach him loyalty to a gang of arch-criminals, and then make his crime appear to him as exemplifying the virtue of loyalty. Of this process, patriotism is the most perfect instance.


Bertrand Russell (1872โ€“1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 โ€œThe Individual vs. the Citizenโ€ (1932)

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/855โ€ฆ

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A quotation (probably) from Hannah Arendt

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.


Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/82785/

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Powerful quotes by James Baldwin

https://youtu.be/o0PiTToIRlk?si=yT2ovqZjVWwt-rGJ

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James Baldwin Quotes

#quotes #BlackHistory #JamesBaldwin Enjoy these thought-provoking quotes from James Baldwin, an American essayist, playwright, novelist, and whose eloquent, ...
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โ€œBut the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.โ€

โ€• Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

comic by: kerebrin
๐Ÿ”—:https://higgsbison.tumblr.com/post/718331175538737152/happy-glorious-25th-of-may

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first part of a comic depicting the full quote posted: โ€œThe reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles."
second part of the comic depicting the full quote posted: "But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.โ€

Higgs.

happy glorious 25th of may
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I may need to take this quote to heart.

"Think not of the books you've bought as a 'to be read' pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood." - Luc van Donkersgoed, as quoted at https://www.instagram.com/p/CnBV6PqPxZm/

The TBR pile is dead! Long live the #BookCellar!

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โ€œWe live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.โ€
โ€• Ursula K. Le Guin

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Current mood. Painted this back in 2019.

Feeling incredibly sleepy, but got no choice but to power through my tasks for the day.

How is everyone doing?

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Digital illustration in a cartoony style of two sleepy baby foxes. One is curled up and asleep while the other one is resting it's frontal paws on top the other fox. He looks super sleepy and is yawning. There's a speech bubble next to the yawning fox, a cup of coffee is inside the speech bubble. At the bottom of the illustration there's a quote saying " A yawn is a silent scream for coffee".
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"Where there is wondrous variety, there will be innovation and flourishing. Where there is homogeneity, there will be stagnation and withering."

Piper Anne Twain

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