November 2011
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What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of...
– Pablo Picasso (via arreter)
american insurance healthcare plans
bullocks
How can this be good for anyone who actually needs care?
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discosomarecords:
The Suede Dudes. Here’s “Honey”, a song to soundtrack quitting your job, jogging to your eldest uncle’s apartment, and hanging for days with his “friends from pizza hut” while he is “at the lake house with a girlfriend”.
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According to Psalm 14 of the Bible, people who don’t believe in God are filthy,...
– Atheism, Secularity, and Well-Being: How the Findings of Social Science Counter Negative Stereotypes and Assumptions (2009) by Phil Zuckerman (via scipsy)
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“Tell me, Harry, what difference would it make if it wasn’t real?” Harry thought a moment, his chinless face sour. “We wouldn’t have to do what we think we have to do. But even if we don’t have to do what we think we have to do, it won’t make any difference if we do it Which means we should just go ahead.” Mavis sighed. “Just go ahead.” ...
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Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
– Aleister Crowley
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by...
– Gandhi (via cwnl)
UN Recommends Everyone Stop Telling Women What To... →
mollydruwho:
The UN states that any country restricting a woman’s access to abortion and/or contraception is, in doing so, violating a woman’s human rights.
….finally.
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Shock Value →
Fear is personal. Whether it is heights or rats or failure, what frightens us is as varied as what makes us laugh or what we find beautiful. Taste matters. So do experience and culture. But just as some paintings are simply beautiful regardless of context, certain scares transcend the particular phobias of time and place. It’s the task of the horror movie director to create these enduring...
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This ain’t cocky, nah bitch this is CONFIDENCE
– -Yoon Mi Rae/T/Tasha
Sunzoo- Get Down
(via mynogareru)
We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It
sockparade:
The first fear
being drowning, the
ship’s first shape
was a raft, which
was hard to unflatten
after that didn’t
happen. It’s awkward
to have to do one’s
planning in extremis
in the early years -
so hard to hide later:
sleekening the hull,
making things
more gracious.
— Kay Ryan, We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It
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‘Hubb is love, ‘ishq’ is love that entwines two people together, ‘shaghaf’ is...
– Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love (via khubsurat-taqdeer)
I wish I knew how to pronounce that. So many words and they’re so beautiful.
(via satelliteyellow)
The New Inquiry: The Geography of Failed Revolt →
thenewinquiry:
(Image by Rafal Karcz, via The Tourist)
On the strange case of #OccupyPhoenix and the search for civic life in the exurbs
By Alex Aums and James Broulard
In America (1986), Jean Baudrillard identifies two facets of the country that is his book’s subject: “the America of the…