September 2011
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Thinking has to be learned the way dancing has to be learned.
– Nietzsche (via philphys)
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I am sleepy like a cat.
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fictionz:
You grow up in a certain way, speaking a certain other language, and you don’t think you’ll ever forget it. It’s there, damn it. It will always be there. This bothers you when you’re young because it’s not the language most people speak. It isn’t the language they speak in the cartoons. You get over this.
It weighs on your mind when you start to lose a native word here and there. It’s...
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Lending Out Books
allpoetryaside:
You’re always giving, my therapist said. You have to learn how to take. Whenever you meet a woman, the first thing you do is lend her your books. You think she’ll have to see you again in order to return them. But what happens is, she doesn’t have the time to read them, & she’s afraid if she sees you again you’ll expect her to talk about them, & will want to lend her even...
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Yet it irks me that, as far as most Americans are concerned, Ron Paul is the...
– A Libertarian’s Lament: Why Ron Paul Is An Embarrassment To The Creed (via azspot)
A good read. Another quote:
To deny that structural discrimination, with or without the backing of the state, can limit an individual’s liberty more injuriously than a sales tax requires the triumph of...
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