tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63642135486895500662024-03-24T03:11:55.207-04:00Midcan5's BlogJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-89200772184935831432023-02-07T07:38:00.002-05:002024-03-23T17:55:34.718-04:00Woke <p>More on woke:</p><p>https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/all-things-work/the-meaning-of--woke-</p><p> </p><p>Woke is a modern pejorative, how did that happen, for many it has no meaning outside the negative. It is the N word, the J word, the S word, the H word, etc etc revised. Or is that revisited. No need to think, just call it woke. Bill Maher delivers a diatribe recently that compared it to the very thing it opposes with no obvious irony. DeSantis uses it often and being an autocrat, it fits him well - name call - don't think. It comes out of the far right republican (so called) conservatives need to deny change, stop progress, or exclude the other. Why ponder, why consider, why learn, when you can label. Why acknowledge difference. Fox and other so called conservative networks like Newsmax and OAN use it often for it fits much of their audience and they must play along for the audience. You'd think humans would recognize by now the evil labeling creates but no, labels still work. </p><p><br /></p><p>"The main hypothesis concerning group-think is this: the more amiability and espirt de corps among the members of an in-group of policymakers the greater the danger that independent critical thinking will be replaced by groupthink, which is likely to result in irrational and the dehumanizing actions directed at out-groups." Irving L. Janis in 'Sanctions for Evil' </p><p>A history of “wokeness”</p><p>https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy</p><p>'What Does #Woke Really Mean? / By Elif Shafak'</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lth7GHdSyMw</p><p><br /></p>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-35293217273974580422021-12-13T08:23:00.001-05:002024-03-23T17:51:38.826-04:00Are Newsmax, OANN, and Fox Media threats to American Democracy? <p>Add: 03/2024</p><p>"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil </p><p>Watching Fox media recently it occurred to me, why. Why are they so anti-democracy. There is no balance in their coverage. What does it say about advertisers and even their spokespeople. </p><p>-------</p><p> Most of the information presented by Fox OAN and Newsmax pretends to be
news but is opinion. Opinion that appeals to a segment of society that
already agrees. Opinionated presentation targets divisive issues rather
than reporting or analysis. It is an internal political correctness that
sees news or politics through an agreed upon lenses that is often
anti-democratic, anti-science, and even anti-intelligence. These media
sources pretend to be conservative they are not. They conserve nothing,
they posture, dismiss, and divide.</p>
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It is an irony that Fox has become worse in an attempt to keep OAN and
Newsmax at bay. Viewers are money. Modern American so called
Conservative media now vies for the ridiculous if it feeds a bias, a
hate, or criticizes. Add to this the death of local media along with the
repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, Citizen's United, and the goose is
cooked. Dark Money now rules. <br />
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Add online media sources that appear in searches and news feeds. Many of
these are dark money supported sites pretending to be news when they
are agitprop. Political power and corporate power do not like democracy.
Democracy too often muddies the water, a citizen sees the world
differently than a government bureaucrat or a profit seeking corporate
officer. How does that corporation control democracy, it controls the
information media presents and it targets information based on the
social profiles of its viewers, often white and rural. Dog whistles
dominate. <br />
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Democratic government is the favorite bogeyman of autocratic government.
Lesser players in this game of deception include Breitbart, Townhall,
and a host of sites that can be found in Internet searches -
questionable sources are covered in links below. Online trolls have also
proliferated in online social media. Some even gravitate to conspiracy
sites or ideas of secession. This divisiveness takes many forms such as
private schools, religious separation, and isolated rural community
settings. Public education is too democratic, too open. How for instance
could a pandemic become something other than a pandemic. Gaslighting
from Fox ET AL have created a world of doubt. America leads the world in
Covid-19 deaths, misinformation has consequences.<br />
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So how do we understand the topic question when media is opinion,
distortion, dog whistles, targeted, oppositional, using loaded words,
words meant as pejorative or audience specific? Content without thought,
words like 'cancel' 'woke' 'leftist' 'liberal' 'socialist' 'border'
'trans' 'guns' etcetera. What do they really mean outside the club?
Their appeal is to tribe, to emotion, not content or analysis.
Misinformation and distortion weaken a nation's political conversation.
Ask always who benefits, what is its purpose, and is the information
news or opinion. Seek sources that explain without always pointing
fingers. <br />
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Daniel Pipes wrote. "First, democracy is more than holding elections; it
requires the development of civil society, meaning such complex and
counter intuitive institutions as the rule of law, an independent
judiciary, multiple political parties, minority rights, voluntary
associations, freedom of expression, movement, and assembly. Democracy
is a learned habit, not an instinctive one, that requires deep
attitudinal changes such as a culture of restraint, a commonality of
values, a respect for differences of view, the concept of loyal
opposition, and a sense of civic responsibility." <br />
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<b>'The Five Biggest Threats Our Democracy Faces'</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/five-biggest-threats-our-democracy-faces" target="_blank">https://www.brennancenter.org/our-wo...emocracy-faces</a><br />
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<b>And the Courts/SCOTUS threat:</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/10/the-agenda-review-biden-expand-supreme-court-trump-republicans" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...mp-republicans</a><br />
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Information Sources to check:<br />
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<a href="https://iffy.news/" target="_blank">https://iffy.news/</a><br />
<a href="https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fake-news/" target="_blank">https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fake-news/</a><br />
<a href="http://politics.flackcheck.org/patterns-of-deception/" target="_blank">http://politics.flackcheck.org/patterns-of-deception/</a><br />
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One online news site I recommend: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us</a><br />
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"Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and
corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and
greed are destroying the middle class of America." Bernie Sanders Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-4421165192807262792020-02-25T09:14:00.001-05:002024-03-23T18:00:09.109-04:00Supreme Court Readings SCOTUS<div>Update: Robert's or should I say Trump's SCOTUS is a kinda joke today. Three or four perjured themselves over Roe and they continue to kowtow to the religious right and Trump. Sad. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>If there is a hell it will be full of Supreme Court justices. ;) <br />
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https://www.npr.org/2020/02/24/808134530/supreme-inequality-makes-a-case-that-the-top-u-s-court-has-widened-the-wealth-ga<br />
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'The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America' by Adam Cohen<br />
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'Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted' by Ian Millhiser<br />
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"Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. Since its inception, the justices of the Supreme Court have shaped a nation where children toiled in coal mines, where Americans could be forced into camps because of their race, and where a woman could be sterilized against her will by state law. "<br />
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46184066-supreme-inequality<br />
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22715946-injustices<br />
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"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil <br />
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-53892694185465087892019-12-05T08:31:00.000-05:002019-12-05T08:31:27.776-05:00Inside The mind of our leader....Inside The mind of our leader - the Trolling Messiah Thinks ???<br />
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I am the chosen one, only I can save you, you are my people, believe, oh and support me with visits too.<br />
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Now that Americans along with Saudis and Russians support us, we are one happy family. <br />
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I do my best work from my golf cart so Americans should be happy I'm always working. <br />
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Alabama thanked me for mentioning them with Dorian, they said my penmanship was great. <br />
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I know they shot a lot of people here in El Paso but did you see my rally crowds what fans, huge just huge.<br />
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Some call my fans snowflakes but they are my snowflakes, signs and cheers and all, I tell them things they believe. <br />
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How about those doctors who left their operating rooms in El Paso to greet me, my fans are everywhere. <br />
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Some call me Beelzebub, I love it, sounds so Trump like, that may be why Evangelicals love me so much. <br />
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Melania likes Kim too, he reminds her of me only shorter and not blond, similar haircut. <br />
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Parscale and Miller told me name calling works better than thinking, my fans follow and cheer, they must be on to something.<br />
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I'll get those immigrants, my benefactors are polluting the planet greatly, heat, floods will get em even if ICE doesn't.<br />
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There are no saints in my cheering crowds thank god, only happy hat wearers holding signs. <br />
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All red hat Whites vote for me, I make them laugh and promise them things they won't get, can you believe it. <br />
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Greenland is green right, I like green, I think Melania has green eyes, oh sorry, that was a porn star. <br />
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Only kidding not enough Russians or Saudis will support me if I buy Greenland with their gracious support.<br />
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Golf, I like to golf, yep golf, I like to golf yep did I say I like to golf, but I will be working hard in my head, count on it. <br />
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My new deal is more for me and my friends, not these cheering hat wearers but they still cheer, can you believe it?<br />
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Single handedly I wiped out ISIS no one else could do that I did in no time at all, bone spurs and all.<br />
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And even though my ties and Ivanka's clothing are made in third world nations that doesn't mean we don't like America's over paid workers lots. <br />
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I am not racist even though I do lots of things that are considered racist, just follow, stop thinking, be red hat fans.<br />
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Reality TV was where I was was made and today where America lives and kinda believes and cheers, great great great.<br />
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I failed in business but this president job is a real gem, use my own places and the Saudis and Russians contribute too, nice.<br />
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I made ignorance and stupidity republican traits and you thought I was a business failure, gotcha. <br />
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My Campaign in a nutshell: walls and whites, birtherism. more money for me, come on what else matters?<br />
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What does messianic mean, they keep saying I'm messianic, Melania you know, no, oh well. <br />
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Anyone who loves me should love Kimmie and Vladie too they my bros. Melania, what does autocrat mean? <br />
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"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H. L. Mencken<br />
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-35198141440894880572019-05-05T15:34:00.000-04:002019-05-05T15:34:19.380-04:00Russian Troll Talks Editor's note: Given the distractions and confusion caused by social media trolls we cannot confirm the authorship of this opinion piece, but we find its analysis interesting and at times insightful. <br />
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Zdravstvuj, I am one of those people you read about. We are phantoms to some who think knowledge is stable and real, we know better. First a little history. When the online comment and communications boards began most people had no idea of the power and influence they would eventually create. AOL chat was an early participant as was Yahoo, it was often childish and its format not open to propaganda and idea dissemination. Anyone remember Yahoo answers, it too was occasionally interesting, but the audience wasn't wide enough and we needed better directing and focusing, we needed to target an audience that would believe or even just doubt.<br />
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But something else was going on and had been going for a long time. Think Tanks (TT) formed a model for the control of information. RAND and Hudson began after WWII as bases of knowledge and policy, who could have predicated what they would eventually become? How thought itself could be transformed. Propaganda now had a platform, no longer just opinion, no longer on the sidelines, now the Think Tank confirmed whatever it was they were paid to confirm. Agnotology had a sponsor. Smoking bad? Global warming real? Doubt everything. Well not everything only those issues that challenged power.<br />
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Today think tanks are tools for the political, economic, and corporate interests - the interests of the monied classes. One could say mind control or people control. The writings and ideas of these TT are used for and by public relations and lobbying groups. Ask yourself, who has time today to read serious journalism when the mediasphere is everywhere and always on? Few do in the wider society. The next step was and is a marriage between Think Tanks and educational programs, breeding ground for idea control and the scholars and students who attended them. The Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Heartland Institute, and the Federalist Society stand out. These institutions gave birth to ideologies, free market libertarianism, lower tax policy, big government as the problem. Nationalism ironically became a positive reversing its history. Betsey DeVos for instance is a perfect education secretary, an impotent head of a once important institution. <br />
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We can't take credit for creating the Trump partisan, but because they were already primed with an unclear resentment, we were able to exploit that characteristic in many Americans especially white Americans and oddly even religious Americans and Evangelicals. The ground work was done and while it was supported and financed several other developments were required for idea deployment. Ideology adherents were developed and ideas promulgated to colleges. University Chairs were established and programs developed. These are the idea people today who spread the news. Quite obviously there is a historic background for our country too. At first there was the belief that Communism worked a kind of Marxist magic. Some Americans and even scholars believed the propaganda, but it was just that. Statistics made lies real. Some progress was made. After all we launched Sputnik. Media control in our country can be quite harsh but let's not get too complicated after all America and other nations that can be influenced are our work place today. Russian history can be a footnote. Power wants its people compliant and confused and it pays well and keeps us working. The Bible was right concerning money. <br />
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We arrive at today and our role in creating beliefs, your reality in other words was a small step, the ideas had fertile soil. Some of course think they are actually preaching truths, everyone imagines they know things, but few know where the things they believe come from. Why believe this and not that. But let's not get too complicated. When you are a child adults tell you lots of imaginary things and you believe. Fantasies comfort. What's to keep the powerful from doing that to adults. Enter Social media, Facebook began in 2004, slowly at first but some deep thinkers in espionage saw its potential. Twitter in 2006. Combined with numerous radio programs and online internet sites, information travels everywhere and is repeated and repeated. Truth comes through repetition, advertisers know that, anything that makes our opponents look bad, be it only a phrase or an aside, is soon propagated throughout the social media sphere.<br />
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We have had lots of help from America and its media. Red State, Breitbart, Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Newsmax, OAN, and Fox media are only a part of the machine. If you can play on people's resentment, biases, and hatred you have a person who can be led. As political sites grew our work was focused on election periods. We created identities and supported people and platforms who sow distrust in the very words you read. We didn't need to create the idea of fake media, you elected a president who did it for us. Dark money and Citizens United gave us power too and face it Americans you vote. Your investigative journalists provided info on Trump, but social media and an obsession over H's email clouded the dialogue. Even your Republican elected officials defend our work in a manner of speaking. We targeted Red States and rural areas. <br />
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Remember too the Trump family is banal and crooked, they do not operate in a world of ethics, they hardly puzzle over their behaviors, they consider dishonesty just the way it is. We Russians love American words like crooked. They colluded and conspired but the Trumps are clever enough to hide behind American law and American 'Freedoms'. Add the 'The Federalist Society' which picks tools for the powerful and you have the ingredients for the eventual breakdown of democracy. Remember Hillary did win but America is not a democracy, it is a Republic and it is ruled and managed by an elite, both moral and immoral, always been that way and so long as we can distract people and money pays the bills we will play our part. If the senate can be managed and manipulated with republicans, the courts and judges can be too. Look at all the judges they selected what a win that is for the privileged classes. <br />
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We did not create Trump or Kushner or Miller or Kavanaugh or Parscale or Dobbs or Barr or Hannity, you did, your system did, and so while we use them they represent the amorality of your world. Winning at all cost is American as apple pie. Love your idioms. Some claim we are amoral. Listen people, many are amoral, Trump is amoral, do you really think he believes or thinks deeply about anything? Twitter is so much fun. Look at Steve Bannon, he too is part of the gaming of the American people, and folks should democrats ever get their message heard, we will twist that too and soon republicans will be looked on as really caring for America and Americans. You know, the values issue, wins every time. Notice we are already doing that with the ACA, aka Obamacare. We know where to focus, Democrats don't. Cultural location and religious belief - rural remote - are areas of dissemination, focus areas in other words. Just a matter of time and soon your nation will be like ours, controlled by the few. In many ways it already is, but one must not see that for the leader must promise the promised land and always strive to pull the wool over your eyes. Sorry, couldn't resist. <br />
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Allow a moment of commiseration, your poor working class will remain poor, your West Virginia coal miners will remain poor, your Southern States will remain poor, your rural areas will remain poor, but they will cheer and wear their MAGA hats praising a man who cares less about them than we do. Funny huh. Tribes stick together and republican policies are words not deeds. When single issues control your vote you are an easy target. It took time to make your government and MSM the problem but we had inside help. You see them on TV daily. Your middle class is now more similar to your working class poor. Of course most of your GDP is spent on defense and guess who gains from defense spending. You made your bed and while we may have helped, you vote we don't. 'Freedom' spoke. No job training in America today but lots of finger pointing. Of course USAReally and RT will help your media sources too. Information today is so flexible, it can be made up and changed in a moment. Take care.<br />
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Footnote: We must be careful should republicans and Trump destroy too many of the values and policies that have made America great. Americans could then return to realpolitik, a place where commonsense rules over ideology and created reality. Another FDR could again make America great as Reagan promoted even though he was created by the words of corporate propagandists. 2020 here we come. Good luck America. <br />
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Editor Note: The Russian troll's confession may be a spoof, we do not know. If 'they' return to comment we'll be open to their opinion. America is in a state of divided incredulity, but so long as the economy isn't crashing, anything goes. Trump rallies appear to be more useful tools for control than many had thought. Lies are truths, promises never kept, but the show goes on and on. <br />
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Russian trolls: https://www.recode.net/2017/11/2/16598312/russia-twitter-trump-twitter-deactivated-handle-list<br />
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The show goes on: https://popular.info/p/trump-ad-contagion-spreads-on-facebook<br />
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Or not: https://www.zdnet.com/article/putin-signs-runet-law-to-cut-russias-internet-off-from-rest-of-world/<br />
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"The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning." Robert Anton Wilson<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-87255015905839901272019-04-14T21:01:00.001-04:002020-07-11T07:29:24.047-04:00Fact Paradox and Random MusingsEdit 07/2020 - I left lots in, removed a few items, and as always used few words so as to create questions, perplexity, and thought. Take in small doses for words can provoke thinking, even wisdom. I hope. <br />
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The birth of time and space as we understand it occurred some 15 billion years ago.<br />
If opinions are only opinions what are opinions.<br />
Certainty is unscientific. <br />
Imagine bacteria from a space probe starting life on another planet.<br />
Some scientists claim humanity has a 50/50 chance of surviving this century.<br />
The Mosuo are the only known significant matriarchal society.<br />
A nation of great wealth disparity is an un-freedom nation. <br />
Thousands of Americans and it is estimated over a million Iraqis have died so far over these WMDS. <br />
How long can one remain silent. <br />
Japan invaded the United States on December 7Th, 1941, today American flags adorn Japanese cars in America. <br />
Free will is an essential myth.<br />
What the heck is woke?<br />
Cancel culture egads now a few words are all you need. <br />
You can understand how a neuron works but it doesn't help understanding.<br />
Do politicians ever think about poverty in America or the world.<br />
Recently I noticed a shirt in Macy's made in Vietnam. <br />
Fifty six thousand Americans died in Vietnam fighting the spread of Communism.<br />
A human would not be a human outside society.<br />
Many people believe having freedom to do something means you can. <br />
Americans today buy more communist made items than American made. <br />
Freedom is the chance to be better, thought Camus. <br />
Have you ever met someone whose smile or voice alone made you like them.<br />
What was the first question.<br />
What will be the last. <br />
One hundred trillion microbes exist on each of us. <br />
If you want to protect the whales stop supporting Japan. <br />
Do social memes exist.<br />
Is the mediocrity principle true.<br />
It is estimated there are hundred thousand possible earths in our galaxy alone. <br />
Seinfeld claimed to be about nothing.<br />
John Cage once said he was saying nothing but still saying it.<br />
Do we ever grow up.<br />
How much real world experience do Judges have.<br />
Pres Trump's policies and words have demonstrated his evangelical base is not very Christ-like. <br />
American conservatives are resentful and bitter, why. <br />
All industrial nations have universal healthcare except for the United States.<br />
'Semper Fi' stickers have been seen on Japanese and German cars.<br />
The earth is four and one half billion years old.<br />
What is a picture really worth. <br />
Robert Musil said pictures on the wall soon disappear. <br />
Republicans hated Clinton in 2000 and love him in 2011.<br />
And hate them again in 2016. Love hate is so republican. <br />
The life span of elephants is 70 years.<br />
One teaspoon of sea water contains five billion bacteria.<br />
Some Americans are too proud to buy American.<br />
When watching another perform a task, our brain's neurons imitate the activity. <br />
A quarter of all Americans believe President Obama was born outside the US.<br />
Drawing came first then writing then reading, so humans could understand what they drew.<br />
Maybe grunting came first.<br />
I love to listen and watch my granddaughter babble in what appears to be meaningful conversation. <br />
George W. Bush was AWOL during Vietnam. Donald Trump a draft dodger. <br />
Japan impedes access of American automobiles into their markets. <br />
John Kerry served in Vietnam; Dick Cheney obtained four deferments.<br />
Music and art make us human.<br />
Zola thought you cannot see something until you photograph it.<br />
Each weekend at Mass, we prayed for the conversion of Russia from Communism.<br />
Alaska was discovered in 1732.<br />
The enemy of my enemy is my friend leads to nothing good. <br />
Evil is the reason hell is required.<br />
Zeno thought movement impossible. <br />
During the week we hid under our school desks preparing for nuclear holocaust.<br />
All religions have as a central tenet the Golden Rule - none follow it.<br />
George Tenet claimed WMD were a slam dunk; he received the Freedom Medal. <br />
There are a hundred billion synapses in the brain.<br />
How do we explain blindsight.<br />
Why do Americans have so little regard for education.<br />
Donald Trump lies on average two or three times a day.<br />
Trump lies with a smirk.<br />
The earth does not require humans. <br />
Was Cassandra on target. <br />
The meaning of freedom requires context.<br />
Americans could solve all our economic problems by simply supporting America and its workers. <br />
The universe does not require living things nor thought. <br />
Liberty only exists where there is law. <br />
Is language essential to dreams, I think no.<br />
Often the enemy is ourselves or our ideas.<br />
America is not in the Bible.<br />
Betsey DeVos is an ignoramus and wants all American children to share in that quality.<br />
Dolphins call each other by name.<br />
AI has been around since the beginning of time why the anxiety now. <br />
The military is the single largest buyer of goods and services in America.<br />
Conservatives dislike public education because it educates. <br />
I drive a mobile ad for American made. <br />
All debate should be enthymematic.<br />
Lawyers are too often tools of dark money. <br />
Ninety five percent of internet debate is ad hominem.<br />
Why do some Americans see Trump as their Savior.<br />
Low taxes and deregulation have failed the majority of America's people. <br />
Gossip is universal, so is the blame. <br />
There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.<br />
Education gets 6% of our budget, the military 57%.<br />
Beauty is an evolutionary given.<br />
The nuns knew how to inflict guilt, mention omission.<br />
Omission and commission are potentially good and bad. <br />
Do American boys still work on cars.<br />
Try to think without words.<br />
If man kills himself off what will replace us. <br />
Americans love fantasy shows about spirit intervention, why. <br />
David Deutsch claims conjecture is the origin of all knowledge.<br />
George W. Bush a draft dodger painted both McCain and Kerry as bad soldiers.<br />
Do dreams mean anything. Do nightmares. <br />
The Iraq invasion has cost over 700 billion dollars and counting. <br />
We see the world as we are. <br />
Wealth is a creation of society not individuals. <br />
In just ten generations you have 2048 grandparents. <br />
The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe.<br />
Carbon fuels are the result of life death and time.<br />
Mitochondrial Eve is our evolutionary mom, Adam lived nearby we hear. <br />
Does birth order matter.<br />
Everyone's eyes today in modern America are on a phone.<br />
Sometimes I think the bicycle is the greatest invention. <br />
Labels or categories or isms are only meaningful to the speaker.<br />
Colin Powell provided complex testimony at the UN for WMD.<br />
While Hillary Clinton used private email, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice use public email<br />
Many Americans believe in an America that never existed.<br />
Dreams are creations of the mind. <br />
Do dreams tell us anything important.<br />
My friend thinks the dead talk to him in dreams. <br />
Repeat a lie over and over and soon it becomes a truth.<br />
My dreams are often complex journeys back. <br />
Agnotology pays well in America, watch Fox is you doubt. <br />
Humans are inconsistently hypocritical. <br />
Are cynicism and conspiracy close relatives.<br />
Is conspiracy thinking an evolutionary tactic of survival.<br />
TV's easy solutions give comfort to many. <br />
Hiroshima was bombed on August 6Th, 1945. <br />
Approximately eleven more ovulations occurred before the egg dropped that became me.<br />
My mother says my first love was a car, a 1955 Chevy.<br />
Fiction serves as conscience.<br />
It is estimated that there are twenty thousand species of ants on the earth.<br />
Edward Wilson claims ants are the only true socialists, could bees be too. <br />
Why are breasts so interesting and desirable in some cultures.<br />
George W. Bush praised Michael Brown after Katrina struck New Orleans. <br />
Movies mirror our dream world.<br />
Hollywood movies mirror nightmares of individual revenge and widespread catastrophe.<br />
L. Paul Bremer was awarded a Freedom medal. So was Rosa Parks. <br />
Photo Postcards of lynchings in America from 1883 till 1960 were displayed in February 2000 in New York.<br />
There are over four million porn websites in the world.<br />
Empathy is missing in so many Americans today, why.<br />
How can we explain extreme narcissism.<br />
Churchill liked pigs because they treat us equals. <br />
Evolution was never controversial in Asian.<br />
Asians never considered themselves top dog.<br />
While Satan still lingers in the minds of people, Government has replaced him in America. <br />
If you do nothing you cannot be criticized, if good happens great, if bad it is always those who acted. <br />
What if there were no affirmative action. <br />
Is Donald Trump an imitation of Chauncey Gardiner, his fans think so. <br />
Immigrants are now the communists of past. <br />
Argument is not rational.<br />
Everyone lies all the time.<br />
Reasoning is often not rational but personal. <br />
Borges wrote mirrors and sex were abominable as they both multiplied man. <br />
Life is only possible because of other life. <br />
I love to hold a new book.<br />
The Bo language is now extinct. <br />
Ronald Reagan had the highest peace time tax increase in America history.<br />
The earth has had two deep freezes that killed most life on earth. <br />
Laughter is an evolutionary tool for it's OK. <br />
Death doesn't bother us when it is someone else.<br />
Does anyone still diagram sentences or practice Palmer penmanship.<br />
The Romans used roads for soldiers and communications.<br />
What is the need and appeal of speed. <br />
FDR started minimum wage at 25 cents. <br />
How do you define drudgery.<br />
Eisenhower proposed the Interstate Highway system because of war.<br />
The Internet was created by government due to security concerns. <br />
The Black Plague killed 25 million people.<br />
Mornings make me high, is that consciousness or dopamine. <br />
In 1918 the Spanish Flu killed over twenty million.<br />
Do you ever wish Santa was real. <br />
If people are for children in their smallest form why are not for them in a slightly larger form. <br />
America used to be a can-do-nation, it is becoming a won't do nation. <br />
How do we know we are thinking. <br />
It is estimated that 110 million died in wars in the 20Th century. <br />
Some place the estimate as high as 140 million.<br />
The first victim of war is truth.<br />
Why do children find bodily functions funny. Adults too. <br />
Propaganda regardless of truth works if it fits a worldview. <br />
At one time the sun never set on the British empire.<br />
In Asia silence is a demonstration of knowledge. <br />
Communist Russia was our ally during the second world war.<br />
There are 80 Walmarts in Communist China.<br />
Americans in the 18Th century lived to 45 Europeans to 32. <br />
I am therefore I think.<br />
Are there really laws in nature.<br />
Why does gravity work.<br />
People argue to convince themselves.<br />
The study of Agnotology should be required in American schools today.<br />
Gun deaths may soon exceed automobile deaths.<br />
What happened to teaching Civics in school. <br />
In America today government is the source of all trouble for partisans.<br />
Is objectivity possible in writing about complex topics.<br />
The world didn't end at the first millennium. Nor the second. <br />
In 1999, manual apparatus sold well because of fear electricity would not work in the new millennium.<br />
Jim Thorpe, an American Indian, was probably the greatest athlete of all time.<br />
Among our closet relatives in the animal kingdom are the peaceful Bonobo. <br />
The universe is flat. <br />
The end point of the universe is estimated but not known.<br />
Humans date back a mere 150,000 years. <br />
Government is the witch of the past or present. <br />
Reality TV has little reality. <br />
Eisenhower described his administration as progressive. <br />
How do we know what we think we know.<br />
Edit to Bible: the love of money is the root of most evil, or much evil. <br />
Fear and insecurity are big factors too.<br />
Schopenhauer said reading was thinking with the mind of another.<br />
A British newspaper marveled at the number of stupid people in America after Bush won the second time. <br />
No testing to confirm 'stupid' was conducted. Trump proved it wasn't a fluke. <br />
In reading we often converse with the dead.<br />
Fascism is of the right, Communism of the left, Dictatorship personal.<br />
Hitler was a Catholic, so was Timothy McVeigh, so was Antonin Scalia.<br />
Is progress a realistic idea.<br />
Fox media has been shown to make people stupid and resentful. <br />
Was Sisyphus happy. <br />
Is the primitive mind the source of conspiracy thinking. <br />
The time circumstances and accomplishments make Franklin Delano Roosevelt our greatest president. <br />
Jonas Salk took no profit from his team's development of the Polio vaccine.<br />
Wittgenstein said if all science problems were solved it would not touch any of life's problems.<br />
Between 2003 and 2007 the profits of the nation's largest medical insurers rose 170.2 percent to $12.6 billion.<br />
Experts and throwing darts are equally reliable prognosticators.<br />
America ranks 37th in the world in healthcare, right next to Costa Rica. <br />
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder, is ugliness.<br />
Where does emotion originate in music. <br />
Meaning is found in our use of words, Wittgenstein thought.<br />
One can say anything. <br />
Reason is often unreasonable. <br />
Chomsky said, 'colorless green ideas sleep furiously.'<br />
Citizens in America have become consumers. <br />
Global warming deniers suffer from shifting baseline syndrome.<br />
In geologic time, human history is a second, our life less.<br />
If Think Tanks are only about partisan and corporate ideology, why are they called think tanks.<br />
Coffee sex books and the open road, all I need.<br />
Channel surfing is a male sport.<br />
The richest 1 percent in America saw their wealth triple from 1980 to 2006. The bottom 90% went down 20 percent.<br />
If free will exists how can we justify our politics in a world of poverty and disease.<br />
Sixty percent of U.S. corporations failed to pay any federal taxes from 1996 through 2000.<br />
A child dies of preventable causes every 15 seconds in the world. <br />
Pro-life is an easy position, nothing substantive is required.<br />
Liberalism and conservatism equiponderate Tao. <br />
Even beauty becomes boring. <br />
Corporate taxes amounted to just 7.4 percent of total federal tax revenue in 2003. <br />
The sun is middle age in sun time and should burn out in roughly another 5 billion years.<br />
I had a much stronger fantasy life young.<br />
The rich are bailed out, the poor thrown out. <br />
The rich get their drugs prescribed, the poor from the corner pusher. <br />
The war on drugs was started in 1969 and is still in progress.<br />
Tobacco kills approximately 400,000 people each year. <br />
Alcohol about 80,000, illegal drugs kill only a few thousand. <br />
Derek Parfit thought what we do matters. <br />
Samuel Beckett wrote I can't go on, I'll go on.<br />
The war on terrorism, a noun, started during the Bush administration.<br />
Terrorism is a method.<br />
Explain red to a blind person. <br />
I do not understand cults, nor the Tea Party cult. <br />
Every racist has reasons for their racism.<br />
Every racist thinks the other is the racist. <br />
Only two chromosomes separate us from the great apes.<br />
Every human shares 99 percent of their DNA with every other person.<br />
Why is pink associated with women and blue men. <br />
Has the debate over nature versus nurture been resolved.<br />
How many acknowledge their biases.<br />
Racism is a convenient tribal tool to divide and control the uneducated. <br />
Empathy grows too often from experience alone. <br />
What does Honey Boo Boo say about American tastes in TV and life. <br />
Why do people care what the Kardashians are doing.<br />
Political opinions are not truths. <br />
Why does life seem worse than in some past time to so many.<br />
Some never have enough, why. <br />
What is the appeal of dystopian horror in a near future.<br />
Since we abandon old theories of science why do we cling to old theories of politics or economics. <br />
Combined taxes consume 21 percent of the poor person's earnings, but only 7 percent of the earnings of the rich.<br />
Each breath is a million billion billion atoms of oxygen.<br />
I find honest people interesting but very rare.<br />
I love a complex thought experiment.<br />
Convince me I am not from another planet. <br />
Why do we so often lose contact with our friends. <br />
Lived life contradicts all conspiracies. <br />
Exceptions never prove anything.<br />
Why is God not a She.<br />
Why don't men wear dresses. <br />
Japan went without guns for a hundred years. <br />
Little girls dressed like mannequins with overweight moms, what is that. <br />
Pro life is often the hypocrite's crutch, how much genuine care is there for the living child. <br />
Repeated untruths become truths.<br />
Misogynists cross all spheres of thought.<br />
Research is what we call what we don't know, thought Einstein.<br />
Many believe in a deterministic economics.<br />
Lin Yutang thought wise men read both books and life. <br />
Corporations outsource American jobs and then whine about sales and the bottom line. <br />
I write and talk in order to find out what I think, Sontag said. <br />
If all conceptions are children, when and where do they grow up.<br />
It is estimated three out of five conceptions end naturally. <br />
Do birds think as they fly south, then north.<br />
Are birds the last dinosaurs. <br />
Somethings are given, our parents, our genes.<br />
Do animals have nightmares.<br />
Sartre thought other people were hell.<br />
Wealth is worshipped in America, morality not so much. <br />
Imagine if we could fly like a bird. <br />
How would one subject their ideas to a double blind test or even a single blind. <br />
If you already agree with me, you will agree with me, said Stanley Fish.<br />
TV is pure fantasy, when it isn't, it doesn't seem real.<br />
Guns and people kill people.<br />
Why are so may things in life addictive. <br />
I think better in the morning. <br />
Only death is shared by all. <br />
Infants are not a blank slate.<br />
Our congress decided inside trading laws apply to them same as average citizens<br />
Our congress decided inside trading laws do not apply to them<br />
Prejudice is taught. <br />
The majority of drug offenders are white, but blacks comprise the great majority of drug offenders sent to prison.<br />
Humans are distinct from animals because we know we are animals. <br />
Humans are distinct from animals because we take ourselves seriously.<br />
Why do no religions preach doing good acts.<br />
Being guillotined was for the privileged during the religious heresies. <br />
Being burned alive for the common people. <br />
People arrived early at both for a good view.<br />
What part of ourselves do we see in our children.<br />
Technological progress is a double edged sword. <br />
Some say there is no such thing as a free lunch. <br />
What does the Flynn Effect say about so many assumptions. <br />
Success is work, talent and luck, most forget luck.<br />
In a single stone is all of time. <br />
Where is that level playing field. <br />
Walmart insures its workers and designates the corporation the beneficiary.<br />
American corporations build data centers in India while laying off Americans. <br />
The individual with inherent rights was created in the 18Th century.<br />
Suffrage didn't happen till the 20Th century.<br />
Do children mature sooner today. <br />
Churches are everywhere in America, one would conclude Americans were religious. <br />
Wittgenstein thought all problems, problems of language.<br />
Worlds are made in our head thought Nelson Goodman.<br />
Maybe life on earth is a first draft or one of many.<br />
Imagine humans as a mind experiment. <br />
Reason is in the mind of the reasoner. <br />
Capgras is an excellent way to avoid your mother in law. <br />
Rape in marriage was legal in all states until 1980.<br />
Unfettered markets are the dream of the naive. <br />
Narrative fallacies are often accepted as truth.<br />
When asked a stupid question Obama smiles nicely.<br />
I am trying to learn that skill.<br />
Language is the reason we know that we know.<br />
It could be said that Indulgences brought down the Holy Roman Empire.<br />
Camus thought judgement took place everyday.<br />
If all work is outsourced who will inform us. <br />
Is America the first working plutocracy.<br />
Kant thought native Americans incapable of civilization. <br />
I've read tobacco is the Indian's revenge. <br />
Cymotrichous was the final word in the 2011 spelling bee.<br />
Stromuhr was last in 2010.<br />
Humans share 110 genes with bacteria.<br />
If minimum wage is a good wage why does congress not use it as their pay scale. <br />
Haitians burned twelve witches in 2010.<br />
Barbara Waters was the first female news anchor. <br />
American conservatism can be summed up in one word today: whining. <br />
Ninety two percent of Afghans in 2010 didn't know of the 911 attack.<br />
Should society demand restitution if the victim does not. <br />
The beauty of our constitution is its broad vagueness.<br />
Counter intuitive ideas are.<br />
1,022,000 words are in the English language according to Google. <br />
There are approximately 3.5 million homeless in America.<br />
Guilty consciences often talk. <br />
I love roads that stretch to infinity.<br />
Time and space are beyond human comprehension.<br />
The universe does not require thought or us.<br />
Honey does not spoil. <br />
There is a bicycle for every person in Amsterdam.<br />
Time slows down when you are moving.<br />
Is marriage good for you.<br />
Impulsive murderers are usually dumber than the premeditated sort.<br />
Everything we think we know comes from the limits of our social life.<br />
What would a pygmy think of quantum physics. <br />
What could a quantum physicist learn from a pygmy.<br />
Is explanation necessary or useful in debate.<br />
Mitt Romney obtained a religious deferment from military duty.<br />
The speed of light is finite.<br />
Romney spent the deferment in Paris. <br />
DNA has so far exonerated 273 wrongly convicted Americans. <br />
Only 5 to 10% of criminal cases involve DNA. <br />
The top 1% of Americans possess more of the wealth of America than the bottom 50%.<br />
If actions are additive, how can we ever tell if any action is the right action.<br />
America today is a meritocracy of the privileged.<br />
Why is buy American made so rarely spoken in America.<br />
The Sun flips its polarity every 11 years. <br />
Unfettered capitalism is the driving force for regulation. <br />
Our language of nouns divorced from context, makes for easy classification but little thought.<br />
Does anyone know what causes heterosexuality. <br />
*I finally figured out what it is that Americans buy that is American, American flags made in China. <br />
Eyewitness accounts are often wrong. <br />
Are Libertarians the final communists. <br />
Generalizations are usually false.<br />
Will technological singularity eventually occur. <br />
The Spanish brought the horse to America. <br />
If you compare BBC to Fox you may lose hope for the America mind. <br />
I never believed in the unconscious mind till I realized it answered questions. <br />
Labels in American politics are a substitute for thought.<br />
Irony is Ayn Rand on Medicare.<br />
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death, said Montesquieu.<br />
Neither marriage nor God is mentioned in the US Constitution.<br />
How did we communicate before cell phones.<br />
Americans once scalped Indians and were paid per scalp. <br />
Consider how much money corporations could funnel back into the community if they outsourced executives and their boards.<br />
Kafka said the meaning of life is death.<br />
Beckett said what he didn't like about death was he couldn't enjoy it. <br />
Does infinity apply to good, to bad.<br />
Upper class Americans today are as shallow and superficial as any historical elitists.<br />
DNA three billion base pairs in every cell. <br />
America seen from space during rush hour is a scene of scurrying ants.<br />
Ninety-nine percent of the base pairs are the same in every person. <br />
Stupid ideas are stupid, they can not be dressed up.<br />
Imagine opening up a window on a machine and ordering anything. <br />
Ted Cruz proves intelligence alone doesn't make you a human.<br />
The tallest man was eight foot eleven inches. <br />
Wall street and political criminals imagine conspiracies aimed at them from media or ideology. <br />
People who worship markets blame our president for the actions of those same markets. <br />
Debate is useless, people do not think, they react. Emotion controls. <br />
Pointing fingers is the most used debate strategy in America.<br />
Issac Asimov imagined a computer that wanted to die. <br />
Money is worshipped most in America, next comes sport. <br />
Elephants feel empathy do republicans.<br />
Pogo was right the enemy is us. <br />
Often the best answer is none. <br />
Digital photography has changed the picture experience and the picture.<br />
The Republican party is now the party of victims. <br />
Our planet started on the path to now a billion years after the big bang.<br />
Was Big Blue thinking as it played chess and won. <br />
Intelligence is a skill, some use it poorly.<br />
In Finland children want to be teachers, in America they want to be athletes or entertainers. <br />
Will humankind ever attain immortality on earth.<br />
Entropy argues no. <br />
It is still the 'pudding' that matters.<br />
Cocoa helps memories work better, so some think. <br />
Dark chocolate is one of my loves in life. <br />
Although Goldenberg's Peanut Chews is a very close second. <br />
Which would you choose, great beauty, intelligence, or long life, pick two. <br />
Sometimes the best you can do is live long.<br />
To die young seems so tragic. <br />
If humanity ends would that be the end of happiness. <br />
In the end it is what we value that creates complexity.<br />
I am a liberal, a progressive, a democratic socialist, an economic democrat, a radical conservative, a social democrat, an economic humanist, wrote Martin Gardner, me too.<br />
It is the journey that matters. <br />
I'll go on....<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-38764206651207965222019-02-20T07:56:00.005-05:002022-04-15T07:33:31.534-04:00JM's favorite, mostly short, quotes in alphabetical order. <p>JM's favorite, mostly short, quotes in alphabetical order. Posted blog 02/2019 last edit 04/15/22</p><p>List is getting too long but have fun just read the ones that start with a word. ie If or ?</p><p>"A belief is an uneducated guess." Mokokoma Mokhonoana</p><p>"A book is a mirror: When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out." </p><p>"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." Jerry Seinfeld</p><p>"A brilliant liar; he has total recall." Witold Gombrowicz</p><p>"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." Douglas Adams</p><p>"A compromise is an agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong." Lord Edward Cecil</p><p>"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time." Thomas Fuller</p><p>"A day without laughter is a day wasted." Charlie Chaplin</p><p>"A daydreamer is prepared for most things." Joyce Carol Oates</p><p>"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances." B. F. Skinner</p><p>"A fanatic can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill </p><p>"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything." Friedrich Nietzsche</p><p>"A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it.: Mike Rose</p><p>"A good life is one in which there is no need for miracles." Nadezhda Mandelstam</p><p>"A good question to ask yourself: 'What might I be wrong about?'" Kevin Kelly</p><p>"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." William James</p><p>"A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"A hungry man is not a free man." Adlai Stevenson</p><p>"A man is what he thinks about all day long." Ralph Waldo Emerson </p><p>"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else." George Savile</p><p>"A man with new ideas is a madman, until his ideas triumph." Marcelo Bielsa</p><p>"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"A myth is a fanciful picture of the past designed to justify certain activities in the present." Bernard Williams</p><p>"A nation is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry." Karl Deutsch</p><p>"A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see." Roland Barthes</p><p>"A rational person cannot seek to confirm their beliefs, only to test them." Chris Hallquist</p><p>"A room without books is like a body without a soul." Marcus Tullius Cicero</p><p>"A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting." Amartya Sen</p><p>"A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever." Barbara Park</p><p>"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." Oscar Wilde</p><p>"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." Baltasar Gracian</p><p>"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." David Hume</p><p>"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire</p><p>"A writer's promise is like a tiger's smile." Lytton Strachey</p><p>"Abandon the search for truth; settle for a good fantasy." Fran Lebowitz</p><p>"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." William James</p><p>"Actions speak louder than words." Mom</p><p>"Adventure is just bad planning." Roald Amundsen</p><p>"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters." Victor Hugo </p><p>"After every victory you have more enemies." Jeanette Winterson</p><p>"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter." Satchel Paige</p><p>"Alcohol! Because no great story started with someone eating a salad." </p><p>"All colors arouse specific associative ideas" Yves Klein</p><p>"All cruelty springs from weakness." Seneca</p><p>"All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false." Kurt Godel</p><p>"All good art is abstract in its structure." Paul Strand</p><p>"All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret." Gabriel Garcia Marquez </p><p>"All knowledge degenerates into probability." David Hume</p><p>"All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself." Gaston Bachelard</p><p>"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal</p><p>"All power corrupts, but some must govern." John le Carre</p><p>"All the big words - virtue, justice, truth, are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness." Stephen Fry</p><p>"All the world loves a good loser." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." Wendell Johnson</p><p>"Always strive to excel, but only on weekends." Richard Rorty</p><p>"Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you." Ronald Knox</p><p>"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." Milan Kundera</p><p>"America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight."</p><p>"American conservatives have became unconscious postmodernists. Trump only made it visible." JM</p><p>"An art book is a museum without walls." Andre Malraux</p><p>"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." Albert Camus</p><p>"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin</p><p>"An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart." Robert M. Sapolsky</p><p>"An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory." E F Schumacher </p><p>"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep." Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." Albert Einstein</p><p>"Anyone who isn't confused, really doesn't understand the situation." Edward R. Murrow</p><p>"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn." Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"Appearance rules the world." Friedrich Schiller</p><p>"Art is either revolution or plagiarism." Paul Gauguin</p><p>"Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." W. H. Auden</p><p>"Art is the daughter of freedom." Friedrich Schiller</p><p>"As we are, so we see." William Blake</p><p>"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so." John Stuart Mill</p><p>"Be concerned about the future. You"ll spend the rest of your life there." </p><p>"Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting." Virginia Woolf</p><p>"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Bernard M. Baruch</p><p>"Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong." Charles M. Schulz</p><p>"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde</p><p>"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, beautiful old people are works of art." Eleanor Roosevelt</p><p>"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them." David Hume</p><p>"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life." Seneca</p><p>"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance." Louis D. Brandeis</p><p>"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not." Stanley Fish</p><p>"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made." Franz Kafka</p><p>"Between the world of chaos and the world of order stands the rule of law." </p><p>"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." George Bernard Shaw</p><p>"Beware of too much explaining, lest we end by too much excusing." John Dalberg-Acton</p><p>"Biology enables, culture forbids." Yuval Noah Harari </p><p>"Birds of a feather flock together."</p><p>"Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos." Douglas Coupland</p><p>"Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused."</p><p>"Books had instant replay long before televised sports." Bernard Williams </p><p>"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." Thomas Szasz</p><p>"By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life." Jean Baptiste Girard</p><p>"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all." John Maynard Keynes</p><p>"Capitalism, in the long run, will win in the United States, if only for the reason that every American hopes to be a capitalist before he dies." H. L. Mencken</p><p>"Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers something to be a genius about." B. F. Skinner </p><p>"Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals." David Hume </p><p>"Childhood lasts all through life." Gaston Bachelard</p><p>"Chocolate is happiness that you can eat." Ursula Kohaupt</p><p>"Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content." R. G. Collingwood</p><p>"Cockroaches are repelled by light." </p><p>"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." Chomsky</p><p>"Computers are like humans. They do everything except think." John von Neumann</p><p>"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress." Ellen Terry</p><p>"Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story." Antonio Damasio </p><p>"Consistency is the playground of dull minds." Yuval Noah Harari</p><p>"Controversy is a last resort for the talentless." Criss Jami</p><p>"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies." Nietzsche</p><p>"Correction does much, but encouragement does more." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</p><p>"Create rules for strict living not to restrict the living." P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar</p><p>"Creativity is intelligence having fun." Albert Einstein</p><p>"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order." Samuel Beckett"</p><p>"Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays." Friedrich Schiller</p><p>"Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living." William T. Vollmann</p><p>"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." Sam Keen</p><p>"Democracies can"t handle austerity measures very well." Nassim Nicholas Taleb</p><p>"Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion." Molly Ivins</p><p>"Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!" Karl Lagerfeld</p><p>"Difficult art is democratic. Tyranny requires simplification." Geoffrey Hill</p><p>"Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions." Winston Churchill</p><p>"Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth." Ursula Le Guin</p><p>"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together." Malcolm Forbes</p><p>"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." Bertrand Russell</p><p>"Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on." Marshall McLuhan</p><p>"Don't attribute to stupidity what can be explained by incentives." Mike Elias</p><p>"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose." Douglas Adams</p><p>"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." Robert Frost</p><p>"Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences." Samuel Beckett</p><p>"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night." Philip K. Dick</p><p>"Don't you hate it when someone answers their own questions? I do."</p><p>"Doubt is an awful snake of an emotion. Once it has you in it's grip, it won't let go. It spoils everything." Peter Watson</p><p>"Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one." Voltaire</p><p>"Dream in a pragmatic way." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little." John Galsworthy</p><p>"Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment." Penelope Fitzgerald</p><p>"Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge." Elif Shafak</p><p>"Either you run the day, or the day runs you." Jim Rohn</p><p>"Embrace the glorious mess that you are." Elizabeth Gilbert</p><p>"Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." Friedrich August von Hayek</p><p>"Endurance is frequently a form of indecision." Elizabeth Bibesco</p><p>"Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal." Friedrich Nietzsche</p><p>"Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds." Herbert Simon</p><p>"Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." William of Ockham</p><p>"Error is our enemy, but points to the truth and therefore deserves our respect." Allan Bloom</p><p>"Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there." Stephen Chbosky</p><p>"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone." Robert M. Pirsig</p><p>"Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure." Lemony Snicket</p><p>"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." Matsuo Basho</p><p>"Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence." George Steiner</p><p>"Every man's memory is his private literature." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality." William Hazlitt</p><p>"Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment." Charles Sanders Peirce</p><p>"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence." Samuel Beckett</p><p>"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." Gertrude Stein</p><p>"Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful -but also when it comes to happiness." Maurice Merleau-Ponty</p><p>"Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia." James Wolcott</p><p>"Everyone smiles in the same language." </p><p>"Everything has been thought of before. The problem is to think of it again." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</p><p>"Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it." L. Frank Baum</p><p>"Everything in moderation, including moderation." Oscar Wilde</p><p>"Everything in the world is purchased by labor." David Hume</p><p>"Everything matters. Nothing's important." Friedrich Nietzsche</p><p>"Everything that can be thought about the human condition is expressible in terms of behaviour." Simone Weil</p><p>"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil</p><p>"Evolution is chaos with feedback." Joseph Ford</p><p>"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." Rene Descartes</p><p>"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." Oscar Wilde</p><p>"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself." Elizabeth Bowen</p><p>"Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma." John Berger</p><p>"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt." Robertson Davies</p><p>"Fear is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday." Renata Adler</p><p>"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." George Lucas </p><p>"Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours." Swedish Proverb </p><p>"Few people become assholes reluctantly." Geoffrey Nunberg</p><p>"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth." Albert Camus</p><p>"Find joy in the ordinary." Max Lucado </p><p>"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness." Allen Ginsberg</p><p>"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred." John W. Gardner</p><p>"For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading." Sonam Kapoor</p><p>"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." John F. Kennedy</p><p>"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age." Victor Hugo</p><p>"Freedom can occur only through education." Friedrich Schiller</p><p>"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." Moshe Dayan</p><p>"Freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey." Ocean Vuong</p><p>"Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up." Marguerite Duras</p><p>"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison." Wislawa Szymborska</p><p>"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." Mark Twain</p><p>"Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring'." Justina Chen Headley</p><p>"Give yourself a gift: the present moment." Marcus Aurelius</p><p>"Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts." Rebecca Solnit</p><p>"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." H. L. Mencken</p><p>"God did not die; he was transformed into money." Giorgio Agamben</p><p>"God made food; the devil the cooks." James Joyce</p><p>"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." Mark Twain </p><p>"Good history upsets everyone." David Silverman</p><p>"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world." John Milton</p><p>"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." Samuel Johnson</p><p>"Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?" Henri Poincare</p><p>"Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any." Edith Wharton</p><p>"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower." John Harrigan</p><p>"Happiness is a condition attributed by adults to children and by children to adults." Thomas Szasz</p><p>"Happiness is a decision." Michael J. Fox </p><p>"Happiness is a direction, not a place." Sydney J. Harris</p><p>"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised." Gilbert K. Chesterton</p><p>"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward." Baruch Spinoza</p><p>"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice." Jim Rohn </p><p>"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." Jim Rohn</p><p>"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." Albert Schweitzer</p><p>"Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary." Milan Kundera</p><p>"He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person's life." Sreesha Divakaran</p><p>"He that travels much knows much." Thomas Fuller</p><p>"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." Richard Bach</p><p>"History doesn't repeat itself. But it does rhyme." Mark Twain</p><p>"History would be an excellent thing if only it were true." Leo Tolstoy</p><p>"Home is where one starts from." T.S. Eliot</p><p>"How can I tell what I think till I see what I say." E. M. Forster / David Markson</p><p>"How can the Devil be evil if he punishes people who do evil things?" </p><p>"How do you make holy water? You boil the hell out of it."</p><p>"Human nature is various and not infrequently weird." AC Grayling</p><p>"Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life." A. C. Grayling</p><p>"I absolutely do not divide people into any religions, creeds, political views." Oleksandr Usyk</p><p>"I always advise people never to give advice." P.G. Wodehouse</p><p>"I am a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect."</p><p>"I am free, and that is why I am lost." Franz Kafka</p><p>"I am human, I think nothing human alien to me." Publius Terentius Afer</p><p>"I am never less alone than when alone." Cicero</p><p>"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." Will Rogers</p><p>"I am not lazy, I am on energy saving mode."</p><p>"I am not young enough to know everything." Oscar Wilde</p><p>"I am still alive then. That may come in useful." Samuel Beckett</p><p>"I am sure that I do not understand the idea of a reason for acting, and I wonder whether anyone else does either." Philippa Foot</p><p>"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." Plato</p><p>"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything." T.H. Huxley</p><p>"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse." Florence Nightingale</p><p>"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." Maya Angelou</p><p>"I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn"t look good either." Hilary Putnam</p><p>"I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do." James A. Baldwin</p><p>"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think." Socrates</p><p>"I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children. " Andre Malraux</p><p>"I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world." Herbert A. Simon</p><p>"I don't know why we are here, but I"m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." Ludwig Wittgenstein</p><p>"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." Marshall McLuhan</p><p>"I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them." Susan Sontag</p><p>"I find myself fascinating." Milan Kundera</p><p>"I gave up caring about anything, and all my problems disappeared." Fyodor Dostoevsky</p><p>"I have a small mind and I mean to use it." Antonin Artaud</p><p>"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges</p><p>"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain </p><p>"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire</p><p>"I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor." Rabelais</p><p>"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them." Baruch Spinoza</p><p>"I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants." Anton Chekhov </p><p>"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." Susan Sontag</p><p>"I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."</p><p>"I intend to live forever. So far, so good." Steven Wright</p><p>"I know who I am without anyone there to tell me." Leigh Bardugo</p><p>"I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that." Rustin Cohle</p><p>"I learned long ago to distrust my childhood." Barrack Obama </p><p>"I like my shadow; it reminds me that I exist." Mehmet Murat Ildan</p><p>"I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere." Albert Camus</p><p>"I like talking to a brick wall - it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!" Oscar Wilde</p><p>"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me." Anais Nin</p><p>"I may be alone, but I am never lonely. I am always with my best friend, and that is me." Debasish Mridha</p><p>"I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do." Winston Churchill</p><p>"I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes." Zig Ziglar </p><p>"I owe my solitude to other people." Alan Watts</p><p>"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours." Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"I speak only one language, and it is not my own." Jacques Derrida</p><p>"I think I am, therefore, I am. I think..." George Carlin</p><p>"I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring." Dave Eggers</p><p>"I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core." Herbert A. Simon</p><p>"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not too sure."</p><p>"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection." Drake</p><p>"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." Francis Bacon</p><p>"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them." Andy Bernard</p><p>"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen." John Steinbeck</p><p>"I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time." Marianne Moore</p><p>"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." Richard P. Feynman</p><p>"I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget." Samuel Beckett</p><p>"I'm Me. If I'm not me, it's only because I want to impress you." </p><p>"I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance." Jon Stewart</p><p>"I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb." Richard P. Feynman</p><p>"I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you."</p><p>"I've come to believe that our need, a very legitimate need for social belonging is the single greatest impediment to thinking." Alan Jacobs </p><p>"I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness." Taiye Selasi</p><p>"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another." John Cage</p><p>"Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos." Auguste Comte</p><p>"Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility." James Gleick</p><p>"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle." Dürer</p><p>"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." Blaise Pascal</p><p>"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"If enough people walk there, it becomes the path." Jehan Azad</p><p>"If everything is perfect, language is useless." Jean Baudrillard</p><p>"If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen." Fyodor Dostoevsky</p><p>"If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, all that is necessary is the illusion of freedom." B. F. Skinner</p><p>"If hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." Nikola Tesla</p><p>"If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth." E. O. Wilson</p><p>"If I look confused it is because I am thinking." Samuel Goldwyn</p><p>"If I waited for perfection...I would never write a word." Margaret Atwood</p><p>"If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human." Maggie Stiefvater</p><p>"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" Abraham Lincoln</p><p>"If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." Tweedledee</p><p>"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell</p><p>"If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance." Mark Twain</p><p>"If one could only catch that true color of nature, the very thought of it drives me mad." Andrew Wyeth</p><p>"If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other." Emmanuel Levinas</p><p>"If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy." Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?"</p><p>"If the going is easy, maybe you are going downhill." Max Frisch</p><p>"If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words." E. M. Forster</p><p>"If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!" Sidney Morgenbesser</p><p>"If things were simple, word would have got around." Jacques Derrida</p><p>"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal." anon</p><p>"If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged." Margaret Atwood</p><p>"If you are immune to boredom there is nothing you cannot accomplish." David Foster Wallace</p><p>"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." Desmond Tutu</p><p>"If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am." Peter Sellers</p><p>"If you ever hear yourself saying, 'I think I understand this,' that means you don't." Richard Feynman </p><p>"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Albert Einstein</p><p>"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person." Seneca</p><p>"If you succeed, you have solved the wrong problem." Alan Perlis</p><p>"If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty." Ludwig Wittgenstein</p><p>"If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies." Jamie Leanne Gaines</p><p>"If you want home truths, you should stay at home." Clifford Geertz</p><p>"If you want to make God laugh, the saying goes, tell her your plans." Ken Burns</p><p>"If your contribution has been vital, there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off." Walter Gropius</p><p>"If your upper and lower ranks want the same things, you will win." Sun Tzu</p><p>"Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard." Adlai Stevenson </p><p>"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." Charles Darwin</p><p>"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life." Simone Weil</p><p>"In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most." Epicurus</p><p>"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell </p><p>"In a time of destruction, create something." Maxine Hong Kingston</p><p>"In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic." Peter Godfrey-Smith</p><p>"In an age of indifference to learning, the educated man is at a disadvantage." John Jay Chapman</p><p>"In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies." Stephen Leacock</p><p>"In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it." John Archibald Wheeler</p><p>"In between goals is a thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed." Sid Caesar</p><p>"In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart." Blaise Pascal</p><p>"In general, every country has the language it deserves." Jorge Luis Borges</p><p>"In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with." Charles M. Schulz</p><p>"In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see." Charles Bukowski</p><p>"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." Albert Camus</p><p>"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State." Solzhenitsyn </p><p>"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." Napoleon Bonaparte</p><p>"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 people." David Weinberger</p><p>"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." Leo Tolstoy</p><p>"Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know." Richard Francis Burton</p><p>"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions." Buddha</p><p>"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic." Evelyn Waugh</p><p>"Intelligence is more like a skill than a talent." Eli Horowitz </p><p>"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant." Victor Hugo</p><p>"Interesting answers are those which destroy the questions." Susan Sontag</p><p>"Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps." Antonio Damasio</p><p>"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." Theodor Adorno</p><p>"Is is is - the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything 'is', I only know how it seems to me at this moment." Robert Anton Wilson</p><p>"Is it really possible to experience anything objectively?" </p><p>"It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all." Bryan Magee</p><p>"It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase." David Foster Wallace</p><p>"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." Anne Sexton</p><p>"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." Andre Gide</p><p>"It is by surprises that experience teaches all she deigns to teach us." Charles Peirce</p><p>"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." James A. Baldwin</p><p>"It is easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory." Arthur Schnitzler</p><p>"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." Epictetus</p><p>"It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you." Nigel Slater</p><p>"It is impossible to ostracize a lone wolf." Joseph Annaruma</p><p>"It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak." John Stuart Mill</p><p>"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." de Beaumarchais</p><p>"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom." David Hume</p><p>"It is one of my rules in life never to notice what I don't understand." Wilkie Collins</p><p>"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." Ralph Waldo Emerson</p><p>"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest." D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson</p><p>"It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations." Maurice Merleau-Ponty</p><p>"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness." E. M. Forster</p><p>"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." Walter Lippmann</p><p>"It seems to me a case of negligence if, after becoming firm in our faith, we do not strive to understand what we believe." Peter Watson</p><p>"It will be easy to read what I will write. What will be hard to understand is the point of what I say." Wittgenstein</p><p>"It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it." Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice." Sidney Morgenbesser</p><p>"It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop." William Vollmann</p><p>"It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." George Carlin</p><p>"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." Tom Brokaw</p><p>"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment." Gabriel Garcia Marquez </p><p>"It’s hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well." Thomas Harris</p><p>"It's not what happens to you, but how you react." Epictetus </p><p>"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau</p><p>"It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to." Luc Godard</p><p>"It's only arrogance if you are wrong." Simone de Beauvoir</p><p>"Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible." William T. Vollmann</p><p>"Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen." Dick Cavett</p><p>"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." Walt Whitman</p><p>"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it." Lord Chesterfield</p><p>"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</p><p>"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." Aristotle</p><p>"Knowledge is Life with wings." William Blake</p><p>"Lack of money is the root of all evil." George Bernard Shaw</p><p>"Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"Laughter is an inadequate response to what is truly funny." Walter Kerr</p><p>"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." Victor Hugo</p><p>"Laws are never as effective as habits." Adlai Stevenson </p><p>"Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon." Charles M. Schulz</p><p>"Learning history is easy; learning its lessons is impossibly difficult." Nicolas Bentley</p><p>"Learning is the art of ignoring." Elias Canetti</p><p>"Legend remains victorious in spite of history." Sarah Bernhardt</p><p>"Let there be spaces in your togetherness." Khalil Gibran</p><p>"Liberals demand that the social order should in principle be capable of explaining itself at the tribunal of each person's understanding." Jeremy Waldron</p><p>"Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs." Isaiah Berlin</p><p>"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard </p><p>"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." Hunter S. Thompson</p><p>"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." Charles R. Swindoll</p><p>"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." Jean Racine </p><p>"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor." Sholom Aleichem</p><p>"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it." Christopher Morley</p><p>"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." Ernest Holmes</p><p>"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act." Truman Capote </p><p>"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." Voltaire</p><p>"Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?" Albert Camus</p><p>"Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think." Doug Horton</p><p>"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." Albert Einstein</p><p>"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Soren Kierkegaard </p><p>"Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile." Mark Twain</p><p>"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." John W. Gardner</p><p>"Life is to blame for everything." Robert Musil</p><p>"Life is too important to be taken seriously." Oscar Wilde </p><p>"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments." Rose Kennedy </p><p>"Life looks simple when you leave out the details." Ursula K. Le Guin</p><p>"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin</p><p>"Light is part of our diet." James Turrell</p><p>"Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment." Jean Baudrillard</p><p>"Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean." Herbert A. Simon</p><p>"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." Gilbert K. Chesterton</p><p>"Live life to the fullest... think of all the people on the Titanic who passed up chocolate dessert." </p><p>"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"Logic doesn't apply to the real world." Marvin Minsky</p><p>"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand." Blaise Pascal</p><p>"Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables." Sappho</p><p>"Love unconditionally, laugh intentionally, live strategically, and learn daily." Hope D. Blackwell</p><p>"Love? I'm not sure I know what love really is. Don't tell my wife I said that." Ethics professor</p><p>"Luck is statistics taken personally." Penn Jillette</p><p>"Machines are for answers; humans are for questions." Kevin Kelly</p><p>"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life." Nicolas Chamfort</p><p>"Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter." James A. Garfield</p><p>"Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual." Roland Barthes</p><p>"Man is a bridge, not an end." Friedrich Nietzsche</p><p>"Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them." Seneca</p><p>"Man is his own most vexing problem." Reinhold Niebuhr</p><p>"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit." Billy Connolly</p><p>"Martyrdom proves the intensity, not the correctness, of a belief." Arthur Schnitzler</p><p>"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything." Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories." William T. Vollmann</p><p>"Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories." William T. Vollmann</p><p>"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly." Herbert Simon</p><p>"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent." George Steiner</p><p>"Men are never so good or bad as their opinions." James Mackintosh</p><p>"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." Blaise Pascal</p><p>"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them." Dion Boucicault</p><p>"Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it." Frederick Franck</p><p>"Mid-life crises are a luxury compared with end-of-life crises." Margaret Drabble</p><p>"Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men." Jorge Luis Borges</p><p>"Modernism is, among other things, a crisis of narration, as the world ceases to be story-shaped." Terry Eagleton</p><p>"Most decisions should be made with around 70% of the information that you wish you had." Jeff Bezos</p><p>"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." Soren Kierkegaard</p><p>"Most minds are like concrete ... all mixed up and permanently set!" Alfred E. Neuman</p><p>"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." Louis D. Brandeis</p><p>"Most of what we call civilisation depends on reciprocal vulnerability." Thomas Schelling</p><p>"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." Oscar Wilde</p><p>"Most people are so lazy, they don't even exercise good judgement!" Alfred E. Neuman</p><p>"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility." Freud</p><p>"Most people don't act stupid: it's the real thing!" Alfred E. Neuman</p><p>"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." Bertrand Russell</p><p>"Most real relationships are involuntary." Iris Murdoch</p><p>"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things." Arthur Schopenhauer</p><p>"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse." Rebecca West</p><p>"Much learning does not teach understanding." Heraclitus</p><p>"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness." Lawrence Durrell</p><p>"My answers are typically '€˜guesses' cleverly disguised as answers." Craig D. Lounsbrough</p><p>"My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity." Amos Tversky</p><p>"My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind." William James</p><p>"My job is making windows where there were once walls." Michel Foucault</p><p>"My language is the sum total of myself." Charles Sanders Peirce</p><p>"My life is basically my work." Temple Grandin</p><p>"My life is better with every year of living it." Rachel Maddow</p><p>"My mistakes are my life." Samuel Beckett </p><p>"My normal life is like being on holiday." Valentino Rossi</p><p>"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right." Ashleigh Brilliant</p><p>"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity." Sigmund Freud</p><p>"Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it." Christian Baloga</p><p>"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." anon</p><p>"Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations." Joe Bageant</p><p>"Never laugh at your wife's choices, you are one of them."</p><p>"Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer." Charles Schulz</p><p>"Never miss a good chance to shut up." Will Rogers</p><p>"Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"Never regret something that made you smile." </p><p>"Ninety percent of good writing is rewriting." Charles Johnson</p><p>"No man is an island, I am the exception." JM</p><p>"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." John Locke</p><p>"No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse." Randy Pausch</p><p>"No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides." Baruch Spinoza</p><p>"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." Robin Williams</p><p>"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had." Gabriel Garcia Marquez </p><p>"No one wants a lecture. Everyone wants a story." Morgan Housel</p><p>"No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing." Derek Parfit</p><p>"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." Voltaire</p><p>"No statue has ever been erected to a critic." Jean Sibelius</p><p>"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry." Gabriel Garcia Marquez </p><p>"Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead. That is where your future lies." Ann Landers</p><p>"Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have." Elizabeth Bowen</p><p>"Nobody who says 'I told you so' will ever be a hero." Ursula Le Guin</p><p>"Not all of your followers are fans. Some are just internet trolls." Kelly L. Miller</p><p>"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence." Sholem Asch</p><p>"Nothing exists except through human consciousness." George Orwell</p><p>"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth." Blaise Pascal</p><p>"Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me." Audre Lorde</p><p>"Nothing important comes with instructions." James Richardson </p><p>"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King</p><p>"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." Samuel Beckett</p><p>"Nothing is less instructive than a machine." Simone Weil</p><p>"Nothing is more real than nothing." Samuel Beckett</p><p>"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory." Franklin Pierce Adams</p><p>"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." David Hume</p><p>"Nothing is worth more than this day." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</p><p>"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</p><p>"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." Benjamin Disraeli</p><p>"Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"Of course pragmatism is true; the trouble is it doesn't work." Sidney Morgenbesser</p><p>"Often people ask what I"m photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today." William Eggleston</p><p>"Old age is life's decision about us." Christina Stead</p><p>"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man." Leon Trotsky</p><p>"Old words obscure new situations." Kim Stanley Robinson</p><p>"On the internet you're a troll until proven innocent." Narcissismus Decimus Maximus</p><p>"Once you get to know your neighbours, you are no longer free." Rose Macaulay</p><p>"Once you label me you negate me." Søren Kierkegaard </p><p>"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."</p><p>"One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own." James A. Baldwin</p><p>"One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end." Jiddu Krishnamurti</p><p>"One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us." Cassandra Clare</p><p>"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being." May Sarton</p><p>"One never does solve what it is about watching fires, really." David Markson</p><p>"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." Walter Bagehot</p><p>"One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is." Ludwig Wittgenstein</p><p>"One reads so as not to believe everything one reads." Aaron Haspel</p><p>"One should always think of men in power as dangerous things." Simone Weil</p><p>"One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help." Dennis Wholey</p><p>"One will rarely err by ascribing extreme actions to vanity, ordinary actions to habit and mean actions to fear." Nietzsche</p><p>"Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows." Werner Heisenberg</p><p>"Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me." Hegel</p><p>"Only the dead are safe." George Santayana</p><p>"Only the insane take themselves seriously." Max Beerbohm</p><p>"Only the shallow know themselves." Oscar Wilde</p><p>"Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent." Christopher Isherwood</p><p>"Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments." Walter Benjamin</p><p>"Opportunities are seldom labelled." John G. Shedd</p><p>"Opportunity is the greatest charity." Don King</p><p>"Originality is a by-product of sincerity." Marianne Moore</p><p>"Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic." DaShanne Stokes</p><p>"Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live." André Gide</p><p>"Our life is what our thoughts make it." Marcus Aurelius</p><p>"Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance." Michel Foucault</p><p>"Our words should be purrs instead of hisses." Kathrine Palmer Peterson</p><p>"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." Buddha </p><p>"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive." Blaise Pascal </p><p>"People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore." Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute." Rebecca West</p><p>"People change, and forget to tell each other." Lilian Hellman</p><p>"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." Gilbert K. Chesterton</p><p>"People often only see one side to someone's personality, but there are levels." Ross Lynch</p><p>"People only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't." E. Nesbit</p><p>"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day." A. A. Milne</p><p>"People with opinions just go around bothering one another." Buddha</p><p>"Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea." George Orwell</p><p>"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless." Paul P. Harris</p><p>"Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?" Bob Monkhouse </p><p>"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat." Simone Weil</p><p>"Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world." Bruno Barbey</p><p>"Political ideology can corrupt the mind and science." E. O. Wilson</p><p>"Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naivete." Emmanuel Levinas</p><p>"Possibility and limitation mean about the same thing." Flannery O"Connor</p><p>"Prejudice is the child of ignorance." William Hazlitt</p><p>"Problems are inherently wonderful; solutions are merely useful." David Deutsch</p><p>"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer." Jean de La Fontaine</p><p>"Rationalisation may be defined as self-deception by reasoning." Karen Horney</p><p>"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else." George Orwell</p><p>"Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting." Jorge Luis Borges </p><p>"Reality simply consists of different points of view." Margaret Atwood</p><p>"Reason is found with great wickedness no less than with great kindness, and by its assistance gives great effectiveness to the one as to the other." Arthur Schopenhauer</p><p>"Remember that nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all." Balfour</p><p>"Remember that, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." George Carlin</p><p>"Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth." Franklin D. Roosevelt</p><p>"Reporter interviewing a 104 year-old woman: And what do you think is the best thing about being 104?" She simply replied, no peer pressure.</p><p>"Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous." Pierre Boulez</p><p>"Rudeness is the weak person's imitation of strength." Edmund Burke</p><p>"Rules are there so that you think before you break them." Terry Pratchett</p><p>"Sadness is a form of fatigue." Andre Gide</p><p>"Sane people do what their neighbors do, so that if lunatics are at large, one might know them." George Eliot</p><p>"Sanity is a cozy lie." Susan Sontag</p><p>"Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions-to define, classify, control, and regulate people." Michel Foucault</p><p>"Science is magic that works." Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle." Mahatma Gandhi</p><p>"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." Carl Jung</p><p>"Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak." Elizabeth Bowen</p><p>"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo Da Vinci</p><p>"Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism." Sextus Empiricus</p><p>"Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one." Roy H. Williams</p><p>"Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates." Erving Goffman</p><p>"Solitude sometimes is best society." John Milton</p><p>"Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost." Erol Ozan</p><p>"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." Oscar Wilde</p><p>"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." Herman Hesse</p><p>"Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns." Antonio Damasio</p><p>"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live." Charles Bukowski</p><p>"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?" Frank Baum </p><p>"Sometimes I didn't know what I sought until I've found it." Toba Beta</p><p>"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." Dr. Seuss</p><p>"Sometimes we need to speak oddly to see clearly." Galen Strawson</p><p>"Sometimes words are harder than blows." Zinedine Zidane</p><p>"Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy." Joyce Meyer </p><p>"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." Hannah Arendt</p><p>"Straight roads do not make skillful drivers." Paula Coelho</p><p>"Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter." Max Beerbohm</p><p>"Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results." Margaret Atwood</p><p>"Subjectivity is just objectivity waiting for data." David Eggers </p><p>"Take a look at the books other people have in their homes." Jerzy Kosinski</p><p>"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." Jacques Barzun</p><p>"Tell me anyway. Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies." Leon Trotsky</p><p>"Tell people what they want to hear and you can be wrong indefinitely without penalty." Morgan Housel </p><p>"That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers." Charles Chincholles</p><p>"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet." Emily Dickinson</p><p>"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence." Jiddu Krishnamurti</p><p>"The age of the book is almost gone." George Steiner</p><p>"The aim of argument should not be victory, but progress." Joseph Joubert</p><p>"The answer you're looking for is inside of you, but it's wrong."</p><p>"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose." Margaret Atwood</p><p>"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James</p><p>"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much." William Hazlitt</p><p>"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." Philip K. Dick</p><p>"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." B. B. King</p><p>"The best adventures are embarked on alone." Lidia Longorio</p><p>"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." David Bailey</p><p>"The best mirror is an old friend." George Herbert</p><p>"The best of seers is he who guesses well." Euripides</p><p>"The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen." Sam Keen</p><p>"The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view." Jack Kerouac</p><p>"The best things are achieved in a state of surprise." Brian Eno</p><p>"The best things in life aren't things." John Ruskin</p><p>"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay</p><p>"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny." Albert Ellis</p><p>"The blank page gives us the right to dream." Gaston Bachelard</p><p>"The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus." H. L. Mencken</p><p>"The covers of this book are too far apart." Ambrose Bierce</p><p>"The credulous man is father to the liar and the cheat." William Kingdon Clifford</p><p>"The curious are always in some danger." Jeanette Winterson</p><p>"The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are." Karl Kraus</p><p>"The difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." Amelia Earhart</p><p>"The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know." Ludwig Wittgenstein</p><p>"The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset." Geoffrey Madan</p><p>"The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government." Edward Abbey</p><p>"The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us." Eugène Ionesco</p><p>"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection." George Orwell</p><p>"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me." David Markson</p><p>"The facts exceed our curiosity." Walter Lippmann</p><p>"The first one who uses "but" has lost the argument." Nassim Nicholas Taleb</p><p>"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." Marcus Aurelius</p><p>"The fool wonders, the wise man asks." Benjamin Disraeli</p><p>"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." Diogenes</p><p>"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so." Gore Vidal</p><p>"The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn"t care too much." Nassim Nicholas Taleb</p><p>"The freedom to love is no less sacred than the freedom of thought." Victor Hugo</p><p>"The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are only exploring the fringes." John Desmond Bernal</p><p>"The future happens. No matter how much we scream." Derek Walcott</p><p>"The future is made of the same stuff as the present." Simone Weil</p><p>"The game is worthwhile so long as we don't know what the end will be." Michel Foucault</p><p>"The great human error is to reason in place of finding out." Simone Weil</p><p>"The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks." Voltaire</p><p>"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstin</p><p>"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." Walter Bagehot</p><p>"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius</p><p>"The hardest thing to open is a closed mind." Ahmed Kathrada</p><p>"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion." Richard P. Feynman</p><p>"The human body is the best picture of the human soul." Ludwig Wittgenstein </p><p>"The human race has improved everything, but the human race." Adlai Stevenson </p><p>"The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so." E. O. Wilson</p><p>"The important thing is somehow to begin." Henry Moore</p><p>"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web." Tim Berners-Lee</p><p>"The inaudible and noiseless foot of time." William Shakespeare</p><p>"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for." Ludwig Wittgenstein</p><p>"The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities." Louis D. Brandeis</p><p>"The longer I live, the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms." Elizabeth von Arnim</p><p>"The lover of life knows his labour divine, And therein is at peace." George Meredith</p><p>"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots." Rebecca West</p><p>"The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life." Confucius</p><p>"The meaning of life is to See." Hui Neng</p><p>"The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning." Joseph Campbell</p><p>"The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time." Marcus Aurelius</p><p>"The mind is everything. What you think you become." Buddha</p><p>"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." John Milton</p><p>"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith</p><p>"The more perfect you try to become, the more vulnerable you generally are." Morgan Housel</p><p>"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist." Guy Debord</p><p>"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." Steven Weinberg</p><p>"The more we know, the less certain we are." Simon Critchley</p><p>"The more you weigh the harder you are to kidnap. Stay safe, eat cake."</p><p>"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." George Orwell </p><p>"The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood." Voltaire</p><p>"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know." Simone Weil</p><p>"The most important political office is that of the private citizen." Louis D. Brandeis</p><p>"The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's trying not to say." Lyndon Johnson</p><p>"The most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one." Herbert Marcuse</p><p>"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed." Nicolas Chamfort</p><p>"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." Howard Lovecraft</p><p>"The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other." Slavoj Zizek</p><p>"The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions." Max Beerbohm</p><p>"The only reason they say '€œwomen and children first" is to test the strength of the lifeboats." Jean Kerr</p><p>"The only serious enterprise is living, and we have to live after the reflection; moreover (though the distinction of theory and practice encourages us to forget it), we have to live during it as well." Bernard Williams</p><p>"The only strong and deep passions are those which can stand the test of reason." Kafka </p><p>"The only thing that makes life possible is not knowing what comes next." Ursula K. Le Guin</p><p>"The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability." Richard P. Feynman</p><p>"The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob." H. L. Mencken</p><p>"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." Marcus Aurelius</p><p>"The past is never where you think you left it." Katherine Anne Porter</p><p>"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." William Faulkner</p><p>"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet." Edward Thomas</p><p>"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar." Marshall McLuhan</p><p>"The pleasures of ignorance are as great as the pleasures of knowledge." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth." Garry Kasparov </p><p>"The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty." John Maynard Keynes</p><p>"The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round." AJP Taylor</p><p>"The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality." Robert Schumann</p><p>"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." Joseph Campbell</p><p>"The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance." Laurence Peter</p><p>"The proper study of mankind is books." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire." Wilfred Bion</p><p>"The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story." Stanley Fish</p><p>"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." B. F. Skinner</p><p>"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude." Gabriel Garcia Marquez </p><p>"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art." Henry Moore</p><p>"The strong man is strongest when alone." Friedrich Schiller</p><p>"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." Samuel Beckett</p><p>"The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must </p><p>"The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place." Lawrence Durrell</p><p>"The text is a machine for producing meaning." Octavio Paz</p><p>"The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it." Don DeLillo</p><p>"The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late." Jeanette Winterson</p><p>"The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account." Ruth Rendell</p><p>"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson</p><p>"The true requirement is that no matter how many (or few) views are presented to the students, they should be offered as objects of analysis rather than as candidates for allegiance." Stanley Fish</p><p>"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." Leo Tolstoy </p><p>"The value of history is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is." R. G. Collingwood</p><p>"The war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense." Roland Barthes</p><p>"The ways we miss our lives are life." Randall Jarrell</p><p>"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." Sydney J. Harris</p><p>"The wise man is always similar to himself." Sextus Empiricus</p><p>"The wise man reads both books and life itself." Lin Yutang </p><p>"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." Saint Augustine</p><p>"The world is everything that is the case." Ludwig Wittgenstein</p><p>"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Bertrand Russell</p><p>"The worse the villain, the better the film." Alfred Hitchcock</p><p>"The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades." Demetri Martin</p><p>"The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it." John Stuart Mill</p><p>"Them that don't know don't know they don't know." anon</p><p>"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer." Gertrude Stein</p><p>"There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions." Charles Steinmetz</p><p>"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." Marshall McLuhan</p><p>"There are no right answers to wrong questions." Ursula K. Le Guin</p><p>"There are two kinds of people in the world- those who are foolish enough to believe there are only two kinds of people in the world, and the rest of us." Sam Haselby</p><p>"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Soren Kierkegaard</p><p>"There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable." Elias Canetti</p><p>"There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think." Charles Sanders Peirce</p><p>"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." H L Mencken</p><p>"There is hope. But not for us." Kafka </p><p>"There is just one life for each of us: our own." Euripides</p><p>"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope." Baruch Spinoza</p><p>"There is no success or failure in Nature." John Searle</p><p>"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all." Rebecca West</p><p>"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Shakespeare</p><p>"There is nothing permanent except change." Heraclitus</p><p>"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer." Robert Staughton Lynd</p><p>"There should be a thirteenth commandment: Thou shall not abandon those who love you." Sidney Sheldon</p><p>"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope." Bernard Williams</p><p>"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth." Maya Angelou</p><p>"There's always some truth behind '€œjust kidding'€, knowledge behind every '€œI don't know'€, emotions behind '€œI don't care'€ and pain behind '€œit's okay'€".</p><p>"There's always someone willing to disagree with me; but I'm the one who's called controversial." Solomon Short</p><p>"There's more to getting to where you're going then just knowing there's a road." Joan Lowery Nixon</p><p>"There's no such thing as a grown up person." Andre Malraux</p><p>"There's no time like the present."</p><p>"Think before you speak. Read before you think." Fran Lebowitz</p><p>"Thinking about the future means you want something." Douglas Coupland</p><p>"This above all, to refuse to be a victim." Margaret Atwood</p><p>"This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?" Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"Those who do not move do not notice their chains." Rosa Luxemburg</p><p>"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." Salvador Dali</p><p>"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound strive for obscurity." Nietzsche</p><p>"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity." Jean de La Bruyère</p><p>"Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners." Dean Cavanagh</p><p>"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water." W. H. Auden</p><p>"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." Jean-Paul Sartre</p><p>"Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent." Yevgeny Yevtushenko</p><p>"Time heals what reason cannot." Seneca</p><p>"Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted." Christopher Hitchens</p><p>"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." Marilyn vos Savant</p><p>"To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life." Gelett Burgess</p><p>"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it." Henry Kissinger</p><p>"To betray, you must first belong." Kim Philby</p><p>"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job." Simone de Beauvoir</p><p>"To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth." Ludwig Wittgenstein</p><p>"To create and to confront, one has to be an outcast." Masha Gessen</p><p>"To explain something is to explain why things are not otherwise. But there can be no explaining why something is not otherwise, which could not be otherwise." David Stove </p><p>"To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping." Sidney Morgenbesser</p><p>"To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give." Franka Potente</p><p>"To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child." Henning Mankell</p><p>"To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals." Susan Stebbing</p><p>"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"To know one thing, you must know the opposite." Henry Moore</p><p>"To know, to think, to dream. That is everything." Victor Hugo</p><p>"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." Emily Dickinson</p><p>"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." Oscar Wilde</p><p>"To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing." Anne Carson</p><p>"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmund Burke </p><p>"To really know someone is to have love and hated him in turn." Marcel Jouhandeau</p><p>"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." George Orwell</p><p>"To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult." J. W. von Goethe</p><p>"To think is to say no." Emile Chartier</p><p>"To thrive in life you need three bones. A wishbone. A backbone. And a funny bone." Reba McEntire</p><p>"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"To understand is to perceive patterns." Isaiah Berlin</p><p>"Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly." Irene Peter</p><p>"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." Gilbert K. Chesterton</p><p>"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs." Susan Sontag</p><p>"Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions." Peter Hoeg</p><p>"Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless." Chief Seattle</p><p>"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." Socrates</p><p>"True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are." Isaiah Berlin</p><p>"True poetry is the opposite of fiction." Ludwig Hohl</p><p>"Truth exists; only lies are invented." Georges Braque</p><p>"Truth is a property of our beliefs."</p><p>"Truth springs from argument amongst friends." David Hume </p><p>"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." John Kenneth Galbraith</p><p>"Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family." Kin Hubbard</p><p>"Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life." Bernard Williams</p><p>"We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real." Jorge Luis Borges </p><p>"We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do." B. F. Skinner</p><p>"We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them." Hillary DePiano</p><p>"We all have imaginary friends, who are generally real people." Aaron Haspel</p><p>"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in." Ernest Hemingway</p><p>"We are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them." Francis Picabia</p><p>"We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell." Vicente Del Bosque</p><p>"We are not satisfied to be right, unless we prove others wrong." William Hazlitt</p><p>"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"We ask what makes people believe things, but not what makes them know things." Gilbert Ryle</p><p>"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us." Marshall McLuhan</p><p>"We can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy." T.H. Huxley</p><p>"We can understand things better. We can never understand things fully." David Deutsch</p><p>"We cannot begin with complete doubt." Charles Sanders Peirce</p><p>"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." Randy Pausch</p><p>"We cannot predict the future, but the past is changing before our very eyes." Soviet radio</p><p>"We cannot solve today problems with the same thinking that gave us those problems." Albert Einstein</p><p>"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap." Kurt Vonnegut</p><p>"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." Helen Keller</p><p>"We do not judge the people we love." Jean-Paul Sartre </p><p>"We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong." Charles Sanders Peirce</p><p>"We do not remember days, we remember moments." Cesare Pavese</p><p>"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anaïs Nin</p><p>"We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing." George Bernard Shaw</p><p>"We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology." E. O. Wilson</p><p>"We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness." Bernard Williams"</p><p>"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness." Stewart Udall</p><p>"We inhabit a language rather than a country." Emile Cioran</p><p>"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</p><p>"We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives." Robert M. Pirsig</p><p>"We know not through our intellect but through our experience." Maurice Merleau-Ponty</p><p>"We learn by teaching." James Howell</p><p>"We live in the United States of Amnesia." Gore Vidal</p><p>"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill</p><p>"We must believe in free will. We have no choice." Isaac Bashevis Singer</p><p>"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world." René Magritte</p><p>"We need not destroy the past. It is gone." John Cage</p><p>"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public." Bryan White</p><p>"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing." Seneca</p><p>"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." Malala Yousafzai</p><p>"We retain the facts which are easiest to think about." B. F. Skinner</p><p>"We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains." Li Bai</p><p>"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." Seneca</p><p>"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Joan Didion </p><p>"We typically have a bias that tells us we are less susceptible to bias than everyone else." Will Storr</p><p>"What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable." Adlai Stevenson</p><p>"What are we doing here, that is the question." Samuel Beckett </p><p>"What comes easy won't last long, and what lasts long won't come easy." anon</p><p>"What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?" Emmanuel Levinas</p><p>"What do any of us ever truly know?" David Markson </p><p>"What do we do now, now that we are happy?" Samuel Beckett </p><p>"What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning..." Fyodor Dostoevsky</p><p>"What happens when you get scared half to death twice?"</p><p>"What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence." Jean-Paul Sartre</p><p>"What is that unforgettable line?" Samuel Beckett</p><p>"What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it." Ludwig Wittgenstein</p><p>"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." Gabriel Garcia Marquez </p><p>"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" Ursula K. LeGuin</p><p>"What you believe is what you see is what you know is what you do is what you are." Stanley Fish </p><p>"What you believe to be true will control you, whether it's true or not." Jeremy LaBorde </p><p>"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson</p><p>"Whatever you believe imprisons you. Convictions create convicts." J.M.R. Higgs</p><p>"Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself." David Foster Wallace</p><p>"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." Michael Landon</p><p>"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." Dom Helder Camara</p><p>"When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"" Sydney J Harris </p><p>"When intelligent people are obviously wrong, I look to ideology." Chris Dillow</p><p>"When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken." David Hume</p><p>"When my boss asked me who is the stupid one, me or him? I told him everyone knows he doesn't hire stupid people."</p><p>"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes." Dylan Thomas</p><p>"When people show you who they are, believe them." Maya Angelo</p><p>"When the facts change, I change my mind." John Maynard Keynes</p><p>"When the image is new, the world is new." Gaston Bachelard</p><p>"When you can believe in one stupid thing then all stupid things become available to you." Pradeep Satyaprakash</p><p>"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin D. Roosevelt</p><p>"When you possess light within, you see it externally." Anais Nin</p><p>"Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again." L. Frank Baum</p><p>"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain</p><p>"Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." Ogden Nash</p><p>"Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless." Edward Gibbon</p><p>"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." Arthur Conan Doyle</p><p>"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." Anthony J. D'Angelo</p><p>"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." Henry Ford</p><p>"Who among us, looking down the path of no return, can say that they followed it the right way?" Fernando Pessoa</p><p>"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell</p><p>"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?" Epicurus</p><p>"Without context words and actions have no meaning at all." Gregory Bateson</p><p>"Without publicity, no good is permanent." Jeremy Bentham</p><p>"Wonder. Go on and wonder." William Faulkner</p><p>"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment." Learned Hand</p><p>"Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do." Slavoj Žižek</p><p>"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad." Manly Hall</p><p>"Words are the clothes thoughts wear." Samuel Beckett</p><p>"Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president." Hillary Clinton</p><p>"Worrying about what's right is always more important than worrying about who's right."</p><p>"Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe." Mark Twain</p><p>"Write about what you don't know about what you know." Eudora Welty</p><p>"Writing is like paying myself a formal visit." Fernando Pessoa</p><p>"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers." Isaac Asimov</p><p>"Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to remain silent, and solitude, that's what I've had to make the best of." Samuel Beckett</p><p>"You affect the world by what you browse." Tim Berners-Lee</p><p>"You are free to do whatever you want. You need only face the consequences." Sheldon Kopp</p><p>"You are made of the stuff that is as old as the planet, one third as old as the universe, though this is the first time those atoms have been gathered together such that they think that they are you." Frank Close</p><p>"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you." Robert Anton Wilson</p><p>"You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with." Jim Rohn</p><p>"You are who you are when nobody's watching." Stephen Fry</p><p>"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." Plato</p><p>"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." James D. Miles</p><p>"You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." Milton Berle</p><p>"You can never plan the future by the past." Edmund Burke</p><p>"You can't become what you can't accurately see." Sarah Lewis</p><p>"You can't make this stuff up." </p><p>"You can't talk to the ignorant about lies, since they have no criteria." Ezra Pound</p><p>"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." Michael Cunningham</p><p>"You confuse what's important with what's impressive." E.M. Forster</p><p>"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Bradbury</p><p>"You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said." Alan Pardew</p><p>"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." Cormac McCarthy</p><p>"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Winston Churchill</p><p>"You have to know the past to understand the present." Carl Sagan</p><p>"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world." William Hazlitt</p><p>"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on." Samuel Beckett </p><p>"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." Ray Bradbury</p><p>"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Mae West</p><p>"You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd." Flannery O'Connor</p><p>"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." Aldous Huxley</p><p>"You should never doubt something that no one is sure of." Roald Dahl</p><p>"You should never try and out guess Mother Nature because when you do, you come off second best." Anthony T.Hincks</p><p>"You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand." E. O. Wilson</p><p>"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do." David Foster Wallace</p><p>"You're on earth. There's no cure for that." Samuel Beckett</p><p>"You're tired and scared. Happens to everyone, okay? Just don't let your feet stop." Haruki Murakami </p><p>"Your body hears everything your mind says." Naomi Judd</p><p>"Your eyeball is not a well-defined statistical procedure." Alex Reinhart</p><p>"Your liberty does not extend beyond the bounds of your authority." Bran Emrys</p><p>"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." Jim Rohn</p><p>"Your smile is proof that the best things in life are free."</p><div><br /></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-89863893721069326382018-10-06T11:22:00.001-04:002018-10-06T11:22:49.776-04:00Donnie John Trump self made Myth<br />
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The estimated federal deficit next year will exceed a trillion dollars, boosting the national debt past $21 trillion.<br />
Trump had promised to eliminate that debt entirely, you go Donnie and republican hypocrites, bet that tax bill was good for you all. <br />
Draft dodger Trump is the Dr Reo Symes of modern American life and his fans buy into the product line. <br />
Fake university fake foundation fake wine company fake tax returns fake football team John Barron fake fake fake. <br />
How about the ball-less republicans couldn't face a woman but turned cheerleaders for a lying spoiled rich boy.<br />
After Sniffles Kavanaugh is confirmed, Roy Moore is next in line, a real devil's triangle in the SCOTUS.<br />
Trump snowflakes now think the Clintons were behind hurricane Florence, what powers huh. You go Trumpies. <br />
President Trump cites China's respect for his 'very, very large a brain' kinda like a large empty dump truck we guess. <br />
Fox kowtows to Trump BS, can anyone explain why their news and opinion is so biased and lacking integrity. Anyone? <br />
When did the religious, the Christians and evangelicals in America get so tainted that living children, immigrants, don't matter?<br />
Donnie Trump's administration to cut Head Start, cancer research so they can fund child detention camps, how American is that. <br />
Trump always claimed the world was laughing at us and our president, guess he wanted to continue the tradition.<br />
Why is Puerto Rico complaining, didn't you toss them paper towels, good job Donnie. Heard John Barron agrees. <br />
Five hundred plus days have passed and Mexico still hasn't paid for the wall, can I hear a rally chorus,,,who....<br />
Rand Paul a civil libertarian wants to lie detector everyone over a letter to the editor, talk about a real libertarian. <br />
They laughed at our president, they should really laugh at his supporters, they are the ones being played.<br />
Rudy throws out nonsense followed by contradictory nonsense and Trump fans listen never realizing the difference. <br />
Donald Trump said it best, “I love the uneducated.” Now everyone knows why. <br />
According to John Barron, Donnie Trump is the greatest, the bestest, the most richest, the smartest.... <br />
Why is Trump making all these decisions? What is our congress for? Should we eliminate them, think of all the money America would save. <br />
Trump rally stats: sixty eight percent of Donnie's claims are false, misleading or lacking evidence, you go Donnie. <br />
Even Trump rally snowflakes are selected because they're kinda special, conditioned to cheer nonsense, a real great character trait.<br />
Deep State, oh deep state wherefore art thou deep state. there is no deep state but please don't tell Trump snowflakes.<br />
Breitbart is the National Inquirer of news on Trump and republicans, checkout line baloney for the easily deceived. <br />
Donnie Trump likes Brett because they both lie and lie oh and lie. Birds of a feather flock together. <br />
Donnie the majority of Americans want you impeached but many think you know what you are doing, sad huh. <br />
Trump's marriage to the Evangelicals demonstrates clearly America's religious like Trump are not Christians or share Christian values.<br />
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Kavanaugh Lies: https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/all-of-kavanaughs-classmates-who-have-called-him-a-liar.html<br />
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Conservative on: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/republican-party-conservative/571747/<br />
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"But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works." James 2:18<br />
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-22199500240611014262018-08-02T09:24:00.000-04:002018-08-02T09:24:28.600-04:00Why Democrats LoseAmerica Today<br />
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When you view modern America today you often wonder why Americans vote against their own interest and cheer a man who cares nothing for them. Long but worth your time. <br />
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'Thomas Frank: Why Democrats Lose' <br />
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"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy." Henry MillerJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-29668930795554182762018-07-16T06:33:00.001-04:002018-07-16T06:38:22.178-04:00Trump Rallies = Snowflakes waving Signs being lied to, how cute is that. Donald John Trump the first American president to have 'play dates' with dictators. <br />
Seventy five percent of Trump rally claims are false or BS, wake up deplorables, 87% of the tax change went to the 1 percent.<br />
More heroism from draft dodger Donnie freezing ACA payments for Americans in need, ever see such courage?<br />
Trump administration claims of no collusion are like the robber who got caught in the act, but judge, sir, I didn't rob the bank. I'm innocent.<br />
Does the self hurting republican voter realize their hatred is managed by the powerful to control them and get their vote?<br />
Conservatives are all about individual rights until your rights differ from their ideology, proving they aren't about individual rights. <br />
Trump refers to his mouth as a musical instrument and hopes it is attached to his brain? Really! <br />
Federalist Society and other dark money judicial organizations are governed by the elite for the elite. <br />
During a rally in Montana, President Trump went on a tangent about crowd size, only insecure men are obsessed with image.<br />
Imagine if Americans treated 'Operation Pastorius' the way the republican party under Trump treats Russian interference in our elections. <br />
Trump kowtowing to Putin is the new republican party image, think Gowdy, Jordon, Gaetz, Nunes, et al kowtowing to Donnie John. <br />
You must excuse Trump walking in front of the Queen, insecure boys like to be noticed, see me see me.<br />
Love the name the British gave to our Liar in Chief 'Apricot Toddler' fits Donnie John nicely. <br />
Donnie's Rallies, be glad calling names and other nonsense keeps your snowflakes happy<br />
When did guns become strength for working class Americans, their only symbol of power is an imaginary one. <br />
Questioning Kavanaugh by republicans will be smiles, sophomoric coaching, and just say constitution three times and the republicans melt. <br />
Robert's court greatest achievement so far, making money a person, adding Kavanaugh may make money the judiciary. <br />
One third of all guns in America are made overseas proving insecurity supports outsourcing too. <br />
Foreign gun manufacturers contribute to the NRA, any Trump snowflake smart enough to know why? <br />
The Federalist Society is simply a group of upper class lackeys funded and brainwashed by 'dark money'.<br />
The NRA spent more than thirty million to help Donnie keep America safe, well rich Americans from fair taxes that is. <br />
Trying to show Trump snowflakes they are being played by corporate money is like explaining red to a blind puppy. <br />
SCOTUS decisions aren't about constitutional law they are about preserving elite power. <br />
Trump is fixated on rankings because he can grasp little else, weak, insecure, empty men need proof they exist. <br />
Corporations and dark money manage the law while the working class clings to their guns, some things never change. <br />
Over three thousand lies or untruthful statements and it is the press that is fake, too funny Donnie<br />
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"America with its decaying infrastructure, its third-world public transit, its shrinking labor market, its evaporating middle class, its expanding gulf between rich and poor, its heartless health insurance system, its mindless indifference to a dying ecology, its predatory credit agencies, its looming Social Security collapse, its interminable war, its metastasizing national debt and all the social pathologies that gave it a degenerate imbecile and child-abducting sadist as its president — remains the only developed economy in the world that believes it wrong to use civic wealth for civic goods. Its absurdly engorged military budget diverts hundreds of billions of dollars a year from the public weal to those who profit from the military-industrial complex. Its plutocratic policies and libertarian ethos are immune to all appeals of human solidarity. It towers over the world, but promises secure shelter only to the fortunate few." David Bentley Hart <br />
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-33416795906367055172018-06-09T05:52:00.000-04:002018-06-09T05:52:13.110-04:00The people tweet the president...."The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." Philip K. Dick<br />
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The fake presidency continues and criminal pardons too....<br />
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Shame you weren't invited to the royal wedding you could have told them that your weddings were great great great.<br />
Donnie just give another teleprompter speech that way all the trumpettes will be convinced you're not a 'toddler'.<br />
Republicans today are what ideology looks like, sycophants, puppets and tea party snowflakes. <br />
MAGA Is really MAER, Make America's Elite Richer, note only how little is said about wages under Donnie and the dark money elite. <br />
Or maybe MAGA stands for Many Are Getting Arrested? That is true too under the Trump presidency. <br />
'Feckless' is a compliment in the Trump administration why are they whining, separated children want to know? <br />
Donnie how'd you know American Evangelicals were only about money power and control not Christianity or Jesus' values. <br />
Sean Hannity fans were the target of the Russian influence campaign, that shouldn't surprise anyone, snowflakes are easily fooled. <br />
Donnie luv your lies, hostages were taken under your admin but your base follows like puppies, North Korea plays you. <br />
Hannity and Donnie talk every night as mommy tucks them in with their Trumpie bears. How cute is that. <br />
If bad luck in life is a sign of character as you and republicans claim, how did you become president Donnie John? Dumb luck?<br />
Caveman ethics care of Donnie John, you can grab em by the....they let you do anything when you are rich. <br />
Admit it Donnie you're too insecure and full of baloney to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner? <br />
Donnie is it true you're sending condolence letters to the working poor in America who thought you were for them? See link.<br />
Sean Hannity fans were the target of the Russian influence campaign, that shouldn't surprise anyone, snowflakes are easily fooled. <br />
Donnie luv your lies, hostages were taken under your admin but your base follows like puppies, North Korea plays you. <br />
Did nationalistic people in history protest when (?) took rights from (?) or did they acquiesce similar to our republican snowflakes now? <br />
Donnie should Melanie ever leave you, just think you'll always have your deplorables, they luv you. cheering rallies are the best.<br />
Some snowflakes claim Donnie is keeping his campaign promises anyone see that great great cheap healthcare? Or Mexican paid for Wall?<br />
Donald a few more sycophants from the Federalist Society and you'll soon manage the law too. Great great Trumpie law, Gorsuch is dreamy.<br />
How you gonna make Giuliani a better lair and con artist, he seems lost and senile most of the time. <br />
Donnie we know why you don't like Bezos he is successful and you are a fake, is he more ethical with his workers, you may be similar there. <br />
Filling the swamp with larger alligators great great work Donnie John. Pruitt is a gift that keeps giving.<br />
Your fans are great Donnie, they cheer your BS and cheer a contradiction a moment later, great great fans. <br />
Donnie just because the news is negative doesn't make it fake, grow up boy. 'Be Best.'' <br />
Watch out Donnie red state teachers want to teach even though Betsey wants none of that. <br />
First Mexico was going to pay for the wall, now it the military, who's next? The working class American?<br />
Oh wait, Looks like the alt-right sites are really the deep state Bannon was looking for and Hannity is in there too. <br />
Hillary was criticized for Bill's behavior why isn't Melania criticized for Donald? 'Be Best' Donald. <br />
Twitter the cowardly man's tool of courage, military service scare you you, should have tweeted your courage. <br />
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"The swamp is never drained; it just gets taken over by different reptiles." Karen Tumulty<br />
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'US inequality reaching a dangerous level due to Trump's 'cruel' measures'<br />
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/01/us-inequality-donald-trump-cruel-measures-un<br />
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Feckless explained:<br />
https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-full-frontal.html<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-50342624381085363862017-12-12T20:19:00.002-05:002017-12-12T20:19:53.352-05:00Donnie's Historic and Religious Tweets <b>The Prayer Tweets Of Donnie John</b> <br />
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Now I lay me down to sleep sure hope I can think of some mean tweets.<br />
Bless my spirit as I roam the world looking for places to build hotels.<br />
Lord please protect Mar-a-Lago, my taxpayer funded winter White House with golf course.<br />
God watches ever by my side, and guides my shot another par. <br />
God is great! God is good! Let us thank God for all my fans that still believe.<br />
Heavenly Father, thank You for Your guidance on our great great tax plan for the rich, your special children.<br />
Lord he's a pedophile but think of all the money a tax reduction will bring to your churches. <br />
Day is done, gone the sun, all is well, how about some chocolate cake.<br />
Show me the way, show me to the path, show me the way to MacDonalds.<br />
God in heaven hear my prayer, bless those who love me most, my lawyers.<br />
May angels watch me through the night and inspire in me great tweets. <br />
Lord the Pences are yokels but his pious beliefs sure helped get your base aboard.<br />
Please help Hope Hicks remember my steamer, God. <br />
In the name of Kentucky's Fried chicken, Lord please keep it hot and fresh.<br />
Blessed be Trump tower and any other structures that now provide tax free money.<br />
Thou I walk in the shadow of death or rain, golf time comes first. <br />
Dear God after me I love you next and will make heaven great too. <br />
Let me be aware of your presence and how about stopping this Russian stuff. <br />
Thank you for the world so sweet where everything is my family's treat.<br />
God of Light and Truth, thank you for giving me so much time for golf. <br />
Now I rise from a sound sleep here comes some spirited tweets.<br />
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"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another." Epicurus <br />
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The <b>Historic Tweets of Donnie John</b> Trump<br />
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Today's America holiday spirit tweeted to you care of the president of the United States.<br />
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Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for the Trumps.<br />
Lying is as American as Apple pie and Thanksgiving. <br />
Give me liberty or best of all golf time at Bedminster anytime all the time.<br />
I have but one life to live and Mar-a-Lago is now paid for by American taxes.<br />
I love my freedom I love my hotels I love myself.<br />
He loves his country best who stays at Trump properties.<br />
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors I have a nice hat for sale too.<br />
America was not built on fear but it sure helped get me elected.<br />
Oh and America was not built on hate and ditto above.<br />
I believe America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic, and my wives past and present do too. <br />
The American, by nature, is optimistic, so our tax plan will trickle down this time.<br />
True independence and freedom can only exist in buying and wearing my hats.<br />
I regret I have only one weekend each week to spend golfing on the taxpayer's well wishes. <br />
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means believing everything I say.<br />
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives and best if he stays often at Trump hotels.<br />
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except republicans and Kris.<br />
The American Dream is that anyone, despite their background can be an American unless I decide otherwise.<br />
Change is the law of life, and with a few more judge changes, Trump law.<br />
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor, unless you're a Trump.<br />
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, now that the Trumps are in charge.<br />
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<b>Have a nice holiday America</b> and thanks for your support but better yet the money, we'll be spending our holiday on your tax dollars at Mar-a-Lago, so thanks again for your vote and for your belief in my great great speeches. Oh and if you have to work during the holidays just think your taxes will be supporting your great great president. Time to hit the tees again, see you....<br />
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“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-24842984036542463072017-10-30T17:03:00.003-04:002017-10-30T17:06:53.150-04:00Darn, I need to add all my fake tweets someday. A few more below. Such fun. <br />
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Donnie John Tweets His Fans <br />
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I love rallies just me and my adulation groupies. <br />
Who needs Russian help Americans are dumb enough already.<br />
I say any thing and they believe ain't my fans great.<br />
How about my tax plan for me and wealthy friends great great tax plan.<br />
Sorry about that imaginary great great healthcare it was all talk anyway.<br />
Trumpcare works, millions more uninsured I'll blame the dems and my people will believe. <br />
Like all my business failures so long as I get out OK all is OK.<br />
I know I'm a draft dodger, serving the country is for others I serve me. <br />
Don't blame me for all my lying that started right from the beginning they follow still. <br />
Poor healthcare saves money who needs to take care of sick people anyway.<br />
Listen I know the Wall improvement started with the last administrator my fans don't know that.<br />
Price got caught Price got caught what a dummy I'm smarter, they excuse me.<br />
Forget my swamp talk it was like everything, just talk, my followers follow.<br />
Like how now I even have a four star general lying, great great lie Kelly.<br />
Niger was intelligence error with Hillary gone we have to blame intelligence now. <br />
No more Hillary and Obama to blame but we still do. Big smile, great great. <br />
Private email who cares that was just stuff to use on Hillary not republicans.<br />
Jared was just engaging his feminine side when he registered as a woman. <br />
Listen Puerto Rico is an island and they are hard to get to aren't they, lots of water. <br />
Tax relief for me and mine ain't that making some Americans great.<br />
No worries folks you'll have great healthcare in the next life, just wait.<br />
How about my inauguration getting into the Guinness book as largest ever.<br />
I'm signing an EO that says a president can't lie even if he is lying.<br />
Oh and I won the popular vote too just count all the dummies in the rural areas. <br />
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Editor's Note: The editors cannot confirm the veracity of any of these tweets but given nothing Donnie says is true does it really matter. <br />
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/oct/20/john-kelly/fact-checking-john-kelly-frederica-wilsons-2015-sp/<br />
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"Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time on long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which comes from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate with others." Lesson 11 From 'On Tyranny' <br />
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"This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it." Joseph Goebbels<br />
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The Fake president's Fake tweets <br />
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Texas, great great storms require a great great president, me. <br />
Sold lots of my USA hats, big profit big big, off to Bedminster for some golf.<br />
Alex Jones my climate guru claims Texas flood water is a fake photo. <br />
I thought kleptocracies were a good thing. <br />
Everyone like how I play the democrats and the republicans shake their heads not knowing if I'm serious.<br />
My buddy Rush Limbaugh said Hurricane Irma is fake news, he may be on to something.<br />
Wasn't the Smooch great just great didn't last long but great great guy. <br />
How about me freeing Sean so he can make lots of money talking about how great I am.<br />
Steve Bannon is back at Breitbart you go Stevie, piling on the BS keeps heads spinning. <br />
I kinda like grabber in chief, has a nice ring to it, better than vacationer in chief.<br />
Someone just called me a sophist, not sure what it means but thanks thanks. <br />
Jeez, Harvey and Irma now Nancy and Chuck I feel all loved. <br />
Listen, I'm pres, only I can call others racists. <br />
Kris Kobach and New Hampshire voting, he may not make any sense but who cares. <br />
I knew birther issue was fake but republicans loved it didn't they. <br />
My fellow draft dodger Rush flees fake hurricane, you go Rushie.<br />
Didn't you all love my fake best ever best healthcare, fooled em. <br />
Neo Nazi good, kneeling football player bad.<br />
I never said all republicans were dumb just most of them.<br />
Loved Ben saying homelessness is a gift from God, you're the best Ben.<br />
Ah come on I only said I was going to drain the swamp not do it.<br />
Price flying around on tax payer money, isn't that a privilege of being in the swamp.<br />
Ivanka and Jared are above the law, private email ok for them. <br />
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https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/julian-c-chambliss-draining-swamp<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-88288496247106944812017-07-15T06:10:00.000-04:002017-07-15T06:21:53.889-04:00The People tweet Donald 4<br />
Ruminations from the peanut gallery. As always real Americans share and these tweets can be shared. <br />
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Donnie, just say collusion is normal kinda like lying and not paying your workers, just part of the job.<br />
Didn't mommy tell you Donnie that lying wasn't very nice or becoming a president? <br />
Love your new slogan Donnie and Sons, 'Make America great again with Russian help'. <br />
All those wealthy cabinet people really really understand the working poor in America.<br />
Smart move Pres Macron give him a platform and parade and you got him where you want him. <br />
Donnie, just keep saying you heard it through the grapevine...so it must be true....<br />
Loved the photo of Kris Kobach next to an illegal Sasquatch voter on the National Inquirer front page, good work Kris. <br />
Donnie Jr sure got played, but hey you made up enough lies about Hillary, no need to depend on Russian dirt.<br />
Mike Lee claims conservatives need to add lying and cheating on their wives to conservative values. <br />
Donnie stop watching TV go golfing, enjoy the summer, and Mar-a-Lago is for the fall and winter on taxpayer's tab.<br />
Russia do this send Donnie Jr an email tell him anything he'll arrive on time like a good real estates salesman.<br />
Listen Donnie and sons, just appear on Fox and tell them anything at all, they'll soak it up and smile like stuck puppets.<br />
Keep interviewing with Hannity that man wouldn't have an idea if he fell over it twice and it hit him on the head three times. <br />
Kinda funny how all your conversations with your sons are on the up and up, no business huh, you sure play your fans well.<br />
Didn't your republican buddies repeal Obamacare yet, everyone is waiting for the 'beautiful' Trumpcare you promised. <br />
Heard you and Vlad are studying computer science so you can catch the hackers together, great idea. <br />
Alternative explanations for Trump tweets have not been ruled out per Sarah Huckabee Sanders. <br />
Donnie your administration is so off the wall, it is hard to satirize satire on so grand a scale. <br />
The lawyers sure do love your administration Donnie, full employment and more. Who pays?<br />
Donnie your infrastructure plan wasn't really a plan was it, plans require thought and you're soon on to, on to....<br />
Kellyanne Conway says it took her years to learn how to make up stories and maintain a straight face. <br />
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"Kellyanne Conway says Trump mostly tweets about policy, with a straight face."<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-52227720266518888592017-07-15T06:08:00.000-04:002017-07-15T06:23:36.125-04:00The People Tweet Pres Trump - 3<br />
Why'd you spend $400,000 of taxpayer money flying back to Washington to attend a concert.<br />
How's it feel to have a German women as leader of the free world now that you were elected?<br />
Give up on false Podesta tweets, tell your fans a million Bigfoots voted for Hillary in CA, that they'll believe. <br />
Stop posting the great Obama jobs monthly numbers, you'll need less jobs to justify giving the rich trickle up tax relief. <br />
Keep coming up with plans that aren't really plans, the media will be kept busy and you can golf. <br />
Alternative explanations for fake topics have not been ruled out as useful explanations, per Trump admin. <br />
Is it true Ivanka is now running the country as you golf? <br />
No need to worry about Russia meddling in our elections republicans are doing that well enough with voter ID regulations.<br />
Under Trumpcare just 32 million people will lose health coverage great great work.<br />
Pres Trump have you ever read a book? Ever? Recommended Strangers in Their Own Land....by Arlie Russell Hochschild.<br />
Keep them guessing, tweet a made up scam about a real scam that way they'll not know which is which. <br />
Great idea giving Putin free room and board at Trump Tower.<br />
Your buddy Alex Jones is a great investigator, pizza parlors are now safe for children. <br />
Is it true Kris Kobach found Martians and Sasquatch registered in several states? Great work Kris!<br />
Some say you have never read a book, that's why you're so well spoken isn't it?<br />
Great, your education secretary is all for check schools, money money money education who cares!<br />
The ethics guy is gone no more ethical considerations that's great isn't it, get another Gorsuch and you're set.<br />
Republicans approve of your buddy Putin more than other American leaders ain't that great.<br />
Select enough judges like Alito Thomas and Gorsuch and you can call the shots, law is then yours to make. <br />
Where the heck is that great great healthcare you promised everyone, was that fake too.<br />
Have Alex Jones make up a fake wall, the National Inquirer will put it on front page and your fans will believe. <br />
Glad your administration discovered NASA hiding kidnapped children on Mars, great great work. <br />
Keep mentioning wmds just blame that too on Obama your followers don't care or even know what they are. <br />
The ethics guys said you had too many conflicts of interest good thing he's gone. <br />
Heard you and Putin will be riding horses in Central park shirtless, how presidential is that!<br />
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http://theweek.com/articles/710280/what-liberals-learn-about-morality-from-donald-trump<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-32966130427394299322017-07-15T06:07:00.000-04:002017-07-15T06:24:37.934-04:00The People Tweet Pres Trump - 2The People Tweet Pres Trump - 2<br />
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Editor's note: It cannot be determined if all these tweets were actually used, there is no copyright on thought in this confusing time. Enjoy and use.<br />
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Stop calling healthcare Obamacare, this is your watch and what you do or don't do or allow others to do is now Trumpcare.<br />
Donald, will Trumpcare be great like your University and Casinos?<br />
The tough tweeter was a draft dodger, it's real tough finding a doctor to excuse you from serving your nation. <br />
Great great idea not recording WH briefings, that way reality can be modified to fit anything at all.<br />
When Hillary called your fans deplorables she missed the biggest one you. <br />
How about that Gorsuch dissenting established civil rights for Americans another sad example of humanity. <br />
You are greatest president in all history even fake history according to fake Time covers.<br />
Donald you drive American made your fans drive foreign cars, how you gonna make America great.<br />
Only eighty thousand voters caused thirty two million to lose healthcare how nice, how Christian. <br />
Loved the fake Time magazine cover you looked so competent and accomplished unlike on TV.<br />
Gorsuch makes Scalia look normal what a home run another bigot on the top court. <br />
Love your religious BS you have them thinking you're the messiah who will lead them to the promised land of religious intolerance.<br />
Killing Obamacare won't kill that many people will it, hopefully they are good people. <br />
Donald bots are your most loyal twitter followers, congrats someone loves you. <br />
Americans who voted for you have made a joke of the presidency by electing a joke. <br />
Americans must realize by now, repeal and replace with something better was just a slogan for the naive.<br />
Great work holding events for your reelection at your own hotels, double money for you. <br />
Love seeing VP Pence and Speaker Ryan adulation plastered on their faces when they stand behind their hero DJT.<br />
Donald since you have a knack for recreating the past why not create the future too?<br />
Sarah Huckabee Sanders makes such funny faces when she realizes the truth must be avoided at all cost.<br />
Who knew healthcare was complicated, seems everyone but Trump and the republicans!<br />
Israel and Russia love you more than the rest of the world how nice is that.<br />
Less Taxes for the wealthy great great great healthcare plan, the poor don't matter in Trump world. <br />
Who knew judge Gorsuch would be among the educated deplorables? <br />
Less taxes for the well to do, the moral thing to do in Trump's Christian America. <br />
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http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/donald-trump-will-go-down-in-history-as-the-troll-in-chief<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-84219755832923589882017-06-27T07:05:00.000-04:002017-06-27T07:05:16.147-04:00People Tweet Pres Trump - List OneEd note: The seriousness or even legitimacy of these complementary and suggestive tweets cannot be determined but many do contain praise, advice, thoughts, and useful ideas. As the editors built this list, it was determined subsequent lists will be necessary. <br />
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Some republican may be playing you so they can rob the bank and then blame you, watch out for them.<br />
Thomas, Alito, and now Gorsuch three flunkies, two to go, great great work!<br />
Just blame the democrats and Obama, your fans will believe they want to believe.<br />
Sixty percent of Americans think you're dishonest keep up the good work!<br />
Forty straight days of lying and they actually claimed you weren't a republican!<br />
You should write a book on how to lie your way to the president of the USA, the art of the lie.<br />
My mom says you are a shallow man, a family that lives on the surface and has no depth or care of another.<br />
It's not your fault poor people didn't have rich parent like you, is it?<br />
Keep em busy with distractions, next tell them you know where the FBI is hiding Roswell alien remains.<br />
People should stop calling you appallingly ignorant you are president aren't you voters are smart aren't they!<br />
Your fans are too busy to check if you are lying or making excuses, keep it up. <br />
Each week make it some special named week like tech week infrastructure week security week keep them guessing. <br />
Keep MSM busy looking for evidence with made up tweets about Hillary Obama. <br />
Continue to keep MSM busy while our people take from the poor and reward the rich.<br />
No worry without healthcare they'll die soon if they have pre-existing health problems, dead people can't vote.<br />
Can I work with Russia like Jared and you do and make lots of money too?<br />
Donald 40 straight days of lying darn I'm jealous, Guinness book here you come.<br />
You're starting to look too old and out of shape next to Melania, the gym calls stay away from politics.<br />
Love your hair, if Melania dumps you I'm available 690 555 4321 just call. <br />
Promise them anything they'll believe so long as you blame others for everything. <br />
Love your use of superlatives while providing your deplorables nothing but fancy signatures. <br />
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"The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it." John Stuart MillJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-27792399893263326292017-06-14T06:26:00.000-04:002017-07-15T06:25:53.047-04:00Being ThereIt has been confirmed that satirizing Donald J Trump and family along with his presidential staff is too easy. The entire presidency is a satire of American comedic dimensions. 'Being There' best exemplifies DJT rise to power, but you'd need to add in 'Wall Street', 'Dr Strangelove' and 'All in the Family' as footnotes. <br />
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"No, I can definitely say the president is not a liar." Sarah Huckabee Sanders <br />
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It was sunny on my inauguration, God knew whose day it was.<br />
Three million illegals voted for Hillary and I still won the popular vote.<br />
I was wire tapped, Hillary and Barack are seen in a video setting it up.<br />
I accomplished so much in my first 100 days left me time for golf.<br />
How about my great cabinet taking loyalty oaths to me, not to anyone but me. <br />
I don't even know who James Comey is? <br />
I do have tapes of my conversation with some one who may have been James Comey. <br />
I've loved Russia since they bailed me out from bankruptcy.<br />
As soon as I sue all the women who accused me of improper behavior I'll be even more richer. <br />
I may even help build that Wall, you know the one, a great great wall started on day one. <br />
Healthcare is coming soon, it will be so good so good you won't need it. <br />
The FBI confirmed no collusion I don't even know where Russia is. <br />
My favorability rating are the highest in American history maybe world history.<br />
I am the greatest president in only four months and will be greater next month.<br />
I know exactly what covfefe means. <br />
I never ever ever lie, never. <br />
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http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/<br />
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https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/PEN_Trump_Truth_v3_low-res.pdf<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-1349733657687115522017-06-07T05:57:00.002-04:002017-06-07T05:57:53.122-04:00Trump Tweeter in Chief<br />
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Tweeting is my macho man card, beware fake main stream media. <br />
I am the greatest stump speaker of all time, did you see their faces, Trump's tweet agrees.<br />
Forty percent of my subjects will follow me no matter the lie or its consequences on them. <br />
I had to abandon Paris Accord too many bald eagles are being killed by wind turbines.<br />
How's my black cabinet guy doing, cities seem more peaceful good good job. <br />
That red head did me no justice orangey tan looks so much better on me.<br />
Just blame Hillary or Obama retroactively doesn't matter about what, my people will believe. <br />
Did you see all those people smiling as I signed another piece of paper that was really meaningless about job creation.<br />
Donald Trump Jr is following in my footsteps with fake and phony tweets, I'm so proud.<br />
When anything happens and I tweet its reason I am always correct, tweets Trump about Trump.<br />
Did they find Obama Kenyon birth certificate yet, my sources say they're close, real close. <br />
Folks you gotta agree it's official I'm still more honest and my women more beautiful. <br />
Being Pres is so neat I can make shat up and media talks about it for days on end not like in my old life.<br />
My subjects know I don't care about them that's what makes them such good followers.<br />
When I said make America great I meant make America great for me no one has figured that out. <br />
Make America great what a line what a line and so many China made hats sold.<br />
And how about that wall ain't it great, so big, so long, so high....<br />
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"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Soren Kierkegaard<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-65967498292563044302017-05-24T07:06:00.002-04:002017-05-24T07:06:18.697-04:00Trump World continuesThis is too easy but fun. Although this is our president. Hm.... Real quotes this week, but what is real today? <br />
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The Wisdum and profundity of DJT<br />
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"I think I am, actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand.”<br />
"The point is that you can't be too greedy." <br />
"I love the poorly educated."<br />
"Private jets cost a lot of money." <br />
"A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate."<br />
“In terms of achievement, I think I’d give myself an A, I think I get an A in terms of what I’ve actually done."<br />
"We need a great president."<br />
"Obama does not like the issue of where he was born." <br />
“I thought being President would be easier than my old life.” <br />
"I actually don't have a bad hairline."<br />
“An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud.”<br />
“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.”<br />
“The beauty of me is that I’m very rich.”<br />
“My IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure; it’s not your fault.”<br />
“I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.”<br />
"You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the...." <br />
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"On Day One, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall. We will use the best technology, including above - and below -ground sensors. That’s the tunnels. Remember that. Above and below. Above - and below -ground sensors, towers, aerial surveillance and manpower to supplement the wall, find and dislocate tunnels and keep out criminal cartels and Mexico, you know that, will work with us." Donald J Trump speech, 8/31/16<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-58306353000812367002017-03-14T09:01:00.002-04:002017-03-14T09:01:40.558-04:00This week in Trump World TW is a hodgepodge of Trump quotes, tweets, cabinet advice, and Trump news friends, on topics and ideas not fake at all. <br />
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Shawn Spicer will try to clarity any news in TW which conflicts with reality or seems virtually impossible.<br />
Global warming is not only a hoax but is being caused by the last administration. <br />
Donald Jr has zero contact with his father except when they talk on the phone which isn't really contact per DJT. <br />
Donald does his best thinking while golfing a Mar-a-Lago, Trump advisers claim the universe is in better alignment there.<br />
Trump believes what he believes because he believes what he believes, does that help?<br />
VP Pence is in the deep South compassionately explaining healthcare as government overreach to patients dying of needed care.<br />
Pres Trump is saving all his tweets on a private server so he can sell them and make money for Sasquatch victims.<br />
Pizzagate was almost as bad as Watergate except there were no burglars, no gate, but they did have pizza.<br />
Pres Trump doesn't drink because he wants to maintain complete mental control when tweeting.<br />
Pres Trump informed Jeff Sessions there was no need for cross burning on the White House lawn.<br />
Scott Pruitt thinks there is no need for environmental regulations since Armageddon is right around the corner. <br />
Trump finds proof of wire tapping, a loose wire was found under rug in WH.<br />
Three million illegal Hillary voters were found in caves near Roswell and are now running back to Mexico. <br />
Digital cameras were rigged by the Obama administration so that only part of Trump's inaugural crowd was shown. <br />
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Stay tuned for more important and not fake or made up news from Trump and the associated news agencies that verify the truth of Trump World.<br />
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<b>TW best Tweets of Week: </b> <br />
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Healthcare under Trumpcare will be the bestest and most likest in history and cheapest too! <br />
Did you see the crowds at Mar-a-Lago jealous huh!<br />
Shot a 69 at Mar-a-logo people laughed did they think I was lying! <br />
Snow storm coming bad bad Dem's fault told you Global warming was made up! <br />
Proof? Kellyann sees microwaves messages almost daily, they're real!<br />
I have the best sources the best news the best friends the best hotels!<br />
Don't I look so good saluting! Real soldier like!<br />
Obamacare is imploding, all these people getting healthcare, un-American!<br />
Media is rude I'm not they sure suck!<br />
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<b>Sources, advisers, and publicists for Trump World information:</b> Breitbart, Townhall, Red State, AlexJones, Newsmax, Fox, OAN, Rush, and especially Friends at Fox. <br />
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<b>Upcoming in TW:</b> DJT finds WMDs, Gov Christie helps DJT with diet advice, DJT and Sarah Palin practice shooting at gun range proving mentally challenged people are OK with guns. <br />
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Interested readers may want to check this article. <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-time-cure/201702/the-elephant-in-the-room">Read article here.</a><br />
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"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." Jean Racine <br />
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-16045324983380595592017-01-16T05:47:00.000-05:002017-01-16T05:47:57.043-05:00The Greatest Inauguration of all TimeFNI has confirmed beyond a reasonable doubt or any doubt at all that the inauguration of Donald J Trump will be the greatest, most wonderful, most splendid, and most likely miraculous event in all of history even surpassing Roman Emperors. <br />
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Dignitaries will appear on a massive jumbotron praising Donald, several dignitaries who have passed were video taped so they could be part of a president already rated above the likes of Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt. <br />
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Russian President Vladamir Putin will preface the event with a lip synced Pledge of Allegiance to America and Russia while First lady Melania will plagiarize Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Thatcher with a speech filled with tough love and let em eat cake lines in a dress that cost more than most Americans make in three lifetimes. Later the voices of John Barron and John Miller will emanate from the jumbotron singing how great he is. <br />
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President Trump's speech has already been rated right next to the 'Sermon on the Mount, it will ask not what you can do for your country, but how you help Donald become a billionaire in the next four years, it will be added as an addendum to the Bible and taught at Charter and Christian schools everywhere. <br />
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The Reverend Makemoney Jr will offer a pray that the rich pay no taxes with footnotes to include contacts in Swiss banks and the Cayman Islands. Call in phone lines will be run on TVs so Americans can donate to the ceremony, to building the Wall, and to pay for Trump Tower services as well as Mar-a-lago shrubbery and lawn work. Included in the speech will be information on making your organization, home or whatnot tax free and your generous gift tax free too. <br />
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Lottery tickets, t-shirts, baseball caps, and vodka will be sold by 501c vendors covered by Citizens United, no tax will be imposed on profits. Big sellers include T-shirts with Donald and Vladimir, current president Obama and Hillary behind bars, emaciated Mexican children trying to climb the Wall, Vodka duty free ads, Muslims being loaded on ships, and wealthy Americans surrounded by cash singing hallelujah ain't we great, ain't Donald great. <br />
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After the Donald has delivered his speech, 'From Russia with Love' will be sung as vendors tabulate their earning. Come one, come all, you voted for the greatest now give all you can, thanks for large gift donors will be broadcast live. Collection buckets will be passed around at this point to pay for the minister's palatial palace and that 'Wall' down south. <br />
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Speech outline text subject to change. 1st Draft<br />
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'Fourscore and a few years ago our forefathers brought forth a nation where some said give me liberty or some said give me freedom and they asked not what the nation could do for them but what the free market would do for some. Kidding kidding. Mine came from Germany anyway. Fellow Americans I want you all to know we will be great again and what a wall you're gonna build in the spirit of can do America, your taxes will add gold to the white house just like my Trump tower, and you'll once more be able to buy your own healthcare free of government regulations or any regulations at all should you be able to afford it in the first place, if you're young who needs it anyway, right. You have nothing to fear unless you're Mexican or Muslim or Hillary or a democrat or trans or a women. Actually I like women so long as they walk behind me, I'm on number three now, three I married that is. Foreign women are the best, American women are way too pushy. I was kidding this whole election, but look where it got me. Amazing huh. All those speeches, all those words, I was great wasn't I, I have a good brain. I gotta give myself extra credit, how about those TV ratings during the debates, I should be paid, I got the corrupt and lying media so much advertising. I may have my lawyers look into that. Little Marco, lying Ted, no energy Bush, beat them all. And how about my cabinet, talk about inclusive, rich people, racists, antisemitics, conspiracy folk, even a token black. He thinks he is gonna fix the inner city, my family sure has made lots from government housing. Now I can sign off on my own housing projects.<br />
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And folks my policies will be great too, no more worries about global whatever, I have selected people for my cabinet that have nothing to do with science so we should be good for mining, drilling, polluting, and smog for years to come. Pipelines everywhere. So what if a little of Florida is under water, my voters live inland at gated resorts and places like the Villages. My faithful fans and followers will be fine. Education no worries there either, we'll have plenty of workers as public education remains underfunded and our Charter schools keep the cream at the top. Throw in a few Christian like schools and my base will only grow. We've had enough civil rights laws and financial regulation, let the speculation begin, too big to fail will be changed to we're so big we can't fail. <br />
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Well folks don't forget your baseball caps and t-shirts on your way out. If we are gonna be great you gotta wear my stuff and my buddy Vlad profits too. And don't believe the rumors, my sons ain't gonna hunt in Washington, they're looking more towards ducks and other vermin on the Chesapeake. It is gonna be a great four years, maybe eight if I can con enough people twice. Kidding kidding. Enjoy your day folks and buy buy buy make America great and me even greater if that is possible. Soon you'll come to love me as I love me. <br />
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-79512482657449616682016-11-16T14:21:00.000-05:002016-11-16T14:21:54.929-05:00What did I learn from this electionIn a real sense white educated and uneducated America voted hate*, hate born of many years of right wing media: Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Newsmax, and Fox media are only a part of the mostly rural hate machine. It hates progress and diversity, it hates what is often called political correctness, but was once considered manners and tolerance. Much of this hate is even exhibited in Evangelical Christianity's opposition to a changing, more tolerant society. Main Street media lived all this time in a self reflecting bubble in which they presented hate as if it were just spectacle. They failed too. What I actually saw. <br />
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The republicans are an unprincipled party.<br />
Republicans elected the first candidate with no connection to truth. <br />
Republicans are not Conservatives in any sense of the term. <br />
Social change and rights for others brought out an enormous backlash.<br />
Republicans blame everyone except themselves.<br />
The republican base excuses their party, its corporate sponsors, and their own part in the economy.<br />
The republican base does not believe in the American values of our founding documents. <br />
Racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry define much of the republican base.<br />
Donald Trump is a shining example of American white privilege. <br />
Single issues manage many Republicans, demonstrating why their state and congressional governments are useless.<br />
Republicans investigate investigate investigate, but do nothing for America and its people. <br />
Republicans have the first Twitter brained candidate as their leader.<br />
Make America great was a dog whistle which was heard clearly.<br />
Fifty years of right wing republican radio has created a non reflective know nothing base which blames everyone except itself. <br />
Main stream media refuses to accept the reality of the American electorate. <br />
A sense of alienation mixed with hate remain powerful instigators of action, thirty years of Hillary hatred created a myth.<br />
A myth believed by republicans and others. <br />
What will republicans do now that they cannot investigate the Clintons?<br />
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In summary: <br />
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There are so many ironies in this election: whites voted this time, rural and evangelical whites voted for Trump unlike both McCain and Romney. McCain had to face the fact that George W. Bush screwed up badly, and Romney didn't seem authentic, and on top of that was a Mormon. Blacks came out for Obama, but he faced a Congress that opposed his very being. Intellect doesn't win in America. And then there is the baloney economic argument, come on folks, it ain't true as Trump voters had all the benefits of white privilege, and the democratic policies they believe came from thin air. One truth that Trump spoke is for Blacks, what have you got to lose, or to rephrase in a more truthful way, you're gonna lose anyway. This is America, wake up and smell the bigotry. As for immigrants and Muslims, you guys, just like twenty five years of Hillary hatred, were the foils that roused the base and supplied the hate factor. Blame must be given even when it is a fiction. Everyone should read Eric Hoffer sometime, nothing brings people together like common enemies. White college educated folk live in a libertarian bubble in which they got theirs, so what if your work is outsourced. That's the free market. Trump outsourced and used Chinese steel, but China is now laughing as democracy elected a misogynist bully. Did white women forgive the grabbing and ratings just because a judge may one day remove another woman's right to privacy - are you kidding. MSM talked to themselves in reflecting mirrors and forgot they too are among the privileged; Trump was their accomplishment too. But now the republicans have control, so when things fail as they do under their rule - read history - they too will be thrown out, once again and the tale will continue. Some time, maybe in our grandchildren lives, humans will wake up and realize it is they who can make things right, and while institutions help, acceptance and support for each other works better. Oh and maybe then religion will remain a private concern and God will applaud the show.<br />
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Next related post: where to from here. <br />
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*Hate, I pondered other words but they'd dilute the issue. 'Hate the sin, not the sinner' the religious formula works well as 'sin' for some can be anything at all. Synonyms for hate: animosity, resentment, abomination, hostility, abhorrence, if you witnesses the rallies and the words and actions, they all fit. As I watched the Benghazi hearing, republican men and women shows hate as you rarely see it. <br />
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"If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times." Mark Twain<br />
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-66072531982202393482016-10-22T05:45:00.000-04:002019-03-27T16:08:51.745-04:00Worth a read, books too"What is it about a flamboyant millionaire that appeals to poor white conservatives? Why do they believe a Trump presidency would amplify their voices? The answer may lie in America’s historical relationship between the wealthiest class and the army of poor whites who have loyally supported them." Jonna Ivin <br />
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<a href="http://www.stirjournal.com/2016/04/01/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump/">Read article here.</a><br />
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"If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times." Mark Twain<br />
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Books<br />
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Some suggestions for reading, please be aware should you accept the challenge of reading a few of the books listed below you will be changed. Proceed with caution. Great gifts too. <br />
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“One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” Cassandra Clare<br />
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Alpha order. Various topics. <br />
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'Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle' by Daniel L. Everett<br />
'Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious' by Gerd Gigerenzer<br />
'Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by J. D. Vance<br />
'House of cards : psychology and psychotherapy built on myth' by Robyn M. Dawes<br />
'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century' by Jonathan Glover<br />
'Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain' David Eagleman<br />
'Merchants of Doubt' by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. M. Conway <br />
'On Human Nature' by Edward O. Wilson <br />
'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century' by Timothy Snyder<br />
'One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway - and Its Aftermath' by Seierstad, Åsne and Sarah Death<br />
'Paul Farmer: Servant to the Poor' by Jennie Weiss Block <br />
'Prehistory: The Making Of The Human Mind' by Colin Renfrew<br />
'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark' Carl Sagan<br />
'The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century' by Peter Watson<br />
'The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy' Albert O. Hirschman <br />
'The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science' by Will Storr<br />
'Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West' John Ralston Saul<br />
'World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech' by Franklin Foer<br />
'Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance' By Robert Pirsig<br />
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Check Goodreads for reviews, many of the books are challenging and they will change you and change the way you see. <br />
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"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." David Bailey<br />
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364213548689550066.post-16001874282075067342016-08-04T06:59:00.001-04:002016-08-04T06:59:46.284-04:00Irritus U update AR15s and Trump Special Lecture Notices:<br />
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'Irritus now conducts free lectures covering issues that are important to our public at large. Lectures will include timely topics that often confuse and complicate our simple message. Ambiguity in messaging can confuse our base and often even us. <br />
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Guns Safety and Slogans: <br />
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Citizens have every right to be safe in America, a massively armed society does not make anyone feel safe. Obviously it's important we support weapon manufacturers but at the same time our people must win re-election. So this lecture will cover how to avoid being looked upon as a nutcase with no concern for voter's safety. Topics include:<br />
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If your constituency is not full of rabid gun nuts how you can abstain from voting. <br />
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How to answer questions about the death of a loved one by unnecessary and once illegal automatic weapons.<br />
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How to appear sincerely concerned over children's deaths.<br />
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If your constituency, like Ted Cruz's, is full of gun nuts you're among the lucky ones. But death is final so try not to smile so much. We must appear caring. <br />
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Following the lecture there will be an open forum in which tactics going forward will be covered. <br />
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War Lecture<br />
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Another war, more deaths, more Muslim hatred of America, how do we talk about and defend the complexity that is the Middle East today and the hard part is how we justify all the spending that could help America, but instead is used to pay for cruise missiles? <br />
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Number one rule, always mention Hitler.<br />
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Then say we cannot look weak and the world is really on our side even if they are not.<br />
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Make sure collateral damage is aimed at the foes and is really their fault. <br />
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Bring home a badly wounded child to be used as a detraction from the horror of war, shows how much we care.<br />
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Praise the bravery of our people and the courage of our congress even though most would never serve in the military. <br />
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Remember always that with war come war profits and you know that mantra. <br />
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Our topics will be updated as topics and issues enter the public arena and confuse our base.<br />
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[Sorry, Our Faculty has not kept this up to date, some of our students are complaining as they don't always know what to say. We'll try to keep our course structure up to date. Thanks as always for your support.]<br />
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if this was not so true it would be funny<br />
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we can only hope that the dims stay/get more organized and the repugs keep the tea party<br />
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I pledge allegiance to the constitution of the United States of America as amended by the legislative and executive branches and interpreted by the Supreme Court<br />
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America<br />
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Several kudos are due this week for our finest graduates and spokesmen. <br />
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Ted Cruz was splendid in his use of 'lawlessness' and the associative power he brought to make executive orders seem lawless. Professor Sterculus PhD was proud of one of his favorite students and has added 'lawlessness' as a key term whenever used with our opposition's president. Read the brilliance of his words below. <br />
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"For all of those on the left who are willing to excuse the president’s lawlessness and disregarding federal law, there will come another president of the other party."<br />
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"Suppose the next president says, ‘I’m instructing the Treasury Department [to] no longer collect taxes at a higher rate than 25%,“That happens to be policy I agree with. I would love to see moving towards tax reform and lowering the top rates. And yet, that would be an extraordinarily bad outcome from the perspective of the Constitution and the protection of the liberty of the people." Cruz's remarks were on Glenn Beck’s radio program, a program we support and advertise on, but we must admit saying one of our goals out loud may have been a bit too brash, but you know Ted. <br />
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The Speaker of the House didn't miss this new use of 'lawlessness' and deftly used it to counter any progress on Immigration reform. Great move John, now we can keep our corporate sponsors happy with a continuation of their under the covers, and need we say underpaid, labor force. Great move, Johnnie.<br />
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Our third kudo goes to the right wing talking machine and its brilliant use of the CBO report as anti-jobs. It's critical we keep our voters confused over any benefits of Obamacare, the numerous press releases and comments from Representative Ryan, among others, called it a job killer and the constant repetition works as poll numbers for Paul Ryan demonstrate. Always remember regardless of truth, repetition works best. You go Paul. <br />
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Irritus Update: Confidential Important (internal document)<br />
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Two issues have surfaced that require new approaches to our educational concepts and core curriculum. Transgender bathrooms (TB) and Donald Trump (DT) complicate our mission to maintain privilege for our people and to education our students. We will cover the easier topic first. <br />
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While TB is complicated socially and not covered in any archaic religious document, for instance we can't point to the Bible for help, it confuses and stirs up our base support. It is a great distraction from the fact Mitch and Paul do nothing but talk in their positions of authority. It also supports States rights issues and our Professors and students are well aware of the power States rights have in maintaining privilege. If we treat it as we do abortion it is a winner, we do nothing that will cost money for our people, but we keep them occupied with another topic. If a liberal or socially conscious moral person should protest we bring up our daughters in a bathroom with a man. This one is easy, now to the tough one. <br />
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Donald Trump has changed the dynamic of our party but we must still stick together. Paul Ryan recently endorsed DT, while this sounds like a denial of all we believe in, and it is, we must keep quiet and support him for a SCOTUS selection is at stack and we can't have another judicial lawyer selected. We must have a known ideologue in the image of Antonin. But, and there are lots of buts, with DT, while he claims to be a conservative republican, even we aren't conservatives, only republicans who support our people, our corporations and our institutions of training. Donald confuses in so many areas it may become necessary to have a translator, say on Fox, change his phrases to conform to our meanings. Our people learn from Fox. For instance on taxes we must allow the low tax message to continue even if it has failed for eighty years and counting. This allows monies that could be used for roads and bridges to be used for our corporations, financial institutions and our wealthy benefactors. If a bridge fails, we use the old Cadillac ruse of our hero Ronnie, only now we'll have to make it a Lexus mom. 'If there weren't so many on food stamps and welfare that bridge would still be standing.' Listen folks we played these cards since Coolidge Hoover and refined them with Reagan Bush, we can do it again. <br />
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Summer School schedules will be revised and distributed soon. Keep the faith.<br />
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Irritus Update - Internal Document Not For Public Distribution<br />
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But because our benefactors make more money on rifles and long guns it is critical we keep our message of gun safety consistent and constant. Our students and professors realize an AR15 in the home is overkill and if used by the frightened handler may kill the entire family as well as the intruder. Face it folks, many AR15 owners aren't the brightest bulb in the box as shown by all the accidental deaths. Bullet poof walls are being examined but may be too costly and difficult to install in trailers. So while none of our benefactors want to live next to some trigger happy weekend drunk armed with an AR15, we still need big sales, doesn't matter if sold based on dubious facts and confusing data. Irritus will publish the following info on right wing sites, gun hugger sites, and media such as FOX.<br />
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Why you need an AR15:<br />
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Burglars today often wear bullet proof clothing, your AR15 will penetrate most<br />
Red scope attached to your AR15 guarantees clean kill with minimal home damage<br />
Families must be instructed on first burst of firepower to hit the floor and stay there till all clear<br />
Irreplaceable family pictures must be protected with bullet proof glass<br />
Children's beds should be surrounded by bullet proof material if you can afford it<br />
Wives, girlfriends, or adulterous relationships must know location of second or third bullet clip for quick delivery<br />
Grandparents should sleep in basement or attic and floors must be reinforced <br />
Apartments pose a particular problem as thin walls could cause you to shoot the old lady who lives next store<br />
Family schedules should be reviewed daily so any late entry doesn't result in wasted bullets<br />
Keep propane gas tank location clearly noted and protected as much as possible <br />
Know where the water shutoff is in case of bursting pipes<br />
Dogs cats fish birds and other household pets should be insured because they can't be moved or may even run into the line of fire<br />
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We need stories of AR15 saving the lives of people and hamsters because Americans love animals more than their neighbor. Play down all the accidental deaths and mass shootings. Stories like, 'while our walls are full of holes our cat lived through surgery for its missing leg.' The dog and fish may have died in the battle, but the intruder ran away. Grandma died happy in our bullet barrage, shouting 'shoot em' 'shoot em', she died for our freedom is on her tombstone. Stuff like that. Always remember stress freedom even if many causalities.<br />
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Irritus U is happy that our standard bearer and presidential candidate Donald Trump has selected Mike Pence as his VP. Mike's values and votes in congress represent the values our college gives to its students. If America were ever able to have a stable fair society our benefactors and supporters would have to pay their fair share, and we cannot allow that to happen. We preach 'freedom' but that freedom must be controlled. Add to that a contented just society would be much harder to manipulate and thus elect representatives that stir up the pot of resentment over immigrants and minorities while supporting our people. Good luck Mike, Irritus supports you. <br />
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Voted NO on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler. (Dec 2008)<br />
Voted NO on $60B stimulus package for jobs, infrastructure, & energy. (Sep 2008)<br />
Voted NO on revitalizing severely distressed public housing. (Jan 2008)<br />
Voted NO on regulating the subprime mortgage industry. (Nov 2007)"<br />
Future of conservatism demands traditional marriage. (Feb 2008)<br />
Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation. (Nov 2007)<br />
Voted YES on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman. (Jul 2006)<br />
Voted YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent. (Dec 2005)<br />
Voted YES on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004)<br />
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/mike-pence/<br />
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Special Alert: Historians on our man Trump<br />
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Irritus has learned historians are critically looking at our current presidential candidate. Irritus too has doubts concerning Donald Trump we'd much prefer the VP choice as his voting record is stellar. But our media maybe went too far in making government the problem and creating too many dog whistles about blacks, hispanics and others. But we cannot have Hillary Clinton elected. There is the possibility Hillary would be fair and impartial and this is something that could hurt outsourcing, taxes, and profit margins. Our base has been carefully created since the New Deal, we cannot got back to a more liberal, inclusive nation. The 1% need our support, plus maybe the next two or three percenters who pay our bills. See the historians piece here: https://www.facebook.com/historiansondonaldtrump/<br />
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Make sure this piece is not distributed and if mentioned just say it has been totally debunked. This tactic has worked for our base and should continue to work as they don't read and only watch Fox. Shred this document upon reading. <br />
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Updated 08/04/16Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02240265695831663074noreply@blogger.com0