Brainpickings

Thoughts, ideas, and non-sense or in other words this is just a outlet for my somewhat creative mind, most of the pictures are not mine but the captions are what they inspired me to write.

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It's a good thing we didn't elect Sleepy Joe. That could have been embarrassing.

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This asswipe is a complete embarrassment to the nation.

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Marlene Dietrich, born December 27, 1901 in Schöneberg, now Berlin, Germany, was a German American motion-picture actress whose beauty, voice, aura of sophistication, and languid sensuality made her one of the world’s most glamorous film stars.

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Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner died on this day in 1990. This is a still from the movie "The Barefoot Contessa"

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Hedy LaMarr died on this day 2000

Hedy LaMarr 1948

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There used to be an online “blog” called “Brain Pickings” run by a marvelous woman named Maria Popova, but she changed the name to “The Marginalia” some years ago. I follow her like a puppy dog because she is so devoted and so brilliant. Do you know of her?

Nope.

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"The highest result of education is tolerance."

Hellen Keller

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"Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge."

Carl Jung

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"There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illlusion."

Daniel Dennett

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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

Goethe

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"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

Albert Einstein

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"constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong...With such a people you can do whatever you want."

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If my kids gotta do active shooter drills then your kids can handles a t-shirt with a rainbow on it.

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"We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

Carl Sagan; The Demon Haunted World

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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Thomas More

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Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Hannah Arendt

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"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, lowest common denominator programming, pseudoscience, and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."

Carl Sagan