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Cosmic Funnies
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Show & Tell
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Noah Kahan
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@collected-highlights
"If their consciences had not become dulled by their scramble for wealth, Americans would not so easily forget the lesson that, sooner or later, every nation, however weak, achieves freedom, and that every abuse of power hastens the destruction of the one who wields it."
General Sandino of the Army for the Defense of the Sovereignty of Nicaragua, 1928.
"Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty"
Sembene Ousmane, "God's Bits of Wood"
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground ... Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will."
Frederick Douglass (1857)
"If We Must Die" by Claude McKay
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
"Truth is the principal and fundamental part of virtue. It must be loved for its own sake."
Michel De Montaigne, On Presumption
"...nothing is so likely to throw us into danger as a frantic eagerness to avoid it."
Michel De Montaigne, On Vehicles
"I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind."
Michel De Montaigne, On Cannibals
"...a horse who knows nothing of grammar isn't unhappy, and a foolish man is not unfortunate, because this is in keeping with his nature."
Erasmus, Praise of Folly
"Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty."
Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)
"...virtue advises us to abstain from doing things for money; and inherited wealth, the result of someone else's work, should win no praise for us. Saint Jerome has a golden maxim: a rich man is either a wicked man or the heir of a wicked man."
Poggio Bracciolini, "On Nobility" (1440)
"...there are many who, just as dogs always bark at strangers, in the same way often condemn and hate what they do not understand."
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, "Oration on the Dignity of Man" (1496)
"If you are afraid of blood you cannot be a butcher, but without butchers there would be no meat."
Sembene Ousmane, "God's Bits of Wood".
"Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying Blood ... blood ... blood ... blood ...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what one supposed, and luckier"
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
"I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider green and violet and the tufted crown intentional, And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else, And the joy in the woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me"
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
"At any rate, that is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep."
Willa Cather "My Ántonia"