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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via randomglory)

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.

H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (via randomglory)

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A thousand ounces of gold is indeed a great reward, and the office of chief minister is truly an elevated position. But have you, sir, not seen the sacrificial ox awaiting the sacrifices at the royal shrine of state? It is well cared for and fed for a few years, caparisoned with rich brocades, so that it will be ready to be led into the Great Temple. At that moment, even though it would gladly change places with any solitary pig, can it do so? So, quick and be off with you! Don’t sully me. I would rather roam and idle about in a muddy ditch, at my own amusement, than to be put under the restraints that the ruler would impose. I will never take any official service, and thereby I will [be free] to satisfy my own purposes

Chuang Tzu (via oncewrittenneverforgotten)

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Delhi is 311 miles from Lakshmi Chowk, Lahore. An century old mark that survives till today.

Franz Kafka for the Signs

Aries: "Nothing holds me. Let me say that I myself have torn myself to shreds."

Taurus: "Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember; all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire."

Gemini: "I’m always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed…to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones…"

Cancer: "I need all the time and a thousand times more than all the time and if possible all the time that exists, for you, to think of you, to breathe in you."

Leo: "By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

Virgo: "By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free."

Libra: "I mustn’t look at you too much, or I won’t be able to take my eyes off you at all."

Scorpio: "I never wish to be easily defined."

Sagittarius: "Once I enjoy a person, that joy knows no bounds."

Capricorn: "I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can’t find the right words. All I can say is: Stay with me, don’t leave me."

Aquarius: "Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. And if they don’t, then everything is over with here, once and for all."

Pisces: "Please, consider me a dream."

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A Pakistani female commando stands guard as the Sikh pilgrims arrive at Wagah railway station .

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The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know what that elsewhere is.

E. M. Cioran (via hiems-aeterna)

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Willy Wonka sent out his chocolate bars worldwide, and 5 white kids (4 with first-world problems) still won.

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To be fair, his goal was apparently to send a stern warning about the evils of entitlement by murdering them in ironic ways.

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Also, the rich, spoiled, first world white kids aren’t presented in the story as having gotten the tickets by chance, the story is very clear that they and their families used their privilege and power to game the system - taking what was initially presented as a random selection and cheating by leveraging their disproportionate resources - wasting mountains of chocolate in pursuit of gold…

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Willy Wonka and the Discourse Factoty

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hello naughty children it’s Discourse Time

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Newly elected woman MP in the Canada’s general election Iqra Khalid was born in Rukanpur village of Rahim Yar Khan, she also completed her matriculation from Bahawalpur before moving to Canada.