March 2012
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It’s easier to make you leave.
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“You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take. You have got...”
– (via ahuntersheart)
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“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving...”
– Siddhartha
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“Because I am the first and the last
I am the venerated and the despised one
I...”
– Found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, 1947. Dated III-IV BC. Allegedly an hymn to goddess Isis
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“People of color, women, and gays—who now have greater access to the centers of...”
– Teju Cole, The Atlantic (via theatlantic)
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mythologyofblue:
“Words are never only words; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
— Slavoj Žižek
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I’m appalled I’m this upset about paper. Anyone with a money printing machine, please give me a call, thanks.
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What grades determine:
Your ability to memorize mostly useless things
Your ability to regurgitate information in the way others want you to
Your ability to understand what adults want from you and give it to them
Your tolerance for working on tasks you don’t find useful because others want you to do them or believe them to be helpful/socially acceptable
What grades do NOT determine:
Your intelligence
Your...
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“A lot of people arrive in Africa to assume that it’s a blank empty space and...”
– Binyavanga Wainaina
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Ya Allah, manusia. Kau selalu lihat apa di depanmu sahaja? Itu tidak cukup, wahai manusia. Tidak cukup.
Apa yang kau ingin buat, sebenarnya? Apa dayamu?
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"Stop Kony, yes. But don’t stop asking questions"... →
“I understand the anger and resentment at Invisible Children’s approach, which with its paternalism has unpleasant echoes of colonialism. I will admit to being perturbed by its apparent top-down prescriptiveness, when so much diligent work is already being done at Northern Uganda’s grassroots. On the other hand, I am very happy – relieved, more than anything – that Invisible Children have...
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“Please torture me in the old way … Here they destroy people mentally and...”
– Letters From Guantanamo.
Shaker Aamer has been detained in Guantanamo for the past ten years without committing a single offence. “Fears are growing for the welfare of Mr Aamer, from south London, who is now 45 and has a wife and four children. He has never met his youngest son. His lawyers are...
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“There’s no place to go. There’s no place you ever go. You’re always in the same...”
– Ram Dass
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Watchthepoliticalnotebook:
“As I’m talking to you now, they’re dying.” Injured Sunday Times photographer Paul Conroy gives Sky News an interview from his hospital bed. This is a really important interview. His descriptions of what’s happening in Homs are painful and terrible. He spoke of the scheduled regularity of the shelling, beginning with horrible predictability at 6:00 every morning.
I’ve...
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Long day.
The kind where everything that can go wrong, did. And then some. Irritating, irritable. The day stretching from one to another, becoming an even bigger mess. Until I read the news, that someone I had admired greatly right here on Tumblr has just passed. We don’t know each other personally, but have crossed paths virtually a few times. And in all the times we’ve communicated,...
