January 2011
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Reblog if you want your followers to ask you...
amorphis:
I guess. My ask is always open to questions though.
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Word of the Day: sprezzatura
Sprezzatura (noun): (art) The art of performing a difficult task so gracefully, that it looks effortless.
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Ever wish you could give everyone you know a bit...
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No other book, or indeed any piece of culture, seems to have influenced the...
– http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12205084 (via thisisnoir)
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DEFINITIONS AND DISTINCTIONS
FREE MARKET: That condition of society in which all economic transactions result from voluntary choice without coercion.
THE STATE: That institution which interferes with the Free Market through the direct exercise of coercion or the granting of privileges (backed by coercion).
TAX: That form of coercion or interference with the Free Market in which the State collects tribute (the tax), allowing...
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"Grass does more than Milton can / to justify...
a tidbit from The Golden Apple (said by a fictional version of FDR, no less)
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The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned,...
– from Never Whistle While You’re Pissing, by Hagbard Celine, H.M., S.H.
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In the time of the Roman Empire, civic life was divided between the Blue and...
– Eliezer Yudkowsky, from A Fable of Science and Politics
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things have changed for me / but that's OK / I...
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You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was “but...
– Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant (via fuckyeahdiscworld)
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I don’t give two splats of an old negro junkie’s vomit for your...
– Steve Albini
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Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same...
– Terry Pratchett, “Unseen Academicals”
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No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well technically they had, quite often;...
– Terry Pratchett, Eric (via fuckyeahdiscworld)
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No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well technically they had, quite often;...
– Terry Pratchett, Eric (via fuckyeahdiscworld)
Q: What does a creationist say when a fossil gap gets filled? A: “Ah-hah! Now there are two fossil gaps!”
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Come on hedgehogs, share a little hedge.
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We read to know that we are not alone.
– C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)
We read to know that we are not alone.
– C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)
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