November 2010
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“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are:...”
– Al Franken (via kari-shma)
October 2010
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51 Ways to Spark a Commons Revolution →
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“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words,...”
– Pierre Bourdieu
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“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not...”
– 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl Marx 1852 (via Instapaper)
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As I watched the world collapse around me, the only thing that I could bother to say was, ‘enjoy the view’.
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“Everything is relative,” only in the sense that everything exists within a system of relations.
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...”
– Andre Gide (via soul-surfer, bloodorangemoon)
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“…we can say that a social system is the precondition for the individual...”
– Gary Teeple
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“An abstraction is one thing that represents several real things equally well.”
– Edsger W. Dijkstra
…Or attempts to represent things well, we should add. As social scientists, this is our primary task, whether we know it or not: the creation of abstractions, or concepts that represent the empirical reality to which they refer. When we define ‘nationalism,’ for...
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of...”
– Mary Anne Radmacher (via xxboy)
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“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to...”
– Carl Sagan - The Pale Blue Dot (1994)
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“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking...”
– Thucydides (via azspot)
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“Oh, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead...”
– Gabrielle Zevin (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) 