October 2011
26 posts
“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.”
– German proverb
“[W]e hate the rich? Come on. Success is the national religion, and almost...”
– Matt Taibbi http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/owss-beef-wall-street-isnt-winning-its-cheating-20111025
“Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to...”
– Ecclesiastes 9:11, NRSV
“Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance...”
– from John Brown’s speech to the court at his trial
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes...”
– Mario Savio
“Do you admit to this certainty: that we are at a turning point? - If it is a...”
– Maurice Blanchot
“Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even...”
– http://files.neilgaiman.com/mirror/111017162300/occupywriters.com/by-lemony-snicket.html
“It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to...”
– http://files.neilgaiman.com/mirror/111017162300/occupywriters.com/by-lemony-snicket.html
“Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they...”
– http://files.neilgaiman.com/mirror/111017162300/occupywriters.com/by-lemony-snicket.html
“There may not be a reason to share your cake. It is, after all, yours. You...”
– http://files.neilgaiman.com/mirror/111017162300/occupywriters.com/by-lemony-snicket.html
“If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are...”
– http://files.neilgaiman.com/mirror/111017162300/occupywriters.com/by-lemony-snicket.html
“I’ve come to understand that there are lots and LOTS of people just like you:...”
– Steve Yegge http://siliconfilter.com/google-engineer-google-is-a-prime-example-of-our-complete-failure-to-understand-platforms/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsgrange+%28Newsgrange%29
7 tags
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do...”
– Indira Gandhi (via annaharo)
3 tags
“Don’t do it. Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still...”
– Charles Bukowski (via theartofdylan)(via sibbotery)
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve...”
– Steve Jobs http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
1 tag
“I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world,...”
– Salman Rushdie (via labyrintho)
“And this is the other thing. It was hard, and it was fucked up that we had to...”
“Let me tell you what it feels like to stand in front of a white man and explain...”
– SO REAL IT HURTS: Notes on Occupy Wall Street | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture (via skeskali2)
6 tags
“We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So...”
– Andy Goldsworthy (via winterlungs)
“We are the 99% and we are too big to fail.”
“That sounds like the fevered ramblings of a syphilitic brain. But he was...”
– Stephen Colbert 