February 2012
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“Must movies not be depressing? Must major studios not release them if they are?...”
– Roger Ebert
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“The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it’s called the empowerment of women....”
– Christopher Hitchens, speaking during a Nov. 26, 2010 debate with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (via iboudreau)
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“Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are...”
– Stephen Jay Gould, ”Evolution as Fact and Theory,” Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History (via topsecretatheist)
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“Everyone there is supposedly nice and a bit spiritual and open to other people’s...”
– David Mitchell (via jurisfiction)
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“Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that...”
– Michael Eric Dyson (via auctoritas)
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“I haven’t got any thoughts. I’m just staring vacantly into space, while a...”
– In the Loop (via seductive-reasoning)
bloomingfromthecoast:
it’s heartbreaking how some people fight so hard for the right to kill innocent babies… abortion is murder. plain and simple.
Not really though.
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“The problem is, real people buy sex, and real people sell sex. The numbers on...”
– Melissa Gira Grant - “‘Men Buy Girls, Not Sex’ And Other Myths Of Anti-Prostitution Moralists”
I really wonder how long it will take for it to sink in that sex workers sell a service, not their bodies. I’m a theatre major and have also been paid for some modeling I do. Both of these involve me...
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“Nobody tells an actor, “You’re playing a strong-minded man.” We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women” (via leahblaine)
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“[Charlie Sheen and I] were flying from LA to San Francisco and I did refer to a...”
– Nicolas Cage
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“So when someone says to me, ‘I believe in the Bible literally.’ Well, I...”
– Penn Jillette, An Atheist’s Guide to the 2012 Election (via skewedneutral)
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“The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the...”
– Daniel Dennett (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)
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“Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing that they prefer to ram...”
– Charlie Brooker (via serpientes)
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Racism Free Ontario: White Privilege: Now What &... →
racismschool:
Examples of what white privilege deniers THINK it means to be told to “Check Your Privilege.”
Apologize for being white
Believe white is bad or wrong
Be ashamed of being white
Feel guilty for being white
Examples of what people ACTUALLY mean when they say “Check Your Privilege.”
You are inserting yourself into a conversation where you shouldn’t be. Acknowledge what you are...
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“I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived....”
– James Ellroy
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slenderframe:
“The Crystal Ship” -...
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“I asked him about it and it’s a different thing to smoke a joint or to smoke a...”
– Woody Harrelson: Jack Nicholson Taught Me How to Smoke Cigarettes
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“I think the problem they’ve got is that the New Testament, if read as an...”
– Victoria Coren
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“[The Amazing Atheist’s] insistence on the definition [of feminism as women...”
– Godless Bitches
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“I should think that if people were to get the wrong impression, the one to which...”
– Brian Slade, Velvet Goldmine. (via looking-through-the-window)
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“I think if he’d read a different book by a different writer at just the right...”
– Luther (via relatedworlds)
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Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari faces charge of... →
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mana861:
By David Keyes, Friday, February 10, 3:31 AM
David Keyes is executive director of the New York-based organization Advancing Human Rights and co-founder of CyberDissidents.org. His e-mail address is david.keyes@advancinghumanrights.org.
Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari was detained in Malaysia on Wednesday night and is likely to be extradited soon to Saudi...
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“The feminism I embrace is sex-positive. It includes heterosexual men and women,...”
– PZ Myers, in response to The Amazing Atheist [TW: rape]
“LOOK HOW FUCKING BIG I AM LOL GOOD LUCK COLOURING ME IN BY THE END OF CLASS”
– Nunavut
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“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current...”
– Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (via obi-wankenblowme)
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“Whether you use bullets or ballots, you’ve got to aim well; don’t strike at the...”
– Malcolm X (via eternallyfragmented)
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“He knew then it was the siren. For some reason this made him laugh and he began...”
– The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (via inclosing)
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“I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, Don’t ever tell anybody anything.
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“It made more sense to commit to nothing, keep my options open. And that’s...”
– Rob Gordon, High Fidelity
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“Truth disappears with history and gossip tells us in the end nothing of personal...”
– Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family (via holdingupaship)