September 2011
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“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d enquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation.
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“What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
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beatlesneveroutofstyle:
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“Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street — financial...”
– Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street
“Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.”
– Voltaire’s last words, when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.
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“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the...”
– Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (via aliciahannahnaomi)
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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal...”
– Carl Sagan “Can We Know the Universe?” 1979 (via scipsy)
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“I refuse to believe corporations are people until Texas executes one.”
– Ara Rubya
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sahern: Ghoti →
sahern:
Ghoti is a constructed word used to illustrate irregularities in English spelling. It is a respelling of the word fish: i.e., it is supposed to be pronounced /ˈfɪʃ/. It comprises these phonemes:
gh, pronounced /f/ as in tough /tʌf/;
o, pronounced /ɪ/ as in women /ˈwɪmɪn/;
and ti, pronounced /ʃ/ as in nation /ˈne͡ɪʃən/.
Using the same method and reinforcing the original point, ghoti...
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