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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Victor Hugo

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Victor Hugo

Tags: les miserables, protest

The mythology serves purposes darker than sentiment, nothing more so than the currently popular, and arrantly nonsensical, assertion that Lee freed his inherited slaves in 1862 before the war was over...

William C. Davis

The mythology serves purposes darker than sentiment, nothing more so than the currently popular, and arrantly nonsensical, assertion that Lee freed his inherited slaves in 1862 before the war was over...

William C. Davis

Tags: american civil war biography, confederate, confederate states of america, robert e lee, slavery, slavery in the united states

The entire pre-Columbian literature of Mexico, a vast library of tens of thousands of codices, was carefully and systematically destroyed by the priests and friars who followed in the wake of the conq...

Graham Hancock

The entire pre-Columbian literature of Mexico, a vast library of tens of thousands of codices, was carefully and systematically destroyed by the priests and friars who followed in the wake of the conq...

Graham Hancock

Tags: christianity, codices, conquest, flames, holocaust, knowledge, savages, worship

That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.

Nathan Reese Maher

That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.

Nathan Reese Maher

Tags: amnesia, androids, apocalypse, carrack, cityisle, cityspire, count, damnation, death, desolate

Take him away. Prepare a feast. Forget nothing. My crown: the golden cutlery. The poison bottles; and the fumes; the wreaths of ivy and the bloody joints; the chains; the bowl of nettles; the spices;...

Mervyn Peake

Take him away. Prepare a feast. Forget nothing. My crown: the golden cutlery. The poison bottles; and the fumes; the wreaths of ivy and the bloody joints; the chains; the bowl of nettles; the spices;...

Mervyn Peake

Tags: bones, crown, feast, hearts, lamb, poison

Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the...

Rebecca Goldstein

Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the...

Rebecca Goldstein

Tags: protest, war, weather

On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a sponsor and donor of this soon-to-be-opened institution, while an accompanying leafl...

Christopher Hitchens

On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a sponsor and donor of this soon-to-be-opened institution, while an accompanying leafl...

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: american jews, antisemitism, armenian genocide, armenians, barbra streisand, betty friedan, bigotry, bob dylan, british isles, britons

Nothing, I said. I’m just… I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. I’m just very, very fond of you.

John Green

Nothing, I said. I’m just… I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. I’m just very, very fond of you.

John Green

Tags: gus, hazel grace, hazel grace lancaster, john green, the fault in our stars

I’ve heard that when you’re in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and you’re hyper-aware of what’...

Beth Revis

I’ve heard that when you’re in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and you’re hyper-aware of what’...

Beth Revis

Tags: amy martin, beth revis, crash, discovery, earth, elder, godspeed, home, journey, life

It’s not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one’s sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.

Denise Riley

It’s not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one’s sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.

Denise Riley

Tags: carpe diem, dysphoria, gender, gender identity, living the moment, maggie nelson, self awareness, the argonauts, transgender

It was a map. A really crudely drawn map of trees, mountains that looked like upside-down Vs, and stick people. Apparently, drawing was not one of Athena's skills.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

It was a map. A really crudely drawn map of trees, mountains that looked like upside-down Vs, and stick people. Apparently, drawing was not one of Athena's skills.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Tags: athena, humor, sentinel

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abaseme...

Ayn Rand

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abaseme...

Ayn Rand

Tags: evil, good, happiness, independence, john galt, life, man, mind, morality, morals

In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

Mario Puzo

In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

Mario Puzo

Tags: the godfather

I'm not young. I've never had any youth.

Iris Murdoch

I'm not young. I've never had any youth.

Iris Murdoch

Tags: burdens, iris murdoch, old soul, sad, the message to the planet, youth

I think it's obvious if you're wanted here or not.Daemon, hissed Dee, her cheeks red. She turned to me, tears in her eyes. He's not being serious.Are you being serious, Daemon? Ash turned in his lap,...

Jennifer L. Armentrout

I think it's obvious if you're wanted here or not.Daemon, hissed Dee, her cheeks red. She turned to me, tears in her eyes. He's not being serious.Are you being serious, Daemon? Ash turned in his lap,...

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Tags: daemon, dee, embarrassed, humiliated, hurt, katy, mean

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

Charles Bukowski

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

Charles Bukowski

Tags: appearance, beautiful, beauty, bukowski, classic, classics, loneliness, lonely, mirror, people

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

Brandi L. Bates

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

Brandi L. Bates

Tags: affluence, albert einstein life, brandi bates, life, life lessons, life philosophy, love, motivation, opulence, soledad francis

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Cormac McCarthy

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Cormac McCarthy

Tags: freedom, frontier, individualism, justice, liberalism, libertarianism, liberty, mercy, social contract, solidarity

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

Philip Pullman

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

Philip Pullman

Tags: fingers, gruesome, his dark materials, the subtle knife

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

J.K. Rowling

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

J.K. Rowling

Tags: dumbledore, sacrifices
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