There is no problem of humanity that could not be easily solved if only they would do what I say.
Gore Vidal (via stoicmike)
stoicmike:
Quote from “I Thought So- A Book of Epigrams” by Michael Lipsey
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On this day in 1945, Lena Baker became the first and only woman to be executed by electrocution in Georgia.
Baker was charged with capital murder for killing her employer, Ernest Knight, who told Baker that he would kill her before she would ever leave again. While entering the execution chamber at the Georgia State Prison, Baker said: “What I done, I did in self-defense. I have nothing against anyone. I am ready to meet my God.”
In 2005, 60 years after her execution, the Georgia Parole Board issued Baker a full and unconditional pardon.
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The problem is to get work done, which means advancing over all one’s inner resistance and evident mindlessness… and this means advancing over myself and the bodies of dead philosophers, over all of literature, all of science, all of history, everything… it is a question of one’s spiritual constitution and one’s spiritual concentration, of isolation and distance… of monotony… of utopia… of idiocy…
Thomas Bernhard (born February 9, 1931), from his speech at the awarding of the Georg Büchner Prize (via invisiblestories)
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Tea Party Emotional Paradox of the Day: Ronald Reagan Says Being in a Union is a Basic Human Right
Doing my part to spread this far and wide.
Get your heads around this basic human right.
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I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.
Groucho Marx
This sums up so much about the last week.
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Are concealed handguns the future of Texas college education? Should professors and students carry concealed, licensed handguns to class?
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