sciencematters

Let’s take the color orange back 🍊 🌷 🍊
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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“Without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.” ―Harlan Ellison ❄️ 🌸 ❄️
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” ―Simone de Beauvoir ❄️ 🌺 ❄️
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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“Spiderwebs” ―No Doubt, 1995 ❄️ 🌳 ❄️
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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” ―Karl Marx ❄️ 🌹 ❄️
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about.” ―Harlan Ellison ❄️ 🌸 ❄️
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“[Humans are] a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be [human].” ―Fyodor Dostoyevsky ❄️ 🌳 ❄️
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
by anokarina

❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
by anokarina

❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.” ―Philip K. Dick ❄️ 🌸 ❄️
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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❄️ March Blizzards Crush February Flowers 🌺
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That’s what time it is 🕧
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“Their lives were too human for science, too beautiful for numbers, too sad for diagnosis, and too immortal for bound journals.” ―George Vaillant ☁️
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“A community of chess players, Arendt writes, cannot be tolerated in a totalitarian state because the players, protected from loneliness by their bonds, do not experience the lonely person’s ‘feeling of being expendable’.” ―Roger Berkowitz 💦 ⛰
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“What we do affects how we feel just as much as how we feel affects what we do.” ―George Vaillant 🗻🗻🗻
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“National Monuments are at risk by a TRUMPZILLA run amok 😡!!!” @ Área de Conservación Guanacaste
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“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” ―Wendy Wasserstein ☁️
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“All rituals and symbols are constructed, and inherited tradition is not always the best test of cultural authenticity.” ―Nabeelah Jaffer ☁️ ⛰ ☁️
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“Empire is on the move, and “Democracy” is its sly new war cry.” ―Arundhati Roy
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“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” ―Joseph Campbell ☁️ ⛰ ☁️
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“In the meantime, he will keep his Trump at a remove, almost like an abstract painting, not of Trump the man but of Trump’s withered soul.” ―Chris Jones ⛰
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“Power corrupts, and absolute power often corrupts the awareness of those who possess it.” —Rebecca Solnit
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“That ‘nasty scar’ of a mouth was Baldwin’s only certainty: ‘a puckering butthole’, he calls it, dropping into his Trump voice to describe his vision of it.” ―Chris Jones
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“You can't bribe the door on your way to the sky.” ―Harry Styles, “Sign of the Times”
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“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
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“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.” ―Goldie Hawn ☁️ ⛰ ☁️
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”But what nostalgia always, inevitably stems from is dissatisfaction with change.”
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“Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards,” you wrote. “It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.”
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“It’s the sort of contradictory messaging a pregnant woman receives: you’re hot, but on the border of obscene; you’re perfect, but you’re huge; don’t feel bad about yourself, but your thin body is better.” ―Anne Helen Petersen
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“Democracy is the Free World’s whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of taste, available to be used and abused at will.” ―Arundhati Roy
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” —George Orwell, 1984
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“On the path to total domination, terror is the essence of totalitarian governance.” —Roger Berkowitz
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“They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I don’t tell her that I believe living is the most terrifying risk we take.” —Amelia Zahm
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“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” ―Marcus Aurelius 💦
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“I could die and be mummified like King Tut and the voters that my friends in the Legislature have assigned me will return me to Washington in a sarcophagus.” —Michael Lind
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“The answer to your question is not a pretty one—which is that when someone dies, I finally know what happened to them.” ―George Vaillant 💦
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“...as Winston Churchill pointed out, history is written by the victors, and in the case of culture, those who write the stories control the conversation.” ―Kathleen Purvis ☁️ 💦
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“Nostalgia is rooted in a recognition that the place from which you came, the place you love, is changing.” ―John T. Edge
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“Our freedoms were not granted to us by any governments. They were wrested from us by them. And once we surrender them, the battle to retrieve them is called a revolution.” —Arundhati Roy
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“Change is exciting, but it can also be exhausting.” ―Ian Bogost
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“...better never means better for everyone, it always means worse for some.” —The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, as adapted by Hulu, s01 e04 e05
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“It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.” ―Ned Stark
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“It’s very hard for most of us to tolerate being loved.” ―George Vaillant
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“Studies show psychopaths really do make some people feel queasy. Why? The researchers suspect it might be an evolutionary response to an ‘intraspecies predator’.” ―Eric Barker
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“But in every matter it behooves us to mark well the end: for oftentimes God gives men a gleam of happiness, and then plunges them into ruin.” ―Solon the Wise 🍃 💦
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“You glorify the past when the future dries up.” ―U2
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