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“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson 🐕
by anokarina

“It is right for women to stand by a woman’s cause.” ―Euripides 🌺
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“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” ―Coco Chanel 🍳
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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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“When I had planned this trip months earlier, and even as I packed on the afternoon of November 8, I had imagined that this indifference to fraud and graft would place the artist on the wrong side of history.” ―Nicole Pasulka
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“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” ―Oscar Wilde 🍞
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“I know that building my character through work is stupid because crime pays. I might as well become a gangster.” ―James Livingston 🗿
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“Empire is on the move, and “Democracy” is its sly new war cry.” ―Arundhati Roy
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“When a woman is unable to achieve perfection, she’s shamed: if not by her immediate circle of friends and family, whose shaming is often cloaked in the language of ‘advice,’ then by media representations of ‘ideal pregnancy’.” ―Anne Helen Petersen
by anokarina

Christmas tree at my Gym
by dksesh

May the 4th be with you ⚔️ And also with you ⚔️
by anokarina

“A totally underrated thing about girlfriends is that they make great hostages.” —Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
by anokarina

Roman era atrefacts
by dksesh

“Bannon’s suggestions that Islam is an inferior religion that needs to be defeated in war for the soul of the West is not about religion; it is an ideological justification for systematic war, expulsion, and worse.” ―Roger Berkowitz
by anokarina

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.” ―George Bernard Shaw 🐠 🍟
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“Only those who fully embrace cynicism are free to give their undying loyalty to a leader who promises to grant importance to the purposelessness of human life.” ―Roger Berkowitz
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“A learning experience is one of those things that says, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don't do that’.” ―Douglas Adams 🍤🍤🍤
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“In ‘Defending My Heritage’, he claims that he and his family always treated black people well, citing his father’s practice, at a restaurant he owned, of giving a black employee discarded food and old grease.” ―Lauren Collins
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“It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?” ―Virginia Woolf 🎨
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“Marriages are their own kind of confinement,” Li said. “The institution was never designed to be fair to women.”
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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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“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.” ―George Orwell / “1984” 🐖 👊 🎨
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“Look with open eyes and you will see the beauty of the waterfall.” ―Anthony T. Hincks 💦
by anokarina

Symmetry
by dksesh

“...a love story without drama is just another story.” ―Buzz Bissinger
by anokarina

“The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” ―Toulouse-Lautrec / “Moulin Rouge,” 2001 🎲
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“[Arendt] recognized that evil did not require committed ideologues to further its agenda—a well-oiled bureaucracy of ambitious functionaries would suffice to perpetrate genocide.” —Andrea Pitzer
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Missandei: “Valar morghulis.” // Daenerys Targaryen: “Yes. All men must die, but we are not men.”
by anokarina

“Fuck is what you need, the more so, Adams says, because it doesn’t just express an emotion; it states a philosophical truth. By its very extremeness, it is saying that ‘one has found the end of language and can go no further’.” ―Joan Acocella
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“Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” ―Shane L. Koyczan 💡
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“It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.” ―Ayn Rand 🍆 🍟
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“Not being given room to speak often prematurely terminates a person’s arguments and renders [a woman] less effective in shaping the course of justice.” —Rebecca Solnit
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“What we eat, abstain from eating, and serve for others to eat has always held a latent potential for violence.” ―Shakira Hussein
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“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” ―Laurence J. Peter 🔑 🔐 🔑
by anokarina

Salisbury Cathedral covered by wintering trees
by dksesh

―a different kind of golden hour 🌅
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“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” ―T.S. Eliot 🍳
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“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” ―Ludwig Wittgenstein 😋 💀 👻
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“Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.” ―Art Buchwald 🍛
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“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.” ―Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess 🎲
by anokarina

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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[Trumpites] “are obsessed by a desire to escape from reality because in their essential homelessness they can no longer bear its accidental, incomprehensible aspects.” —Hannah Arendt
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“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.” ―Charles Kuralt 🍔
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“There is no divorcing the lack of diversity in the outdoors from a history of violence against the black body, systemic racism, and income inequality.” —Rahawa Haile
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“The problem with being a mistress [is] that the man retains all the power: with no social or family ties, he can drop you at will.” —Jiayang Fan
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“...simply by framing a repositioning of masculinity as a boon for men rather than a loss, Perry is doing something novel.” —Sophie Gilbert
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“Be inoffensive to the rich and strong, while being consistently charitable to the poor and weak.” —Cosimo de Medici
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“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” ―Jim Rohn
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“the ripened ovary of a plant” ―the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany 🍅
by anokarina

“Why miss out on the chance, before you die, to wander through fields of phalluses and polka dots and watch yourself contemplate your own insignificance in the universe?” ―Sarah Boxer 🎨
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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“The politics of race in American culture play out in every aspect of life, from bearing the risks of police misconduct and brutality, to the way people eat their dinner.” ―Mikki Kendall 🍟
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“The truth is that even if we are not dragged into the fray by accident, none of us has the luxury of tuning out the political drama. Our mutual identity as protectors of our children’s and grandchildren’s future demands it.” ―Mike Pence @mikepence
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“I’ve been trying to imagine the level of hubris necessary to believe that White men are some sort of minimized American runt in dire and specific need of advocates, cheerleaders, post-dawn fellatio, and post-fellatio snickerdoodles.” ―Damon Young
by anokarina

“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people.” ―Jay Asher 🌅
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“Is [Trumpzilla] strategic, or is he sophisticated enough to know the power of the kind of linguistic hand grenade that he has become?” ―John Oliver
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