Quae homines dicunt…

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2022-1004

Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter / In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of

Loretta Lynn
1900s | 2000s | American | Butcher Hollow KY | love | lyrics | SInger
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2022-0929

sensorium

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​’49, nobody opens, everybody sees, nobody cares, a newspaper not demonstrably stupid yet incorrigibly stodgy.">Featured Image
2022-0929

NY (Sunday) Times, Aug 7, ​’49, nobody opens, everybody sees, nobody cares, a newspaper not demonstrably stupid yet incorrigibly stodgy.

Carl Sandburg
1900s | Author | funny | Journalist | New York Times
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2022-0909

If this isn’t nice, then what is?

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1900s | 2000s | American | commencement speech | funny | gratitude | sardonic | Writer
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2022-0403

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1900s | 2000s | Author | good and evil | Russian
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2022-0227

Russian warship, go fuck yourself.

Ukrainian soldier
2000s | badass | conflict | Russian | Soldier | Ukrainian | war
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2021-1228

Don’t vomit on your picture, because it is the picture which can vomit on you after you are dead.

Salvador Dalí
1900s | Artist | Catalonian | craftsmanship | quality
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2021-0716

I’m guaranteed to rock I make the ladies scream and shout I’m bound to wreck your body and say ​“turn the party out”

Biz Markie
1900s | 2000s | American | anthem | Harlem | Hip Hop | New York | NYC | party | Rapper
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2021-0621

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams
1900s | 2000s | American | Artist | b. 1957 | Cartoonist | creativity | mistakes | persistence | resilience
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2021-0618

Do the math, and you’ll find that a million seconds is about 12 days. And a billion seconds? That’s about 32 years.

Aiyana Green · Steven Strogatz
2000s | data visualization | economics | math | money | New York Times | numbers | perspective | scale
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2021-0613

Paradise is separated from hell only by an imaginary line, so it is said.

Henry Miller
1900s | American | Author | change | hell | Insomnia Or The Devil at Large | paradise | perception
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2021-0510

Man alive!

Norm Macdonald
1900s | 2000s | b. 1959 | Canada | Canadian | Comedian | comedy | outdated idioms | Quebec City
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