Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Александр Исаевич Солженицын
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Russian warship, go fuck yourself.
Ukrainian soldier
We all heard it on the news. Some of us thought it was badass, others suicidal (both correct?). Now it appears they are alive—surrendered and were captured.
What I'd like to capture in this quotation, regardless of what ends up being true or not, is that:
- there are things worth dying for
- there is a time to speak truth to power
- that was badass
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Read moreDon’t vomit on your picture, because it is the picture which can vomit on you after you are dead.
Salvador Dalí
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Read moreCreativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
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Tags: 1900s, 2000s, American, Artist, b. 1957, Cartoonist, creativity, mistakes, persistence, resilience
Read moreDo 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
Read moreParadise is separated from hell only by an imaginary line, so it is said.
Henry Miller
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Read moreMan alive!
Norm Macdonald
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Tags: 1900s, 2000s, Asgard (font), b. 1959, Canada, Canadian, Comedian, comedy, outdated idioms, Quebec City, Zetafonts
Read moreLet the machine do the dirty work.
Brian Kernighan
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Read moreAgain one sees the scramble for security at the cost of freedom. We are all chasing security, countries and individuals alike. But in these unsettled times what guarantees a man security? Certainly not money. No, one’s greatest security is to be loved. Banks fail, love never.
George John Dibbern
Read moreBeauty is temporary, ugliness lasts forever.
Marina Abramović
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Tags: 1900s, 2000s, Artist, authenticity, b. 1946, beauty, Performance artist, Serbian American, time, truth
Read moreIt’s not the easiest thing to try and put a smile on a face. But it’s always worth it.
Jerry Seinfeld
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Read moreWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
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Read morePlease, could you expel, or, at least, restrain, the comma-maniac, on your editorial staff?
Mary Norris
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