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"There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig — an animal easily as intelligent as a dog — that becomes the Christmas ham."
Michael Pollan, professor and writer (b. 6th February 1955)
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I cried. I love the link between generations - something I feel keenly at work. Maybe there is hope after all?
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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)
Reblog to increase sample size!
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"A hungry man is not a free man."
Adlai Stevenson II, lawyer, politician, and diplomat (5th February 1900-1965)
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"Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes type."
Georg Brandes, critic and scholar (4th February 1842-1927)
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"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
Havelock Ellis, physician, writer, and social reformer (2nd February 1859-1939)
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."
Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor and orator (c. February 1817-1895)
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"To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great."
Zane Grey, author (31st January 1872-1939)
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An occasional post.
occasional posts from users
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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (30th January 1882-1945)
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"It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the society in which he lives. It is easy enough, and always profitable, to rail away at national enemies beyond the sea, at foreign powers beyond our borders who question the prevailing order. But the moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home; to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own culture. If the writer is unwilling to fill this part, then the writer should abandon pretense and find another line of work: become a shoe repairman, a brain surgeon, a janitor, a cowboy, a nuclear physicist, a bus driver."
Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (29th January 1927-1989)
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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
Colette, author (28th January 1873-1954)
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"Catch-and-release, that's like running down pedestrians in your car and then, when they get up and limp away, saying -- Off you go! That's fine. I just wanted to see if I could hit you."
Ellen DeGeneres, comedian, television host, and actress (b. 26 January 1958)
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
William Somerset Maugham, writer (25th January 1874-1965)
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"I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them: children, duties, visits, bores, relations, the things that protect married people from each other."
Edith Wharton, novelist (24th January 1862-1937)
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"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us."
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (23rd January 1783-1842)
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