So many quotes so few pages

Free speech as a legal concept only guarantees you the right to speak. It doesn’t guarantee you the right to be heard, it doesn’t guarantee you the right to be agreed with, it certainly doesn’t guarantee you the right for your speech to not be challenged by someone else’s speech, and most importantly of all, it doesn’t mean you can’t suffer consequences if and when your free speech is used to cause harm to someone. Which is exactly what sexual harassment, racial slurs, and verbal bigotry are. That’s not censorship. That’s fairness.

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—	“Not Okay”: MovieBob on Sexism and Harassment in Nerd Culture. (via jerrymuffinbutt) always relevant (via lettherebecramp)

We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.

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—	Albert Einstein (via sweettalk101)

When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.

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—	President Obama on why Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector matters (via barackobama) Everybody in the country has a fair shot. Everybody in the country has a fair shot. *Everybody in the country has a fair shot.* (via itscandidlycara)

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

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—	Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

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—	Harvey Milk (via think-progress)

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self.

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—	Oscar Wilde // The Picture of Dorian Gray (via whiplash-girlchild)

It’s kinda the unicorn of the cake genre, for me.

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—	John Green, on fruitcake (via timetogetriddikulus)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby