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The enemy of humanism is not faith. The enemy of humanism is hate, is fear, is ignorance, is the darker part of man—that is in every humanist, every person in the world. That is the thing we have to fight. Faith, is something we have to embrace. Faith in god means believing, absolutely, in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing, absolutely, in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.
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You can't always get what you want

  • Ted: Charlie… what are you thinking
  • Charlie: I'm thinking about what I want and what I need.
  • Ted: What do you want?
  • Charlie: I want a peaceful soul.
  • Ted: And what do you need?
  • Charlie: I need a bigger gun.
Apr
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He’s actualized his psychotic vision, which is all we can hope for in life.
— Seth Rogen
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I need one of those microphones.
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Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
— Schlink, Bernhard, The Reader, Vintage, (New York, 1997), 37.
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The first 10 items in my feed reader this afternoon.
The first 10 items in my feed reader this afternoon.
Jan
27th
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Real conversations heard on the bus.

  • Loud Girl: Do you know where St. Mary's Church is? They have Luh... Luh... A whatchamacall it, you walk it, like a maze it's a ... a Luhbrinth!
  • Boy: Yo, I dunno, I'm a Christian I don't know what that Catholic stuff is all about.
  • Loud Girl: I'm a Christian too. You don't have to be a catholic, I just wanna walk the Luhbrinth.
  • Boy: [unintelligible]
  • Loud Girl: No, it's like you're on the road with Jesus in the Luhbrinth. Cuz if you go back to the Egyptian times, and the [uninteligible] and the Mayans and [unintelligible] in the sky, there were like paths, and that's what the Luhbrinth is all about.
  • Random passenger on exiting: It's a LA-BY-RINTH Yo!
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I just want to grab people and SHAKE THEM until they become smarter. Why doesn’t that work?
jwz