Notices tagged with q
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"Not only is my glass half empty, it's not what I ordered." #q Catherine Tate https://play.acast.com/s/davidtennant/catherinetate
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'There is no such thing as “the English gene”; that’s just not how science works. There is no gene that, when you put it under a microscope, looks up and says: “Do you mind? We’re in the middle of our supper!”' #q Shappi Khorsandi https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/john-cleese-racism-tweet-london-comedian-english-a8938586.html
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"It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and thunder
Yeah, yeah we were altogether
Lost in our little lives
Oh, but sweetness follows
Oh, but sweetness follows"
#q REM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEJdjfHjD8
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#q Janet Street-Porter "I once lived with a Jamaican boyfriend for five years, but get called racist regularly – infuriating to say the least." Is that the litmus test for anti-racism, then? Well I'm in a bit of a bind, Jamaicans being few and far between round our way. Plus I'm not as pretty as I once was, so I could well be out of luck even if I found one. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/26238
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"This is our hemisphere." #q John Bolton https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-russia-idUSKCN1S73K3 #FFS #US #MonroeDoctrine
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'I lived in L.A. for a few years and used to regularly tell folks, “You can tell I’m still new here because my teeth are still the color of human teeth.” This comment was usually met with a look of horror.' #q Dan Piraro https://www.bizarro.com/blog/2019/3/4/the-nature-of-nature
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@tregeagle @Smithums 'I was a pilot in the Royal Air Force in the war, and we were discussing on a troop ship coming home once how we would deal with the problems of unemployment. And one lad got up, and he said something I’ve never forgotten. He said, “In the 1930s we had mass unemployment, but we don’t have unemployment when we’re killing Germans.” He said, “If you can have full employment by killing Germans, why can’t you have full employment by building hospitals, building schools, recruiting teachers, recruiting nurses, recruiting doctors?”' #q Tony Benn https://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/14/remembering_british_mp_tony_benn_a #MMT #FunctionalFinance
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"If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." #q Abraham Lincoln https://drunkard.com/todays-reason-to-drink-february-12/
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"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." #q Bertrand Russell http://nautil.us/blog/the-case-for-professors-of-stupidity
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"But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced, and whose luminosity is strong and brilliant." #q Avicenna
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#q Bertrand Russell on #philosophy: "There are very big and very important questions that science, at any rate at present, can't deal with, and that a scientific attitude by itself is not adequate. And the second thing it does is to make people a little more modest intellectually, and aware that a great many things which had been thought certain turned out to be untrue, and that there's no short cut to knowledge." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv_Ci4dB3NY
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“Every day, please, just say, ‘Oh, you mean the anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn?’” #q revolting Trumpist Charlie Kirk. The #Guardian is way ahead of you there, pal. https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/pro-trump-turning-point-loses-star-activists
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"I don’t wake up in the morning with any burning desire that I have to be president." #q Bernie Sanders https://www.gq.com/story/bernie-sanders-unfinished-business #Bernie2020
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"When asked what my favourite #TV show is, I always say it’s not Doctor Who, because that’s too big to be a ‘favourite TV show’, it’s more of a lifestyle choice." #q Paul Cornell #DrWho
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"The major reason that Remain lost the referendum campaign in England and Wales is that the Remain campaign was fronted by the most detested and discredited politicians in the #UK: Blair, Brown, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, Osborne, and Kinnock and Straw jr. There is nothing these people could propose which would not be rejected out of hand by huge numbers, just at the sight of them." #q Craig Murray https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/22371 #Brexit
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"The central fact of your education is this:
You’ve been taught to believe that what you discover by thinking.
By examining your own thoughts and perceptions,
Is unimportant and unauthorised.
As a result, you fear thinking,
And you don’t believe your thoughts are interesting,
Because you haven’t learned to be interested in them." #q Verlyn Klinkenborg via Richard Murphy https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2018/11/10/several-short-sentences/
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"[W]e have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men [sic]." #q George Orwell, in a review of one of Bertrand Russell's books for a general audience.
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"Sometimes I can’t believe the things I have to draw cartoons about these days. When I began the weekly strip some eighteen years ago or so, I never imagined I’d be making the case against fascism in America." #q Jen Sorensen https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/30/1808341/-Cartoon-Tips-for-stopping-extremist-violence`
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"I have expressed for many years the hope that I will see Scottish Independence and a United Ireland before I die. I am happy to say I am now convinced that I will do so. That the end of the #UK would be marked by such a squalid, incompetent and dysfunctional political leadership I could not have dared to hope. Thank God the UK will soon be over." #q Craig Murray https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/10/the-ignominious-death-of-the-united-kingdom/
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"Her dialogue is as accurate as I could make it but she is not intended to offend! She is just supposed to be an authentic character and not all characters in songs and stories are angels or even decent and respectable, sometimes characters in songs and stories have to be evil or nasty in order to tell the story effectively." #q Shane MacGowan https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/20957
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