Notices tagged with q
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“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.” #q Marilyn Monroe https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/36297
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Sherlock Holmes was a punk! "To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived." #q The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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"Mistakes have been made in the handling of the crisis. Like flying the Buckingham Palace flag at half mast when the Queen’s not in, which is just an advert for burglars. In my local park, someone has tried to cheer people up by chalking “You Got This!” on the ground. Literally the last thing you want to hear in a pandemic." #q Frankie Boyle https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/35638
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"[Classical economists] were still dealing with a system in which the amount of the factors employed was given and the other relevant facts were known more or less for certain. […] The calculus of probability, tho mention of it was kept in the background, was supposed to be capable of reducing uncertainty to the same calculable status as that of certainty itself […] By "uncertain" knowledge, let me explain, I do not mean merely to distinguish what is known for certain from what is only probable. The game of roulette is not subject, in this sense, to uncertainty […] The sense in which I am using the term is that in which the prospect of a European war is uncertain, or the price of copper and the rate of interest twenty years hence, or the obsolescence of a new invention, or the position of private wealth-owners in the social system in 1970. About these matters there is no scientific basis on which to form any calculable probability whatever. We simply do not know." #q Keynes, 1937
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"Think of it: 151 countries. Somebody said to me today — that wasn’t in this particular world — they didn’t know that we had that many countries. A hundred and fifty-one countries. That’s something." #q #Trump https://digbysblog.net/2020/04/look-at-all-the-countries/
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"You might assume that those who use the phrase “evidence-based practice” (EBP) are offering a testable claim, asserting that the practices in question are supported by good data. In reality, the phrase is more of an all-purpose honorific, wielded to silence dissent, intimidate critics, and imply that anyone who criticizes what they’re doing is rejecting science itself. It’s reminiscent of the way a religious leader might declare that what we’ve been told to do is “God’s will”: End of discussion." #q Alfie Kohn https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/autism/
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"I live a lot of my professional life puzzling over social class and what-not. I can tell you this with the confidence of one thousand ancestors: almost all white elites think phrenology and race science are legitimate ideas. And by almost all I mean all. #lrt" #q Tressie McMillan Cottom (via Atrios) https://www.eschatonblog.com/2019/12/truth.html
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"I have had moments in the last few days which led me to feel pretty hopeless. Perhaps the worst was in the ITV debate when #Corbyn was roundly jeered by a substantial section of the audience for stating that climate change impacted hardest on the poorest people in the poorest countries. […] the growl of that studio audience, infuriated that Corbyn cared about the foreign poor, is a warning klaxon of the state of English society." #q Craig Murray https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/11/do-not-despair-of-this-election/
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"Anybody can have a rumpled suit, but there is a real art to the rumple." #q #Bernie Sanders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5avtfMXeh40
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"#Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton." #q Alexei Sayle https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/31967
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As George Orwell liked to say, "Two wheels good, four wheels bad" #apocryphal #q
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How did I miss this when it happened? Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic #2020 front runner: "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids." #q Joe Biden https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/10/biden-poor-kids-bright-white-kids-1456296 #US
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The power to define the conventional wisdom is awesome and terrible. "I don’t care who writes the nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treaties — if I can write its economic textbooks." #q Paul Samuelson https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29766 #economics #notetoself
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://drunkard.com/june-22/
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"The sense of danger must not disappear:
The way is certainly both short and steep,
However gradual it looks from here;
Look if you like, but you will have to leap." #q W.H.Auden
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"Both parents work flat out in order to afford the things with which to distract the children that they’re too tired to play with when they get home. I think that at the heart of it is the disinvestment of the domestic household economy, and which hopefully the credit crunch will reverse. But for the time being, women in particular now see the home as a kind of fuelling station for work." #q Oliver James - https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/28846
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"I’ve always had this epithet, ‘Art is the opposite of death,’ and I still think about that whenever I feel really black about anything. I get in front of my typewriter. The function of writing is the opposite of being dead. You’re living. This is the thing that always motivates me, because I hate the process of writing. I find it hard and hateful to do. But at the end of the day, if I write a couple of good lines, or I write a page that I think is good work, I feel justified in being alive. I feel I’ve got the right to be, in a shoddy way, pleased… I don’t want to say happy." #q Bruce Robinson #idler
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‘night thoughts in midnight streets make the night the true Enlightenment, #q Tambling
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He could have lived here in the Australian 'burbs, ""I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do with—they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I should mention them in my writings and I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose." - Clare #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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