Notices tagged with q
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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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'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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