For what is it to die

“For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance.”

— Kahlil Gibran

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Every gun that is made...

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

President Dwight Eisenhower

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Thomas Paine quote

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum." -

Thomas Paine

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ROBERT CREAMER: During the Holidays We Celebrate Progressive Values

When you think of the heroes and heroines of American -- and world -- history you think of the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Cesar Chavez, Robert Kennedy, Mohandas Gandhi and Franklin Roosevelt...

...Let's be clear: "Greed is good" is not being celebrated at Christmas. The values of Ebenezer Scrooge do not define the Christmas spirit -- past, present or future. More tax breaks for the top one percent is not the moral of A Christmas Carol.


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Foxhole Atheist Gets ‘A’ Tattoo for Christmas

Foxhole Atheist Gets ‘A’ Tattoo for Christmas

love is...

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

John Keats

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Anti-intellectualism in the US

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”.”

— Isaac Asimov, US biochemist and science fiction author (1920-1992)

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why hell was invented

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists — that is why they invented hell. ~ Bertrand Russell -

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No defense of superstition and pseudoscience

It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people… If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with. ~ Isaac Asimov

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The Hidden Motivation of Regret

The Hidden Motivationi of Regret

It's What You Don't Do That Haunts You

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If something is really, honestly indefensible, it can be defeated.

"If something is really, honestly indefensible, it can be defeated. The people perpetrating that indefensible thing will want you to think that what they are doing is inevitable. They will want you to think that it cannot possibly be changed or fixed. That it is the way it has to be, that that is the way it's gonna be, they will want you to think those things. And it's not true. An indefensible practice or policy is, in America, vulnerable."

- Rachel Maddow

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