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"“ Uva uvam vivendo varia fit". Painted by Gus McCray on the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign, it roughly translates to "A grape changes color by seeing another grape."
He thinks it is "a beautiful motto, whatever it meant."" — May 23, 2026 12:28PM
"“ Uva uvam vivendo varia fit". Painted by Gus McCray on the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign, it roughly translates to "A grape changes color by seeing another grape."
He thinks it is "a beautiful motto, whatever it meant."" — May 23, 2026 12:28PM
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“One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.”
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I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.”
―
“Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him the gift of reason?
In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Walt Disney admired Mussolini and in 1938 quietly hosted Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, a month after Kristallnacht.”
― The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
― The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
“If Trump said it was a joke, reporters reported that claim. They wanted to believe that some norms still held. Some feared that if they acknowledged just how far beyond norms he’d gone, they’d be normalizing the new American spectrum, one in which dictatorship had become not just a hyperbolic charge thrown around by each party’s most heated partisans but an actual idea.”
― The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
― The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
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