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“[Q: "Have you ever said 'I love you' and not meant it?"]
[A:] All the time. When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.”
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[A:] All the time. When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.”
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“If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.”
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“Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the
prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, was Po-cha-na-quar-hip, which meant “erection that won’t go down.” ...”
― Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, was Po-cha-na-quar-hip, which meant “erection that won’t go down.” ...”
― Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
“America’s fundamental laws exist to make the job of law enforcement not easier but harder. This isn’t a bug, it’s a core feature of democracy”
― Permanent Record
― Permanent Record
“Raphael Samuel, a citizen of India, said he would sue his parents for giving birth to him … Samuel is telling people, especially Indian kids, that they don’t owe their parents anything; he also claims that putting a child through institutions like school and the job market without their consent is wrong. We should not reject Samuel’s complaint as ridiculous – there is a deep insight in it, but we have to avoid the confusion between the empirical and the transcendental level. Empirically, I am of course “thrown into the world,”. However, to become a Self, there has to be a transcendental act of self-positing ...”
― Hegel in a Wired Brain
― Hegel in a Wired Brain
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