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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

by Thomas Cathcart

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Jul 25, 2011 07:59AM

Leah’s Quotes

“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

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“The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

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“Because people with that much spirit frighten the hell out of me. They make me want to be a better person when I know it's not possible.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

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“We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

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“What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old brother's face or when he whacked her so hard that she lost her hearing for a week? Who'll be my memory?"
Santangelo doesn't miss a beat. "I will. Ring me."
"Same," Raffy says.
I look at him. I can't even speak because if I do I know I'll cry but I smile and he knows what I'm thinking.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

tags: chaz-santangelo, jonah-griggs, raffy, taylor-markham

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