Ira Therebel

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romance‎ (58)
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Ira is Currently Reading

Ira Therebel is currently reading

The Idiot

by Elif Batuman

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Aug 24, 2025 04:04PM

Ira Therebel is currently reading

Rabbits for Food

by Binnie Kirshenbaum

bookshelves: christmas, currently-reading

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Ira’s Quotes

“To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.”
― Emma Goldman

tags: feminism, marriage, morality, prostitution

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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals

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“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
― Joseph Goebbels

tags: attributed-no-source, big-lie, fake-quotes, misattributed-joseph-goebbels, propaganda

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“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

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