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waitaminute wait a minute wait. a. minute. WHAT

i’m actually really loving this

so did o’brien trick him or something???

h.p. lovecraft write something without racism level impossible

Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.

not really jiving with the writing style but! i’m gonna read it because it’s an important book in regards to culture and the discussion on totalitarianism and authoritarianism

not my libby hold expiring when i was almost done😭😭

the way the narrator pronounces jihad is going to drive me crazy

yes i started another book…. in my defense! this one’s an audiobook and i have a knitting project i’m working on

We must re-create an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves. If we persist in self-disrespect and then ask our children to respect themselves, it is as if we break all their bones and then insist that they win Olympic gold medals for the hundred-yard-dash.
Outrageous.

I answer the heroic question, "Death, where is thy sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."

in the spirit is such a good essay. i mean they're all good but this one just speaks to me

This is not another admonition to turn the other cheek, although I do think that that can be an effective ploy on certain occasions. Rather, this is an encouragement to meet adverse situations with the intent and style to control them. Falling into an entanglement with brutes will usually result in nothing more conclusive than a stimulated nervous system and an upset digestive track.

If we change the way we think of charity, our personal lives will be richer and the larger world will be improved. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. "Charity ...is kind; ...envieth not; ...vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up."

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.

In my young years, I took pride in the fact that luck was called a lady. In fact, there were so few public acknowledgments of the female presence that I felt personally honored whenever nature and large ships were referred to as feminine. But as I matured, I began to resent being considered a sister to a changeling as fickle as luck, as aloof as an ocean, and as frivolous as nature.

this might be one of my favorites for what i've read for my english class

wait wait waitwaitwait WHATTT

ahhh i'm actually loving this so much. unfortunately, i have an overdue chem assignment to get done but literally who caressss i wanna keep listening (i actually care about getting it done😭😭)

alistair thinks he’s so edgy

i hate this guy already

new word number one: manichaeism

My lord father once taught me that difference was the one quality we all share. Different hearts hold different feelings, and different minds choose different actions. And that is the way things are meant to be.


absolute banger line

The will of kings - that was what Zhengdan's mother had alluded to. (...) So long as we continue to put mortal men on thrones and hail them as gods, sacrifice our lives to their legacies, history will repeat itself. Just as the ocean tides ebb and flow beneath the moon, empires will rise and collapse, wars will start and cease, and the rest of us will be left to struggle against the currents.

the scream i just scrumpt

"Oh Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
"Yes." I said. "Isn't is pretty to think so?"

Whatever our way out of this mess, one thing is certain. This degree of inequality, this withdrawal of opportunity, this cold denial of basic needs, this endorsement of pointless suffering - by no American value is this situation justified. No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

There are two freedoms at odds with each other: the freedom to profit from rents and the freedom to live in a safe and affordable home.

Working on behalf of the common good is the engine of democracy, vital to our communities, cities, states - and, ultimately, the nation. It is "an outflow of the idealism and moralism of the American people," wrote Gunnar Myrdal. Some have called this impulse "love of country" or "patriotism" or the "American spirit." But whatever its name, its foundation is the home.

The home is the center of life. It is a refuge from the grind of work, the pressure of school, and the menace of the streets. We say that at home, we can "be ourselves." Everywhere else, we are someone else. At home, we remove our masks.