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That's what's so ironic about the conservative backlash against BDSMers. With increased visibility comes increased bigotry, and conservatives continue to rally against kinky events by local groups to get them shut down. What the anti-kink fanatics don't understand about us is that we're geeks. Sex nerds. SM intellectuals. We pay money to spend a weekend going to classes. ↗

— Tristan Taormino

#conservativism #kink #money

it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it .... what man calls civilization always results in deserts .... men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn .... it wont be long now it wont be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone ↗

— Don Marquis

#civilization #deserts #don-marquis #earth #man

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking ↗

— Marvin Bell

#line #motivation #poetry #politics #prodigal

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#money #murder #pro-bono #summary #survival

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#gratitude #money #taxes #wealth #money

This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference. People should be informed, as adopting a cat and becoming married take about the same amount of time and money and yet have such drastically different results. Indeed, except for the similar price($28)and the average time spent together, all similarity between pet adoption and marriage ends nastily. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#infidelity #marriage #pets #seperation #love

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#material-goods #meaning #money #things #triviality

No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#negative #money

Be Happy That you are earning money for your ethical work, But dont be proud and get Ego and ignore others who are not getting, because God knows One day that person will be ur Boss. ↗

— abhinavsr

#abhinavsr-quote #ego #employee #job #motivational

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work. ↗

— Nevil Shute

#men