#on

Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly not the incontrovertible glory of the Middle Ages. What I do despise is the contemporary inclination to flop to the knees and crawl back into the past, to shy from what seem like impossible problems in order to bury the head, asshole aloft and twitching, in the Sands of Time. Cowardice, I calls it. Illusion-seeking. Womb-crawling. And treason. Desertion in the face of the enemy. Strong words indeed. But I've always been rather a blunt, tough, plain-spoken type . . . ↗

— Edward Abbey

#age

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#culture #war #art

There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat. ↗

— Jerry Nachman

#days #deck #during #even #got

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#important #important things #life #match #more

A blanket could be used in exciting medical advancements, curing everything from shivers to tonitrophobia.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#career #clay #court #four #great

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#doing #good #illusion #keep #kind

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#asked #between #campaign #candidates #choice

The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, but It Bends Toward Justice ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#justice #mlk #inspirational

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#life #may #meaningless #only