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It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species.


John Steinbeck


#farming #human-development #production #thought #war

The bourbon goes into the recipe, Miss Connor, not into you,” he’d said from directly behind me. He had a way of doing that, catching me in the act. I suppose the number of times I screwed up made me an easy mark. My spine straightened at the scolding, but my mouth did what it knew best. “Well, that’s just a waste of perfectly good bourbon if you ask me.


Jenny Lyn


#food-and-sex #humor #jenny-lyn #sarcasm #food

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.


H. G. Wells


#becomes #between #catastrophe #education #human

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.


Ida B. Wells


#barbarity #been #country #during #effort

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.


Ida B. Wells


#beings #death #excuse #fact #human

Welcome to Arizona, you bastard.


Nenia Campbell


#arizona #christina #funny #humor #anger

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.


Paul Wellstone


#democracy #development #education #fullest #goal






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