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“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ―Martin Luther King Jr. 🎲
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“The Show Must Go On” ―Queen, 1991 🎲
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“...in the realm of human affairs sovereignty and tyranny are the same.” —Hannah Arendt
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“But laws are made by men; and the only things built by men that so far have proved immutable are the pyramids.” —Cleopatra, from “The Memoirs of Cleopatra” by Margaret George, 1997 🌴
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“I'm gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier / I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist / Like it doesn't exist” ―Sia
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a fountain of waterfall 💦
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“Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.” ―Terry Pratchett 🌃 🎲
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“When you take a job, take a long look at the people you’re going to be working with — because the odds are you’re going to become like them, they are not going to become like you.” ―Bob Sutton
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This is not the confirmation of self I was looking for 😂
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“There are true delays and diplomatic delays and obstructionist delays; there are as many types of delays as there are situations.” ―Cleopatra 🍬
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“Living amid the culture’s obsession with erotic passion, a solitary exists — let us not deny it — in a state of continual suffering, which is to say, in a continual opening to the possibility and grandeur of love.” —Fenton Johnson
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“More Human Than Human” ―Ridley Scott / “Blade Runner,” 1982
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“Joy sticks in the memory, bright and burnished, leaping out across the years. It is a thing pure in itself, joy, and the rarest of traits among men.” —Cleopatra, from “The Memoirs of Cleopatra” by Margaret George, 1997
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“What was that again? The complete domination of the soul? I guess you don't need hands to hold souls down.” —Arundhati Roy
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“It’s important to care and to try, even tho the effects of one’s caring and trying may be absurd, futile, or so woven into the future as to be indetectable.”
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“[Trumpzilla’s] denial of reality is a kind of self-aggrandizing, self-empowering claim that he is powerful enough as the mouthpiece of the people to escape reality.” —Roger Berkowitz
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“I understand art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being.” ―Toulouse-Lautrec / “Moulin Rouge,” 2001 🎲
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“We don’t talk about the assumption much, but it’s there, humming along as background noise in every Guy Fieri show: that food is evocative of culture.”
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“Heaven” ―DJ Sammy feat. Yanou & Do 🎭🎤
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“In these times, when we have to race to keep abreast of the speed at which our freedoms are being snatched from us ... what gift can I offer you?” ―Arundhati Roy
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“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” ―Helen Keller 🌴
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“[Democracy] should be acknowledged to be impossible; for it does not belong to the majority of men to acquire virtue.” ―Cassius Dio 🎲
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“Sometimes the force you need to resist is yourself.” ―Rebecca Solnit
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“I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water.” ―S.M. Wheeler, Sea Change
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“We want our lovers to be loved by someone worthy ... but never to be worthier than ourselves.” —Cleopatra, from “The Memoirs of Cleopatra” by Margaret George, 1997
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“To believe that my important business is more important than others’ is the path of entitlement, the antithesis of any ideal of equality.” —Rebecca Solnit 🎲
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“Nobody ever says ‘You had me at ‘Laser Floyd’.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
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“As a concept, fusion stinks of the imperialist instinct to civilize foreign cultures and rehabilitate them into respectability.” —Soleil Ho
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“Bravery isn't when you go looking for trouble; bravery is when trouble comes looking for you.” ―P.I. Barrington, Final Deceit
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“If you’re worried that you’re a psychopath, you’re not a psychopath — because psychopaths don’t worry.” —Eric Barker
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“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. S/He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.” ―Virginia Woolf 🎭
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“Those who could afford to wallow in comfort and pleasure usually ended by giving themselves up to it.” —Cleopatra, from “The Memoirs of Cleopatra” by Margaret George, 1997
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“...a man without friends is a man without power.” ―Renly Baratheon to Stannis Baratheon
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“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.” ―Steve Jobs 🌸 🎲 🌺
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“All the other decisions you now have to make alone again force you to reconnect with the person you were, the hardwired you, and take control of who you’ll become.” —Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
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“Without human beings, things remain untainted and perfect, stretching on into eternity without a wrinkle.” —Cleopatra, from “The Memoirs of Cleopatra” by Margaret George, 1997
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“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.” ―Kahlil Gibran ☀️ 🌙
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder; live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world.” ―Ray Bradbury 🎭
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“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.” ―Jack Kerouac 🎭
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“The cold and crystal clear water, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul...” ―El Fuego 💦
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“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” ―Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 🎭
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“Show me a person with no regrets and I’ll show you someone who hasn’t considered all the possibilities.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Hallie Bateman
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“Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them.” —Cassius Dio (c.155–235), Book XLIV
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“All limits — laws and morals — are bothersome restrictions on the human drive to acquire power.” ―Roger Berkowitz
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“She felt how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.” ―Virginia Woolf 🎭
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“Whether you choose the luxury option, the commodity option, or something in between, you are buying future garbage.” —John Herrman
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“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” —Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918)
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“Never send to know for whom the grave is dug, I said to myself, it's dug for thee.” —E.B White
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“I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.” ―John Green 🎭
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“I live in my own little world. But it's ok, they know me here.” ―Lauren Myracle ⛅️
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“The pregnant body was also profoundly contradictory: as scholar Jane Ussher explains, pregnancy is, at its most essential, the most vivid proof of women’s sexuality —which is precisely why representations of mothers took on the opposite characteristics.”
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“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.” ―Albert Camus 🌼 🎲 🌺
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“Movements thrive on the destruction of reality.” ―Roger Berkowitz
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The Las Vegas Strip, Sep 20, 2008
by Ronald Lewis

The Las Vegas Strip, Sep 20, 2008
by Ronald Lewis

The Las Vegas Strip, Sep 20, 2008
by Ronald Lewis