“I’m a millennial, so I don’t like labels.”
— Tomi Lahren
MLK
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Minus The Bullshit
“I haven’t started this ‘note before I die’ so that death is feared – I like the fact that we are mostly ignorant to it’s inevitability….. I just want people to stop worrying so much about the small, meaningless stresses in life and try to remember that we all have the same fate after it all so do what you can to make your time feel worthy and great, minus the bullshit.”
– Holly Butcher (1990-2018)
Holly was a 27-year-old Australian woman who passed away January 4th from Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare cancer in and around the bones. Here full letter can be found here on Facebook, where it has garnered more than 130,000 shares and 182,000 reactions.
Without Evidence
“What is freely asserted is freely dismissed”
– Common 19th century Latin proverb
Old Story For Our Modern Times
“Now goddess, child of Zeus,
Tell the old story for our modern times.
Find the beginning.”– Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, The Odyssey
Change
“People can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world.”
– Joe Strummer
Salman Rushdie & Super Nintendo
“I often think that the best way to liberate Iran is just to drop Nintendo consoles from the air.”
– Salman Rushdie
After Salman Rushdie went into hiding because the Supreme Leader of Iran placed a fatwah on him for publishing The Satanic Verses, he spent much of his time playing Super Mario World. The full story is at Eurogamer.
Divide and Conquer
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
— Lyndon B. Johnson