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"once again we are tied to the tracks of time by the invisible hand of fate, and left to perish in the path of the locomotive of dashed dreams under the hard, cold wheels of reality." [wise/aldrich, from "real life adventures" comic strip]

“Do exactly as you please–if you still trust what seems to please you.”

-David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers
- Heraclitus

the meaning of life is to find your gift. the purpose is to give it away. - pablo picasso

Dort, wo man Bucher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.

-Heinrich Heine

Translation?

"... a line of Heinrich Heine from his play, Almansor (1821), is engraved on a plaque inset in the square: "Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen." (in English: "That was only a prelude; where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people")."

From wiki:

The Bebelplatz is known as the site of one of the infamous Nazi book burning ceremonies held in the evening of 10 May 1933 in many German university cities. The book burnings were initiated and hosted by the nationalist German Student Association, thus stealing a march on the National Socialist German Students' League. The assembly of the books had started on the sixth, when students dragged the contents library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft into the square. At the Student Association's invitation Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels held an inflammatory speech prior to the burning. Besides other spectators, it was attended by members of the Nazi Students' League, the SA ("brownshirts"), SS and Hitler Youth groups. They burned around 20,000 books, including works by Heinrich Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein and many other authors. Erich Kästner, whose books were also among those burned, was present at the scene and described it with bitter irony in his diary

- Curious, I saw no mention in the Wiki article of Magnus Hirschfeld; the Institute for Sexual Research ( Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) was his creation & was focused largely on collecting information which showed LGBT people were a normal part of human populations over time.

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When you hurt someone, you hurt yourself. When you hurt yourself, you hurt someone. We are all one.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Charles Bukowski

Thank you.

Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

"A trying time is no time to quit trying." -Miley Cyrus-

"Suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem." -Adande "Swoozie" Thorne-

"God watches out for drunks, fools, and the United States of America." - Otto Von Bismarck

Political:
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

comedy:

" We have no healt care and all the guns in the world, it makes you think twice before throwing punches in the bar"

"You want to help mother Earth? Try sodomy. Sodomy is eco-friendly, and abortion is green."

"The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society."

it's better to try and fail than to never know and always wonder.