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I believe in Cartesian common sense. I think people have the capacities to see through the deceit in which they are ensnared, but they’ve got to make the effort.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

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If we grew our own food, we wouldn’t waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn’t throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn’t contaminate it.

Mark Boyle - I live without cash The Guardian (via coeurmelange)

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Some scientists are amazed that in the media debate and in front of Congress we hear about people who ‘believe in’ or ‘I don’t believe in’ global warming as if this were somehow some object of religion, as opposed to based in evidence. Scientists look at evidence.

Stephen Schneider, Centre for Environmental Science & Policy, Stanford University (via xlakdjfdlakjsdf)

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And what would humans be without love?”
“Rare,” said Death.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

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What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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All generalisations are false, including this one.

Mark Twain

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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Terry Pratchett

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Revolutions always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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A person can do magnificently on a test, and understand very little.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

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Do you ever have those moments where suddenly you make a quantum jump in understanding, where you see the world so differently that you cannot imagine how you could have perceived it any other way before? Do you have those times when this new understanding makes you feel as though up until that moment you must have been deluded or asleep or just plain stupid?

Derrick Jensen. Endgame, Volume II: Resistance, Page 530 (via weknowsolittle)

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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Derrick Jensen

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If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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The task we all face as human beings … is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

― Derrick Jensen

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