Notices tagged with q
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://drunkard.com/june-22/
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://drunkard.com/june-22/
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#q «It’s basically like having all of the letters in the English alphabet, but getting rid of random ones. Like, “Let’s take out ‘B’ because ‘B’ kind of offends me.”» https://status.hackerposse.com/url/18772 #emoji
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#q «“Meh, it’s a cup of coffee,” he said after his first sip. Fifteen minutes later, he said, “I’m kinda high right now.”» !coffee https://status.hackerposse.com/url/18019
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#q «The product has not received support from Mars, Inc who said "deep-frying one of our products would go against our commitment to promoting healthy, active lifestyles."» https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
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"It’s our job to form a government if we possibly can…" #q Boris Johnson http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-interview-audio-queens-speech-car-crash-unable-answer-questions-bbc-a7801936.html
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"[T]he view that the value of money is regulated by the value of the substance of which it is made […] is like confusing a theatre ticket with the performance." #q #Keynes #MMT https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/the-origins-of-mmt/
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"I think we're all going to have to get used to the idea that essentially #Trump… You know those inflatable giant wavy guys that you see…?" #q Rich Hall http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p055fzwz
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"If you'd asked me two years ago which of my friends was likely to become leader of the Labour party, Jeremy would have come about 20th. Somewhere after Tim Brooke-Taylor." #q Jeremy Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054rrv6
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"When the #Pope emerged from his private meeting with #Trump, he was smiling in a relieved, almost charming way – like a man who had just left the dentist’s chair" #q Robert #Fisk http://ur1.ca/qx812
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"There was an Irish athlete who went to the doctor. She said 'I'm really worried that I'm growing a Potato Knishes 'cos of the steroids.' And the doctor said 'Anabolic?' She said 'No, just a banana.'" #q Jeremy Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0522gmj
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"I look back on all the taboos that I was taught, that everybody was taught, and I see now that they were parts of a great swindle. Their purpose was to make Americans afraid to get close to one another—to organize." #q Kurt Vonnegut
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"At the very core of my American education was a dread of any gesture which might be interpreted by the football coach as being even vaguely homosexual." #q Kurt Vonnegut http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/kurt_vonneguts_call_to_humanity_to_save_the_planet_201611161
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"Anyone can create money; the problem lies in getting it accepted." #q Hyman Minsky http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/06/modern-money-theory-primer-on.html http://ur1.ca/qp3jl
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@strypey "… credit and credit alone is money." #q A. Mitchell Innes http://moslereconomics.com/mandatory-readings/what-is-money/
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"We should try and make people more interesting than phones." #q Charlie Brooker https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/oct/14/charlie-brooker-black-mirror-tinder-pokemon-go
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@strypey "Cars for everyone was one of the stupidest promises that politicians ever made." #q George Monbiot http://www.monbiot.com/2016/09/22/carmageddon-beckons/
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#Trump "sees things that aren't there, like 2 million people at his inauguration. […] He has an imaginary friend called Many People Are Saying" #q Andy Hamilton http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04rt97d
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"There’s no getting round it. Call it Nazi, Fascist, racist, vicious, illiberal, immoral, cruel. More dangerously, what Trump has done is a wicked precedent. If you can stop them coming, you can chuck them out." #q Robert #Fisk http://ur1.ca/qeoqh
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"There’s no getting round it. Call it Nazi, Fascist, racist, vicious, illiberal, immoral, cruel. More dangerously, what Trump has done is a wicked precedent. If you can stop them coming, you can chuck them out." #q Robert #Fisk http://ur1.ca/qeoqh
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"If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I've chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it. Most things you can get with a button nowadays." #q Tom Waits 1985 http://web.archive.org/web/20080226225434/http://www.tomwaitslibrary.com/interviews/85-early-you.html
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"I arrived in this country […] in a maternity hospital in Hampshire. Couldn't speak a word of English. I never paid in. I got a roof over my head. I got child benefit. It's not right, I'm telling you." #q Jeremy Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04nltt6
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Feeling the seasonal mood slump between the official anniversaries of the birth of Yeshua the Nazarene & yours truly (we're often compared; both terribly slack about checking our messages): "I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth…" #q Hamlet & Withnail
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"There is no ideological reason both Lib Dems and Blairities should not fold into the Tories." #q Craig Murray https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/09/sad-end-british-liberalism/
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"In the course of my life I've had sixteen death threats, but never by an atheist." #q Bishop John Shelby Spong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOTHS66KXh0
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"When I was a child […] nobody ever told me that Jesus was a Jew. When I saw a picture of Jesus he didn't look like a Jew. I thought he was a Swede." #q Bishop John Shelby Spong on religious tribalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUwASqz9ujc
