Notices tagged with q, page 5
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"Democracy should be about preventing mistakes through participatory deliberations, rather than about making heads roll after mistakes have been made." #q Amartya Sen http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/06/amartya-sen-economic-consequences-austerity
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"Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Which was fine, until he invented the second one." #q Dave Allen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y861-ODp4U&html5=1
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"Today […] we have to realize that a true ecological approach _always_ becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor." #q The Potato Knishesing Pope
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"[Labour was] similarly wiped out in 1992, yet won by a landslide just five years later, fronted by a messianic warmonger. So there’s that to look forward to." #q Charlie #Brooker http://ur1.ca/mquht
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"When you're playing a gig every night of the week it ceases to be special, and you find you're just going through the motions, and that means you're ripping the audience off, you're ripping yourself off, you're ripping the band off…" #q Shane MacGowan http://ur1.ca/mppj6
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"We're actually really good at securing little pieces of paper. It's called 'money', and we keep it in our wallet, and we almost never lose it." #q Bruce Schneier http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/technocreep
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"I think I must have reverse adrenalin. As the deadline gets closer most people speed up - I just get slower." #q Delia Derbyshire #BBC #RadiophonicWorkshop
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"[…] mainly what I think about the #HURD is that finishing it is not crucial. […] The main shortcoming of #Linux is at the level of device support. […] Finishing the HURD would not advance us at all in supporting these devices." #q #RMS http://ur1.ca/k81vw
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"I'm well aware that if you've had 70 good years you've had much more than you've got left. The amount of wine you can drink for the rest of your life is finite. It's a pity therefore to spoil it with bad wine." #q Malcolm Fraser http://ur1.ca/k742s
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"There are many things I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it." #q Umberto Eco http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/how-to-write-a-thesis-by-umberto-eco/2019071.article #edu
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"You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there." #q George Burns
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"Democracy needs to be reborn in each generation, and education is its midwife." - John Dewey #q
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"Chance favours the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur #q
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#q Jonas Salk: "I think that we have an instinct, an impulse, to improve our world. And I think that’s quite universal." Except for the quacks and frauds, of course, and they have much lower running costs. http://billmoyers.com/2015/02/12/jonas-salk-vaccines/
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"It actually takes a lot of work to sound as shambolic as we do." #q Gary Powell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtckt0fOT8&html5=1 #Libertines
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#q #Krugman: "sudden panic is the wrong reaction; you should have been gradually panicking over an extended period." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/panic-fast-and-slow/
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"Should the Israelis give back the land that they won? No, I don't think so. I think they should sell it back." #q Woody Allen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNErWi_lTig&html5=1
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"I’m not wearing women’s dresses. I’m wearing my dresses. I bought them. They are mine and I’m a man. They are very clearly a man’s dresses." #q #EddieIzzard http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/12/28/how-to-change-the-world-one-shrug-at-a-time/ #UndoingGender
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"I’m not wearing women’s dresses. I’m wearing my dresses. I bought them. They are mine and I’m a man. They are very clearly a man’s dresses." #q #EddieIzzard http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/12/28/how-to-change-the-world-one-shrug-at-a-time/ #UndoingGender
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"I’m not wearing women’s dresses. I’m wearing my dresses. I bought them. They are mine and I’m a man. They are very clearly a man’s dresses." #q #EddieIzzard #UndoingGender
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"The only way to get off cocaine is to go to Boots and buy yourself some hubris patches." #q Jeremy Hardy
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The secret of #Churchill's success: "Conservation of energy—never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down." #q http://www.salon.com/2014/11/30/when_mark_twain_roasted_winston_churchill_two_master_wits_on_the_same_stage/
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"These remnants of the music industry are unsatisfied with how the internet, the bands and the audience can get along fine without them." #q Steve Albini http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-keynote-address-at-face-the-music-in-full (via @tregeagle)
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@tregeagle Another whimsical Celtic drunk for you: https://archive.org/details/holdyourhourhav00beha "Someone said of the bagpipes that the best thing about them was they didn't smell too." #q #Behan
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"My advice is, to any member of the working class, get smart, read as much as you can, and find out who's using yer." #q John #Lydon http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2014/oct/15/john-lydon-russell-brand-revolution-video
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"_We_ are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a parent […] but knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring faith." #q #Sagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSrL0BXsO40&html5=1
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"I don’t want to listen to any #U2 albums in case I discover I like them, and have to violently reassess my own self-image." #q Charlie #Brooker http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/22/apple-software-updates-iphone-watch-ios-8
