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“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.”
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In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.”
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“For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an 鈥榠sm becomes so involved in reaction against other 鈥榠sms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.”
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“To us, the high-resounding 鈥渋sms鈥� to which our contemporaries ask; us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success; if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.”
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“To competently perform rectifying security service, two critical incident response elements are necessary: information and organization.”
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“...ism's are not good. A person should not believe in an ism. He should believe in himself.”
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“Already God existed only in the desperate attempt to prove his existence. It is the same today with human beings, whose existence we attempt desperately to verify by the very means that make it improbable.
Feminism, populism, humanism: all words with the suffix '-ism' are the caricature of their root. Of women, of the people, of the human. Including terrorism: the caricature of terror?”
― Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
Feminism, populism, humanism: all words with the suffix '-ism' are the caricature of their root. Of women, of the people, of the human. Including terrorism: the caricature of terror?”
― Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“You know, if you live in a place for long you cease to write about it.'
'Of course I always like to know what the man on the spot has to say,' he replied guardedly.
'And then check it with York?'
'Yes.”
― The Quiet American
'Of course I always like to know what the man on the spot has to say,' he replied guardedly.
'And then check it with York?'
'Yes.”
― The Quiet American
“We've rigged the entire system of living in harmony with nature against ourselves. We raise our children & inculcate various "isms" into them. They in turn perpetuate it by passing the same (if not more) onto their's. We raise slaves, not independent thinkers.”
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“Alla 鈥搃smer d盲r vi stannat
盲r sekunda, inte st枚rst.
Freden m氓ste komma f枚rst.
G枚r den inte det, min v盲n,
kommer inget efter den.”
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盲r sekunda, inte st枚rst.
Freden m氓ste komma f枚rst.
G枚r den inte det, min v盲n,
kommer inget efter den.”
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“Anything ending in "ism" should be cause for questioning or deep consideration depending on it's context. -Julieanne-ism”
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“Anamodernism insists on a polyvalent synthesis of -isms, more precisely in their introduction into a system of values, which as elements can be used and revalidated.”
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