In politics, being deceived is no excuse. - Leszek Kolakowski, philosopher (23 Oct 1927-2009) #awordaday

“And will we, in the age of the image, become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality?”
Christine Rosen; The Dangers of Visual Culture; The Futurist (Washington, DC); Mar/Apr 2007.

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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."

-Dante Alighieri, poet (c. May 1265-1321) #AWordADay

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices."
- Edward R. Murrow, journalist (25 Apr 1908-1965)

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"Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life."
- Barbara Kingsolver, novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 8 Apr 1955)
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"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man."
-William Beveridge, economist and reformer (5 Mar 1879-1963)

This isn't supposed to be a subversive thought. #AWordADay

What's a better word for stubborn?
Recalcitrant: Stubbornly resistant to authority.

“I told my recalcitrant cat not to knock over my water. He looked me straight in the eye and did it anyway.”

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"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience."

-Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal (4 Feb 1902-2003)
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is.

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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

-Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (29 Jan 1927-1989)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton, novelist (24 Jan 1861-1937)

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One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me. -Louis Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist (27 Dec 1822-1895)
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If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. -Steve Allen, television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer (26 Dec 1921-2000)
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"Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled."
- Rex Stout, novelist (1 Dec 1886-1975) 
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