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“Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy.” Aristotle (via disobey)

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain (via wordquote)

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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (via bookmania)

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“The worst thing that intellectuals can do—the cardinal sin—is try to set themselves up as great prophets vis-à-vis their fellow men and to impress them with puzzling philosophies. Anyone who cannot speak simply and clearly should say nothing and continue to work until he can do so.” Karl Popper, In Search of A Better World (1994)

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What troubles me about this… I think it’s beyond hypocrisy. I think it’s something to do with class. A lot of people have accused Obama of class warfare, but in the wrong direction. I believe this is Obama chortling with Jimmy Fallon about lower class people. Do we believe, even for a second, that if Obama had been busted for marijuana — under the laws that he condones — would his life have been better? If Obama had been caught with the marijuana that he says he uses, and ‘maybe a little blow’ – cocaine! This casual attitude toward drugs… that makes him really cool on Jimmy Fallon. Makes him the hip president. ‘I’m the cool president. I say weed. I say blow. Ha Ha Ha!’ Huge laugh from the college students.

If he had been busted under his laws, he would have done hard fucking time. And if he had done time in prison, time in federal prison, time for his ‘weed’ and ‘a little blow,’ he would not be President of the United States of America. He would not have gone to his fancy-ass college, he would not have sold books that sold millions and millions of copies and made millions and millions of dollars, he would not have a beautiful, smart wife, he would not have a great job. He would have been in fucking prison, and it’s not a god damn joke. People who smoke marijuana must be set free. It is insane to lock people up. One in six people in prison are in there for weed that Jimmy Fallon and the President of the United States of America laugh about.

” Penn Jillette (via disobey)