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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Do not self destruct. We’re shooting our way out.”
— The Mandalorian, The Mandalorian, Season 1: Chapter 2
Tagged: Don't Kill Yourself Robot
“I have spoken.”
— Jawa, The Mandalorian, Season 1: Chapter 2
Tagged: Mandalorian
“That doesn’t surprise me. They’ll do anything to do to get themselves out of the misery of the world that they’ve created for us.”
— The Cut, A Party Drug for the End of the World
“Judge Kara Pettit heard the case Tuesday but said it was “too important of an issue” to decide immediately. She plans to rule in the coming months.”
— AP News, Utah woman fights charge after kids see her topless at home
“Like poring over a magazine while sipping coffee or driving the scenic route to take in the colors of the autumn leaves, lighting a wood burning stove fire is a slow-living lifestyle decision.”
— Clearing Farm, How to Use a Wood Burning Stove
Tagged: Slow Living, Wood Burning Stove
“ But if that link weren’t there, presumably they would click on the link just below it: the free link to eBay.com. The data consultants were basing their profit calculations on clicks they would be getting anyway.”
— Jesse and Maurits, The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“This is still a country that is less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement," Obama said. "They like seeing things improved. But the average American doesn't think that we have to completely tear down the system and remake it. And I think it's important for us not to lose sight of that.”
— Barack Obama, Obama tells Democratic candidates to ease off talk of revolution
Tagged: Election 2020
“That individual philosophical concepts are not anything capricious or autonomously evolving, but grow up in connection and relationship with each other; that, however suddenly and arbitrarily they seem to appear in the history of thought, they nevertheless belong just as much to a system as all the members of the fauna of a continent—is betrayed in the end also by the fact that the most diverse philosophers keep filling in a definite fundamental scheme of possible philosophies.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Tagged: Philosophy
“Initiatory death is indispensable for the beginning of a spiritual life. ”
— Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion
Tagged: Growth
“Anxiety — which is ineradicable — can work against you, or for you.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Tagged: Anxiety