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“A woman was standing calmly, her long dress the only thing moving in the breeze, as two police officers in full riot gear confronted her in the middle of a roadway to arrest her. She had no facial expression at all. She just stood there.” ~ Jonathan Bachman, photographer
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We in the West seem to have an uncontrollable urge to divide the world into two: good versus bad, us versus them, feminine versus masculine, learned versus innate, and so on. Dichotomies help organize our thinking, but they do so by neglecting complexities and shades of meaning. It is the rare thinker who keeps two contradictory thoughts simultaneously in mind; yet this is precisely what is often needed to get at the truth. Thus, while it is correct that learning affects all behavior, so does genetics, meaning that no behavior, whether human or animal, is dictated purely by one influence or the other.
—Frans de Waal, ‘The Ape and the Sushi Master’ (via scientificphilosopher)
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So many people glorify and romanticize “busy”. I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.
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Joseph Cook (via 00118)
I will reblog this until it is embedded in my psyche
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Damn son
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Everyone is a Racist
After reading several articles and watching videos on the Richard Sherman incident and subsequent backlash, I just couldn’t help but think about racism. We are so quick to be angry when things like this happen. Anti-semitic and racist have become instinctive rebuttals in our society. I’ve thought about this a lot over the years and I came to a conclusion quite a while before the fateful January 19 football madness: everyone is a racist. Yes, I said it. You who’s reading this, your mom, your dad, all racist. You too black man. And me too.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
—George Bernard Shaw
Let me tell you sum'n
We are still a long way from the camera that would be, oh, like the telephone: something that you use all day long…a camera which you would use not on the occasion of parties only, or of trips only, or when your grandchildren came to see you, but a camera that you would use as often as your pencil or your eyeglasses.
—Edwin Land
The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
—Abraham Lincoln
Good times with new friends at the Advertising Week Wrap Party.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
—Theodore Roosevelt
To abstain from enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will
—N.W. Senior
This was dope… (Taken with Instagram)