“I don’t believe in bibles: no book has a monopoly on truth”
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, Preface to the 1990 edition
Category: quotes
Always loved a good quote
beggs
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Math and Science
“Math and Science are the how, but humanity is the why.”
George Lucas
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Punishment
“Societies law punishes bad people. Murphy’s law punishes good people”
Georgia Lass, Dead like Me, Pilot
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well, that explains a lot
…about 26 percent of Americans were judged to have mental illness…
from a New York Times article [ www.nytimes.com ].
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Urban Mythology
To homeless children sleeping on the street, neon is as comforting as a night-light. Angels love colored light too. After nightfall in downtown Miami, they nibble on the NationsBank building—always drenched in a green, pink, or golden glow. “They eat light so they can fly,” eight-year-old Andre tells the children sitting on the patio of the Salvation Army’s emergency shelter on NW 38th Street. Andre explains that the angels hide in the building while they study battle maps. “There’s a lot of killing going on in Miami,” he says. “You want to fight, want to learn how to live, you got to learn the secret stories.”
This [ miaminewtimes ] is just too cool. Sad how it came into being, but the story is awesome. Like the kids in Beyond Thunderdome…