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That was the thing about the truth. Sometimes you were judged more harshly for revealing it than for concealing it. Some bastard running for president hired a hooker, and they called the reporter “salacious” for writing about it. “The responsibility lies with those who did the deed and those who prop them up, not the ones exposing it.”
That was the thing about the truth; it only came out when the cost of lying became too high.
“You can’t convince those who don’t want to be convinced. They’ll see what they want to see, hear what they want to
We should be putting the resources into turning around the current situation instead of creating safe bubbles from which the rich can watch the poor die.”
Earth will survive us, believers and deniers both, and she will not mourn our loss. We’re talking about the end of our world. The end of humanity.”
“The only dangerous precedent we seem to have established is inaction.”
“World’s burnin’ and everyone’s just sittin’ here enjoyin’ mocha in safety, delivered by little flyin’ machines ’cause they’re too fat-assed to get up and get it themselves. They’re the people who’re supposed to do something, the smart and the rich. How’re they gonna help if they’re just sittin’ inside a big-ass bowl?”
Words said in anger were both hard to hold on to and hard to forget.
Emotion and logic have the same purpose. They’re both tools for guiding your choices and decisions, and for understanding the world. And emotion is important; it’s like a depth gauge for how important a choice is.
People seem to live in both the past and in the future, two big overlapping circles, but rarely focus on the intersection and enjoy the moments given to them right now.”
“I’d like to believe the truth will emerge, one way or another. That’s the thing about truth. It usually does—but never through the clean, fresh air; always through the sewers.”
We continually screw over our own future selves to make our lives more pleasant right here and now—not to mention our children’s futures!
