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HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot @HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2@mastodon.social · 2d ago
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"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen." #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot
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Anarchist Quotes @anarchistquotes@todon.eu · Aug 06, 2026
The old motives of profit and self-interest will cease to dominate economic life. Instead the incentive will be the good of the members of society, without distinction. -- George Woodcock #anarchism #quote #bot
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solarbranka
Solar Branka :mw: @solarbranka@mastodon.world · Aug 07, 2026
"A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing." ~ Garrison Keillor, born today, 1942. #GarrisonKeillor #Quote #Today
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crookedcuc @crookedcuc12@ieji.de · Aug 07, 2026

"I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything — go on questioning, however long it takes. Truth is not cheap. It is not available to the believer; it is available only to the skeptical. Just remember one thing: don’t be skeptical halfheartedly. Be a total skeptic. When I say be a total skeptic, I mean that your skeptical ideas should also be put to the same test as anybody else’s beliefs. Skepticism, when it is total, burns itself out because you have to question and doubt your skepticism too. You cannot leave your skepticism without doubt; otherwise that is the standpoint of the believer."

  • Osho

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Terry Pratchett Quote Bot @terrypratchettquotebot2@mastodon.social · Aug 07, 2026
‘Laughing in the face of danger is not a survival strategy,’ said the god. ‘Oh, they don’t laugh,’ said Ponder gloomily. ‘They say things like, “you call that dangerous? It’s not a patch on the kind of danger you used to get when we were lads, eh, Senior Wrangler, what what?’ (Last Continent) #TerryPratchett #quotes #quote #bot
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crookedcuc @crookedcuc12@ieji.de · Aug 07, 2026

A great country is like the lowland, toward which all streams flow. It is the reservoir of all under heaven, the feminine of the world. The female overcomes the male with stillness, by lowering herself through her quietness. So if a great country lowers itself before a small one, it wins friendship and trust. And if a small country can lower itself before a great one, it will win over that “great” country. The one wins by stooping; the other, by remaining low.

  • Lao Tzu

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wistquotes
WIST Quotations @wistquotes@friendica.world · Aug 06, 2026
A quotation from Frederick Douglass Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina. Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8… #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #enslavement #hypocrisy #pretension #slavery #systemicracism #tyranny
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solarbranka
Solar Branka :mw: @solarbranka@mastodon.world · Aug 06, 2026
"I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions." ~ Diane di Prima, born today, 1934. #DianediPrima #Today #Quote
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Cageme28
Caroli 💚 :verified_coffee: @Cageme28@troet.cafe · Aug 06, 2026
Moin! ☕️☕️☕️😊 Es gibt Menschen, die tun mir so gut und sind so aufmerksam, dass mich der Verdacht beschleicht: die haben meine Gebrauchsanleitung gehackt! #moin #gutenmorgen #fun #humor #humour #fotografie #photography #photo #quote #myphoto #onephotoaday #flowers #nature
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anarchistquotes
Anarchist Quotes @anarchistquotes@todon.eu · Aug 06, 2026
There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable. -- Peter Kropotkin #anarchism #quote #bot
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HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot @HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2@mastodon.social · Aug 04, 2026
The first nonabsolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up... #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot
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WIST Quotations @wistquotes@friendica.world · Jun 24, 2026
A quotation from Ray Bradbury There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist / Unitarian, Irish / Italian / Octogenarian / Zen Buddhist, Zionist / Seventh-day Adventist, Women’s Lib / Republican, Mattachine / Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain-porridge unleavened literature licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) American writer, futurist, fabulist Fahrenheit 451, “Coda” Afterword (1979 ed.) More about this quote: wist.info/bradbury-ray/46602/ #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #raybradbury #fahrenheit451 #bookburning #bowdlerize #censorship #editing #editor #offense #pabulum
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Anarchist Quotes @anarchistquotes@todon.eu · Aug 04, 2026
Poverty is the cause of crime, and the laws that stand in the way of free production and exchange are the cause of poverty. -- Joseph Labadie #anarchism #quote #bot
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Anarchist Quotes @anarchistquotes@todon.eu · Aug 03, 2026
At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts. -- David Graeber #anarchism #quote #bot
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Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot @HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2@mastodon.social · Aug 03, 2026
"You mean," said Arthur, "you mean you can see into my mind?" "Yes," said Marvin. Arthur stared in astonishment. "And ...?" Arthur. "It amazes me how you can manage to live in anything that small." "Ah," said Arthur, "abuse." "Yes," confirmed Marvin. #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot
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Anarchist Quotes @anarchistquotes@todon.eu · Aug 03, 2026
The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman's soul. -- Emma Goldman #anarchism #quote #bot
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