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truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

Senator Bernie Sanders

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

Senator Bernie Sanders

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think-progress:

Mitt Romney said we need fewer teachers, firefighters, and cops. His campaign wants you to know that he really means it.

think-progress:

Mitt Romney said we need fewer teachers, firefighters, and cops. His campaign wants you to know that he really means it.

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rationalhub:

LOL Brilliant.

LOL Brilliant.

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Mahatma Gandhi (via hipsterlibertarian)

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy blogger on science education and why he became an astronomer.

(via jtotheizzoe)
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It is very easy to make sure a child does not love science.
For that, any number of things will do: parents who don’t encourage their children to be curious or teachers who aren’t prepared to teach it. The best way to turn a kid off to science forever is to make her sit through endless lectures, forcing her to memorize fact, dates, numbers, and equations. That would squeeze the love out of anyone, replacing it with ennui at best and an active dislike at worst.

(Source: theyoungsocialist, via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

Thomas Jefferson (via hipsterlibertarian)

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (via theperplexedobserver)

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

But…I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Motto of Liberalism by Gilbert Vale, Publisher of the Beacon, a monthly freethought publication in the the 1800’s. (via theperplexedobserver)

He who will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

— E.O. Wilson to Esquire magazine, Jan. 5, 2009

(via nonplussedbyreligion)
(Source: ffrf.org, via theperplexedobserver)

If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science. So the notion that somehow scientists are resisting it is ludicrous.