Category Archives: Quotable Notables

Quotable: Helen Keller on money in politics

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: In which one fine-ass dude disses a smarmy git

This is Tom Morello. Like Barack Obama, he’s part Kenyan. Unlike him, he’s a bona-fide, actual Marxist. And he takes hilarious exception to a certain vice-presidential candidate who is clearly missing something in the sense-of-irony department: I wonder what Ryan’s … Continue reading

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Quotable: Plato on apathy

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Quotable: Gore Vidal’s best words

And that’s why he will be missed, while the plutocrats he talks about…NEVER.

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Quotable: Ron Reagan Jr. on guns

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Quotable: Jon Stewart on war

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Quotable: Thomas Mann on writing

And in case you wonder why that is, it’s because we take the trouble not to suck.

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Quotable: D.H. Lawrence on dreams

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Quotable: Clarence Darrow on criminals

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Quotable: Ann Richards on woman-blaming

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