A quotation from Joseph Addison

Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225

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A quotation from Naomi Shulman

   Nice people made the best Nazis.
   Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on “politics,” instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.

Naomi Shulman (contemp.), American writer, essayist, editor
Essay (2016-11-17), “No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not the Moment to Remain Silent,” WBUR, National Public Radio

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A quotation from Joseph Addison

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow,
   Thou’rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow ,
Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee,
   There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-05-18), The Spectator, No. 68

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A quotation from Emerson

There is no virtue which is final; all are initial. The virtues of society are the vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Circles,” Essays: First Series, No. 10

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How is #SpaceKarenX #GettingAlong with his #DodgyCoins and all that #MoneyLaundering... | #LookNoQuestionMark

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In today's blog post, @xtinadlr muses on solarpunk naivete and asks "dear solarpunks and everyone else who’d like to avoid a dystopian very near future, how do we neutralize the destructive effects of people like this? Especially when the “fight” is asymmetric, because we can’t resort to Machiavellianism, bullying, or steamrolling over norms in return?"

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/solarpunk-naivet

Leave us a comment on the website with your thoughts; we're honestly kind of stumped by this...

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Disagreement most often stems from incorrect assumptions of another's perspective, or ignorance of another's assumptions about you. #wisdom #disagreement #communication #gettingalong

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How're we #GettingAlong with:

- Bring about a peoples revolution by seizing the means of production and freeing the proletariat from their chains...?

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'It's Not Personal': When Chronic Illness Forces You to Take a Rain Check https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7ba98/its-not-personal-when-chronic-illness-forces-you-to-take-a-rain-check #Vice #RSS #News #Bot #ulcerativecolitis #chronicillnesses #Crohn'sDisease #chronicillness #GettingAlong