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linusquotes · 2 months

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Hello, linusquotes!

It's been a while, and I am worried. Is everything okay? You haven't posted a linus quote for, like, almost 4 years now. The internet misses you! Please stay safe!

Your kind thoughts are appreciated more than I can say.

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Small Kindnesses

by Danusha Laméris

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk

down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs

to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”

when someone sneezes, a leftover

from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.

And sometimes, when you spill lemons

from your grocery bag, someone else will help you

pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.

We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,

and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile

at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress

to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,

and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.

We have so little of each other, now. So far

from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.

What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these

fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,

have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”

— The New York Times (9/19/2019), Bonfire Opera

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deadpanwalking · 3 years

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I just want you to know that once, you reblogged a gif set from the Chernobyl series where the character (forgot his name) talks about lies covering up the truth, and how every new lie incurs another debt to the truth - anyways, you tagged it with 'if it can be destroyed by the truth, it should be destroyed by the truth' and just so you know, that has been stuck in my mind for weeks now. like, it's probably not that deep, but I think at least once a day about it & I just fely like I needed to tell you. I don't know, I guess I want to thank you for providing me with something that I could imagine tattooing on my skin? Or putting it on my grave stone? Either way, I hope you're having a wonderful day, galaxy-brained tumblr user :)

Thank you. Do you feel better or worse knowing that it comes from this @linusquotes comic?

#apparently it's from a fantasy novel by one patricia c. hodgell #looks like we both learned something new today!#anonymous #assbox

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artisticstuffetc · 7 years

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Paintings vlog linusquotes: — Voltaire Linus Quotes via Tumblr

#art #inspiration #artist #painting

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sonurocksdotxyz-blog · 7 years

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A Lost Review - Season 6 Episode 7 - "Dr Linus"

A Lost Review – Season 6 Episode 7 – "Dr Linus"

[ad_1] Since we broke with the Season 1 episode centricity and had the title fake out with "Sundown," all bets are off about who will be the focal character each week … but this episode had no fake out. We got to see flash-sideways Ben and he's a lot more like you'd expect someone who looks like him to be: meek. The big winner in this week's flash-sideways cross is Leslie Arzt. I should not have…

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#6 #7 #Episode #Linusquot #lost #quotDr #review #Season

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linusquotes · 2 years

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linusquotes i miss u i hope you are well

Omg thank you! Still plenty of quotes to share, and this is a good reminder.

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linusquotes · 6 years

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— Assata Shakur, from Assata: An Autobiography

Full(er) context: “The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”

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linusquotes · 6 years

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— René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy (1644)

Original Latin: Veritatem inquirenti, semel in vita de omnibus, quantum fieri potest, esse dubitandum

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linusquotes · 6 years

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— Jonathan Franzen, Freedom, 2010

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— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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linusquotes · 6 years

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— paraphrasing Patricia C. Hodgell, Seeker’s Truth (not Carl Sagan)

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EDIT: Linus and I feel like blockheads. Attributing this quote to Sagan can be destroyed by the truth, so it should be: We were unaware that this quote was not, in fact, from Carl Sagan, but from P.C. Hodgell. Thanks for the correction, @pennysquabbles!

Snopes explains: ____________ ...A frequently cited source for the attribution was the social literature site GoodReads, but we couldn’t find the quote in any of his books. Another prominent placement of the phrase involved Sagan’s Wikiquote page, under the “misattributed” section, which observed that the quote was built on a similar phrase in fantasy author P.C. Hodgell’s novel Seeker’s Mask:

That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.

Hodgell commented on a Reddit page in February 2016, confirming that the quote appeared in her novel, but that she didn’t get it from Sagan:

Hodgell here. “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be” appears in my 1994 novel Seeker’s Mask. I first heard of the Sagan quote in 2013, more or less. No source that I’ve seen dates the latter. If it’s not a case of misattribution, it’s probably a matter of “great minds” etc.

As Hodgell indicated, the quote didn’t appear to exist in the Sagan-attributed form until mid-2013. (Hodgell’s novel appeared in 1994.) The likeliest trajectory is one of the most common for misattributed quotes: the phrase was dormant for nearly two decades, and then reached socially viral status only when a slightly rewritten version was incorrectly attached to a beloved science celebrity.

However, Sagan really did write the following on the topic of truth:

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

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