| "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
"We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution, were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it." - Ernest Hemingway
"Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking." - William Mather Lewis
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Pierre S. du Pont de Nemours
"Activists who are truly progressive cannot use force or trickery; we can only serve as mentors and midwives, showing the way and facilitating the birth of a new society. Our means must reflect our desired ends if we want our means to lead to those ends." - Randy Schutt, Inciting Democracy
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You know what 1B are AWESOME for?
throwing at cats
it only costs a single baht
and they'll either chase it, or get hit by it and look pissed off
I now use that system to value prices of things
for example, a 3,000B slag has to be at least as awesome as three thousand catbahts |