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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

Thomas Alva Edison.

Edison was born 173 ago on February, 11 1847 in Milan, Ohio, USA. His symbiosis of ingenuity and economy is legendary

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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

William Somerset Maugham

W.Somerset Maugham would turn 146 today. He was born on Jan 25th 1874 at  Paris, Île-de-France, France. His main work “Of Human Bondage“ was publshed at age of 41 (1915) at  George H. Doran Company, New York

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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Muhammad Ali. would have turned 78 today. He was born as Cassius Marcellus Clay on Jan 17th, 1942 in Luisville, Kentucky, USA.

Image credit:  Strawberry Girl – Packs Light RVA Street Art

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Quote by Enest Hemmingway, who would celebrate his 120th anniversary today. He was born on July, 21st 1899 in Oak Park, Illionis, USA.

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A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

Quote by the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith, who would celebrate his 296 anniversary today. He was born on June, 16th 1723 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scottland.

Illustration: Streetart by the Theheran/Iran based street artist “ill”.

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Well, it is indeed admirable, honorable and touching what is going on in #HonKong right now. Do we still have such democratically established communities in Europe or America? #HongKongProtest

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In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.

Al Gore

Former US vice president and totay's climate protection activist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2007), Oscar winner (2007, best documentary for An Inconvenient Truth) turned 71 today. He was born on March 31st, 1948 in Washington D.C., USA.

https://www.algore.com/project/the-deep-space-climate-observatory

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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

René Descartes. The French thinker René Descartes (”Cogito ergo sum”) was born 423 years ago on March 31st, 1596 in Lay Haye / Touraine

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Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Vincent van Gogh

The Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh would have turned 166 today. He was born on March 30th, 1853 at Groot-Zundert / Breda, Nordbrabant, The Netherlands

Illustration:  Memory of the Garden at Etten, 1888. Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

#art #arthists #todaysmemory #painters #painting

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The report was written months before the current “reforms” in Turkey. Thinking about the current progress, I found a pretty interesting quote from the Venecuelan liberation leader  Simón Bolívar:

“Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.”

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welcome to our world  ..

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World Cup Protests in Brazil | June 12, 2014

1. View of a huge banner against FIFA during an anti-World Cup protest in Rio de Janeiro. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

2. A protester is detained by police during a demonstration demanding better public services and protesting the money spent on the World Cup soccer tournament in Sao Paulo. (Nelson Antoine/AP)

3. Riot police block demonstrators in Sao Paulo. (Chico Ferreira/Reuters)

4. Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd who was injured by riot police, is assisted while sitting in a petrol station during a protest in Sao Paulo. (Nacho Doce/Reuters)

5. A protestor argues with police during a demonstration in Sao Paulo. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)

6. A protester throws a molotov cocktail at police in Sao Paulo. (Marco Bello/Reuters)

7. Riot policemen detain a demonstrator in Porto Alegre. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)

8. A wounded demonstrator is detained by riot police during a protest in Sao Paulo. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)

9. A police officer runs with his weapon in hid hand after clashes with demonstrators outside of the Tatuape subway station in Sao Paulo. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)

10. An anti-government demonstrator takes part in a protest against the 2014 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro. (Pilar Olivares/Reuters)

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"Ten People Who Speak Make More Noise Than Ten Thousand Who Are Silent."

-Napoleon Bonaparte

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Far-right parties are set to do well in next month’s elections to the European Parliament, a fact that has thrown a spotlight on their links with the Kremlin.

Four case studies from the report, all of them are quite factual and anything else than wrong. It's another reason, why it's important to support a high voter participation from any political and ideological camp:

Marine Le Pen: new 'Cold War'

Bulgaria: under pressure over Russia sanctions

Far-right in Austria: flirting with Putin

Hungary's Jobbik: the best performing pupils

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*28 haunting images for the 28th nniversary* ... one for every year since the #Chernobyl #disaster occured. Note: The images are conronolocally ordered. It starts with:

Chernobyl was the first nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine, a flagship of the peaceful atomic energy program of the USSR.

And it ends with:

But now Ukraine is in disarray and is consumed with contemporary conflicts rather than radioactive legacies of Chernobyl._

That's it. Follow the link to see them all ...