Stephan Baker

“For what has a man locomotion if it isnt to take him into things he is between barely and not quite understanding” RF ‘15

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Trump immersed himself in different philosophies . Ultimately , Asian philosophy, specifically Chinese methods have been his diet . He so became enamored with the “Chi” aspect of it , the energy principles, that he has made his own version of it . It’s known as the art of “Chi-Ting”.

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@OutlawsPoetic @JoshuaTCharles @shagbark_hick “The task before us now is to build the Earth.”
Teilhard de Chardin .

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@elonmusk Nice broomstick 🧹!

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@CarolWalshReal1 @AMandoSch @grok Lincoln got that same look from half the circuit riders.
Didn’t stop him from winning the case.
“I leave it to my audience. If I had another look , do you think I would wear this one?” Lincoln
Appreciate the silent deliberation, counselor. 🎩

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Nelson Mandela: Imprisoned for 27 years .
Mahatma Gandhi: Arrested and imprisoned multiple times by British colonial authorities in South Africa and India .
Václav Havel: A Czech playwright and dissident imprisoned several times.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Arrested in 1945 and spent years in the Soviet Gulag system.
Martin Luther King Jr.: Arrested multiple times during the U.S. civil rights movement.
Malcolm X (Malcolm Little): Before his transformation, he was involved in drug dealing and personal use of substances including marijuana, cocaine, opium, and heroin as part of a street hustling lifestyle. He was sentenced to prison in 1946.
Robert Downey Jr.: He struggled with severe addiction to drugs including heroin, cocaine, and others from a young age, leading to multiple high-profile arrests and periods of incarceration.
Danny Trejo: He began using drugs young (pot by age 8, heroin by 12), sold drugs, and spent roughly 11 years in and out of prison .
Marion Barry: The longtime Washington, D.C., mayor had a public struggle with crack cocaine, was arrested in an FBI sting in 1990 on drug charges, served prison time

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@guyfelicella Can’t be said enough ! It’s world transformative. No one is a no hoper .

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@OutlawsPoetic “All social reforms are fake. They rearrange the furniture in hell instead of leaving the house.”
Vernon Howard .

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@beffjezos There’s no place like home . If you think you’re enlightened , go home for thanksgiving.

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@mathelirium It looks like

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@AMandoSch “Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”
— Ram Dass

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The Emperor of Ice-Cream
by Wallace Stevens
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month’s newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
(This 1922/1923 poem from Harmonium is in the public domain in the United States.)

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@OutlawsPoetic Alan Bryman on the concept of Disneyization: “the process by which the principles of the Disney theme parks are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world.”

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@AdamKinzinger

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@kylegriffin1

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@HunterBiden @bitzvanh Three levels of people .
1. Those whose talk is ideas .
2. Those whose talk is other people .
3. Those whose talk is about possessions , things .

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@HunterBiden @bitzvanh loss of humor and social manners can be among the earliest outward signs when someone’s mental state deteriorates—shows up in clinical observations (especially with conditions that affect the frontal lobes, such as certain dementias or severe mood episodes)

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@beffjezos A true friend is good medicine in life .

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@AdrianDittmann https://t.co/5cg36wPVMX

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@OutlawsPoetic “I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”
— Henry IV, Part 2