Mr. Peer

Educator, Former Lyricist, Current Poet, Lifelong Learner

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

@_brett_merritt_ [Dry heaves]

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

You can be FOR free speech and AGAINST the spread of misinformation and disinformation at the same time. This might be my last tweet. #lasttweet #freespeech

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Inflation Rate
🇪🇺: 10.9%
🇩🇪: 10.9%
🇬🇧: 10.1%
🇮🇹: 9.4%
🇪🇸: 9%
🇮🇪: 8.6%
🇺🇸: 8.2%

No. Inflation is not going up in the U.S. because the working class got a $1,400 check 19 months ago. Multinational corporations are jacking up prices worldwide.

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. -Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 13 Jul 1934)

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. -Sydney J. Harris (14 Sep 1917-1986) #education

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -Steven Weinberg, Physicist and Nobel Laureate

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

@_brett_merritt_ Nooo!

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

Wishful thinking cannot change the facts. But scientific thinking can place them in a greater context. -Bill Nye

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate (10 Jun 1915-2005)

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. -Voltaire #religion #politics

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

This habit of forming opinions, and acting upon them without evidence, is one of the most immoral habits of the mind. -James Mill

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

@jet_set Lucky them. I'm disgusted we're not there.

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. -Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014)

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect, and author (1743-1826)

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

Simplicity is the glory of expression. -Walt Whitman

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

@_brett_merritt_ Always!

[Mr. Peer @markapeer]

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. -Albert Einstein, physicist (14 Mar 1879-1955)

[Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll]

Spare some anger for people who are doing bad things! Don’t use it all up on people who are trying to do good things in ways you don’t precisely agree with.