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American, novice in Spanish.
Big interest in astrophysics, with some half-decent knowledge in history, particularly labor movements and wars. Video essay connoisseur. I am a card-carrying democratic socialist, and as I get further into my education, I hope to contribute more to wikipedia. My information comes from one of two lanes. Lane one is in-school research, where I learn something super cool from a good source, look into it on wikipedia, and find that the particular information I have learned is not yet on wikipedia. Lane two is me wanting to find the answer to a question, going to wikipedia only to not find it, and than traveling the internet to eventually find my source.
I dont measure an ideology's peacefulness by its willingness not to kill people so long as they surrender to it. The implicit threat behind that idea destroys any pretence of peacefulness. People come first. And when ideas threaten people, it only provides further support for the essentail human activity of attacking ideas. — TheraminTrees
Submitting the tyrants or heroes can have the same damaging effects. To achieve individual freedom, we can be no one's slave, and no one's disciple. — TheraminTrees
Love with your heart, but use your head for everything else. — CaptainDisillusion
Math and science dont have to put out the fire. Sometimes, all they should do- all they need to do- is sound the alarm. — VSauce2
Rather than form nations that looked ever backward into history with a dangerous nostalgia, we chose to look forward to a greatness none of our many nations and peoples had ever known. — Ambassador Martin Kimani
I couldn't do much to help those who came to help me. But I knew that a lot of people were willing to do all in their power. It gave me courage. [...] Tell them I am not going to give up. Tell them I am going to fight and be patient and never forget them. — Floyd Collins