Nein Quarterly, Vol IIa

1. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

   Arranging my unread books alphabetically by reason they are likely to remain forever unread.

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2. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

   I think it's safe to say that most manifestos are written at night.

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3. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

   How to fall in love: Step 1: Leave Twitter. Step 2: Go outside. Step 3: Really, go outside.

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4. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

   French, Italian, and Spanish are the languages of romance. German's more of a long-term relationship.

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5. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

   A spring without a love affair is sadder than a u without an umlaut.

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6. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

   Little could be more romantic than surprising that special someone with a bouquet of properly conjugated German verbs.

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7. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

   It's spring! If you're not in love, I can only assume you haven't been studying your German.

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8. DAAD North America ‏@DAADnewyork24 Apr

   DiversityAbroad study abroad scholarships http://bit.ly/10dL3Xm 

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9. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

   Take time to stop and smell the hashtags.

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10. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    Wanderlust will only get you so far.

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11. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    Too cool for Frankfurt School? I think not.

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12. paula schmitt ‏@schmittpaula2 Mar

    Via @nicwer2 @jegerentwit @IrishBerliner This Tweet didn't make it earlier. Read the small print. #EastSideGallery pic.twitter.com/mZ0hW5B0kW

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13. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly25 Apr

    Somehow I doubt that loneliness is the only reason a cloud might wander.

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14. Doth ‏@DothTheDoth24 Apr

    The Pope and his boyfriend walk into a bar, thus destroying religious dogma forever.

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15. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Little known fakt: What doesn't kill you often significantly weakens you.

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16. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Little known fakt: In German films, mad scientists speak with an exaggerated Canadian accent.

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17. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    If a silence isn't awkward, it doesn't count.

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18. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Cogito ergo wtf.

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19. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Be ambivalent about me maybe.

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20. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Think through the box. With the box. Take the box out for a beer and get to know it.

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21. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Maybe it's simply time to accept that our thinking is the box.

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22. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    The problem with "thinking outside of the box" is that you're most likely inside another.

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23. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    If it weren't for subtext, I'd have nothing to read.

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24. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    You never test the boundaries of my genre anymore.

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25. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    When in doubt, umlaut.

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26. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Hell hath no fury like a German verb incorrectly conjugated.

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27. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Theodor W. Adorno once said that German has a special affinity for philosophy. One wonders if it's mutual.

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28. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Every time you make a German feminine noun a der or das, I die a little inside.

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29. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    These days you gotta be able to obsess and compulse at the same time.

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30. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    I bet you say that to all my personas.

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31. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Don't make me get dialectical.

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32. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    The Doppelgänger of my Doppelgänger is my friend.

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33. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    You never really master German. You simply come to terms with it.

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34. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Id is what id is.

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35. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Ah, spring, and the German adjectives are sprouting new endings.

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36. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Structurally transform me maybe.

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37. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    I have always already missed Jacques Derrida, but today I really always already miss him.

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38. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    I will deconstruct you so bad.

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39. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    If it is what it is, I sometimes wonder what it was when it wasn't.

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40. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Own your alienation.

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41. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    One of these days I'd like to find a schrink who's not so easily traumatized.

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42. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly24 Apr

    Despair isn't as easy as I make it look.

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43. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    When stumped by a true or false question, always answer beauty.

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44. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    Art is, famously, the lie that tells the truth. Kitsch is the truth that would rather lie to us than to itself.

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45. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    The best thing about learning German, my friends, is being able to dream in it... #gutenacht

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46. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    When I write "you're" instead of "your," that's not a misplaced apostrophe but a footnote referencing my latent philistinism.

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47. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    If your heart ain't broke, fix it.

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48. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    Sorry, sir, remember that all answers must be given in the form of an ironic yet somehow heartfelt murder ballad.

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49. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    You might not feel anything when you stop feeling, but, trust me, you'll know.

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50. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    The ubiquity of Helvetica is testimony to Minimalism's excessive ambitions.

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51. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    The drone as machina ex deus.

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52. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    You really only appreciate those famously long German words once you learn that most are acronyms.

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53. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    Ontology happens.

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54. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly23 Apr

    Damn it. Just photoshopped a full cup of coffee all over a PDF.

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55. Slavoj Žižek ‏@Slavojiek23 Apr

    @NeinQuarterly to be honest I don’t read anything other than Žižek

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56. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly22 Apr

    Sometimes I think "the humanities" is a plural that too often lacks the singular.

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57. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly21 Apr

    There are more things in heaven and earth, comrades, than are dreamt of in your social media.

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58. claudia vago ‏@tigella20 Apr

    La prima volta come tragedia, la seconda come farsa. La terza come elezione per il presidente della repubblica italiana. / @NeinQuarterly

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59. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 Apr

    You are what you umlaut.

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60. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 Apr

    Go turn on a book.

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61. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 Apr

    Some of my best friends are friendless.

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62. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 Apr

    If social media's good for anything, it's for the occasional reminders of why we withdrew from society.

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63. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly5 Apr

    Thank Goethe It's Friday. #notschiller

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64. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    This is not helping. pic.twitter.com/4m43h4k2Lt

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65. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    I think I liked you better as an emoticon.

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66. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    The difference between a friend and a follower is platform-sensitive.

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67. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    If it weren't for social media, we'd only have meaningful relationships with people with whom we have meaningful relationships.

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68. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    Maybe some things are better left undroned.

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69. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    A gentle reminder that we humanities professors fall into two categories: the failed artists and the failed intellectuals.

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70. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    How can we love you, German grammar, when you do not love yourself?

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71. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    Today a student in my Nietzsche class said that "madness is the only logical conclusion." My work is done.

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72. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    Come for the civilization. Stay for the discontents.

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73. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    "I've seen sublimer." pic.twitter.com/TjdfeUpt9d

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74. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    Sorry, beginning German speaker, you're not ü-ing it right.

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75. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    You might like German more once you understand it's performance art.

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76. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    Sometimes I think even Zizek is reading Zizek.

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77. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    Thus spoke Zarathustra quite highly of that new vegan gelato place.

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78. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    At Starbucks I order under the name Godot. Then leave.

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79. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    It's filled with despair. pic.twitter.com/qi3IDNzxIr

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80. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    Keep up the good work, students of German, and may your day end more happily than your adjectives.

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81. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    Some days you need more than just a triumphalist narrative.

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82. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    I see what you did there = history. I see what you painted there = art history. I see what I wish I hadn't = browser history.

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83. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    We'll always already have Paris.

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84. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    What if theory is the conspiracy?

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85. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly4 Apr

    Alarm as tragedy. Snooze as farce.

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86. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    The bad news: your dreams can't come true. This is also the good news.

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87. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    No matter what you dream in German, it always ends with a verb.

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88. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    Marx and Engels walk into a bar, have a drink, ask for the check. Marx hands it to Engels: "Pay you back after the Revolution."

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89. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    Nietzsche walks into a bar, orders a drink. Bartender: How strong you want it. Nietzsche: Try to kill it.

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90. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    Haven't I unfollowed you somewhere before?

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91. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    I love getting lost in your translation.

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92. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    “@subjunctivitis: @NeinQuarterly What is a tweet if not the marriage of loneliness and narcissism?” Their ugly divorce.

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93. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    I used to think our problem was social media. Then social media told me it's us.

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94. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    Tweet it like you'll regret it.

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95. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    Life's too short for secondary literature.

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96. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    Seems like I show up at every academic function either undertheorized or overdetermined.

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97. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    Die Zeichensetzung setzt ein Zeichen.

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98. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    Remember, comrades, there is no class struggle without proper punctuation.

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99. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

    The beauty of French, Spanish, or Italian is in melody. The beauty of German is in struggle.

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100. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     In German a subordinate clause is merely a continuation of a sentence by other means.

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101. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     I, for one, am confident that our best memes are still ahead of us.

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102. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Readers of Nietzsche have more fun.

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103. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Anarchy: Fuck the police. Misanthropy: Fuck you. Apathy: Fuck it.

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104. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Well, sir, you could always buy now and fetishize later.

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105. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     You know you're in love with German when you start getting lost in its syntax.

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106. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Come for the totem. Stay for the taboo.

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107. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     In the future they will read our tweets, shake their heads, and wonder why our civilization wasn't worth retweeting.

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108. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Come for the sublime. Stay for the ridiculous.

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109. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     "Yup." pic.twitter.com/gey2GV988T

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110. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Still deciding whether Twitter is a microcosm of a macrocosm or a macrocosm of a microcosm.

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111. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Guattari's just another word for nothing left to Deleuze.

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112. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Been there, droned that.

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113. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Go download a book.

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114. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Before the "twitter crush" there was the "total stranger."

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115. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Look, April, being the cruelest really doesn't make you the most bad-ass.

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116. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly3 Apr

     Thanks to social media, some day we'll only be strangers to ourselves.

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117. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Sorry, I did my homework on wax paper and then flew too close to the sun.

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118. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Academics: Publish or perish. Newspapers: Publish and perish. Posthumous authors: Perish and publish.

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119. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Never underestimate the human potential for inhumanity.

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120. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Once you've deleted control and alt, there's no escape.

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121. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     The secret to good theory is praxis, praxis, praxis.

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122. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Google me maybe.

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123. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     I wandered lonely as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.

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124. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     A gentle reminder that Marx said there'd be days like this.

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125. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     I sometimes wonder where we'd be without cultural pessimism.

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126. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     I miss civilization.

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127. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     I'm just here for the escalating nuclear tension.

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128. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     It's been said that if you don't like German prose, you should remember that it could be verse.

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129. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     German words aren't that long. Your attention span is that short.

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130. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     German doesn't have a word for everything. It's more like an emotion.

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131. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     You know, some day when we're not looking, this is going to be a pipe.

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132. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Sorry, sir, the death of Deconstruction has been traced to your conference paper. Please come with us.

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133. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Self-Portrait of the Young Content Provider as an Artist.

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134. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     u = truth. ü = beauty. Ü = the sublime.

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135. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Be the cautionary tale you wish to go unheeded in the world.

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136. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Revolution's in the air. pic.twitter.com/vqfOZNAfrZ

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137. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Ideology critique: Everything's a construction. Advanced ideology critique: Nothing's a construction.

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138. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Only fitting, I suppose, that #NationalPoetryMonth should be the cruelest.

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139. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     The meter is the message. #nationalpoetrymonth

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140. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Friends don't let friends write haiku.

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141. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Enjamb me maybe.

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142. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Ah, it's National Poetry Month. I knew something was wrong.

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143. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     I used to condemn the division of labor, but now I got a guy for that.

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144. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Spring would be nothing without the sweet smell of cultural decline in full bloom.

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145. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Ah, springtime in Europe, when the lines at the failing banks start getting longer again.

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146. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Theorize me maybe.

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147. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     I remember when a Euro Crisis meant deciding between Brie and Camembert.

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148. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     In Austria, all math problems are to be solved in terms of Maria.

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149. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Theory of Capitalism: + > - Theory of Communism: = = = Praxis of both: :(

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150. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     Animal Farm, shorter: = > =

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151. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     A gentle reminder that Tuesday is merely the continuation of Monday by other means.

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152. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly2 Apr

     After a night of uneasy dreams, I have awoken as a hideously deformed subjunctive of a German verb.

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153. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Twitter never sleeps because it's afraid of what it might dream.

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154. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Changing your profile pic is the new changing the world.

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155. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     "Duuuude." pic.twitter.com/ICtfVwEIIu

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156. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     I sometimes wonder if puns are our revenge upon language, or language's revenge upon us.

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157. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     You be without rhyme. I'll be without reason.

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158. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Germanophobia is just another word for your economy has nothing left to lose.

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159. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Idealism = Mind over matter. Materialism = Matter over mind. Nihilism = Mind's over. Matter's over. End of story.

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160. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Maybe heaven is where we'll be reunited with all the fucks we gave.

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161. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     If you've never had a scene on a balcony, you've either never acted or never lived.

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162. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Comedies end with weddings. Tragedies start with them.

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163. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     To be or not to be the ambivalence you want to see in the world.

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164. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     The best poetry reminds us why we love language. The worst reminds us why we stopped reading poetry.

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165. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     First we made science an art. Then culture an industry. Then Twitter a news source.

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166. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     I never worry about a crisis in Europe until it looks like it'll get a Roman numeral.

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167. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Be the discontents you want to see in civilization.

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168. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     God is dead. It's all dubstep now.

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169. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Beauty is truth. Truth is beauty. Aesthetic theory is neither.

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170. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Remember, friends, it's never too early to be too late.

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171. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     The secret to becoming one of Amerika's most celebrated writers: spend some time in Germany. J. Franzen interview: http://youtu.be/UyxxyFR3NVk 

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172. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Once you understand that Germans have a sense of humor, you probably are one.

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173. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Give Amerikans an inch, they'll take a mile. Give'm a centimeter, they'll take a half hour to do the conversion.

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174. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     I've found that poets who eschew rhyme aren't too fond of reason either.

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175. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Art = Less is More. Kitsch = More is Less. Performance Art = Usually sucks, more or less.

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176. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Grade inflation: B-ing the papers you want to C in the world.

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177. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     I used to think capitalism was fooling us, then I realized it's fooling us into fooling each other.

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178. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     I'm not a fool, but I play one in my mobile contract.

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179. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Before there were Direct Messages, there was German.

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180. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Every #AprilFools Rene Magritte texts me that this is a pipe. Gets me every time.

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181. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Good one, Doppelgänger, but you're really only fooling yourself.

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182. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     The cure for self-hatred is simply to blame your demographic.

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183. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     I master-slave dialectic you.

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184. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, shame on the rhetorical law of threes.

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185. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     A gentle reminder that Twitter is not an addiction, but a leitmotif.

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186. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly1 Apr

     April is the cruelest joke.

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187. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     If my life has any meaning, it's the joy I take in doubt.

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188. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     Hate it when the check comes after brunch with my Marxist friends. Calculating needs and abilities is such a pain in the ass.

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189. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     If it weren't for sins of the flesh, I'd have nothing to believe in.

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190. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     Today only I'll concede that my zeppelin is perhaps slightly egg-shaped. pic.twitter.com/YQh1WZwaQz

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191. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     Some quality olive oil and a little love can bring a good many things back from the dead.

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192. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     I just hope Jesus was a union carpenter.

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193. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     Name: Jesus Christ. Full legal name: Jesus H. Christ. Stage name: JC, Superstar.

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194. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     What if God brought Jesus and sexy back on the same day?

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195. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     No offense, hollow chocolate Easter Bunny, but you are most delicious as a metaphor.

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196. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     Sometimes I'm reminded that secularism is truly a blessing.

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197. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     The resurrection will not be televised.

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198. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     Why is it never your favorite deceased philosopher or beloved childhood pet who rises from the dead?

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199. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly31 Mar

     We'll have a lovely Osterfest together, just ü and Ei.

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200. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Thank Susan It's Sontag.

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201. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Be the beautiful pastel Easter egg you want to find in the world.

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202. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     The Good News: Jesus saves. The bad news: He saves in Cyprus.

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203. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     No matter what you believe, what you don't believe, what you wish you did or did not believe, I wish you peace.

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204. Slavoj Žižek ‏@Slavojiek30 Mar

     @NeinQuarterly Fuck revolution. I want to finish my book.

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205. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     A spectre is haunting the bunny trail.

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206. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Strike 1 as tragedy. Strike 2 as farce. Strike 3 as baseball's momentary end of history.

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207. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Blessed be the cultural pessimists for they are our only hope.

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208. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Sounds like what you're saying, Jesus, is that you love me, but you're not *in love* with me.

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209. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     If you're wondering if there's Twitter in hell, you might not understand what it is here on earth.

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210. claudia vago ‏@tigella30 Mar

     MT @NeinQuarterly: Theocracy: Ruled by God.Democracy: Ruled by the people. Indeterminacy: Ruled by italians.

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211. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Tell me, hollow chocolate Easter bunny, when's the last time you really believed in something?

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212. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Theocracy: Ruled by God. Democracy: Ruled by the people. Indeterminacy: Ruled by Derrida.

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213. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     If tweeting is a sin, that might explain why I like it.

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214. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Retweet the change you want to see in the world.

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215. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Remember, friends: Jesus died so that brunch might live.

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216. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Theorize the change you want to see in the world.

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217. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     April is the cruelest mistress.

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218. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     "Meh." pic.twitter.com/2vhZyQI7rO

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219. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Be the hegemony you want to maintain in the world.

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220. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Friends, please do remember the real message of Easter: Life's too short for Amerikan chocolate.

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221. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Easter is my favorite allegory of commodity fetishism.

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222. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Friede, Freude, Euro-Krise.

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223. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly30 Mar

     Der Ostermarsch in Pjöngjang fällt vermutlich aus.

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224. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Be the narcissistic reflection you want to see in the world.

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225. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     You call it attention deficit. I call it a surplus of desire.

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226. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     I have made a faith of my mockery.

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227. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Anxiety is my performance.

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228. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     There are two types of Easter curmudgeons: those who don't believe in God and those who don't believe in brunch.

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229. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     I'll be vice. You be versa.

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230. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     "So not worth the trip." pic.twitter.com/BmLNK4Cthl

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231. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Pretty sure black jelly beans are made of sin.

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232. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     First denial as tragedy. Second denial as farce. Third denial as I think you're starting to like this.

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233. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Hunting Easter eggs is truly barbaric.

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234. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     The secret to walking on water: add ham.

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235. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Yes, chocolate bunny, we're all so empty inside.

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236. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Some day you, too, will look in the mirror and see just another bourgeois academic Marxist in a bunny suit.

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237. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Another unholy alliance of a weekend and no plans.

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238. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Twitter is God's gift to blasphemy.

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239. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     God is dead. = Nietzsche. Nietzsche is dead. = God. God and Nietzsche are dead. = Twitter.

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240. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     I'm more of a collapsed Catholic.

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241. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Time to hide your Easter UGGs.

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242. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Be the activist avatar you want to see in the world.

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243. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Easter dinner at a philosopher's house is always chicken. The question is when to have the eggs.

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244. Nein. ‏@NeinQuarterly29 Mar

     Jesus is born. = Christmas. Jesus dies. = Good Friday. Jesus gets laid. = Spring Break.

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