"Nature wants 5 out of your 7 children to die. It wants you dead by 50. Everything better than that is brought to you by science ans technology."-- David Frum
"Nature wants 5 out of your 7 children to die. It wants you dead by 50. Everything better than that is brought to you by science ans technology."-- David Frum
And now, on with the opera. Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor. - Otis B. Driftwood
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
"I don't know anymore, man. I genuinely do not know how to argue empathy at somebody. I don't want concertgoers and schoolchildren to be routinely slaughtered in hailstorms of bullets. You don't care. I don't want some kid's first memory being a jackbooted deportation force kicking down their door and ripping their father from them. You don't care. I don't want a mother to have to bury her child solely because she couldn't swing $600 for a two-pack of epi pens. You don't care. Every day you wake up and deflect, but-what-about, twist, bend, contort and echo whatever vile, club-footed rationalization keeps you from having to admit that you're not just complicit in, but in fact, actively facilitating this nightmare of a reality so many people are experiencing. I care about other people. You do not. It's as simple as that. Take your thoughts and prayers and shove them up your ass."--Rob Whisman
Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.)
-- Ralph Jennings, DISCLAIMER
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
-Mark Twain, the "Notice" at the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
“Social gains,” “social aims,” “social objectives” have become the daily bromides of our language. The necessity of a social justification for all activities and all existence is now taken for granted. There is no proposal outrageous enough but what its author can get a respectful hearing and approbation if he claims that in some undefined way it is for “the common good.”
Ayn Rand, foreword to the 1946 edition of "Anthem"
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This one really provides a lot of motivation, especially in hard times.
50, hah. More like 45.
It's not Nature's fault. She just likes recycling carbon...
-- Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
-- Finley Peter Dunne
-- Henry Ford
--Me
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
-- David Lloyd George
-- Ralph Jennings, DISCLAIMER
-Mark Twain, the "Notice" at the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-- Victor Borge
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
Ayn Rand, foreword to the 1946 edition of "Anthem"
― George Orwell
-- Carl Jung
That one does suck. I think it’s the main reason people get stuck in self-abuse and abuse of others.
Otherwise you get stuck with murderous shadows.
have no grief at all
life exists only for a short while
and Time demands his due.
--Seikilos Epitaph
Anyone that needs what they want and doesn't want what they need, I want nothing to do with.
-Gnarls Barkley
In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
- Diogenes of Sinope
It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
-- Charlotte P Gilman
Governments spend millions a day destroying the world but balk at spending millions to make it better.
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-W.C. Fields
-- Soren Kierkegaard, "Life"