All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!
-- William F. (Bull) Halsey (1882-1959)
Ehh, I would much rather use interplanetary ballistic nukes propelled from my remote controlled drone as I lie on my couch eating hot pakoras and watching Terraria Let's Plays on YouTube, than confront the enemy in melee.
Two courses were open to us. We might have done nothing. That would have been utter ruin. Instead, we met the situation with proposals to private business and to the Congress of the most gigantic program of economic defense and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic. We put that program in action. Our measures have repelled these attacks of fear and panic. . . . We have used the credit of the Government to aid and protect our institutions, both public and private. We have provided methods and assurances that none suffer from hunger or cold amongst our people. We have instituted measures to assist our farmers and our homeowners. We have created vast agencies for employment.
We only see the results of successful people, we don't see the hard years. We don't see them on the brink of destruction. We don't see that and that is why it's so easy to get lost in wanting their success.without being willing to pay the same price they paid.
We only see the results of successful people, we don't see the hard years. We don't see them on the brink of destruction. We don't see that and that is why it's so easy to get lost in wanting their success.without being willing to pay the same price they paid.
Like being born to a wealthy family, or at least one that's middle class enough to at least afford a decent education. Maybe they are relative/friend of a CEO or Vice President!
We only see the results of successful people, we don't see the hard years. We don't see them on the brink of destruction. We don't see that and that is why it's so easy to get lost in wanting their success.without being willing to pay the same price they paid.
The self-made man is a myth.
Know how I know that's a lie? I know people who grew up worse than me and are self made.
"Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire."
"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.'
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
We only see the results of successful people, we don't see the hard years. We don't see them on the brink of destruction. We don't see that and that is why it's so easy to get lost in wanting their success.without being willing to pay the same price they paid.
The self-made man is a myth.
Know how I know that's a lie? I know people who grew up worse than me and are self made.
Know how I know that's a lie? NOTHING can be accomplished without someone else. Either their support, or stepping on them to get higher. Anybody who believes in the self made man is buying into a lie told by people who trampled others on their way to power.
Guybrush: At least I’ve learnt something from all of this. Elaine: What’s that? Guybrush: Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. Elaine: A what? Guybrush: I don't know. I have no idea why I said that.
―Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate
"Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St George to kill the dragon."
"When you scratch beneath the surface of a cynic, you find a frustrated optimist. Someone who simply made the mistake of making their ideals be their expectations."
-Legit quote I swear, but I have no idea from who.
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about life before the questions have even been asked. This means that beyond just seeing what is wrong with the world, cynics lack the courage to do something about it. The dynamic beneath cynicism is a fear of accepting responsibility.
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.
— George Carlin
There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
- Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.
― Yuval Noah Harari, (Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
“Not everyone can be famous but everyone can be great because greatness is determined by service. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.”
– Martin Luther King
Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.
― Yuval Noah Harari, (Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
That actually applies to what people call supernatural as well. If ghosts, for instance, exist, they are not supernatural. They are just natural phenomena we still don't understand as people in the past didn't understand lightning. The fact we don't know the natural laws that cause a phenomenon does not make it supernatural.
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Ehh, I would much rather use interplanetary ballistic nukes propelled from my remote controlled drone as I lie on my couch eating hot pakoras and watching Terraria Let's Plays on YouTube, than confront the enemy in melee.
- Herbert Hoover
(Widely derided as a "do nothing" president.)
Good news! Its actually, "Survival of the luckiest". Oh wait, that's not actually better.
Like being born to a wealthy family, or at least one that's middle class enough to at least afford a decent education. Maybe they are relative/friend of a CEO or Vice President!
The self-made man is a myth.
"Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire."
"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.'
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Know how I know that's a lie? NOTHING can be accomplished without someone else. Either their support, or stepping on them to get higher. Anybody who believes in the self made man is buying into a lie told by people who trampled others on their way to power.
Elaine: What’s that?
Guybrush: Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
Elaine: A what?
Guybrush: I don't know. I have no idea why I said that.
―Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate
―Terry Pratchett
-- Anatole France
― George Denis Patrick Carlin
— G.K. Chesterton
―Robert Heinlein
Emmitt Smith
-Legit quote I swear, but I have no idea from who.
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about life before the questions have even been asked. This means that beyond just seeing what is wrong with the world, cynics lack the courage to do something about it. The dynamic beneath cynicism is a fear of accepting responsibility.
― John Ortberg, Faith & Doubt
— George Carlin
-- Bootsy Collins
- Douglas Adams, "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
― Yuval Noah Harari, (Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
– Martin Luther King
That actually applies to what people call supernatural as well. If ghosts, for instance, exist, they are not supernatural. They are just natural phenomena we still don't understand as people in the past didn't understand lightning. The fact we don't know the natural laws that cause a phenomenon does not make it supernatural.