Quote of the Day

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"People are bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling."
- Dr. Kelso

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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther.

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For fifteen years the writer Varlam Shalamov was imprisoned in the Gulag for participating in “counter-revolutionary Trotskyist activities.” He endured six of those years enslaved in the gold mines of Kolyma, one of the coldest and most hostile places on earth.

Not one quote but a link to a long 'quote'. 45 things Varlam Shalamov learned in the Gulag. It is moving.


https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/201 ... the-gulag/

''The extreme fragility of human culture, civilization. A man becomes a beast in three weeks, given heavy labor, cold, hunger, and beatings.'' ~ Varlam Shalamov

[isha]

"When we are not sure, we are alive."
Graham Greene

[isha]

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. - Elie Wiesel

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[isha]

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

Eugene Gendlin. Philosopher.

A good resolution for a new year.

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If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. - John Archibald Wheeler

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[isha]

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” - January 14, 2013
Benito Mussolini.

Apt quote for the times we are in when one is supposed to surrender autonomy to the bio-secure state. In my little opinion, of course!

[knownunknown]

Heard a Latin phrase that sums up the JD and AH trial, “ Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. – Carl Sagan

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You cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat -John Perry Barlow

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In peace the sons bury the fathers. In war the fathers bury the sons. - Herodotus

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No matter how good looking a woman is, someone, somewhere is sick of her shit.

A wise old Corkonian.

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The one entered my mind this morning when I heard the news on Gorbachev.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. - Frank Zappa.

[DeletedUser]

Seamus Heaney was nine years gone today.

His quote (well, poem!):

“Be advised my passport’s green, no glass of ours was ever raised to toast the Queen”!!

[isha]

Seamus Heaney was nine years gone today.

His quote (well, poem!):

“Be advised my passport’s green, no glass of ours was ever raised to toast the Queen”!!

Hard to believe that long has passed. I was fortunate to meet him a few times. He was a noble man.

[KHD]

Getting information from the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant - Mitch Kapor.

[Mirabeau]

"The little wisdom that the world possesses, was introduced by lunatics.” - H-G.R de Mirabeau

[KHD]

Stupidity has a habit of getting its own way. - Dr. Landowska, line from the movie The Day After.

[isha]

I saw this on the internet today and I wholeheartedly agree with it. Especially in the face of constant warnings of end of days re ww3 or climate extremism.

CS Lewis

“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”

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"No bird soars to high if he soars on his own wings."

William Blake