331 Interesting Thoughts
Wuzza Wuzza Wuzza! What could it be?
Himmy Hidey Hoedy! Want to be free.
Jump Bubble Snip. Orthogonal trip.
Cry Smile Die. Why don't you try?
We walk as we talk as we think that we live
In a world of our own creation.
If just for the once we would look on the outside
I think it would be a sensation!
Asked of Buddha:
'Are you a god?' 'No.'
'Are you a saint?' 'No.'
'Then what are you?' 'I am awake.'
First you watch video.
Then you eat video.
Then you live video.
Then you BE video.
Think pretty highly of yourself, eh?
If I don't, who will?
You have many years to live - do things you will be
proud to remember. (A saying of the Skinka.)
Let a jar of water evaporate and listen to it.
Oh, I eat when I'm hungry,
and I drink when I'm dry,
and if moonshine don't kill me,
I'll live 'till I die. - Irish folk song
What dies if you kill time?
If time is on your side what is on the other side?
If it's time to go what time is it?
When does time end?
Between the dark and the daylight
When the night is beginning to lower
Comes a pause in the day's occupation
That is known as the children's hour---
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time
like tears in rain. Time to die. Roy in Bladerunner
Every man should believe in something
I believe I'll have another drink! - W.C. Fields
You can often create something new by creating a new name
a new name that emphasizes something previously unemphasized
or which makes an old idea look new.
There are many things worth living for,
there are a few things worth dying for,
but there is nothing worth killing for.
To live outside the law you must be honest.
Bob Dylan
Some people would rather die than think about death.
Always remember the last words of my grandfather.
He said, `a truck.' -- Emo Philips
Sex is dirty.
'Only if it's done right.' - Woody Allen
We have met the enemy and he is us - Pogo
Life's a Virgin, a Bitch is too easy.
Things fall apart It's scientific. David Byrne
When things get so big, I don't trust them at all.
If you want some control, you've got to keep it small.
Peter Gabriel DIY
Legalize Physics!
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not
become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also
looks into you. -- Nietzsche
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Thought you could get away from me didn't you?
It is not polite to point.
Don't interrupt.
Say `please' and `thank you'.
Keep your head, your temper, your cool.
Smile!
Try to remember the names of people you are introduced to.
Listen.
etiquitte
How does one `be there for me'
when one is nowhere around at the time?
What it is! -Nexus
You have to eat something now and then to keep from blowing away.
The Ferengi
People are like windows-everyone has a unique perspective on
the world. And everyonce in a while, something likes to
take a peek through us.
What goes round comes round. -Nexus
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes;
there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
Things are more like they are now than they've ever been before..
Zippy the Pinhead
Great thing about the military: even though you know that
they know that nobody knows what the hell they're doing,
everybody pretends that that ain't so.
Even though you know and they know that nobody knows,
everybody pretends they do.
Well, Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable,
and Lightness has a call that's hard to hear - Indigo Girls
Go to an extreme and then retreat to a more useful position.
- Brian Eno
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a
man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary
prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his
intelligence. Albert Einstein
You're only as old as the woman you feel. - Groucho Marx
The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises -
it is a set of challenges. John F. Kennedy 15-Jul-60
That Government which Governs Least, Governs Best.
Thomas Jefferson
Too bad ignorance isn't painful.
No news is good news.
Spring is fucking madness!
While continuing through time on the once other day
they came across a little rift. Exclaimed he,'It!',
and it twisted into a blue form from which issued
a thin line. She said it tickled so he wrapped it
around his finger and they left. The hole thus
created was no larger than the center of a silver
marble and reflected light like a mirror doesn't.
So if you stumble across it, it isn't there.
The Beginning
When it became very cold so that it was noticable
they took it out and set it up. It was immediately
obvious and this caused some wonder. It was decided
to extend it and difficult this was for it had that
quality which could distinguish the very best from
the least. Once differentiated it stood alone from
itself with a radiance that emanated from any space
that it had recently vacated. For this reason it was
best moved quickly causing waves of light to spread
out fanlike with invisibly thin striations.
No one dared to touch it now it being even more obvious
than before. Inverted, it contradicted itself and
vanished. When tried again it didn't work until
someone discovered that it was still there and had never
vanished at all. This caused great joy and several
times all purpose was forgotten. When they were done
they put it away and went for a midnight swim always
being careful to step in the right places.
As a definitive test of his magical powers they
locked him into a wooden box and told him to escape.
When he materialized outside they said he had
simply slipped out when they were not looking
and so they locked him up again. Using his will
to amplify the strength of his body he smashed
through the walls of the box. They claimed that
the walls had not been sturdy enough and built
a sturdier box. So he dematerialized leaving
the box completely empty. They all said he
had never really been there.
The wall on which the prophets wrote
is cracking at the seams.
Upon the instruments of death
the sunlight brightly gleams.
When every man is torn apart
with nightmares and with dreams
will no one lay the laurel wreath
when silence drowns the screams?
Confusion will be my epitaph
as I cross a cracked and broken path.
If we make it we can all sit back and laugh,
but I fear tomorrow I'll be crying.
Between the iron gates of fate
the seeds of time were sown
and watered by the deeds of those
who know and are known.
Knowledge is a deadly friend
if no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
is in the hands of fools.
KING CRIMSON
THERE IS LONG A TIME AGO IN DEPTH IT LOOKS GREEN
AT BEST THOUGH ON CERTAIN TIME IS
A HIGHLY EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR TEACHING BABY MUDSHARKS TO FLY
TALKING ABOUT THINKING ABOUT LEVELS IN NONSTRUCTURED REALITIES
A LOOP-TALKING ABOUT THINKING ABOUT LEVELS OF THOUGHT WHEN TALKING
THE IDEA OF ATTACHING AN WORD TO AN IDEA
AN IDLE LISTENING OF MUSIC
A TALKING OF THE SENSES
LOOK BUT DO NOT HEAR, AROUND
TAKING A LITTLE TIME WITHOUT MY FRIEND
WATCHING WHAT I AM DOING
LOOKING AROUND FOR A WHILE
FEAR IS A MINOR CONSEQUENCE OF CONSEQUENCE
DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH
TAKE A LIKING AS FRIENDS OF YOURS
TAKING ABOUT NOTHING
NO FOR A REASON WITHOUT
FIGURES IN
A LOT OF TIME WITH A LITTLE BREAD
FOR THE
A SEQUENCE
Don't believe the human eye In sunlight or in shade
The puppet show of sight and sense Is the Devil's Masquerade
Demons drink from human skulls And souls are up for trade
Take wine and drugs and join us in The Devil's Masquerade
Television. Strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you
everything. It shows you everything about life on earth, but the true
mysteries remain. Perhaps it's in the nature of television...just waves
in space.
You beat everything, you know that?
You can't cross the same river twice.
Instantly nothing happens.
A Highly Efficient Algorithm for Teaching Baby Mudsharks to Fly.
Beware of flying sofas.
Don't look under the bed.
Always look under the bed first.
Gravity works.
There's no such thing as gravity, the Earth just sucks.
Boo!
BAM!! ->z->o->o->m-> Whirrrr !!POW!! Fzzzzzz
Computers never lie. I am lying.
Where do thoughts go when you stop thinking them?
We've got great big bodies; we've got little bitty heads.
If you hadn't read this today would have been horrible.
When you look in a mirror do you see yourself?
You better watch out!
Keep your eyes open. Somethings up.
Feel up.
I have noticed that humans have a tendency to get themselves into positions they don't want to be in.
Today is the best of all possible days.
What are you staring at me for?
What would you really like to do and why aren't you doing it?
Beware the Berserkers!
Thought. Thinking about thought. Talking about thinking about thought. Writing about talking about thinking about thought. Singing of writing about talking about thinking about thought.
Being tickled while not laughing at thoughts that describe thinking about talking and how you are today?
You think funny!
Do you like me?
No! Not that! Anything but that! NO NO N........silence
Best think about it carefully.
Do it!
How come if you stare at someone's face it starts to look funny after a while?
The world is run by 8 old men living in Bavaria.
Isn't it funny how the spreading of disinformation is one of the primary functions of our 'intelligence' services?
Today is a good day to eat blueberries.
Do two things today that you have never done before.
Can you wiggle your toes?
Can you wiggle your ears?
Sit very,very still. There's a new idea on your mind.
Finally nothing happens.
Don't just sit there, sing!
I'm meditating.
Ha! I've got you now!
The time is now.
Take the rest of the day off. I'll cover for you.
What? You again?
Tell me the truth. Did you really know what you were getting into when you came here?
Yes, I'll marry you.
What are you doing here?
Do You Like This?
Where are you going?
What do you think?
Have a good time.
Have Fun.
Watch out. You might get what you're after.
Strange but not a stranger.
You are an ape.
Stop staring at yourself
Just look at you!
Who's there?
Go away. I don't want to work today
Cover your eyes. Dark isn't it?
You've got a face with a view.
Whatcha doing?
Hop like a bunny.
I wouldn't do that if I were you.
Having a good time are you? We thinks you best be wary.
What if....?
You better try.
Today is a good day to meditate on the question --Is there a forseeable future?
Today is a good day to meditate on the question --Who KNOWS?
Today is a good day to meditate on the question --Where did it go?
Today is a good day to meditate on the question --Who is it now?
Today is a good day to meditate on the question --How did I get here?
Today is a good day to meditate on the question --How often do you?
Today is a good day to meditate on the question --Is there a way?
Today is a good day to meditate on the question --Do chairs have souls?
Think of your body as transportation. Here you are, sitting up in the head, peeking out through the eyes, steering it around
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
I wonder where that strange noise is coming from?
I really think an awful lot of you trouble is in you head.
Wiggle it.
Without trying it is even easier.
My Wonder! Look at that! The like of which I have never seen.
This is Walkie-Talkie Sam calling Wishie-Washie Joe. Do you read me?
Just TRY to levitate a pizza.
Not easy, isn't it?
Many's the time I've wondered where I am and whether I should do anything about it.
All this is trivial compared to the outrageous adventures that await you.
Cherish yourself a little.
Why you?
Just WHO are YOU?
And just Who ARE You?
You can't avoid going among mad people.
Curtsy while you're thinking. It saves time.
HOO R U?
You only think so.
So... They let you out again, eh?
Try to think about things you can't think of.
I give myself the very best advice, but I very rarely take it.
Think twice. NO, don't think twice.
Look
What sort of thoughts did people think before language was invented?
Are you interested?
To stop time hit CTRL T.
To stop time stop creating the future.
When you stop wondering if your mad you're in trouble.
If you think you are grown up you are in trouble.
Nonsense can be delightful or scary.
I know but I don't know.
I will but I won't yet.
Mute Punk Pigmies Pick Purposeful Paths Particularly Passionately.
The Past and the Future both begin Now.
Join the Army: Visit exotic distant lands, meet unusual exciting people and kill them.
Get a new toy.
Do not tolerate stupidity.
Take the time to notice what is going on around you.
Explore new perspectives.
Do not wait until those older than you are dead to appreciate them.
Keep your head expanding.
oD ton eb lamron.
Permute!
Question what you see.
Hold out when you're in doubt.
When Congress repeals the law of gravity it is time to run for cover.
Pop! goes the weasel.
Plant seeds in fertile soil.
The eyes to close, the head to nod, the action chose, to drink the grog.
Wee Beasties Plagued the Best of Them.
Facts are useless and that's a fact.
Ortiginous teslication is not necessary.
Marmbrole fraft incrondo pultny simtoe.
Time can't run out if it doesn't exist.
Air is just a balloon with the skin removed.
I've never been a finer place than that inside my pillowcase.
It's your own indecision that makes your life a prison.
Growing older is a deadly business.
There's something in the air besides the atmosphere.
Taking some time with friends of mine.
Memory serves to keep the line between what is and was in time.
Various things about the less-publicized qualities of the human nervous system.
A null-program.
A gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft named God.
Pre-marital chastity for women and the accuracy of TV news.
Deosil - Widdershins
Wheels within wheels.
You can't step into the same river twice.
You beat everything, you know that?
Don't burp and you won't hiccup.
A lock is a hole in a door.
A sin is to knowingly hurt a sentient being.
Eat a live toad before breakfast and nothing worse will happen to you all day.
Who doed it?
Is There?
She's sober at the shopping center.
Be calm.
Be simple.
Don't take no for an answer.
Be aware.
Make up your mind.
Go talk to a friend.
Be somebody else.
Try it.
Hooooeeee! Your in for it now!.
Consider the next step.
Take the next step.
Walk out.
I've got your number.
Look See Perceive
Take a break
The asking 'Why?' It will drive you crazy.
If only because there is.
Walk Talk Sit Wink Blink Stand Flee Stop Think
It all seems so necessary sometimes.
It all seems so unnecessary sometimes.
Wonder as you walk.
poetry?
NO
We have no art; we do everything as best we can! -the Inuit.
I am We
YES
I can always tell when I've fallen in love because my memory dissappears
Richard Pryor
Life's a bitch, and then you die.
Life's a virgin, a bitch is too easy.
Life's a witch, and then you fly.
When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not. - Yoda
Goldblum:We can live without sex but we cannot live without rationalization
Beringer:You can't be serious!
Goldblum:I am.... Have you ever gone a week without a rationalization?
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut.
Fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
-- Christine Lavin, 'Prisoners Of Their Hairdos'
Distrust a person who is always obviously busy on a task.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
though checkered with failures, than to rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that
knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Too bad ignorance isn't really bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
Go to an extreme and then retreat to a more useful position - Brian Eno
Leaflets three, let it be
Berries white, poisonous sight
life's too short for just one body.......
sally
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
If God made us in His image we have certianly returned the compliment.
Voltaire
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Guess what? It's DONE! Get on with your life!
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now,
only much, MUCH better. Laurie Anderson
Good Tea. Nice house. Worf
Reality is for people who lack imagination.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
When the going gets weird, the weird turn Pro. - Hunter S. Thompson.
Reality is an illusion created by an alcohol deficiency.
Life is uncertain - eat dessert first!.
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists;
neither takes life as it is. - Stanley Kubrick
Data is not information is not knowledge is not experience is not wisdom.
We are equal only in that we all have the same potential
to do and become anything that is humanly possible.
There ain't no Devil, there's just God when he's drunk.-Tom Waits
Question reality.
As fast as a mountain fleeing the sea.
We don't have education, we have inspiration.
If I have education I'd be a damn fool. - Bob Marley
It's 1993. So where's my jetpack?
Resist much. Obey little. - Walt Whitman
That's the wonderful thing about crayons, they can take
you to more places than a starship. Guinan - STNG
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe
life - fear = love
Teleportation is the only civilized means of transportation - I. Asimov
My driving philosophy about music is that you can reduce it all
down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of
feeling and with right kind of sincerity.--Eric Clapton
As Godzilla once said, 'Gad, what food these mortals are.'
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of
nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing--with 'obscenity' and 'indecent
exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.
-- Lazarus Long
Facts just twist the truth around. --- David Byrne
We dance in a circle and suppose, but the secret sits
in the middle and knows. -- Walt Whitman
For your fate, for your failure, for your fame,
Can you take all the credit or the blame?
We're all just seeds
We start the same, but where we land
is sometimes fertile soil and sometimes sand. - David Wilcox
It's getting harder and harder to act weird. - Bill Griffith via Zippy
We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning
the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all,
but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order
that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once
began to exist.... Ursula K. Le Guin City of Illusions
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die
Peter Tosh
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence;
sound is that cup, but empty;
noise is that cup, but broken.
Robert Fripp
You can tell if something is real if it looks the same on all levels.
Plan for the worst and hope for the best.
People are children.
The Sea - the parent of us all. Our blood is salt water.
I fall up
Reality is something you rise above. -Liza Minnelli
Well if you wait'n for a woman to make up her mind,
you may have a long wait. - Clint Eastwood
There's nothing more certain to kill an idea than democracy, as far
as I'm concerned. I'm not making a political statement here, but
one about how things get done creatively. --Brian Eno
Surround yourself with the positive people.
You don't need the negative ones.
Do now what others won't so you can do later what others can't!
Sometimes what looks like gold isn't even gilt.
The less we know the better we feel. Bowie
I must be an acrobat to talk like this and act like that. U2
Sweet-hearted one, meditate on knowing and not knowing,
existing and not existing.
Then leave both aside that you may be.
-the 36th of Shiva's ^^
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A Lie is still a Lie even if 3.8 billion people believe it.
All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
- Pink Floyd
One of these days, I'll be old enough that
people will stop calling me crazy and start
calling me eccentric.
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
Death itself is an illusion.
We must learn to give up our sacrifices, not our joys.
We have been taught to give up everythin except our
sacrifices and those are what we must give up.
We must sacrifice our sacrifices.
Illuminatus! The Eye In The Pyramid
The belief in coincidence is the prevailing superstition
in the Age Of Science.
The human condition can be summed up in one word: embarrassment.
How can you tell a good painting from a bad one?
All you have to do is look at a million paintings and
then you can never be mistaken.
How can you tell a good person from a bad one?
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden
To the few experiences which helped me along the way
toward my life's true goal I added this new one: the
observation of such configurations [staring at a fire,
tree roots, veins in rock, smoke, clouds, water,
reflections, light, dust, swirling specks of light when
eyes are closed].
The surrender to Nature's irrational, strangely confused
formations produces in us a feeling of inner harmony with
the force responsible for these phenomena. We soon fall
prey to the temptation of thinking of them as being our
own moods, our own creations, and see the boundaries
seperating us from Nature begin to quiver and dissolve.
We become acquainted with that state of mind in which
we are unable to decide whether the images on our retina
are the result of impressions coming from without or
from within. Nowhere as in this exercise can we discover
so easily and simply to what extent we are creative, to what
extent our soul partakes of the constant creation of
the world. For it is the same indivisible divinity
that is active through us and in Nature, and if the
outside world were to be destroyed, a single one of us
would be capable of rebuilding it: mountain and stream,
tree and leaf, root and flower, yes, every natural
form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose
essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but
which most often intimates itself to us as the power
to love and create.
The next time we were together, the organist gave me
an explanation: "We always define the limits of our
personality too narrowly. In general, we count as part
of our personality only that which we can recognise as
being an individual trait or as diverging from the norm.
But we consist of everything the world consists of, each
of us, and just as our body contains the genealogical table
of evolution as far back as the fish and even much further,
so we bear everything in our soul that once was alive in
the soul of men. Every god and devil that ever existed,
be it among the Greeks, Chinese, or Zulus, are within us,
exist as latent possibilities, as wishes, as alternatives.
If the human race were to vanish from the face of the earth
save for one halfway talented child that had received no
education, this child would rediscover the entire course
of evolution, it would be capable of producing everything
once more, gods and demons, paradises, commandments, the
Old and New Testament."
"Yes, fine," I replied. "But what is the value of the
individual in that case? Why do we continue striving if
everything has been completed within us?"
"Stop!" exclaimed Pistorius. "There's an immense
difference between simply carrying the world within us
and being aware of it. A madman can spout ideas that
remind you of Plato, and a pious little seminary student
rethinks deep mythological correspondences found among
the Gnostics or in Zoroaster. But he isn't aware of them.
He is a tree or stone, at best an animal, as long as he is not
conscious. But as soon as the first spark of recognition
dawns within him he is a human being. You wouldn't
consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human
beings simply because they walk upright and carry their
young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how
many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how
many are ants, how many are bees! Well, each one of
them contains the possibility of becoming human, but
only by having an intimation of these possibilities,
partially even by learning to make himself conscious
of them; only in this respect are these possibilities his."
Politics and religion are obsolete; the time has come
for science and spirituality.
Sri Jawaharlal Nehru 15 Oct 1962
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan C. Kay
Excusable, understandable, but unacceptable. - Robert Fripp
I was walking across a bridge one day, and i saw a man standing on the edge,
about to jump off. so i ran over and said "stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't
I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like
what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious."
I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I
said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I
said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said,
"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?"
He said, "Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist
church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?" He said, "Reformed
baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of
god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of
1915?" He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!" I
said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off. -- Emo Phillips
Miracles are small everyday things.
Thou say'st, his sports were hinder'd by thy brawls: sweet recreation barr'd,
what doth ensue, but moody and dull melancholy,
leinsman to grim and comfortless despair,
and at her heels a huge infectious troop of pale distemperatures,
and foes to life?
In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest to be disturb'd,
would mad or man or beast.
The Comedy of Errors Act V, Scene I Shakespeare
"Suppose we -have- only dreamed, or made up, all those
things---trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan
himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the
made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones.
Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours -is- the only world. Well,
it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing,
when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game,
if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a
play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm
going to stand by the play-world. I'm on Aslan's side even if
there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a
Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. So, thanking
you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young
lady are ready, we're leaving your court at once and setting
out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland.
Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but
that's small loss if the world's as dull a place as you say."
Puddleglum
in The Silver Chair - The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
"The most exciting phrase in science, the one that heralds
new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' (I found it!) but
'That's funny...'" -- Isaac Asimov
"But why," thought she, "why do it? Is the only challenge in the world
to be greed and viciousness? Is the only satisfying power the power
of ascent over men, the only dream, ambition? And must the
alternative to greed, evil, ambition---be only sluggishness?
Delirium's Mistriss
Tales From The Flat Earth: Night's Daughter
by Tanith Lee
"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's." - Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft, 1692
All the troubles of man are caused by one thing, which is their
inability to stay quietly in a room - Blaise Pascal
He had never been in mountain country before and was surprised.
It's a cloud, he said to himself, a cloud coming down. I see.
Up here in the hills one is really in the sky. I shall see
what the inside of a cloud is like. What fun! I've often
wondered.
The Horse and His Boy - The Chronicles of Narnia
C. S. Lewis
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance. - Paul Saffo
We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.
They pretend to rule and we pretend to obey.
people are afraid of silence
You can always make up a class, You can never make up a party!
There's always work to do. The day is not always sunny.
The life you've lived is all it will ever be.
Discouragers of hesitancy.
Far below, the tree burst the walls of its brushed concrete
prison, and rose like an express train. Jaime had never
realized that trees made a sound when they grew, and no one
else had realized it either, because the sound is made over
hundreds of years in waves twenty-four hours from peak to
peak.
Speed it up, and the sound a tree makes is VROOOOM.
_Good_Omens_ by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work.
This is the crucial difference between fiction and real life:
fiction must be plausible; real life has no such constraint. (Kevin Kelly)
You know, people are always extolling 'truth' and 'real life'
and 'truth is beauty'. I don't think that; I don't think that
that's beauty. You can't really come face to face with reality
too frequently or for too long a time because it'll wipe you
out. It's too brutal; it's too terrible a thing.
Woody Allen in Rolling Stone
The demands that good people make are upon themselves;
those that bad people make are upon others.
Confucius
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another--
it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pain is addictive
We wouldn't be them for money and they know it.
Once you get past learning not to kill, the next most difficult thing
is learning how to take.
Most important decisions are made by people who are drunk.
At it's best, dying for a cause works only once, and not always even then
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