"Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are."
Bukowski

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

TR is not really my favorite President, but still:
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.  -  Theodore Roosevelt, 1918.

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

―

Soren Kierkegaard,


The Journals of Kierkegaard

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Montgomery Scott

"So this is either a functional metaphor for how consciousness turns things into reality...or else I'm completely crazy and I just had a completely wonderful time anyway."
Jerry Garcia

There is no place for violence in our democracy — against anyone.

~Robert Reich

“I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage"

~Charlie Kirk

Speaking of acquired wisdom and matters of the soul and spirit
and in seeking for the sake of being sought from the war within...


There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld

 miamizsun wrote:
reminds me of:

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." ~ Carl Sagan

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

- Isaac Asimov

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. - Tom Waits

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Lewis Carroll

The days grow hot, O Babylon! Tis *cool* beneath thy willow trees!

Hugo Kalmar

WATSON! You have a talent for observing the BLAZINGLY Obvious.  

- S. Holmes

I want AI to do my laundry and dishes
so that I can do art and writing,
not for AI to do my art and writing
so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

What does love feel like?
It feels like somebody giving you the keys to unlocking who you really are.

Adam Clayton, U2 bassist