Bretty always says....
Friday, October 09, 2009
Giant Tiny IBJ backup
Sunday, September 06, 2009
On the evidence of our eyes...
There's no such thing as piano playing; I have tried it several times and nothing came of it.
- Paul Watzlawick (From The Language of Change)
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
On eating well...
“Hatred is a banquet until you recognize you are the main course.”
-Herbert Benson
On the working class...
“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
- Jay Gould
On civility...
“If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it’s civil society that goes away, not force.”
-Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
On doing it again...
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge
Friday, April 10, 2009
On losing it...
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'"
-Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)
Monday, March 30, 2009
On waiting on the waiting...
"The best time to plant a tree was always 20 years ago. The second best time is always today."
- Unknown
Sunday, March 29, 2009
On the artist and the art...
"Wanting to meet a writer because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate."
-Margaret Atwood
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
On talent...
"Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
-Calvin Coolidge
Saturday, March 21, 2009
On being "the first"...
Originality is based on the obscurity of your sources.
- Unattributed
Friday, February 27, 2009
On proof...
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."
— Christopher Hitchens
Thursday, January 22, 2009
On the one thing you should remember....
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
- Mark Twain
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
On wild words...
"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking."
- John M. Keynes
On imitation...
"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."
- Samuel Johnson
On earthly rewards...
"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
- Voltaire
On the ease of criticism...
"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not."
- R. W. Griswold
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
On what you are waiting for...
"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition." - Alex Comfort
On God's love for heterosexuals...
"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals, and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. It's not that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision."
- Lynn Lavner
On truth...
"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense."
- Mark Twain
On knowledge and wisdom...
"Knowledge tells us that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom prevents us from putting it into fruit salad." -Miles Kington
On Sunday Night Dinner...
"Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal"
- Julia Child
On adventure-seeking behavior...
"Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go."
- xkcd.
Monday, November 24, 2008
On intellectual property...
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
-Howard Aiken
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
On backtalk...
If you wanted the last word you shouldn't have moved east.
- John Dick
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
On complexity...
For every complex problem there is a simple solution - and it is wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Saturday, November 01, 2008
On one's place...
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
- Norman Mailer
On spilling the beans
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
- Norman Mailer
On testing limits...
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
- Norman Mailer
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
On "FUCK"
"Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government."
-Lenny Bruce (cited in FUCK)
On your feet!
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
- HG Wells
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
On finding it again...
"Let's look elsewhere. Not in the shul and in the church; their time has passed--though it will come again. The human urge to celebrate, which is to say the reemergence of religion, the reemergence of the involuntary, and that which tends toward release and reaffirmation, will be seen to reassert itself in the profane, commonplace, and pagan aspects of our lives, in the scorn heaped on the Academy Awards committee that we cannot dare attribute rightfully to government; the ritual suggestion of sodomy in "take this job and shove it"; the ritual of the fire department's dog; the writer in the restaurant; the adopted southern accent of airline pilots; the exclamation of awe at the long run up the middle. These unproclaimed but operative rituals are meager, but they are close to all we have of spiritual community--they have replaced the awe of the sacrament, which itself replaced the miracle of rebirth from the dead. "
- David Mamet (From Writing in Restaurants)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
On being legion...
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain multitudes.
— Walt Whitman
Sunday, March 23, 2008
On the paying of attention...
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company.
-Geneen Roth
On the paying of attention...
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company.
-Geneen Roth
Monday, November 19, 2007
On the being , by dogs, of spectacular...
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
— Samuel Butler
Friday, November 16, 2007
On volition...
Freedom lies in being bold.
-Robert Frost
Saturday, October 06, 2007
On tutting titties...
Belief in external "obscenity" is the modern form of the witchcraft delusion.
-Robert Anton Wilson
On not believing in conspiracy...
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior. Conspiracy is another word for coalition.
-Robert Anton Wilson
On agnosticism - and not just for gods...
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
-Robert Anton Wilson
On the end result...
Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magick incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops". both of which mean the killing must continue.
-Robert Anton Wilson
Thursday, August 23, 2007
On autonomy - if only temporarily...
THE TAZ (temporary autonomous zone) AS A CONSCIOUS radical tactic will emerge under certain conditions:
1. Psychological liberation. That is, we must realize (make real) the moments and spaces in which freedom is not only possible but actual. We must know in what ways we are genuinely oppressed, and also in what ways we are self- repressed or ensnared in a fantasy in which ideas oppress us. WORK, for example, is a far more actual source of misery for most of us than legislative politics. Alienation is far more dangerous for us than toothless outdated dying ideologies. Mental addiction to "ideals"--which in fact turn out to be mere projections of our resentment and sensations of victimization--will never further our project. The TAZ is not a harbinger of some pie-in-the-sky Social Utopia to which we must sacrifice our lives that our children's children may breathe a bit of free air. The TAZ must be the scene of our present autonomy, but it can only exist on the condition that we already know ourselves as free beings.
- Hakim Bey (From T.A.Z.)
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
On doing it easy....
Learn to place an object firmly and quietly in its place and do not let your fingers move that object as they leave it there. When you put down a cup separate your fingers cleanly from the cup. Do not let them catch in the handle and if they do repeat the movement until fingers separate clean. If you dont catch that nervous finger that won't let go of that handle you may twitch hot tea across the Duchess. Never let a poorly executed sequence pass. If you throw a match at a wastebasket and miss, get right up and put that match in the wastebasket. If you have time repeat the cast that failed. There is a always a reason for missing an easy toss. Repeat the toss and you will find it.
- Bill Burroughs from his magnificent essay TheNow.
Friday, August 17, 2007
On the phenomenal universe...
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep."
-Rumi
On the "Randi Effect."
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
-Rumi
Saturday, August 04, 2007
On such a thing as a "chaos credo."
I do not believe in anyhting. I know what I know (gnosis) and I postulate theories which may or may not enter my system of adopted beliefs when those theories have been tested. There are no gods or demons, except for those I have been conditioned into acknowledging and those I have created for myself. I create and destroy beliefs according to their usefulness. In the words of the wise "nothing is true, everything is permitted" - provided it interferes with no-one.
- Ray Sherwin from the Book Of Results
On unmistakeable symbolism....
The best symbol for a good sharp sword is a good sharp sword.
- Attributed to a "wise man" in Ray Sherwin's Book of Results
On the autonomy of outlaws....
Defoe relates that a pirate named Captain Bellamy made this speech to the captain of a merchant vessel he had taken as a prize. Bellamy had wanted to let the captain keep his ship, but his crew had voted to burn the sloop. The captain of the merchant vessel had just declined an invitation to join the pirates.
"I am sorry they won't let you have your sloop again, for I scorn to do any one a mischief, when it is not to my advantage; damn the sloop, we must sink her, and she might be of use to you. Though you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security; for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by knavery; but damn ye altogether: damn them for a pack of crafty rascals, and you, who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numbskulls. They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. Had you not better make then one of us, than sneak after these villains for employment?"When the captain replied that his conscience would not let him break the laws of God and man, the pirate Bellamy continued:
"You are a devilish conscience rascal, I am a free prince, and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world, as he who has a hundred sail of ships at sea, and an army of 100,000 men in the field; and this my conscience tells me: but there is no arguing with such snivelling puppies, who allow superiors to kick them about deck at pleasure."From Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone
On putting love into it....
Slowly shape a good letter.
Making things fine
Means more than making them.
- Antonio Machado
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
On the wirehead's dilemma...
"If it was possible to become free of negative emotions by a riskless
implementation of an electrode - without impairing intelligence and
the critical mind - I would be the first patient."
- Dalai Lama (Society for Neuroscience Congress, Nov. 2005)
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
On a proper education...
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
-Eartha Kitt
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Thoughts on ministry and the minstry of thought....
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
-Robert Heinlein
On jealousy's strategy...
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...
-Robert Heinlein
On creatives, crackpots and con-men...
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
- Robert Heinlein
On living life fully....
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
-Robert Heinlein
Friday, June 22, 2007
On the pretty colors...
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our
one duty is to furnish it well.
-Peter Ustinov
Monday, June 18, 2007
On literal non-violence....
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also
internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you
refuse to hate him.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
On reliable trades...
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either.
- Robert Graves
On reliable trades...
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either.
- Robert Graves
Friday, June 08, 2007
On editing sober...
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
- C. J. Cherryh
On where ideas come from...
If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you -- it will come out of that wall.
- Anton Chekhov
On where stories come from...
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
- Orson Scott Card
On dividends...
Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.
- Anthony Burgess
On tutorials...
Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.
- Steven Brust
On writing plainly...
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
- Ben Bova
Monday, June 04, 2007
On faking it until you're making it....
Magic, in light of modern physics, quantum theory and probability theory is now approaching science. We hope that a result of this will be a synthesis so that science will become more magical and magic more scientific.
- William S. Burroughs
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
On Fortuity....
My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike to ever mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way.
-Charles Fort
On holding down Charles Fort...
...If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
-Charles Fort
On these Fortean times....
"If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen".
-Charles Fort
On Forteana....
The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
-Charles Fort
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
On shuffling your deck...
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as
what language he shall speak.
-George Santayana
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
On going beyond the pale...
Patriotism is the veneration of real estate above principles.
-George Jean Nathan (1882-1958)
Friday, April 27, 2007
On man and imagination...
We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Matty always said....
Ah me! in sooth he was a shameless wight,
Sore given to revel and ungodly glee;
Few earthly things found favour in his sight
Save concubines and carnal company,
And flaunting wassailers of high and low degree.
-Lord Byron, "Childe Harold"
Matty always said....
I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor--even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero--that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun.
-Bill Hicks "Revelations"
Matty always said....
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished, nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.
-Raymond Chandler "The Simple Art of Murder"
Matty always said....
"...I keep picturing all those little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
-J.D.Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"
Matty always said....
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Kerouac, "Beat Generation"
Matty always said....
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
Matty always said....
Shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of shibumi takes the form of sabi, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where shibumi emerges as wabi, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming. And in the personality of a man it is authority without domination.
-Trevanian "Shibumi"
Matty always said....
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
-Oscar Wilde
Matty always said....
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Matty always said....
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anais Nin
Matty always said....
Beyond the ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field, I'll meet you there.
-Rumi
Friday, April 13, 2007
On that familiar stench...
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
On the patriotism of the dupes....
My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
On dealing with (big) people....
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
On known unknowns....
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently reveling in the fact that he is not a beetle.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
On cheering up....
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
On what it takes....
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
On the power in stories...
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.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)O
On having to get up pretty early....
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
On the getting around to the front.
Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
On laughing at it....
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
On media saavy.
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
-G.K. Chesterton (A G.K. Chesterton flood)
Thursday, April 12, 2007
On occupation...
English rule in India is not bad because it is English, but because no race has yet appeared sufficiently strong in character to resist the temptations which come with irresponsible power.
-William Jennings Bryan; British Rule in India, New York Journal, 1899.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
On guilt by curiosity....
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people
who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies
leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been
allowed to study anything without reproach.
-Aleister Crowley
Friday, March 02, 2007
On being okay with accurate hyberbole.
The only difference between Bush and Hitler, is that Hitler was elected.
- Kurt Vonnegut
From Common Dreams
Thursday, March 01, 2007
On the important distinction...
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
-Batty
From Blade Runner
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
On letting another minute pass....
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of
time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
Friday, February 23, 2007
On worth fighting for....
It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! Away with lamentation! Away with elegies and dirges! Away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! Let the dead eat the dead. Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance!
-Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, 1934
Thursday, February 15, 2007
On accidental excellence....
"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!"
-William Shakespeare
Monday, February 12, 2007
On our elected leadership....
"America is a beautiful woman and George Bush her oafish husband. Nobody understands what she sees in him until they recognize it was an arranged marriage."
-Mike Gallay
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
On the subversion of love...
"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth"- Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution Of Everyday Life
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
On the Beatles...
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.
-Tim Leary
On time, biding....
When you're an Anvil, hold you still;
When you're a Hammer, strike your Fill.
-Ben Franklin
On time, biding....
When you're an Anvil, hold you still;
When you're a Hammer, strike your Fill.
-Ben Franklin
Friday, December 08, 2006
On revenge....
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Bretty Always Says....
Never throw away an accident that you can't reproduce on purpose.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
On democracy by the corporations for the corporations...
So was democracy a failed experiment? Should we just let these guys run the country as long as they let us eat? Clearly, they’re not scared of us or what we might be saying about them. In fact, their best argument that we haven’t descended into fascism is the fact that we’re allowed to distribute columns like this one. How could we be living in a totalitarian propaganda state if there are articles pronouncing the same? Because fascism looks different every time around. 1930’s fascism failed because it was too obviously repressive. Today’s fascism works because it has turned the mediaspace into a house of mirrors where nothing is true and everything is permissible. The fact that there are plenty of blogs and even major books saying what’s happening and still it doesn’t matter is proof that it has worked.
-Douglas Rushkoff
From this short article.
Friday, October 27, 2006
On being alright with it...
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On external regard...
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
On mechanisms of control...
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
- Denis Diderot
Via Courtney
Friday, October 06, 2006
On teeth grit....
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more
hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever
been committed in the name of rebellion.
-C.P. Snow
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Bretty always says....
"Write your dialogue on a bar napkin, make your stories in a sketchbook and draw your storyboards with a tape recorder while riding a bike."
Sunday, September 10, 2006
On "sheeple"....
"It's not a prison if you never try the door."
-Anonymous
Thursday, August 31, 2006
On slave drugs...
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animated contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
- Samuel Adams
On the Christian nation...
On fear versus choice...
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.
- William Drummond
On fallacy...
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
-Mark Twain
On freedom of religion...
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
On faith...
Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence.
-Anonymous
On atheism...
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
On utility...
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
-Proverbs 6:6
On beauty...
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions.
-Francis Bacon
On computing...
``Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.''
- E. W. Dijkstra
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
On manufacturing inspirado....
"If your finished screenplay contains every scene you've ever written, if you've never thrown an idea away, if your rewriting is little more than tinkering with dialogue, your work will almost certainly fail. No matter our talent we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best. If however, research inspires a pace of ten to one, even twenty to one, and if you then make brilliant choices to find that 10 percent of excellence and burn the rest, every scene will fascinate and the world will sit in awe of your genius.
No one has to see your failures unless you add vanity to folly and exhibit them."
-Robert McKee
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
On bipartaisan progress....
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."
-Noam Chomsky
Monday, August 21, 2006
On accuracy counting...
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ."
Ghandi
On timing...
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
- Claire Wolfe
On what the founding fathers intended....
"The Christian God can be easily pictured as virtually the same as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, evil and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed, beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of the people who say they serve him. The are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson
The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion. - John Adams (2nd President of the United States)
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man" - Thomas Jefferson "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution." - James MadisonWednesday, August 16, 2006
On brainstorming....
"When you try to formalize or socialize creative activity, the only sure result is commercial constipation . . . . The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups."
- - Charles Browder
On attacking blame....
"It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame."
- - David Ogilvy
On storytelling....
The "personal story" is unstructured, slice-of-life portraiture that mistakes verisimilitude for truth... Writers of portraiture must realize that the facts are neutral. The weakest possible excuse to include anything in a story is: "But it actually happened." Everything happens. Everything imaginable happens. Indeed, the unimaginable happens. But story is not life in actuality. Mere occurence brings us nowhere near the truth. What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.
-Robert McKee
Sunday, August 13, 2006
On stepping up....
"Man's humanity to man is not only perpetrated by the vitriolic actions of those who are bad, it is also perpetrated by the vitiating inaction of those who are good."
- Rev. Martin L. King Jr.
On advertising....
"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
- George Santayana
On advertising....
"Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats."
- Northrop Frye
On advertising....
"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
- George Orwell
On comic structure...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Bretty always says....
Crowd buddy: when the flock dynamics of wending through a moving crowd of people keeps placing the same individual into your path; matching your speed and vector even when periodically seperated by the ebb and flow.
The Jackson gambit: The effort of trying to solidly aquire a taste for a new treat before you've consumed enough of that substance to prove fatal. Styrofoam. Cheeseburgers. Peyote. Which are worth the gambit? All, naturally....
Monday, May 22, 2006
On great artistry....
"To copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
- Picasso
Thursday, May 18, 2006
On the human right to privacy.
If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.
-Cardinal Richelieu
From the insightful and relevant "The Eternal Value of Privacy"
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
On advertising....
"Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold."
- - James Randolph Adams, quoted in John P. Bradley, Leo F. Daniels & Thomas C. Jones, The International Dictionary of Thoughts, 1969, Chicago, IL: J. G. Ferguson Publishing Co., p. 12.
- - David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985, New York: Vintage Books, p. 111.
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- "Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them."
- - David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man, New York: Ballantine Books, p. 70.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
On the mediums of messaging....
Phoning? What's Phoning? Oh, it's like texting but with more "um's..."
- Courtney McLean
Bretty always says....
Every teacher knows, in their hearts, themselves to be an imposter. You will have trouble if you let them know you know.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
On political prisoners...
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
-Samuel Johnson
Friday, March 10, 2006
On biding time...
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon
Via prolific John Dick
-Napoleon
Via prolific John Dick
On trash talk....
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
- Voltaire
Via John Dick
- Voltaire
Via John Dick
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
On the cost of freedom...
Freedom IS free.
-Courtney McLean
(From her short establishment-smashing essay here.)
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
On Criticism and its effect upon Abraham Lincoln
“Some years ago,” said he, “a couple of ‘emigrants,’ fresh from the Emerald Isle, seeking labor, were making their way toward the West. Coming suddenly one evening upon a pond of water they were greated with a grand chorus of bull-frogs – a kind of music they had never before heard. “B-A-U-M! B-A-U-M!
Overcome with terror they clutched their ‘shillelahs,’ and crept cautiously forward, straining their eyes in every direction to catch a glimpse of the enemy but he was not to be found!
At last a happy idea seized the foremost one – he sprang to his companion and exclaimed, ‘And sure, Jamie! It is my opinion it’s nothing but a noise!’”
On having a long memory...
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
-Karl Marx
Saturday, February 18, 2006
On self inspection...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
-Mark Twain
Friday, February 17, 2006
On the importance of knowing your brother...
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
- Gandhi
You're great....
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On struggle making greatness...
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
-William Blake
On propogating greatness...
Great people are those who can make others feel that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
On becoming great.
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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On forgiving hubris in greatness...
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
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Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. XV)
On recognizing greatness...
Few great men could pass personnel.
-Paul Goodman
Thursday, February 16, 2006
On seizing greatness....
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (32nd president of U.S. 1882 - 1945)
On the state we're in...
cui bono
"Who benefits?" An adage in criminal investigation which suggests that considering who would benefit from an unwelcome event is likely to reveal who is responsible for that event (cf. cui prodest).
On brainwashing...
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
-FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
American 32nd president of U.S.
(1882 - 1945)
Monday, February 13, 2006
On letting it go...
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-William James
On breaking the barriers to communication...
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
- William James
On feeling good and good feelings...
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
- William James
On potential...
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
-William James
On hacking genius...
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- William James
On the barriers to understanding...
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
- William James
On window dressing...
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
- William James
On personal responsibility...
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
- William James
Saturday, February 11, 2006
On Arrested Development's cancelation...
I got you a wedding ring... Tone.
-George Michael Bluth (After feigning disinterest in his new accidental marriage with/to his potential cousin Maeby Fünke)
On elected office....
When Quimby is met with demands to bring in a prohibition enforcer, he scoffs at the women.
Quimby: Demand? Who are you to demand anything? I run thistown. You're just a bunch of low-income nobodies!
Assistant:[sotto voce] Uh, election in November. Election in November...
Quimby: What?? Again?? This stupid country.
Via SNPP.com
"Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
Friday, February 10, 2006
On sugar coating...
I treat people who write me the way my friends and I treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. I think that's what helps the advice sink in. If somebody comes at you with both barrels, the first shot opens your head and the second shot allows the advice to get lodged inside.
-Dan Savage (The Onion interview)
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
On anger...
Why should I give them my mind as well? -Dalai Lama when asked if he wasn't angry at the Chinese for taking over his country.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
On the bland pleasantries of the cantidates....
My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
- Kodos gives a speech, "Treehouse of Horror VII"
- Kodos gives a speech, "Treehouse of Horror VII"
On freaks and the love of freaks...
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."
-- Jack Kerouac, "On The Road”
Via Courtney in a birthday Card...
Friday, February 03, 2006
On honing your craft....
If I don't practice one day, I know it. If I don't practice two days, my critics know it. If I don't practice three days, everyone knows it. -Jascha Heifitz
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Simpson's Quotes: Main Finger?
Marge: Why don't we do something to take our minds off the storm? [looks through a box] Oooh, a Rubik's Cube! Let's all work it together. Lisa: Okay, start with diagonal colors. [Marge turns the cube] Homer: Use your main finger on the yellow side and your other finger on the orange side and turn it. Marge: My main finger? [the family begins to start all talking at the same time] Bart: [simultaneously] Orange to orange!... Lisa: [simultaneously] Now you have to turn it back, Mom... Homer: [simultaneously] You gotta start backwards! Bart: [simultaneously] Mom, Mom! Lisa: [simultaneously] No, not so fast! No, ignore the red! Bart: [simultaneously] No, no, no! Homer: [simultaneously] Alternate corners! Marge: One at a time! Bart: Spin the middle side topwise. Topwise! Marge: Now I remember why I put this down here in the first place!
From episode [4F07] - Hurricane Neddy http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F07.html
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
On pain and the anticipation of pain....
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -Bertrand Russell
On context...
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-Philo of Alexandria
Via Ilona Muschenetz's MySpace page
-Philo of Alexandria
Via Ilona Muschenetz's MySpace page
On righteous indignation....
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. -Bertrand Russell
On thought...
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. -Bertrand Russell
On Marriage...
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. -Bertrand Russell
On ambiguity...
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -Bertrand Russell
On mindfulness...
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Bertrand Russell
On "bi-" partisan scandal....
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. -Bertrand Russell
On Patriotism
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. -Bertrand Russell
On equalitibilty.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. -Bertrand Russell
On getting outside the head...
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. -Bertrand Russell
On dogma....
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. -Bertrand Russell
On the bored and boring....
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -Susan Ertz
Monday, January 30, 2006
On Bush ignoring urgent warnings...
You can't wake up a man who pretends to be asleep - From an old Chinese adage
Sunday, January 29, 2006
On capability...
If you hear a voice within you saying, "you are not a painter," then by all means paint... And that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh
Friday, January 27, 2006
On the counter culture....
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. -Bill Vaughan
Via friend Matt Welty
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
On the cancelation of The West Wing by Whitehouse corporate cowtow NBC...
"...the West Wing? Isn't that basically just... like John Kerry fan fiction?" -Steven Colbert on the remarkable Colbert report. Episode with David Gregory
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
On the Alito nomination in the press...
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. -Michael Crichton
On Earthlings...
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. -Baha'u'llah
On specialization...
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. -Hillaire Belloc
On legacy...
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read.' -Hillaire Belloc
To the deluded and preoccupied...
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. -Hillaire Belloc
On artistic integrity...
A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man who sells what he paints. -Pablo Picasso
On inspiration...
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. -Pablo Picasso
On art...
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. -Pablo Picasso
On discernment....
In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word? -Jorge Luis Borges
On change....
The beginning is always today. -Mary Wollstonecraft
On the highest authority....
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. -Mary Wollstonecraft
Thursday, January 19, 2006
On our present democracy...
"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
-Gore Vidal
-Gore Vidal
On the matrix...
I must create my own System, or be enslaved by another Man's. I will not Reason and Compare—my business is to Create!
-William Blake
-William Blake
On lawlessness
"Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they?"
Ammon Hennacy
Ammon Hennacy
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
On the seemingly insurmountable task...
On God's love...
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
Cribbed shamelessly from A.Word.A.Day http://wordsmith.org/words/vincible.html
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
On the politics of fear...
Men feared witches and burnt women. -Justice Brandeis
From Al Gore's brilliant and moving speech. An uplifting call to action ignored by every single major news outlet. Full text here.
On diffusing anger...
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
-Bible, Proverbs 15:1
On being gracious...
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
-Seneca
On being offended...
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
- Abe Lincoln
On friends...
From the Japanese proverb: When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
On doing it yourself...
On commendation...
Whatever you commend, add your reasons for doing so. It is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants.
-Sir Richard Steele
On smoking...
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
- George D. Prentice
On team players...
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-Upton Sinclair
On the high weirdness...
I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
-Salvador Dali
On cigarettes...
A cigarette is a pipe with a fire at one end and a fool at the other.
-Kurt Vonnegut
On lovability...
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
-Eric Fromm
On physical things...
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or consume them.
-Eric Fromm
On righteous indignation...
There is perhaps no phenomoenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
-Eric Fromm
On freedom and risk...
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
-Eric Fromm
On feeling secure...
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
-Eric Fromm
On slavery...
The danger of the past was that men become slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
-Eric Fromm
On gratitude...
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.
-Matthew Henry
On youth...
I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.
- Tom McGuane
On freedom and government...
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
- John Adams, 2nd US president (1735-1826)
On motivation...
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the
real reason.
-Thomas Carlyle
On universal consciousness...
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
- George Wald
On patience...
Patience is also a form of action.
-Auguste Rodin
On difficult problems...
Problems worthy of attack / prove their worth by hitting back.
- Piet Hein
On blasphemy...
Let the gods avenge themselves.
-Roman law maxim
On intellect...
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.Then I realized who was telling me this.
-Emo Phillips
On Self and Image...
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
-Marcus Aurelius
On dreadful tasks...
As they say in German, "Aller Anfang ist schwer" (the hardest part is getting started).
On hatred...
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
-Publius Cornelius Tacitus
On prescience...
"Don't anticipate outcome," the man said. "Await the unfolding of events. Remain in the moment."
- Konrad
On men and women...
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for
the desire of the man.
-Madame de Stael
On rejection...
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
On failing to do good...
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
-William Lloyd Garrison
On natural religion...
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
-Abe Lincoln
On good and evil...
The true rule in determining to follow any thing, is not whether it has any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
-Abe Lincoln
On bombasts...
It is an established maxim and moral that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
-Abe Lincoln
On hearts and minds...
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
- Roger Ebert
On casting stones...
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
-Abe Lincoln
On ephemeralization...
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
-Abe Lincoln
On destroying enemies...
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
-Abe Lincoln
On flattery...
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
On thinking clearly and deeply....
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
-Nikola Tesla
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