October 2011
26 posts
September 2011
16 posts
“Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”
“I know that most men — not only those considered clever, but even those who are...”
– Leo Tolstoy
“As a robot living among humans, I’ve never really felt accepted at parties...”
– Bender
“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor,...”
– Stephen Colbert
“I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is...”
– Elizabeth Warren
To me, this is just intuitive wisdom, what others might call common sense. It’s too bad our national mythology of rugged individualism and Horatio Alger and the American Dream prevent so many people from realizing the truth.
“Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret.
Life is one long struggle in...”
– Titus Lucretius Carus
“This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away… to the...”
– Yoda
“[…the universe is made of an infinite number of atoms] moving randomly...”
– Titus Lucretius Carus, from De rerum natura “On the Nature of Things” http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/09/19/140533195/lucretius-man-of-modern-mystery?sc=fb&cc=fp
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“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and...”
– Malcolm X (via black-culture)
“You can’t kill your way out of an insurgency. There’s got to be a...”
– Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
“Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water.
Yet for attacking...”
– Tao Te Ching, Chapter 78, translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English 