“The civic soufflé has collapsed, my friend. Putting it back in the oven for another thirty minutes will not accomplish what you are hoping it will.”
—Douglas Wilson
@Rdp77 said:
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
~ Jack London
That's aptly put. My anxiety sometimes makes it hard to see the difference.
"Neurotics build fantasy castles in the air, psychotics move into them."
One of my Psych Nursing professors.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
” ... Money is the accepted measure of brains. It is thought a man who makes a lot of money must be a clever fellow; a man who does not, is not.”
”So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.”
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928): Freedom and Society, p. 153
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
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Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.
Laozi
" People make up stories to fill the vacuum of what they do not know, and those stories are always subject to their own insecurities"
Marc Cameron
Good quote ^. And now we are teaching our computers to make stuff up, too.
"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves": Eric Hoffer
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
Great writer, but she committed suicide anyway
Someone once said, 'If you don't like being alone, then you're in bad company'.
The only time I feel alone is when I am with people.
--Silvermouse
People are the worst
“What is the difference between ignorance and apathy?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care.“
The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
I just drained a washing machine that had been sitting with water in it for two weeks…… It was definitely not magical.
Knowledge is power. Yet only in the application of that knowledge does freedom exist.
“The civic soufflé has collapsed, my friend. Putting it back in the oven for another thirty minutes will not accomplish what you are hoping it will.”
—Douglas Wilson
Warren Buffett once quipped that the secret to a long marriage is finding 'someone with low expectations'
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
~ Jack London
That's aptly put. My anxiety sometimes makes it hard to see the difference.
wiki page about Jack London, good read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London
"Fu@&?$# Florida weather!". Me.
“The truth does not require your participation to exist.
Bullshítt does.”
Terence McKenna
"Neurotics build fantasy castles in the air, psychotics move into them."
One of my Psych Nursing professors.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
” ... Money is the accepted measure of brains. It is thought a man who makes a lot of money must be a clever fellow; a man who does not, is not.”
”So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.”
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928): Freedom and Society, p. 153
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
Epictetus
The obstacle is the way.
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours'
--yogi berra
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
The obstacle is the way.