'People've got enough to cope with just being people.' (Lords and Ladies)
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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed -- everything else is public relations.
-- George Orwell
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.”
― Stephen Hawking
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein
Everything that exists, yearns to live. That’s what the cycle of life is all about. That’s the engine that drives the great biological pumps of evolution. Everything tries to inch its way up the tree, clawing or tentacling or sliming its way up to the next niche until it gets to the very top – which, on the whole, never seems to have been worth all that effort.
(Reaper Man)
Place our dispute on a continuum, it becomes a matter of degree. Let's talk. Frame our dispute as a dichotomy, it becomes a matter of identity. Let's go to war.
-- Philip E. Tetlock
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Phew.. hidden words escape me Spock #Wordletrek
Anyway Spock my bookish brain noticed a famous 39 Steps quote
'Death is the only absolute certainty in life'
And your dicing with it all the time sir
Thanks Spock
Not a compliment Captain
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad
Also, there’s a certain glint in her eye generally possessed by those people who have found that they are more intelligent than most people around them but who haven’t yet learned that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out. (Lords and Ladies)
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
-- Francois Mauriac
…the worst thing about Vorbis isn’t that he’s evil, but that he makes good people do evil. (Small Gods)
Computers are like the Old Testament God -- lots of rules and little mercy.
-- Anonymous
“Despair isn’t very productive. That’s the problem with it. Like a replicating virus, all despair can make is more of itself.”
— John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed
"The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they've reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?"
"Really?" said Arthur. "No, I didn't. For what offense?"
Trillian frowned.
"What do you mean, offense?"
"I see."
Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.
-- Socrates
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