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There was a long-drawn-out chord that by law must precede all folk music to give bystanders time to get away. (Lords and Ladies)
"To serve an unintelligent man is like crying in the wilderness, massaging the body of a dead man, painting water lilies on dry land, whispering in the ear of the deaf." (Panchatantra)
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It would be hard to say which he was more frightened of: that he might have hurt the person he had inadvertently sat on or that the person he had inadvertently sat on would hurt him back.
"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends; you talk to your enemies."
— Desmond Tutu
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. -William Morris, poet and novelist (24 Mar 1834-1896)
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones
[L’intérêt d’argent est la grande épreuve des petits caractères, mais ce n’est encore que la plus petite pour les caractères distingués.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 164 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/757…
Oh, oh, do this one next:
"My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant
"Of all ideologies, anarchy is the one that addresses liberty and equalitarian relations in a realistic and ultimate fashion. It is consistent with each individual having an opportunity to live a complete and total life.
With anarchy, the society as a whole not only maintains itself at an equal expense to all, but progresses in a creative process unhindered by any class, caste or party.
This is because the goals of anarchy..."
— Kuwasi Balagoon
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kuwasi-balagoon-anarchy-can-t-fight-alone
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“True patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”
– Mark Twain, The Czar’s Soliloquy. h/t to Conan O’Brien, who quoted it at his reception of The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor award last night.
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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
-- Sherwood Anderson
The ways of dead people are not our ways. They have a very oblique way of expressing themselves, and often they’ll tell you something that can be interpreted many ways; it gives them a way out while preserving their reputation for infallibility.
S. P. Somtow (b. 1952) Thai-American music composeer, conductor, author [Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; สมเถา สุจริตกุล; Somthao Sucharitkun]
“Lottery Night,” World Fantasy Convention Program Book (1989-10)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/somtow-s-p/75788/
WIST Quotations · "Lottery Night," World Fantasy Convention Program Book (1989-10) - Somtow, S. P. | WIST QuotationsThe ways of dead people are not our ways. They have a very oblique way of expressing themselves, and often they’ll tell you something that can be interpreted many ways; it gives them a way out while preserving their reputation for infallibility. Collected in Gardner Dozois, ed., Year's Best Science…
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—contributes to the greater good in ways that cannot always be measured by metrics. Much like training to improve in sports, volunteering is a practice that shapes not only the lives of those we help but also ourselves. Becoming a humanitarian is a journey, and I promise it will reward you with new insights, connections, and a profound sense of purpose.
When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror. (Small Gods)
“Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.”
― Thomas Aquinas
“I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X
Every action, physical or psychical, involves either integration or disintegration.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell