no. 1159

 "You may never be happy. So you just have to dance, dance so well that you leave everyone speechless."

Haruki Murakami 

no. 1158

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.” 

“Why?” asked Frog. 

“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad. 

from Frog and Toad bot (frogandtoadbot@bsky.social.net)

no. 1157

  “If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you should feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.”

— Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1943) Image: Bertrand Russell on the grounds of his home at Penrhyndeudreath, Gwynedd, United Kingdom, 3 March 1965.

no. 1156

 "Money is like manure, it's not worth a thing unless its spread around encouraging young things to grow"

 quote from Hello Dolly

no. 1155

 Gently, as from a distance, the magic tones of Mozart's music sound upon my ears. Thus do such sweet impressions, passing into our souls, work beneficently in our innermost beings.

A diary entry by Schubert for 13th June 1816.

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Efu Nyaki 

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no. 1152

 The most vocal Christians never mention the Beatitudes. They demand the 10 Commandments be posted in public buildings. That's Moses; not Jesus. No one demands the Beatitudes be posted anywhere. Blessed are the merciful in a courtroom? Blessed are the peacemakers in the Pentagon? 

 Kurt Vonnegut

no. 1151

 “Hey. What do you think ASAP means?”

 “After some additional procrastination.”

from the book All Fun and Games, by Honor Raconteur

no. 1150

 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

no. 1149

 The only time you look in your neighbour's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbour's bowl to see if you have as much as them. 

Louis C.K

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