no. 790

 “Something future historians will struggle to explain is that, in the 21st century, all of human knowledge became instantly accessible to anyone in the world & the primary effect was to make everyone much dumber.”

David Roberts   (@drvolts)

no. 789

 “You don’t fight fascism because you are going to win, you fight fascism because it is fascism.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

no. 788

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”

Socrates

no. 787

 Mark Twain on war, from his book, 'The Mysterious Stranger':

no. 786

 

no. 785

 “ Oh my god fuck off. Not everything is fixed by bending.”

Randy Milholland, after someone suggested he try yoga as a cure for his health problems. 

no. 784

 "I've been around for some time and I've noticed that them as has it in them to shine will shine through six layers of muck, whereas those who ain't shiny won't shine however much you buff 'em."

 Terry Pratchett (by way of Nanny Ogg)

no. 738

 

no. 782

 “Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”

Duke Ellington 

no. 781

Alvy Singer: I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for "Dysentery."

Robin: "Commentary."

Alvy Singer: Oh really? I had heard that "Commentary" and "Dissent" had merged and formed "Dysentery."

From the movie, “Annie Hall”

no. 780

 Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

- Daniel Dennett

no. 779

 

no. 778

 “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

Christopher Hitchens 

no. 777

 My wife is gone, my girl is gone, 

my books are loaned, my clothes 

are worn, I gave away a car; and 

all that happened years ago. 

Mind & matter, love & space 

are frail as foam on beer.

—Gary Snyder

no. 776

 If you want to write, you must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books & glorious books. You must lurk in libraries & climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes & wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. 

Ray Bradbury

no. 775

 “I work really hard to not ever think about my place in the world.

I'm aware of my good fortune. I'm very aware of it, and I'm very aware that, because of it, people offer me things. Opportunities to do extraordinary things. The ones that are interesting to me are collaborations. I get to work with people who 10 years ago I wouldn't have dreamed to have been able to work with. And that's a big change professionally, and it's something that I think about a lot. How can I creatively have fun, do some interesting stuff, not repeat myself? Have fun. Play in a creative way.”

–Anthony Bourdain

no. 774

 

no. 773

 

no. 772

 Worth revisiting during this Election season:

Luke 4: 5-8 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 6 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. 7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”

no. 771

 "In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate." 

Toni Morrison