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.
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Friday, October 31, 2025
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
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
no. 1151
“Hey. What do you think ASAP means?”
“After some additional procrastination.”
from the book All Fun and Games, by Honor Raconteur
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
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
Friday, October 17, 2025
no. 1137
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”
Patrick Henry
no. 1136
“If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than ‘John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not’.”
Jessica Ritchey (@jmritchey.bsky.social)
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