"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future."
"The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow."
Dian Fossey
Friday, January 17, 2025
Thursday, January 16, 2025
no. 967
The Quotes of Steven Wright:
1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ..... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever ... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
no. 966
"Having grown up under an authoritarian regime, I cherish the right to free speech that Zuckerberg kept talking about. But having gone on to study the way that authoritarian regimes work, I know to focus on what people do, not what they say."
-- Zeynep Tufekci
no. 965
"The root of modern totalitarianism is to be found in the denial of the transcendent dignity of the human person who, as the visible image of the invisible God, is therefore by his very nature the subject of rights that no one may violate (273)."
Pope Francis, #FratelliTutti
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
no. 964
"Every upright conscience cannot but decisively condemn any racism, no matter in what heart or place it is found. Ultimately, it emerges in ever new and unexpected ways, offending and degrading the human family."
Saint John Paul II
Monday, January 13, 2025
no. 960
I sincerely wish that it may be as clearly foreseen by every good citizen, that whenever the dissolution of the Union arrives, America will have reason to exclaim, in the words of the poet: "FAREWELL! A LONG FAREWELL TO ALL MY GREATNESS."
- Publius (John Jay), Federalist No 2
Sunday, January 12, 2025
no. 957
“One of the deep secrets in life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.”
~Lewis Carroll
Saturday, January 11, 2025
no. 954
For anyone out there who thinks I ought to be embarrassed about posting a bunch of rock lyrics; when I was a young lad, I put an afterword about the lyrics of a Yes song on a term paper about William Blake that I had stayed up all night writing. If I can live through that kind of embarrassment, I can live through this.
Friday, January 10, 2025
no. 952
“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the wet years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
John Steinbeck
Thursday, January 9, 2025
no. 951
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
no. 950
"To embrace hopelessness is to distance oneself from middle-class privilege that assumes all is going to work out in the end."
Monday, January 6, 2025
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