
The New Yorker: "Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-struggle-to-detoxify-the-internet (19 March 2018)
The New Yorker: "Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-struggle-to-detoxify-the-internet (19 March 2018)
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
“Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“Standardization robs life of its spice.”
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Context: But to return to the Jewish question. Other groups and nations cultivate their individual traditions. There is no reason why we should sacrifice ours. Standardization robs life of its spice. To deprive every ethnic group of its special traditions is to convert the world into a huge Ford plant. I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.
“Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 606.
“While we cannot add days to your life, we can add life to your days”
“Thus each by his fears adds strength to rumour, and all dread the unconfirmed dangers invented by themselves.”
Sic quisque pavendo
dat vires famae, nulloque auctore malorum
quae finxere timent.
Book I, line 484 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia