Taking It All In (1983), Why Are Movies So Bad? Or, The Numbers (1980-06-23)
“The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.”
Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
Here's the key: You know you're vulnerable. No other animal knows that. You know what hurts you, because you're vulnerable. And now that you know what hurts you, you can figure out what hurts someone else. And as soon as you know what can hurt someone as, and you can use that, then you have the knowledge of good and evil. Well it's a pretty good trick that the snake pulled because it doesn't seem like the thing that we would have exactly wanted if we knew what the consequence was going to be. As soon as a human being is self conscious and aware of his nakedness, then he has the capacity for evil. That's introduced into the world right at that point."
Concepts
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy.”
[ISBN 0786716371, There Are Worse Things I Could Do, Barbeau, Adrienne, 118, 2006, Carroll & Graf]
“I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.”
The Big E: Ethics, Bloggers, and Independent Media http://radiofreeblogistan.com/2005/02/21/the_big_e_ethics_bloggers_and_independent_media.html.
“Not what we wish, but what we want,
Oh, let thy grace supply!”
Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let not that happen which I wish, but that which is right", Menander, Fragment.
