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“We have been clever, and on occasion we have been foolish. For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid. But it was cleverness that brought us to this point, and it is only cleverness that will serve us from now on.
We have no time for anything else.”

Alastair Reynolds book Blue Remembered Earth

Source: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Epilogue (p. 562; closing words)

Stupidity, Mood, Time

“I love the South Industry and have a lot of respect for it. I started from there, they are very welcoming to outsiders and newcomers. It has been treating me really well. My fan base is increasing and more than anything I really enjoy shooting.”

Pooja Hegde (1990) Indian actress

Source: "Pooja Hegde: Southern industry very welcoming to outsiders, newcomers" https://www.thestatesman.com/entertainment/pooja-hegde-southern-industry-welcoming-outsiders-newcomers-1502501343.html The Statesman. September 28, 2017).

Love

“Being a woman, you have to work extra hard to prove yourself — even more than a man. Some men might not like that, but that's the way it is. Work hard, be strong and don't let anything deter you. I've done it. You can do it, too.”

Belinda Bennett cruise ship captain from Saint Helena

Source: Belinda Bennett (2021) cited in: " Windstar Cruises' Belinda Bennett: 'I refused to be broken' https://www.tradewindsnews.com/cruise-and-ferry/windstar-cruises-belinda-bennett-i-refused-to-be-broken/2-1-987460" in TradeWinds, 6 April 2021.

Men, Way, Strong

“Once in the darknet, you can buy anything you want, even in the dark side, you can order a murder.”

Nikita Vasilyevich Smirnov (28)

Source: https://promdevelop.ru/economy/darknet/

“We have little understanding, but we should never be afraid of anything.”

Nikita Vasilyevich Smirnov (28)

Source: https://books.google.ru/books/about/%D0%A7%D1%82%D0%BE_%D1%82%D0%BE_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5.html?id=b-0TEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

Understanding

“Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities; and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order then these possibilities will have a chance and you will het Progress. One can define the classical quite clearly as the exact opposite to this. Man is an extraordinary fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organization that anything decent can be got out of him.”

T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) English Imagist poet and critic

Source: Speculations (Essays, 1924)

Nature, Chance, Animals

“This is the miracle of abstract painting: it constructs the unlimited monumentality of a work that no longer has a foothold in the visible world, that ignores its rules and does not seek anything from it, neither aid nor sanction, and that emerges with the pure force and infinite certainty of life. Withdrawn from the weight of things and from the inertial systems in which things are held and have their limited possibilities circumscribed, the work of art proceeds from the imagination. To imagine is to posit something other than what is and what is there right in front of us -- something other than the world. To imagine is to posit life.”

Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer

Books on Culture and Barbarism, Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky (1988)
Source: Michel Henry, Seeing the invisible: On Kandinsky, Continuum, 2009, p. 107

Life, World, Art, Imagination

“I don’t want to reinforce that defiling the Capitol was okay. I don’t want to do anything that would make this more likely in the future.
I hope they go to jail and get the book thrown at them because they deserve it.”

Lindsey Graham (1955) United States Senator from South Carolina

Source: 30 January 2022 reported by TGP https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/hope-go-jail-get-book-thrown-deserve-lindsey-graham-susan-collins-buck-trump-vow-persecute-jan-6ers/

Books, Hope, Future

“The friend of the heart is the one who with his love senses where it is necessary and rushes to support you strongly without you saying anything.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) L'amico del cuore è colui che con il suo amore intuisce dove è necessario ed accorre a sostenerti prepotentemente senza che tu dica niente.

Love, Support, Sense, Heart

“Infantry, which means killing on foot and doesn’t have anything to do with children.”

Larry Niven book N-Space

Short fiction, N-Space (1990)
Source: Madness Has Its Place (p. 568)

Children

“Casual murder, casual suicide, casual crime. Why not? If alternate universes are a reality, then cause and effect are an illusion. The law of averages is a fraud. You can do anything, and one of you will, or did.”

Larry Niven book All the Myriad Ways

All the Myriad Ways (p. 79)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

Law, Fraud, Reality, Suicide

“O you miserable fool, what I shit is better than anything you can do.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

Original: (de) Ach du erbärmlicher Schuft, was ich scheisse ist besser, als was du je gedacht. <br class="br">Source: Written in the margin of Gottfried Weber's negative review of Wellington's Victory in Beethoven's copy of Cäcilia (August 1825) https://books.google.com/books?id=KBuLcEJpX4sC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77

Fools

“I didn’t say anything because I didn’t have anything to say.”

Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer

The Moment of the Storm (p. 181)
Short fiction, The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories (1971)

“She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don’t know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.”

Charles Dickens book David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

Love, Sense

“Theatre has often saved the day for me and that’s why I’ll forever think I’m a theatre actor more than anything else.”

Jonathan Bailey (1988) British actor

"Jonathan Bailey: Jonathan Bailey: brilliant from top to bottom" in The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jonathan-bailey-interview-brilliant-from-top-to-bottom-z6k8fct79 (20 December 2020)

Thinking

“The Church therefore requires that the priest practice custody of the eyes, an integral part of modesty: we should never let our eyes fall on anything that would distract us from God or lead us into sin.”

Chad Ripperger (1964) American Roman Catholic priest and exorcist

Ripperger PhD, Fr Chad, Topics on Tradition, Sensus Traditionis. Kindle Edition, 2013, pg. 150

God, Parting

“Those writings of mine aren't anything. There is nothing instructive in what I wrote.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Excerpt of meeting with Nixon 1972, quoted in The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Road_to_War/SDb3PSD__KwC?hl=en&gbpv=0 (May 9, 2013) by Marvin Kalb <br class="br">1970s

“I would rather have stayed in the theater and done comedy. Comedy in film (was) so narrow for women. I was much happier doing very black comedy onstage, and I could never find anything of that ilk on film. The closest to what I might have accomplished was `Working Girl.'”

Sigourney Weaver (1949) American actress

“Dream Weaver" (Dec 3, 1997)

Women, Girl

“Anything worth doing can be done by someone else.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

“You owned the world when you were a young man, felt it like it was fashioned to fit your hands. You could do anything with it you wanted to. But the world kept changing, and sooner or later there came a day when it didn’t feel like you were the one the world was interested in any more.”

Alastair Reynolds book Wrecking Party

Wrecking Party (p. 178)
Short fiction, Belladonna Nights and Other Stories (2021)

World, Feeling, Fashion, Change

“The sound of shutters going up around her mind, armored against anything short of a nuke, was very nearly audible in the room.”

John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit

Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 47, “Plea of Insanity” (p. 146)

“As night is coming and my strength is exhausted, with no hope of anything better, I have only to display the meager harvest that I have accidentally picked.”

Daniel Salamanca (1863–1935) President of Bolivia (1863-1935)

Hope, Night

“The thing that's so interesting about being alive is that you're all in. No matter what you do you're all in; this is gonna kill you. So I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can while you're waiting—because, do you have anything better to do, really?”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

"2017 Maps of Meaning 12: Final: The Divinity of the Individual" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V1eMvGGcXQ&t=0s <br class="br">Lectures

Game, Thinking, Waiting

“To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.”

Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman

Year unknown, published in 2001, The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)

World, Future

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. That's why Jesus says, "Love your enemies." Because if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and to transform your enemies. But if you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption. You just keep loving people and keep loving them, even though they're mistreating you. Here's the person who is a neighbor, and this person is doing something wrong to you and all of that. Just keep being friendly to that person. Keep loving them. Don't do anything to embarrass them. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with bitterness because they're mad because you love them like that. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)

Love, Hate, People, Way

“For human beings, there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome. Rely on yourself, and you can overcome anything.”

Wei Jingsheng (1950) Chinese democracy activist and dissident

"In Exile, Free Speech at Last in The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/11/22/in-exile-free-speech-at-last/4591c34b-12c4-4a86-be28-261f6a260b8d/ (22 November 1997)

“It’s the usual sensation mongering; the news services will say anything for an effect.”

Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) British scientist, American science fiction writer

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Sight of Proteus (1978), Chapter 9 (p. 73)

“Your attention will continue to be grabbed by anything until you give it the appropriate attention.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

18 September 2009 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/4084592042 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

“The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them. It has no sense of past or future.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 1

Problem, Sense, Past, Future

“The common error lies in failing to recognize that apparent trends can be generated as by-products, or side consequences, of expansions and contractions in the amount of variation within a system, and not by anything directly moving anywhere.”

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

Source: Full House (1996), Chapter 3, “Different Parsings, Different Images of Trends” (p. 33)

Error

“Leave aside craving for other than God: anything else is pseudo thought. Except the Real One, all things are perishable. Each instant concentrate on the Real; undoubtedly this is the committed way.”

Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1845–1901) 19th-century sufi Punjabi poet of the punjab , polyglot, scholar and writer

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 299

God, Way

“It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothing.”

Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 188

“If there's anything more exhausting than having to battle for our basic human rights, it's letting them go without a fight.”

Michelle Wu (1985) City Councilor in Boston, Massachusetts

24 June 2022 "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says overturning Roe v. Wade will 'ruin lives'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrmQGDRoWCY

Fight

“Could politics ever be anything but politics, practical, cynical, compromised, ugly?”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 363)

“Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 85)

Happiness, World, Beauty

“Anything we can actually do we can afford.”

John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist

1942. Published in Collected Writings Volume 27, Page 270. Quoted in Bruce Littleboy: "On Interpreting Keynes: A Study in Reconciliation" (1990), Pg 100. ISBN 0-415-04475-8
1940s

“Some people I’ve encountered in various phases of my career seem more certain about everything than I am about anything.”

Robert Rubin book In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington

"In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington" https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_an_Uncertain_World/oUz_orYBwPcC?hl=en&gbpv=0, p. xii

People

“I also don’t think we should get too far ahead ourselves on dealing with police reform in that, because they’ve already labeled us as being ‘defund the police’ anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing — which I promise you, will occur.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2020, December 2020

Thinking, Change

“There are no limitations to excuses. It may give a moment relieve. But, anything outside that is the long-lasting sufferings of what was neglected to underscore before the excuses. So, we make excuses to justify our failures. Because, failure and success are the future life of a doer.”

Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach (1995)

Life, Failure, Suffering, Success

“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

People, Music

“Grace, honour, praise, delight,
Here sojourn day and night.
Sound bodies lined
With a good mind,
Do here pursue with might
Grace, honour, praise, delight.

Here enter you, and welcome from our hearts,
All noble sparks, endowed with gallant parts.
This is the glorious place, which bravely shall
Afford wherewith to entertain you all.
Were you a thousand, here you shall not want
For anything; for what you'll ask we'll grant.
Stay here, you lively, jovial, handsome, brisk,
Gay, witty, frolic, cheerful, merry, frisk,
Spruce, jocund, courteous, furtherers of trades,
And, in a word, all worthy gentle blades.”

Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme.

Heart, Parting, Night

“More to the point, one cannot understand The Holocaust without understanding the intentions, ideology, and mechanisms that were put in place in 1933. The eugenics movement may have come to a catastrophic crescendo with the Hitler regime, but the political movement, the world-view, the ideology, and the science that aspired to breed humans like prized horses began almost 100 years earlier. More poignantly, the ideology and those legal and governmental mechanisms of a eugenic world-view inevitably lead back to the British and American counterparts that Hitler’s scientists collaborated with. Posterity must gain understanding of the players that made eugenics a respectable scientific and political movement, as Hitler’s regime was able to evade wholesale condemnation in those critical years between 1933 and 1943 precisely because eugenics had gained international acceptance. As this book will evidence, Hitler’s infamous 1933 laws mimicked those already in place in the United States, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Canada.
So what is this scientific and political movement that for 100 years aspired to breed humans like dogs or horses? Eugenics is quite literally, as defined by its principal proponents, an attempt at “directing evolution” by controlling any aspect of human existence that affects human heredity. From its onset, Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and the man credited with the creation of the science of eugenics, knew that the cause of eugenics had to be observed with religious fervor and dedication. As the quote on the opening pages of this book illustrates, a eugenicist must “intrude, intrude, intrude.” A vigilant control over anything and everything that affects the gene pool is essential to eugenics. The policies could not allow for the individual to enjoy self-government or self-determination any more than a horse breeder can allow the animals to determine whom to breed with. One simply cannot breed humans like horses without imbuing the state with the level of control a farmer has over its livestock, not only controlling procreation, but also the diet, access to medical services, and living conditions.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: H.H. LAUGHLIN: American Scientist. American Progressive. Nazi Collaborator.

Books, World, Law, Dogs

“Eugenics is not just a tool of totalitarianism. Eugenics, as it was conceived, could not be anything but totalitarian as it desired to control all aspects of society. Hitler’s “National Socialist” (Nationalsozialist) form of government was amongst the first to put the full force of its government to conduct compulsory health initiatives. It is by no coincidence that the Dachau concentration camp used its slave-labor to run the largest organic produce farm of the era.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: H.H. LAUGHLIN: American Scientist. American Progressive. Nazi Collaborator.

Health

“Doing good to others will make you feel like a better person: physically, psychologically and spiritually. Maybe gestures like this don't cost you anything, but for those who receive them… they have great value.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Fare del bene agli altri ti farà sentire una persona migliore: fisicamente, psicologicamente e spiritualmente. Magari gesti così non ti costano nulla, ma per chi li riceve... hanno un grande valore.
Source: prevale.net

Feeling, Personality

“Currently, what is expected is that a person does not get emotionally aroused or dysregulated, is not emotionally phased or affected by anything someone else does or does not do, does not blame anyone for what they do or don’t do that causes emotional harm and especially does not defend themselves from emotional harm. What is glorified in society is emotional neutrality/numbness… Not having emotions.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Personality

“A1 + EN FALK " LIFE LESSONSFROM ENGR. ABAH SULE " 1.1 Think he knows the best …, And stop controlling what is not yours to control. GW 2. Don't pray for bigger pray for better!!.. And have a sense of peace to go along with the plans and ideas you believe he has given you!!!. 3. The real test of faith comes when [ nothing you have tried has work the lord speak a word to you that seen to make no sense but I assure you doubt your doubts but never doubt God for one word from him can change everything. 4. For as long as you have your greatest gift of all [ life ] then you should give your own gift to the maker because you haven't loose anything for the people you need are still around. 5. If you abide you will automatically abound cause he will involve you in one thing to teach you another. 6. To think ahead first focus on the present cause the level of our risk determines how far we can go in life sometimes many people in life want you to fail not because you're ahead of them but because you're drawn closer to your maker. www. theabahsulereadingclub. org.”

Engr.Abah Sule

Life, God, People, Peace

“It is human instinct that makes it ferocious and wild. It could be anyone or anything. That is why cruelty, savagery, criminality, brutality and evil never cease.”

Titon Rahmawan

Evil

“Is there anything in this world more beautiful than true love? What is greater and more powerful than the power of love? Even death is conquered by it.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love, Death, World, Beauty

“There's never anything wrong with fear, it's completely human. However, don't let it destroy you. The only way to overcome fear is to face it.”

Titon Rahmawan

Fear, Way

“The sincerity of love that is willing to sacrifice is the essence of noble love. Love that does not think of itself. Love that is willing to do anything for the happiness of the person it loves.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love, Happiness, Thinking, Personality

“Often we want to stop thinking, even for a moment. To forget all the difficulties and burdens of life, the sorrows and sufferings. It is much easier to just say, not to worry about anything. But this is the essence of our human consciousness, man's greatest enemy is himself.”

Titon Rahmawan

Life, Thinking, Suffering, Forgetting

“Having many cats is good. If you feel bad, you look at the cats and you feel better, because they know that everything is just the way it is. You don't have to be nervous about anything. And they know it. They are saviors. The more cats you have, the longer you will live. If you have a hundred cats, you will live ten times longer than if you have ten. One day, this will be known and people will have thousands of cats.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

People, Way, Feeling, Cats

“She has that innate sensuality that captivates the gaze and doesn't make you think of anything else, she has that smile that makes her unique in the world. It's nice to see your woman shine with light and vitality, so make sure her priority is always her happiness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Lei ha quella sensualità innata che cattura lo sguardo e non ti fa pensare ad altro, lei ha quel sorriso che la rende unica al mondo. È bello vedere la propria donna splendere di luce e vitalità, quindi fai in modo che la sua priorità sia sempre la felicità.
Source: prevale.net

Happiness, World, Smile, Thinking

“A lot of explanations don't show anything. Results are everything.”

Titon Rahmawan

“Who suffers or has suffered has a different heart. A heart capable of helping and loving.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chi soffre o ha sofferto ha un cuore diverso. Un cuore capace di aiutare ed amare.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Suffering, Help, Heart

“The artist who never has any doubt about the success of his work of art, will never create anything surprising.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'artista che non ha mai alcun dubbio sul successo della sua opera d'arte, non creerà mai nulla di sorprendente.
Source: prevale.net

Art, Success

“In any kind of relationship, anything that does not feeds the heart annihilates its value.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In qualsiasi tipo di relazione, tutto ciò che non alimenta il cuore annienta il suo valore.
Source: prevale.net

Heart

“In anything bond, what is not reciprocal is lethal.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In qualsiasi legame, ciò che non è reciproco è letale.
Source: prevale.net

“In a world that often measures value based on what one receives, helping without expecting anything in return is the best way that exists.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In un mondo che spesso misura il valore in base a ciò che si riceve, aiutare senza aspettarsi nulla in cambio è il modo migliore che esista.
Source: prevale.net

World, Way, Help

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