“Men rarely (if ever) managed to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”
—-Robert A. Heinlein.
thought for today
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Torch of truth
“It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.” -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Czeslaw Milosz: Pistol shot
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
— -Czeslaw Milosz.
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Thomas Paine: Accountability
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
—Thomas Paine.
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Lillian Hellman: People change
“People change and forget to tell each other.”
—-Lillian Hellman.
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Lorraine Hansberry: Exceptionally lonely
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
—-Lorraine Hansberry.
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Bertrand Russell: Sin is geographical
“Sin is geographical.”
—Bertrand Russell.
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Sigmund Freud: Matters, big and small
“In small matters trust the mind, in large ones the heart.”
—-Sigmund Freud.
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Christopher Morley: Pretend a parade
“Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.” -Christopher Morley.
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Horace Mann: Differing from yourself
“Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”
—Horace Mann.
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Benjamin Spock: Man
“Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he’s potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God.”
—- -Benjamin Spock.
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Henry Fielding: Hear reason
“Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.”
—Henry Fielding.
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Henry Clay: Compatible with liberty
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.”
—-Henry Clay.
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William Wordsworth: Best portion
“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
—-William Wordsworth.
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Booker T Washington: Place responsibility
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
—Booker T. Washington.
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Maya Angelou: We may even become friends
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
-Maya Angelou.
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Andrew Marvell: No crime
“Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime.”
—-Andrew Marvell.
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John Updike: Bearings
“We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.”
—John Updike.
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Robert Blatchford: Religions
“Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice. There has never been a religion that fulfills those conditions.”
—-Robert Blatchford.
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A K Ramanujan: Trees and oranges
“You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange.”
—-A.K. Ramanujan.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Fight in a way that others join you
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
—-Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Luther Burbank: Nature’s laws
“Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”
—-Luther Burbank.
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Alexander Graham Bell: Work at hand
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
—Alexander Graham Bell.
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Michel de Montaigne: I govern myself
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”
—-Michel de Montaigne.
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George Harrison: My guitar gently weeps
“I look at the world and I notice it’s turning / While my guitar gently weeps / With every mistake we must surely be learning / Still my guitar gently weeps.”
—George Harrison.
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Hans Asperger: Dash of autism
“It seems that for success, in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. For success the necessary ingredients may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, from the simple practical, an ability to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways.”
-Hans Asperger.
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Simon Sinek: Creativity
“The opportunity for creativity begins the moment we don’t know what we’re doing.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Douglas Hofstadter: Hofstadter’s law
“Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
—Douglas Hofstadter.
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Simon Sinek: It just has to be done
“It doesn’t have to be beautiful, it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Richard Powers: Tree falls and planting
“Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible.”
—Richard Powers.
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