quotes

In the beginning were the Words,
and the Words made the world.
I am the Words.
The Words are everything.
Where the Words end the world ends.
You cannot go forward in an absence of space.
Repeat.

What a fantastic way to explain luck as a statistical deviation in your favor, or not, in the case of bad luck.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sidney J. Harris

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Quote of the day

We live in a world where we are constantly being reminded that we must pay attention, though the things we are being asked to pay attention to–political corruption, the erosion of human rights, climate change, systemic racism–are all, ironically, things that cannot be combatted solely by knowing a lot about them. The result of paying attention is either stunning yourself into paralyzing anxiety or sinking deep into depression or rage, or both.

You're a rich white kid from the suburbs. Sure man just fly away, forget about everyone else down here. You help me take down x, you help real people with real lives. Think about that next time you're fighting some stupid elephant man or whatever

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• Monsieur Gustave H. The Grand Budapest Hotel

Worry prevents individuals from fully facing their fears. Thus, it rewards the worrier in the short term by reducing their negative reaction to feared stimuli.

"I demand whether all wars, bloodshed and misery came not upon the creation when one man endeavored to be a lord over another? ... And whether this misery shall not remove ... when all the branches of mankind shall look upon the earth as one common treasury to all." - Gerrard Winstanley, The New Law of Righteousness, 1649

"La Phalange analyses penal affairs as a confrontation coded by 'civilization', the great crimes not as monstrosities, but as the fatal return and revolt of what is repressed, the minor illegalities not as the necessary margins of society, but as a rumbling from the midst of the battle-field." - Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison