Quotes Worth Quoting
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" When a society regrets the economic loss more than the loss of life, it doesn't need a virus–it is already sick"
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" When a society regrets the economic loss more than the loss of life, it doesn't need a virus–it is already sick"
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Boom!
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Read this quote recently and resonated deeply given today's polarized political climate.
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
- Noam Chomsky
Said differently but from another angle:
"Panem et circenses" - Juvenal
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“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
Douglas Adams“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
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Good ones from great ones!
Speaking of great ones, I’m so grateful for this one, who recently passed:
Now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
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Learn to sit back and observe. Not everything needs your reaction.
10/10!
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@Matt said in WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY (PICS):
I feel like you need to incorporate the bottom ring somehow.
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Don't worry about getting old. You're still going to do stupid stuff ... Only slower.
This quote from @denim-dawg belongs right here!
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Great thread idea! I have a note on my phone full of a ton of cool quotes. I could read this thread all day if I had the time.
Here are a some from my notes:
“Were sitting under the tree of our thinking minds wondering why we’re not getting any sunshine.”
-Ram Das“You can either try to carpet the entire world. Or you can just wear slippers all the time.”
-James Hetfield"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti
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I like anything on the philosophy of beauty, found this one interesting:
Beauty is an interesting concept.
You can talk about beauty of things, and you can talk about beauty of ideas,
but for me beauty is a feeling, more than anything else.
It’s the feeling when the imperfect finds balance, and gives me peace of mind.Pálmar Kristmundsson, Architect from Iceland
(Apple Series „Home“)si tacuisses
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"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there".
This comes from a poem called "The Great Wagon" by Rumi. I love that line.
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@endo beautiful quote and a beautiful series
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"If at first it doesn't fit, schnizzle it a little bit." - My dad, a self-employed home improvement contractor, giving instruction on how to effectively modify a component that requires removal of material in order to fit into an intended space.
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@WhiskeySandwich I’m stealing this…need more schnizzle in my life
