Favorite Quotes!!

[waistingmytime]

“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune​

 

[W!nston]

 

[W!nston]

 

[waistingmytime]

“LET'S FACE IT...
WE ALL HEAR BLOODY LIES,
WE ALL SEE DECEPTION WITH OUR OWN EYES,
WE ARE NEITHER DUMB NOR BLIND...
WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE COURAGE TO SPEAK OUR MINDS.”
― Mouloud Benzadi



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[W!nston]

 

[waistingmytime]

“Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.”
― R.M. Ford

 

[trencherman]

La vie ce n’est d’attendre que les orages passent,
c’est d’apprendre comment danser sous la plui. Sénèque

Life is not waiting for the storms to pass,
it's learning how to dance under the rain. Seneca

 

[waistingmytime]

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[waistingmytime]

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[trencherman]

Our senses are sharpened through experiences. A true judge, Hume wrote, has a “strong sense, united to delicate sentiment, improved by practice, perfected by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice.”

 

[waistingmytime]

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[RazzmaTazz]

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[RazzmaTazz]

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[waistingmytime]

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[mikk33]

When one person suffers from a delusion,
it is called insanity;
when many people suffer from a delusion
it is called religion.

Robert M. Pirsig
(Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance)

 

[waistingmytime]

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[trencherman]

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For sixteen years I worked for a company where I was in charge of purchasing Christmas presents for loyal and important customers and for the majority of those years I chose a wooden box of an assortment of the best Canadian cheddar obtainable in the market. I took advantage of the bulk direct order savings to buy exactly the same thing for friends of the family. Aside from the usual thank you, I only got the appreciation of their sorely missing those annual treats when I left the company.

 

[waistingmytime]

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[haiducii]

 

[anarren]

One of my favorite authors, Ursula K LeGuin, just died, so here's a couple of my favorites from her:

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else."

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.”