Quotes to remember

[Magical Realist]

"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread."--Edward Abbey

 

[dumbest man on earth]

"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for a universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order" -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary of the Communist Party, speech to United Nations December 1988

 

[paddoboy]

 

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[Magical Realist]

"Fun fact: 60 million years ago a single asteroid wiped out 99% of the life on earth. #themoreyouknow?"---Moby

 

[paddoboy]

 

[Magical Realist]

“The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.”
― Lewis Thomas

 

[Michael 345]

Mess up

 

[dumbest man on earth]

"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will." -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

[paddoboy]

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology".

Carl Sagan

 

[dumbest man on earth]

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians." -- Edward Langley, Artist 1928--1995

 

[Magical Realist]

“Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.”
― David Fontana

 

[sculptor]

I always let women walk in front of me
because I like watching their asses......................

 

[Michael 345]

I always let women walk in front of me
because I like watching their asses......................

In the modern world, where men walked ahead, after wars, it changed to women walking first

Landmines

 

[Magical Realist]

“Awkward interests me, he said. At least when you are feeling awkward you are always thinking. When you are feeling fabulous, for example, rare occurrence that it may be, you stop thinking altogether. Which gets you into all kinds of trouble. Hence, you are for the better off feeling awkward. Just the sound of it on your tongue. Like chewing on screws.”
― Elizabeth Brundage, The Doctor's Wife

 

[river]

In the modern world, where men walked ahead, after wars, it changed to women walking first

Landmines

Both sexes should be walking side by side .

Out of respect .

 

[Magical Realist]

“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. ”
― Lewis Thomas

 

[paddoboy]

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself–and you are the easiest person to fool.

Science is the only way to correct for our errors of perception and of attribution. It is the only way to make sure we are not fooling ourselves. Either Science-Based Medicine has not done a good job of explaining these vital facts, or some of our readers are unable or unwilling to understand our explanations.
Richard Feynman:

 

[Magical Realist]

“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke