February 2012
7 posts
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“Natural forces within us are the true healers·”
- Hippocrates
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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
- Marcus Aurelius
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“The man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
- Oscar Wilde
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“If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
- Buddha
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
- Aristotle
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“Perfection is man’s ultimate illusion. It simply doesn’t exist in the universe. There is no perfection. It’s really the world’s greatest con game; it promises riches and delivers misery. The harder you strive for perfection, the worse your disappointment will become because it’s only an abstraction, a concept that doesn’t fit reality. Everything can be...
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“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
January 2012
6 posts
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“Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.”
- King Soloman
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“Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it.”
- Rene Descartes
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“Hate is not conquered by hate. Hate is conquered by love.”
- Buddha
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“Everything is possible for the person who believes.”
- Jesus
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“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
- Thoreau
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“For civil libertarians, the NDAA is our Mayan moment: 2012 is when the nation embraced authoritarian powers with little more than a pause between rounds of drinks.”
- Jonathan Turley, 2012
December 2011
10 posts
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“The mind acts as an enemy for those who don’t control it.”
- Bhagavad Gita, 5th century BC
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“A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.”
- Prentice Mulford
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“To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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“A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.”
- Gautama Siddharta
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“Though benefit fraud deprives the Exchequer of £1.1bn a year, while tax avoidance and evasion deprive it of between £40bn and £120bn, the tabloids relentlessly pursue the petty crooks, while leaving the capos alone.”
- George Monbiot, 2011
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“In our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them.”
- Steven Weinberg
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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win.”
- William Shakespeare
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“In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.”
- Sir James Mathew
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“I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace; beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to...
November 2011
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“For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
- Francis Bacon
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“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one...
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“All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.”
- Anton Chekhov
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“If you dissemble, sometimes, your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.”
- Francis Bacon, Of Discourse, 1625
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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes.”
- William Gibson
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“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”
- Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625
October 2011
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“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
- Gustave Flaubert
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“It put me to reflecting, how little repining there would be among mankind, at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that are worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complainings.”
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719
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“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.”
- Gustave Flaubert
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“The first shot I made among these creatures, I killed a she-goat, which had a little kid by her, which she gave suck to, which grieved me heartily; for when the old one fell, the kid stood stock still by her, till I came and took her up; and not only so, but when I carried the old one with me, upon my shoulders, the kid followed me quite to my enclosure; upon which I laid down the dam, and...
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“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.”
- Georges Simeon, 1955
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“I’m in the 1%. But I support the 99%.
Sometimes, you’ve got to speak up. And for me, that time’s now.
As the Occupy movement gathers critical strength around the globe, so the efforts to marginalise and stigmatise it grow as well. It’s said to be a “mob” of socialists, or anarchists, or a leftwing movement driven by hopeless utopian idealism. It’s...
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“Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of a party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter. Not because of the fanaticism of “justice”, but rather because all that is instructive, wholesome, and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effects...
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“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men’s minds is taken are most potent. Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness, far inferior to other parts. But nevertheless it doth...
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“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
- Carl Jung, On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917
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“My lodestars were blotted out; in that canopy of grim fire shone no star…..The universe was one huge, dead, immeasurable steam engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb., and I asked myself, “What art thou afraid of? Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling? Despicable biped! what is the sum-total...
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“For it’s so clear that in order to begin to live in the present we must first redeem the past, and that can only be done by suffering, by strenuous, uninterrupted labour. Understand that, Anya.”
- Anton Chekhov, the Cherry Orchard, 1904
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“There is nothing I have to have, there’s nothing I have to do, and there’s nothing I have to be, except exactly what I’m being right now.”
- NDW
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“Armed warfare must be preceded by a struggle against the inclinations to compromise which are embedded among the majority of British workmen, against the ideas of evolution and peaceful extermination of capitalism. Only then will it be possible to count upon complete success of an armed insurrection.”
- Grigory Zinoviev, letter to the British Communist Party, 1924
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“What you think, you create. What you create, you become. What you become, you express. Whast you express, you experience. What you experience, you are. Whaty you are, you think. The circle is complete.”
- NDW
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“Knowledge looms, but wisdom lingers.”
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Locksley Hall, 1842
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“In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice, by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice, to come in as by chance…”
- Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625
September 2011
17 posts
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“Religion and marriage the way you have constructed them is what we are talking about here. You think that this talk is tough? I tell you this: You have bastardized the word of God in order to justify your fears and rationalize your insane treatment of each other. You will make God say whatever you need God to say in order to continue limiting each other, hurting each other, and killing each...
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“A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.”
- Sir Francis Bacon
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“Yet be not quick to judge another. Rather, seek to avoid judgment, for another person’s “wrongs” were your “rights” of yestermorn; another person’s mistakes are your own past actions, now corrected; another person’s choices and decisions are as “hurtful” and “harmful,” as “selfish” and “unforgivable,” as many of your own have been.
It is when you “just can’t imagine” how another person...
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“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
- Richard Nixon, in I Gave Them a Sword, by David Frost, 1978