daily quote

[Bob]

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." - Thomas Carlyle

 

[Bob]

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

 

[Leader of the Banned]

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

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It's true in reverse. The greater your self-understanding, the more irritating people are. Stay dumb, chill out, eat cheetos.

 

[poppy]

“It’s popular these days to ask political figures what mistakes they’ve made, where they have failed, as a former history teacher, I know such analysis is best tempered by time and reflection. And that it is best left to others.”

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, 2007

 

[Bob]

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius

 

[carson]

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius

And number 4... sometimes my wife provides some by intimidation, which is the smartest.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”


― Isaac Asimov

 

[Bob Wells]

The chicken makes a contribution to breakfast, the pig makes a commitment...

 

[Bob]

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." - E.E. Cummings

 

[Bob]

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." - Stephen King