@cicerone imposter,
So far I've been successful in avoiding it. I like turning paper pages.
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou
"Come quickly! I am tasting stars!"
Dom Perignon at the moment of his discovering champagne.
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.”
― Anne Lamott.
@timur,
That Anne Lamott quote should be my personal mantra.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
― Karen E. Quinones Miller
“Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
Now I remember that Norman Rockwell did FDR's four freedoms:
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Worship
Freedom from Want
Freedom from fear
"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle."
--Robert Anthony
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."
- Nelson Mandela
@Lustig Andrei,
Lustig Andrei wrote:
"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle."
--Robert Anthony
Worse. Others would deliberately die of thirst.
Daniel Dennett on whether intelligence is possible in machines:
"You are made of robots--or what comes to the same thing, a collection of trillions of macromolecular machines....So something made of robots can exhibit genuine consciousness, or genuine intentionality, because you do if anything does."
-----Darwin's Dangerous Idea, p.206.
“One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.”
― Anaïs Nin
