“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass
"If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy lead to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs."
"The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive."
—
Nick Hanauer
I went downstairs, helped myself to some more cigarettes and a large schnapps from a bottle on a silver tray in the library - the best kind, made from the best fruit, which in this case was pears, and probably Austrian as the finest schnapps usually is, and like eating the most delicious pear you've ever eaten only to discover that it was a wonderful, magical pear and that the effect extends far beyond the mouth into every corner of the human body like a benign witch's spell. I quickly poured another and felt a smile spread on my face like a cloud shifting away from the sun. The bottle was too good to leave lying around in a place like that. If ever anything needed rescuing from the Nazis, it was that bottle.
Phillip Kerr writing as Bernie Gunther in The Lady From Zagreb.
“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
— Dorothy L. Sayers
“The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.”
― Lenny Bruce
“All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.”
― RuPaul
Manners maketh man.
-- A certain William of Wykeham
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
― Robert Frost
@edgarblythe,
'Cause if you were a Christian, you could tell everybody what to do, and then they'd do it so they don't hurt your feelings, because that's against the law. ~ Pennsatucky, ONB
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth”
They fear "thought" but embrace certain "ideas" for fellowship's sake...
"Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter.
Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness.
Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity."
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(through the mouthpiece of Kilgore Trout in
Breakfast of Champions)
“Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin
“first of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
"The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly--except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead."
---Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
“The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it."
"But it'd be there.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity
“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift
“The story of Moses is very similar to the myth of Sargon of Agade, the founder of Babylon, who was also put in a basket and laid on the river”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists
