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"1. All fungi are edible. 2. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

“Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

The evidence is all around us. Just observe our politics and religions.

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”
― Bob Dylan

Dieu a dit : "Il faut partager. Les riches auront la nourriture, les pauvres auront de l'appétit."
-- Coluche

Politicians invest money in prisons rather than in schools, because for  sure, they won't go back to school.
-- Coluche

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.
Danny Glover

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's worse than that! We build bombs that can destroy this planet. Isn't that insanity?

I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut.
In reference to being teased at school as a child for his looks, as quoted in Schnozzola : The Story of Jimmy Durante (1951) by Gene Fowler

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Selected Poems

“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“All I ever wanted was a world without maps.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson — the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. [The World Is My Home (1991)]”
― James A. Michener

Always enjoyed Michener's stories. Hawaii started out slow, but once he got into the story, you couldn't put the book down.

“A Man About To Tell The Truth Should Keep One Foot In The Stirrup.”--Mongolian saying

In other words, keep your foot on the gas peddle.

Janis Ian
21 hrs ·
Thanks to Ken for posting this as part of the anti-trust discussion below. I adored Frank Zappa. One of the coolest moments in my life came when I was at a NY club, preparing to watch Cream circa 1967 - can't remember the club name (maybe the Au Go Go?). Anyway I was around 15, sitting on the aisle, when someone from the club asked me to move in one because Frank Zappa wanted to sit next to me, and he had very long legs. We watched the show together, in silence (to be honest, I was pretty initimidated). When it ended, he stood up, stretched, look down at me, and said "You're doing a great job entertaining the troops, kid. Keep it up."
To this day I'm not sure what he meant by "troops" except for one interesting fact - when most of the US was refusing to play my recording "Society's Child", Armed Forces Radio was playing it in heavy, heavy rotation all through Viet Nam.
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“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
--- Harold Pinter

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Least of all, Edgar.