We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.”
― Edward O. Wilson
@edgarblythe,
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself. .... Dr P. Joseph Goebbels
As true today as it was in the 1930's.
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
Dutch Schultz
Tell the story of the mountain you climbed.
It might become a page in someone elses survival guide.
Morgan Harper Nichols
"It ain't over till it's over."
--Yogi Berra
It's over, Donnie boy!
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
@coluber2001,
Thank you. One can only stand so much Facebook. You can quote me.
@edgarblythe,
Tell me about it. I go back and forth.
@coluber2001,
Some people I dearly love won't post anywhere else.
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
― Albert Einstein
"I am a poor lost woof from the kennel of Fate looking for a dog to belong to."
--Saul Bellow
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
“And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass”
― Ezra Pound
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
― Gertrude Stein
“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound
“In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different order from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this word almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented, or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
