@Letty,
Walt Kelly was one of my top favorite cartoonists.
@edgarblythe,
Ah! Pogo's creeator. Gotch'ya
“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.” ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.”
Orville Wright
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
~ Milan Kundera
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
"Take away the right to say '****', and you take away the right to say '**** the government'."
Lenny Bruce
@edgarblythe,
Quote:“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.” ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Now I know why I gave up on Steinbeck after a few pages.
@spendius,
spendius wrote:
Quote:“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.” ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Now I know why I gave up on Steinbeck after a few pages.
More's the pity that you did. But it does help to explain some of your narrow-mindedness.
Anybody don't like Steinbeck, I pity.
@edgarblythe,
You and Andrei are pissing into the wind. Anybody who pens the affectation quoted takes himself far too seriously to be a proper writer.
Who wants anarchy? You both don't I'm sure.
@Lustig Andrei,
Quote: But it does help to explain some of your narrow-mindedness
That means nothing Andrei because you are defining narrow-mindedness.
@spendius,
"Ignorance is degrading when found in company with riches."
Schopenhauer.
Steinbeck was responsible for much more than that quote. The body of his work speaks for itself.
@edgarblythe,
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. John Steinbeck.
@edgarblythe,
Quote:And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
Did he fight for that ed? Nobody who writes that sort of subversive drivel is worth reading. I bet you would be on to the cops if somebody's direction of mind took him to mowing his lawn three times a day with a noisy mower next door to your patch of ground.
When did he fight? He used that word in a manner I don't approve of.
@edgarblythe,
I know who fights for freedom.
"Strive to value everyone equally. It is an idea, a motivation for a better world that doesn't require blood; it requires the hard work of people and the nurturing of a community spirit; a constant growing of peace and it starts within each human heart."
--Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
@spendius,
Your brain likely buzzes around in your skull like a lonely fly, seeking an out.
