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When crossing a cultural border one left behind judgements as to how life should be organized.
Robyn Davidson
February 3, 2026
To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.
Robyn Davidson
February 2, 2026
If you don't bet you can't win.
Robert Heinlein
February 1, 2026
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil
January 31, 2026
Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
Robert Heinlein
January 30, 2026
It is interesting to speculate: what country, what nation, when, and where, would have undertaken a programme to teach its children to be people to resist rhetoric, to examine the mechanisms that govern them?
Doris Lessing
January 29, 2026
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
Charles P. Steinmetz
January 28, 2026
when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
Robert Heinlein
January 27, 2026
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.
Marcel Proust
January 26, 2026
Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, “How could they have believed that?” because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.
Doris Lessing
January 25, 2026
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