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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
Juvenal
July 2, 2020
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
July 1, 2020
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
Robert Heinlein
June 30, 2020
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
June 29, 2020
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Abraham Maslow
June 28, 2020
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings
June 27, 2020
If these ultimate human values by which we live are to be pursued, then compromises, trade-offs, arrangements have to be made if the worst is not to happen. So much liberty for so much equality, so much individual self-expression for so much security, so much justice for so much compassion.
Isaiah Berlin
June 26, 2020
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
June 25, 2020
The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions.
E. R. Eddison
June 24, 2020
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
June 23, 2020
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