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  1. A quotation from Jean Kerr

    BOB: Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? There’s nothing to do but let it splash.

    Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
    Mary, Mary, Act 2 (1961)

    More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/84573/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeankerr #helplessness #inevitability #lossofcontrol #sneeze #spatter #spill #splash #uncontrollability

  2. A quotation from Charles Mackay

    Keep, Galileo, to thy thought,
       And nerve thy soul to bear;
    They may gloat o’er the senseless words they wring
       From the pangs of thy despair:
    They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide
       The sun’s meridian glow;
    The heel of a priest may tread thee down,
       And a tyrant work thee woe;
    But never a truth has been destroyed:
       They may curse it, and call it crime;
    Pervert and betray, or slander and slay
       Its teachers for a time.
    But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
       As round and round we run;
    And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
       And justice shall be done.

    Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
    Poem (1847), “Eternal Justice,” st. 4

    More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #censorship #freedomofthought #inevitability #justice #repression #science #silencing #truth #tyranny

  3. A quotation from Charles Mackay

    Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

    Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79186…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #downfall #gambling #inevitability #nation #nationalsecurity #punishment #risktaking

  4. Dear Friends of a #different #Kind, 🪶
    I was on
    #Tooting #common this #morning. Not 'Commons' as the SUV #elites #delight in dividing for their #unthink-tanks to drive through. ​:gi:​

    A group of
    #Wombles from #Wimbledon have planted ye #olde sturdy #oaks from a golf course, also an invasion onto common land. I also noted two #trees broken in two by spoiled #children. In a sense we are all #spoiled and then grow under trees or #daisies. Or on the moon or Mars of the future, in some #extravagant ostentation of irrelevance and #irreverence. Dead is dead. 👻

    Half a tree may grow. Half a planet may
    #survive. Maybe. It is a question of #inevitability Mr Anderson, Nothing Neo under the Sol Matrix, stars or #multiverse... or is there? ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

    Always there is. More. More
    #incomprehensible, more to #wonder. More to do #better. What fun for the #unicorns and trans-rainbows and critters we save. ​:ablobcatbouncefast:​

    www.theguardian.com
    /commentisfree/article/2024/may/09/culture-warriors-national-trust-populists-polarising-divisive?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other