#whiterimtrail — Public Fediverse posts
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It’s almost impossible to predict the future. But it’s also unnecessary, because most people are living in the past. All you have to do is see the present before everyone else does.
-- Anonymous -
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
Our happiness doesn't depend on somebody else's action or on anything else. It doesn't depend on our success, but rather on the effort we're willing to put into everything we do. Even if people disappoint or fail us left and right, even if people turn against us, hurt us, lie about us, don't understand us, even if they think they know everything about us and judge us unfairly, they can't infringe upon our happiness. True happiness means that we have a deep-seated peace and tranquility that transcends all the difficulties of life, that cannot be disturbed by the chaos and warfare that might touch our lives.
-- The Monks of New Skete -
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasCarlyle #Books #Reading #Professors
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One of the greatest problems in medicine is the collusion between academics seeking money and industry in search of a plausible narrative for selling products. ...The role of academe is to question lucrative dogma, not to join the feeding frenzy.
-- Richard Lehman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardLehman #Academia #Dogma #Medicine #Science
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
-- Malcolm Forbes -
May all your error variances be small ones.
-- David Swanson (G Theory Talk) -
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-- Winston Churchill -
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
-- Stephen Hawking -
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
-- Ovid -
Today in America -- the child of European imperialism -- a new revolution is rising. It is the revolution of our time. It is the only revolution that involves radical, moral, and practical opposition to the spirit of nationalism. It is the only revolution that, to that opposition, joins culture, economic and technological power, and a total affirmation of liberty for all in the place of archaic prohibitions. It therefore offers the only escape for mankind today; the acceptance of technological civilization as a means and not as an end, and -- since we cannot be saved either by the destruction of civilization or by its continuation -- the development of the ability to reshape that civilization without annihilating it.
-- Jean-Francois Revel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JeanFrancoisRevel #Civilization #Nationalism
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The condition of an expanding and technologically progressive system of mass-production is universal craving. Advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify craving...
-- Aldous Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Advertising #Capitalism #Craving
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
The greatest problem with communication -- via any means -- is the illusion that it has been achieved.
-- Judith Huerta (loss prevention manager) -
All differences between groups have not disappeared; this is obvious. Yet they may progressively decline. Exactly for this reason, they assume increasing importance for individuals. It is the rootless, not the rooted, who fetishize their roots.
-- Russell Jacoby -
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey -
If you are calculating your own creativity, then you can't create history.
-- Kontra (@counternotions) -
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.
-- James Baldwin⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Discipline #Endurance #Luck #Talent
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Privacy has no possible chance -- individual autonomy has no possible chance -- against improving communications.
-- Whitfield Diffie (inventor of public key cryptography) -
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain -
Quite often, the peddling of a conspiracy theory is a form of confession: a window into how a suspicious mind thinks the world works.
-- The Economist (Editorial 2/3/18)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TheEconomist #Confession #Guilt #ConspiracyTheories
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
-- George Santayana -
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-- Erich Fromm -
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing.
-- Murray Bookchin (What is Social Ecology?) -
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
-- H. G. Wells