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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - H. L. Mencken
*points up* Truth
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov
"Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others." - Pliny the Elder
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. - John F. Kennedy
Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers. - Federico Fellini
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. - Dag Hammarskjold
“If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.” ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury: ~~ Marcus Aurelius
When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany’; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism. - Halford E. Luccock we see you Musk 🧐
“Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. - John F. Kennedy RIP
I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. - David Hare
“Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.” — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life. - Jimmy Carter
“you have to understand, that no one would put their children in a boat unless the sea is safer than the land” – Warsan Shire
The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci. - Johannes Kepler
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Princess Diana
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
~~ Martin Luther King, Jr
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” ― Stephen Hawking
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul. - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers. Croft M. Pentz
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." — Voltaire
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, and concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha