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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 26-09-2024
“No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic,”
Ann Landers
“The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?”
Neil Degrasse Tyson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 27-09-2024
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world & moral courage so rare.”
Mark Twain
“One glance at a book & you hear the voice of another person, perhaps dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
Carl Sagan
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 27-09-2024
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there …
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand…. “
Carl Sagan
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 28-09-2024
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny & obliterate their own understanding of their own understanding of their history.”
George Orwell
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, & all of the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be President of the United States.'
Spike Milligan
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 29-09-2024
“Create what sets your heart on fire & it will illuminate the path ahead.”
Karma Voce
“Such is life & life is such & after all it isn't much.First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.”
Norman Wisdom
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 30-09-2024
“When class robbery is abolished, every man will reap the fruits of his labour.”
William Morris
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important lesson of all the lessons of history.”
Aldous Huxley
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 30-09-2024
“ LOOK NOT MOURNFULLY INTO THE PAST – IT COMES NOT BACK AGAIN; WISELY IMPROVE THE PRESENT – IT IS THINE; GO FORTH TO MEET THE SHADOWY FUTURE WITHOUT FEAR, AND WITH A MANLY HEART. ” - LONGFELLOW
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-10-2024
“Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”
Charles Scribner Jnr.
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again.”
Anne Frank
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 02-10-2024
“A book is not alive until its read. Once read, it lives forever.”
David Reuben Aslin
“No one should ever make someone else feel bad on purpose. If there was less of that going on in the world, we'd have a better place to live.”
Simon Townsley
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 04-10-2024
"You would think that being a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is" - David Bowie
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-10-2024
“The problem isn't a lack of money, food, water or land. The problem is that you've given control of thses things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind.”
Bill Hicks
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything”
Mark Twain
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-10-2024
“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
John Lennon
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-10-2024
“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilisation.”
Roger Ebert
“Empathy grows as we learn.”
Alice Miller
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 06-10-2024
This is from Cory Doctorow who originated the theory of Enshittification.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=Enshitification
But this is what he has to say about Conservativism
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-10-2024
(06-10-2024, 05:58 PM)zqwerty Wrote: This is from Cory Doctorow who originated the theory of Enshittification.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=Enshitification
But this is what he has to say about Conservativism
Brilliant - I especially like the theory of enshitification!
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 07-10-2024
“The purpose of human life is to serve, & to show compassion & the will to help others.”
Albert Schweitzer
“We will never have true civilisation until we have learned to mrecognise the rights of others.”
Will Rogers
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 08-10-2024
“One of the many gifts that books give readers is a connection to each other. When we share an affection for a writer, an author or a story, we also have a better understanding of people like ourselves. Books cultivate empathy.”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“Every one of us needs someone to believe in them – someone who would step between them & the world – someone who says “I see the essence of who you are. I like & love the essence of who you are.”
Celia Lashlie
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 09-10-2024
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group.”
George Carlin
“The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 10-10-2024
“If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people who are smarter than you are.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“A bookstore is one of the last pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
Jerry Seinfield
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 11-10-2024
“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”
Robert Benchly
“Dorothy Parker is the mistress of the verbal hand grenade.”
Tallulah Bankhead