Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced

When you speak, It’s silent
When you’re silent, It speaks

And slowly your thoughts will come to silence
And in that silence, you suddenly begin to see the world as it is
You don’t see any past
And you don’t see any future
You see that we live in an eternal now
There’s only the eternal now

Alan Watts/Frank Herbert/Soren Kierkegaard

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

Aesop

I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.

W. C. Fields

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

Isaac Asimov

But has any little atom,
While a-sittin’ and a-splittin’,
Ever stopped to think or CARE
That E = m c**2 ?

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