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Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.
Speaker: Ursula Ke Le GuinSource: the Left Hand of DarknessPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Speaker: Ursula Ke Le GuinSource: the Left Hand of DarknessPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What is more arrogant than honesty?
Speaker: Ursula K Le GuinSource: the Left Hand of DarknessPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Speaker: Dorothy ParkerPosted: 18 Sep 2013 at 12:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let the word stand on its own. If it is the right word, it will work without help. If it’s the wrong word, adding other words to it will just make it seem desperate.
Speaker: Thom MerrilinSource: A Memory of LightPosted: 11 May 2013 at 12:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most important aspect of Her new system is that everyone is treated equally. There is no longer fire for some and harp music for others. The afterlife is no longer defined by cots versus waterbeds, raw potatoes versus sushi, hot water versus champagne. Everyone is a brother to all, and for the first time an idea has been realized that never came to fruition on Earth: true equality.
The Communists are baffled and irritated, because they have finally achieved their perfect society, but only by the help of a God in whom the don’t want to believe. The meritocrats are abashed that they’re stuck for eternity in an incentiveless system with a bunch of pinkos. The conservatives have no penniless to disparage; the liberals have no downtrodden to promote.
So god sits on the edge of Her bed and weeps at night, because the only thing everyone can agree upon is that they’re all in Hell.Speaker: David EaglemanSource: SumPosted: 09 Mar 2013 at 3:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am a part of all that I have met.
Speaker: TennysonSource: UlyssesPosted: 12 Oct 2012 at 11:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
Speaker: Malcolm GladwellSource: OutliersPosted: 26 Aug 2012 at 1:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Speaker: Upton SinclairPosted: 14 Aug 2012 at 12:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Speaker: Upton SinclairPosted: 14 Aug 2012 at 11:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Speaker: Upton SinclairPosted: 14 Aug 2012 at 10:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Speaker: Upton SinclairPosted: 14 Aug 2012 at 10:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To borrowing and lending there is more than the passing of gold from the hands of one to the hands of another
Speaker: George S. ClasonSource: Richest Man in BabylonPosted: 22 Aug 2011 at 3:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 22 Aug 2011 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
Speaker: Groucho MarxPosted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 17 Aug 2010 at 10:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trick is to promote actual freedom – not just by giving people lots of choices (though that can help) but also by putting people in a good position to choose what would be best.
Source: NudgePosted: 06 Aug 2011 at 11:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://zenhabits.net/new-habit/Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://zenhabits.net/new-habit/Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!