If one had to study all the laws, one would have no time to transgress them.
-- Goethe

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“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.”

        — William McAdoo

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'Those who get to the river early drink the cleanest water.'

- Kenyan proverb

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Experience had taught him never to say things like 'I don't like it, it's too quiet.' There was no such thing as too quiet.
(Jingo)

A garden is finished when there is nothing left to remove.
-- Zen Aphorism

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'I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.'

- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Capitalism is cursed - Karl Marx

Modern capitalist society with its relations of production, of exchange and property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. (Karl Marx)

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Do not give attention, energy or validation to fear-driven thoughts or stories, bc when you do, they become stronger. It's hard sometimes to stay grounded, to choose calm over chaos & not to reinforce fear - especially where fear often spreads quickly through the news, social media or our own thoughts.

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

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The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
(Wyrd Sisters)

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ~ #DollyParton #quotes #life

"Le plus grand ennemi de la connaissance n'est pas l'ignorance, c'est l'illusion de la connaissance."
- Stephen Hawking

"Oh, visited by thoughts, and this I got to say
If you're feeling the leaving, I can't make you stay
I've only ever wanted for it not to be this way
But you're now like the water, and the water will find its way"

Pearl Jam, Combing Through the Wreckage, from the 2024 album Dark Matter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUmJfxinKHM

My terrace smelled of lemon and basil. In Italian, they call it 'basílico' because it exudes the scent of royalty.

― Mauricio Wiesenthal

'Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.'

- John Lennon

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History is merely a list of surprises. ... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

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'Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.'

- Anne Lamott

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‘By gor’, that’s a bloody enormous cat.’
‘It’s a lion,’ said Granny Weatherwax, looking at the stuffed head over the fireplace.
‘Must’ve hit the wall at a hell of a speed, whatever it was,’ said Nanny Ogg.
‘Someone killed it,’ said Granny Weatherwax, surveying the room.
‘Should think so,’ said Nanny. ‘If I’d seen something like that eatin’ its way through the wall I’d of hit it myself with a poker.’
(Witches Abroad)

Zaphod sat up sharply and started to pull clothes on. He decided that there must be someone in the Universe feeling more wretched, miserable and forsaken than himself, and he determined to set out and find him.
Halfway to the bridge it occurred to him that it might be Marvin, and he returned to bed.