Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic,ÔÇØ
Ann Landers

ÔÇ£The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?ÔÇØ
Neil Degrasse Tyson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world & moral courage so rare.ÔÇØ
Mark Twain

ÔÇ£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.ÔÇØ
Carl Sagan

[zqwerty]

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

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The most effective way to destroy people is to deny & obliterate their own understanding of their own understanding of their history.ÔÇØ
George Orwell

ÔÇ£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

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Create what sets your heart on fire & it will illuminate the path ahead.ÔÇØ
Karma Voce

ÔÇ£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.ÔÇØ
Norman Wisdom

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£When class robbery is abolished, every man will reap the fruits of his labour.ÔÇØ
William Morris

ÔÇ£That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important lesson of all the lessons of history.ÔÇØ
Aldous Huxley

[zqwerty]

ÔÇ£ LOOK NOT MOURNFULLY INTO THE PAST ÔÇô IT COMES NOT BACK AGAIN; WISELY IMPROVE THE PRESENT ÔÇô IT IS THINE; GO FORTH TO MEET THE SHADOWY FUTURE WITHOUT FEAR, AND WITH A MANLY HEART. ÔÇØ - LONGFELLOW

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.ÔÇØ
Charles Scribner Jnr.



ÔÇ£What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again.ÔÇØ
Anne Frank

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£A book is not alive until its read. Once read, it lives forever.ÔÇØ
David Reuben Aslin

ÔÇ£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.ÔÇØ
Simon Townsley

[zqwerty]

"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

   

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£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.ÔÇØ
Bill Hicks

ÔÇ£If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anythingÔÇØ
Mark Twain

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.ÔÇØ
John Lennon

ÔÇ£A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilisation.ÔÇØ
Roger Ebert

ÔÇ£Empathy grows as we learn.ÔÇØ
Alice Miller

[zqwerty]

This is from Cory Doctorow who originated the theory of Enshittification.

https://www.google.com/search?client=fir...tification

But this is what he has to say about Conservativism

   

[Lilith7]

This is from Cory Doctorow who originated the theory of Enshittification.

https://www.google.com/search?client=fir...tification

But this is what he has to say about Conservativism

Brilliant - I especially like the theory of enshitification!

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The purpose of human life is to serve, & to show compassion & the will to help others.ÔÇØ
Albert Schweitzer

ÔÇ£We will never have true civilisation until we have learned to mrecognise the rights of others.ÔÇØ
Will Rogers

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£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.ÔÇØ
Sarah Jessica Parker

ÔÇ£Every one of us needs someone to believe in them ÔÇô someone who would step between them & the world ÔÇô someone who says ÔÇ£I see the essence of who you are. I like & love the essence of who you are.ÔÇØ
Celia Lashlie

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group.ÔÇØ
George Carlin

ÔÇ£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.ÔÇØ
Ray Bradbury

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people who are smarter than you are.ÔÇØ
Neil deGrasse Tyson

ÔÇ£A bookstore is one of the last pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.ÔÇØ
Jerry Seinfield

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.ÔÇØ
Robert Benchly

ÔÇ£Dorothy Parker is the mistress of the verbal hand grenade.ÔÇØ
Tallulah Bankhead