myself and none other
- After "Jack Layton" quote
My friends, love is better than Coke. Real hope is better than "Hope" poster mottos. Optimism is better than fake news. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Anonymous
- Beachgoer tosser
A man walked along a beach where thousands of beachgoers lay in the sun, tanning. He saw a young boy walking along, grab one, and toss it into the ocean. He continued this. The man, curious, walked up to the young boy, and asked: "Why are you throwing the beachgoers back in the ocean? It doesn't make a difference - there are still thousands of beachgoers on the beach." The boy grabbed another beachgoer and tossed it back into the ocean. "It made a difference to that one."
bvw Spring 2019 according the calender gregorian
- The Intrinsic Value of Valves
Valves... are defined as freely molded or machine constructs which are employed in ongoing, dynamic, controlled patterns of activity; valves establish limits and boundaries for that activity that are intrinsic in engagement in the valve using behavioural pattern itself.
Tyler Durden
- Shocking Tesla Expose
Wired has published a stunning longform expose... The piece opens with a story about an engineer at the company's Nevada plant who "had been living out of a suitcase, putting in 13-hour days, seven days a week," and who one day was excited to hear that Elon Musk himself needed his help on the production line, instead of Elon seeking his assistance, he was berated and fired within a minute.
Yoshihiro Togashi
- Really all that strange -- Pariston Hill, Hunter X Hunter
"Normally, as people love and are loved, they feel happiness. When I am hated by people, that is when I feel happiness. And then I want to tear apart and inflict unimaginable harm to the things I love. But is that really all that strange, I wonder?" - Pariston Hill.
Moshe Chaim Luzzato
- Path of the Just
Above all, one should always contemplate recognizing the weakness of human intellect and its great many errors and falsehoods, how it is always nearer to error than true knowledge. Therefore, he should always fear this danger and seek to learn from every person and always listening to advice, lest he stumbles.
Moshe Chaim Luzzato
- Path of the Just
Thus, we see that man is truly placed in the midst of a raging battlefield. For all matters of this world, whether for the good or for the bad, are trials for a man. Poverty from one side versus wealth from the other... Tranquility on one hand versus suffering on the other, until the battle is waged against him from the front and from the rear.
James Otis (edited for modern usages)
- Against Writs of Assistance February 1761 (edited)
The Slave Trade is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, it has a direct tendency to diminish liberty, and it makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the local peddler. The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all men are, white or black. It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care too little for their own.
Justice Harlan's dissent
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
In respect of civil rights, common to all citizens, the Constitution of the United States does not, I think permit any public authority to know the race of those entitled to be protected in the enjoyment of such rights. Every true man has pride of race, and under appropriate circumstances which the rights of others, his equals before the law, are not to be affected, it is his privilege to express such pride and to take such action based upon it as to him seems proper.
Justice Benjamin Curtis
- Dissenting Opinion in Dred Scott
It was certainly understood by the Convention which framed the Constitution, and has been so understood ever since, that, under the power to regulate commerce, Congress could prohibit the importation of slaves; and the exercise of the power was restrained till 1808. A citizen of the United States owns slaves in Cuba, and brings them to the United States, where they are set free by the legislation of Congress.
Moshe Cordovero (translation: Henry Abramson)
- Tomer Devorah, 8th Level of Forgiveness
One should not ignore the good of a person and recall the evil that he caused. On the contrary, one should ignore the evil, obliterating it from memory and casting it away: "no evil will occur in Your place." The good that he did must always be held in consciousness, remembered and overpowering whatever else he might have done.
Moshe Cordovero (translation: Henry Abramson)
- Tomer Devorah, 13 Level of Forgiveness
Even if you cannot find any reason to forgive a person, there was nevertheless once a time when this person did no wrong. Think of the good this person did as a child, recall the love that a mother has for a nursing babe, and you will not be able to hold back a measure of forgiveness and mercy.
Old Chinese Proverbs
- A melon taken off its vine is not sweet
A melon taken off its vine is not sweet. Coercion never ends up satisfactorily. Leave things to develop naturally. Learning without thinking means wasted work; thinking without learning is dangerous. Studying hard is important and gives rewards.
Cao Xueqin
- Water flows in only to flow out
Water flows in only to flow out." Similar to "what comes up must come down," this proverb points out that: things reverse when they reach their extremes. It's from the 18th century novel "A Dream of Red Mansions.
John Selden
- Table Talk -- BISHOPS OUT OF THE PARLIMENT
They that would ... erect a new way of government, do as he that pulls down an old house, and builds another of another fashion. There's a great deal ado, and a great deal of trouble; the old rubbish must be carried away, and new materials must be brought; workmen must be provided; and perhaps the old one would have served as well.
John Selden
- Table Talk -- BIBLE, SCRIPTURE
Henry the 8th made a law, that all men might read the Scriptures, except servants; but no women, except ladies and gentlewomen, who had leisure, and might ask somebody the meaning. The law was repealed in Edward the 6th days.
