“If you have only one life you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?” — Sebastian Faulks, A Fools Alphabet
#BOTD #SebastianFaulks #quote #OneLife
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Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.
-- Herbert Marcuse
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
-- Oscar Wilde
"Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"
"How much?" said Arthur.
"None at all," said Mr. Prosser.
Here is a lovely #quote by Frida Kahlo.
"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you."
Evil destroys things. Everything. Including itself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#Quote
The State is said by some to be a "necessary evil"; it must be made unnecessary.
-- Benjamin Tucker
MACBETH: How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!
— Macbeth, IV, i
He could shout ‘help!’ in fourteen languages and scream for mercy in a further twelve. He had passed through many countries on the Disc, some of them at high speed, and during the long, lovely, boring hours when he’d worked in the Library he’d whiled away the time by reading up on all the exotic and faraway places he’d never visited. He remembered that at the time he’d sighed with relief that he’d never have to visit them.
(Eric)
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words - Elliott Erwitt
#photography #quote
"Maybe somebody here tipped off the Galactic Police," said Trillian. "Everyone saw you come in."
"You mean they want to arrest me over the phone?" said Zaphod. "Could be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered."
"Yeah," said the voice from under the table, "you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel."
“Our function is to contribute in a positive way to the world in which we live.” Data- The Offispring, Stardate: 43657.0 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #IDIC #Quote
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
Helen Keller
If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion.
-- Alexander Berkman
“I feel disoriented.”
“This is the Disorientation Centre.”
“That makes sense.”
— The Doctor and Sarah, in “The Android Invasion”
She gave a depreciating little chuckle. And if Nanny Ogg had been listening, she would have resolved as follows: that no maddened cackle from Black Aliss of infamous memory, no evil little giggle from some crazed vampyre whose morals were worse than his spelling, no side-splitting guffaw from the most inventive torturer, was quite so unnerving as a happy little chuckle from a Granny Weatherwax about to do what’s best. (Maskerade)
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