If you don't do it, you'll never know what would have happened if you had done it. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant #quote

Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser. ~ Chuck Smith #quote

Never give advice... ~ Unknown #quote

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. (TV listing for the movie The Wizard of Oz in the Marin Independent Journal.)

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - indoctrination, we might say - exercised through the mass media. ~ Noam Chomsky #quote

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~ Phyllis Diller #quote

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government, I stand in awe and I kneel in respect. And it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song. ~ Leonard Cohen #quote

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.  ~ Judge Sturgess #quote

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the centre of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial. ~ Albert Camus #quote

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. ~ E.E. (Edward Estine) Cummings #quote

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. ~ Noel Coward #quote

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. ~ Charles Bukowski #quote

Pandora's "box" comes from a mistranslation by Erasmus of Rotterdam in 1508 - in the original myth, it is a jar. #Factoids

Rio de Janeiro was once the capital of Portugal. #Factoids

In the Dyirbal tribe of Australian Aboriginals, members are forbidden from ever speaking to their mothers-in-law. If speaking in the presence of one's mother-in-law, all normal words are taboo, and the speaker must instead use an entirely separate vocabulary. #Factoids

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. ~ Noam Chomsky #quote


The medical term for shed skin cells is "scurf. #Factoids

The power of imagination makes us infinite. ~ John Muir #quote

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking. ~ Isaac Asimov #quote

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~ Kenko Yoshida #quote

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. ~ Noam Chomsky #quote

In the Trobriand Islands, short eyelashes are a symbol of popularity because lovers bite off each other's eyelashes when kissing. #Factoids

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who do not have it. ~ George Bernard Shaw #quote

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No use being a damned fool about it. ~ W. C. Fields #quote

All that truly matters in the end is that you loved. ~ Life Lessons from a 90 Year Old #quote

Chance is the providence of adventurers. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte #quote

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. ~ Isaac Asimov #quote

Communism is like one big phone company. ~ Lenny Bruce #quote

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote

Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police ~ Phil Spector #quote

If at first you don’t succeed, think how many people you’ve made happy. ~ H. Duane Black #quote

If you are not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. ~ Leo Tolstoy #quote

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful...It's made for the losers. ~ Rita Mae Brown #quote

What you have become, is the price you paid to get what you used to want. ~ Mignon McLaughlin #quote

Michael Jackson composed music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. #Factoids

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. ~  Muhammed Ali #quote

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. ~ Noam Chomsky #quote


Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ~ Joan Baez #quote

Intolerance of your present creates your future ~ Mike Murdock #quote

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.  ~ Edmund Burke #quote

As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!  ~ Albert Camus #quote

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone, and the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. ~ Paul Johannes Tillich #quote

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. ~ Albert Camus #quote

The human race is governed by its imagination. Imagination rules the world. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte #quote

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.  ~ Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury #quote

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. ~ Oscar Wilde #quote

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. ~ Sir Winston Churchill #quote

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck. ~ Raymond Chandler #quote


A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns. ~ Joseph Conrad #quote

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so. ~ Doris Lessing #quote

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. ~ Coco Chanel #quote

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. ~ Noam Chomsky #quote

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing Praises of my devourer? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky #quote

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. ~ William Faulkner #quote

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. ~ Sir Winston Churchill #quote

The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. ~ Otto von Bismarck #quote

Eggs cannot be unscrambled.  ~ American #Proverb

Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital. ~ Kelly Barton #quote

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him. ~ Pearl Buck #quote

That feeling of exhaustion after completing a difficult math problem should be known as the aftermath. #RedditShowerThoughts