If indecisive, choose one of your top favorites. And by the holy powers bestowed unto me through the machinations of this platform, I grant thee to even post more than one, too!
“Never pass up the opportunity to keep your mouth shut.”
– Canopyflyer’s Mother circa 1982
“Work smarter, not harder.” - Scrooge McDuck
Big fan of
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth”
- Garry Kasparov (2015)
That is to say, don’t let them shut you up.
There is a longer, more historical version of this but it escapes me at the moment.
I can only find the Hannah Arendt quote (1974)
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And [to] such a people… you can do whatever you want.”
But i swear there was one that finished “When the truth is silent, liars can move onto action”
Idk why but your last line made me think of that line from the offspring song, “when the truth walks away everybody stays because the truth about the world is that crime does pay”
Love these unveiling of manipulation tactics. Especially in a time where the narrative is usually focused on the face-value of disinformation/misinformation, or straight up lying when discovered.
Friendship is when silence between two people is comfortable.
Never pass up the opportunity to pee.
And
If a restaurant serves breakfast all day, that’s what you should order.
–My dad
Also,
Dont cheap out on anything that keeps you off the ground. (Tires, shoes, mattress etc)
Your dad is my spirit animal.
“Never argue with an idiot because the best possible outcome is that you’ll win an argument with an idiot”
I also like “there are some things in life you can’t change, so you shouldn’t worry about them, and there are some things in life you can change, so you shouldn’t worry about them”
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.
- Jean-Luc Picard. In Star trek: The Next Generation s2e21
Excellent. I’m also partial to this bit in the Drumhead:
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. the goods we possess are not ours, but theirs.
- St John Chrysostom
The demands of justice must be satisfied first of all; that which is already due in justice is not to be offered as a gift of charity.
- Second Council of the Vatican
When we attend to the needs of those in want, we give them what is theirs, not ours. More than performing works of mercy, we are paying a debt of justice.
- Pope St Gregory
Three quotes referenced in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and just one example of the dissonance between many “Christians” in the U.S. and the faith they purport to follow.
If that doesn’t get them, the fact that the concept of social justice, as in the actual coining of the term as well as the movement against capitalist exploitation brought on by the Industrial Revolution was by the Catholics does lol
The meaning behind it all is very simple, we’re all in this together, and the gifts given to us by God/nature belong to all of us. They’re not for us to hoard, or to exploit others for.
“Give me the strength to change the things I can change. And the wisdom to recognize them.”
“Discussing anything with an IT nerd; you will come to realize its like wrestling with pigs in the mud. They like it.”
“You can make anything idiot proof, the world will just make a bigger idiot”
Mine is “Make something idiot proof and they build a better idiot”
“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough”
“Comparison is the thief of joy”
“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough” […]
I think some other quotes similar to this are:
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There is never a good time to do anything. [1]
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Perfection is lots of little things done well.
[Marco Pierre White] [2]
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This one speaks directly to me: “The only decision you should make while angry is to stop being angry.” ~ Timothy Zahn, the Icarus series.
“People, what a bunch of bastards”.
- Roy from the IT Crowd.
People are bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
- Dr. Kelso from Scrubs (original series)
“This too shall pass”
Attar records the fable of a powerful king who asks assembled wise men to create a ring that will make him happy when he is sad. After deliberation the sages hand him a simple ring with the Persian words “This too shall pass” etched on it, which has the desired effect.
“This too shall pass”
I need to etch that into my toilet seat.
Or tattoo it on your ass https://youtu.be/Tg5kB4UcAuA
Two of my favorite are from Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” (Also attributed as a Native American proverb)
I kinda disagree with the first one. Plenty of places which do not support humans are beautiful. And I don’t like the implication that to be beautiful, you must be hostile with hidden kindness underneath. I don’t know if that’s how Antoine meant it, though.
The second one is mesmerizing. Never heard it, or a variation of it before. Thanks!
