Category: Quotes
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You shouldn’t have come back, Flynn.
120 CLOSE SHOT OF FLYNN 120 settling in, loosening his fingers, like a concert pianist, or a safecracker. He types in a code number, presses the “enter” key. 121 VIEW OF THE CEILING 121 We see a camera emerging from a sliding panel. 122 POV OF MCP 122 We watch as Flynn starts typing. SCREEN […]
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People and Differences
“People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.” Linda Ellerbee (from https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/21682.Linda_Ellerbee)
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The Dash
“I read of a man who stood to speakat the funeral of a friend.He referred to the dates on the tombstonefrom the beginning…to the end. He noted that first came the date of birthand spoke the following date with tears,but he said what mattered most of allwas the dash between those years. For that dash […]
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Ethical Infants
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Omar Bradley, General of the Army, USA (February 12, 1893 – April 8, […]
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Frustrating
Among one of the things I am trying to do with this blog is collect quotes that I find inspiring and true. This is inspired by my creative writing teacher (kudos to Jim Sorrell, RIP 2004) in high school. The Internet is rife with great quotes that are often wrong in some way. I get […]
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Git and Git-ability…
Wikipedia defines Git as a British slang term of insult denoting an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. That begs the question “What is GitHub?” Me on Mastodon
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Marx on being happy…
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
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ActivityPub Test Post
INT. WAR ROOMStrangelove executes an about face from the big board to facethe camera. STRANGELOVEMr. President, I would not rule out thechance to preserve a nucleus of humanspecimens. It would be quite easy… hehheh… (rolls forward into the light) At the bottom of ah… some of our deepermineshafts. The radioactivity would neverpenetrate a mine some […]
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Einstein On Prejudice
“It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.” Albert Einstein
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Geezer’s Paradox
You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox @juglugs@mastodon.juglugs.com on Mastodon