On People

”We should try and make people more interesting than phones.”

Charlie Brooker

On Confusion

”If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”

Harry S. Truman

TRUMan TRUMp

As someone else once said …

“History doesn’t repeat - but it does rhyme.”

A Premonition?

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

and

“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

Carl Sagan

On Morality

”… your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed … that’s not pro-life. That’s pro-birth.

Joan Chittister

Joan Chittister

On Predictions

“I never make predictions, especially about the future.”

Sam Goldwyn

… or Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra or Niels Bohr or Robert Storm Petersen or mark twain - at least according to the ‘interwebs’, Curiously - nobody seems to have claimed it to be Einstein.

On Teaching

“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

White People Have A Lying Problem

Umm - wow - no holds barred there I guess ….

”But you aren’t nice. You wear a veneer of nice. You are a rotten tooth in the mouth of the world. Instead of taking care of yourself and preventing decay, you feed on the power of your whiteness like candy. When you start to smell, you use mouthwash and mints to hide it. When you start to visibly decay, you try to hide it with whitening gel. When you start to hurt, you take pain medication. When the pain becomes too great, you finally seek help — and that help is to numb yourself, pull out the nerve, then slap a crown on it so that no one can see your empty core. Instead they see a perfect veneer passing for a healthy tooth. But it is a tooth that feels no pain and only emulates the others.”

Talynn Kel

White People- You Have A Lying Problem

On Teaching

If you give a hungry man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.

Lao Tsu

On Minds

”Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary”

Blaise Pascal

A quote appeared in an article today that resonated deeply … and then it opened up some moments leading to a reminder of the Queen song … ‘Is This The World We Created.’

I didn’t know the song before - despite having heard the album it is from … go figure.

Anyway - all too good not to reshare.

”If two men in a world of more than 7 billion people can provide €300million to restore Notre Dame, within six hours, then there is enough money in the world to feed every mouth, shelter every family and educate every child. The failure to do so is a matter of will, and a matter of system.”

Carl Kinsella

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First shared by mrkrndvs - Thankyou.

Meanwhile, I didn’t know the song before hutaffe said the quote reminded him of it. I can see why.