The relentless flood of information we receive does not necessarily equal an understanding of our situation... It doesn't matter if you hear constantly, night after night, about poor children or abused elders. It matters that you hear about them in some way both deep enough and complicated enough that you'll go out and do something useful.
-- Bill McKibben
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
-- A.A. Milne #quotes #MondayMotivation
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
— Antonio Gramsci
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-- Marie Skłodowska Curie
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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
-- Tom Stoppard
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"We're mortal - which is to say, we're ignorant, stupid, and sinful - but those are only handicaps. Our pride is that nevertheless, now and then, we do our best. A few times we succeed. What more dare we ask for?" – Poul Anderson ("Ensign Flandry", 1966) #quotes
"Fanatismo… <<Enfermedad físico-moral, cruel y desesperada, porque los que la padecen aborrecen más la medicina que la enfermedad. […] Los síntomas son bascas, convulsión, delirio, frenesí; en su último periodo degenera en licantropía y misantropía, en cuyo estado el enfermo se siente con arranques de hacer una gran hoguera para quemar a medio linaje humano>>."
Galdós.
Quality Improvement: You do not have to do this... survival is not compulsory.
-- W. Edwards Deming
“𝙳𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙 𝚋𝚎𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚌.”
― 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵, 𝘋𝘶𝘯𝘦
Trying to plan for the future without a sense of history is like trying to plant cut flowers.
-- Daniel Boorstien
“We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”
― bell hooks
Non-violent campaigns are successful because they are better at achieving large numbers of diverse participants that allow for multiple points of leverage, against which the opponent has little defense. Violent campaigns are less successful because they [attract fewer] participants and must therefore rely on foreign sources of support, which they use to confront the adversary using methods in which the opponent often, but not always, has a decided advantage.
–Why Civil Resistance Works
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The translation of the need for learning into the demand for schooling and the conversion of the quality of growing up into the price tag of a professional treatment changes the meaning of 'knowledge' from a term that designates intimacy, intercourse, and life experience into one that designates professionally packaged products, marketable entitlements, and abstract values.
-- Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society)
If the exploitation of others were all that mattered, evolution should never have got into the empathy business. But it did, and the political and economic elites had better grasp that in a hurry.
-- Frans de Waal (Primatologist)
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“The more sophisticated your knowledge and tastes become, the subtler are the things you’re looking for.” (Neil Peart)
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal
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Art is the lie that helps us see the truth.
-- Pablo Picasso
