which 3 quotes do you feel that you think about the most?
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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that"
"Accept that you are going to be wrong"
"Dont plan your life live it"
The first one is George Carlin, don’t know the other two 🤔
"Quitters never win and winners never quit"
"I will never be younger than this moment"
"I cannot go back and change the past, but I can start now and change the future."
“And in times of crisis, conventional wisdom becomes the absolute truth of ruling elites. It gives them the confidence to go on because it eliminates the need for thought or doubt, which in turn allows the elites to categorize any attempts at either as naïveté or treason. The average man, witness to a barbaric massacre, is left to scratch about in search of some new means of communication which will allow him to express the obvious.”
Saul, John Ralston. Voltaire's Bastards (p. 202). Free Press. Kindle Edition.
“Between the newly ordained Jesuit, the young Marxist, the fresh staff officer, Enarque or MBA, there is no appreciable difference. All five are dominated by method and each of their methods arises from a common source. Appearances suggest that there must be some serious differences among them, since they regularly do battle with each other on behalf of their countries or professions. The differences must lie, therefore, in the content which they subject to their universal method. Or perhaps their rivalry is the result of their respective interests which, if the ferocity of their battles tells us anything, differ greatly. Yet when you examine these differences or the content involved or even their respective interests, you search in vain for any remarkable contradictions. All that separates them are the positions they occupy. They defend the structural interests assigned to them by their system. And even then, if you remove the screen of ideology, the ends they seek are pretty much of a kind.”
Saul, John Ralston. Voltaire's Bastards (p. 108). Free Press. Kindle Edition.
“Because the managerial élites are now so large and have such a dominant effect on our educational system, we are actually teaching most people to manage, not to think. Not only do we not reward thought, we punish it as unprofessional.”
-John Ralston Saul
“I’ve talked about ideology and utopia as if they were one and the same. Is there no difference between them? Not really. Utopia is perhaps more of a literary term. But it expresses the real intent of the ideologue. Of course, no ideologue would be caught dead admitting to an Utopian ideal. That would imply hope when what he is delivering is truth. He doesn’t even see himself as an ideologue.”
Saul, John Ralston. The Unconscious Civilization (Kindle Locations 268-271). Free Press. Kindle Edition.
3? I love quotes 😂 I think about how I can reduce it to three
Just do four long ones like I did 😂
I’m looking forward to them 😆
If you want something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.
I deserve to be happy.
The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.
—Matty Mullins
Albert Camus:
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Ok, 4 for the beginning 🤷🏽♀️😂
Be the change you want to see
Be the change you want to see
Be the change you want to see
yeah definitely agree with this one 💜🫶
If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time.
Progress occurs one funeral at a time.
You should meditate for 15 minutes every day, unless you're too busy... in which case you should meditate for an hour every day.
Curious what the second one means and is getting at? 🤔
I think about it in terms of politics mostly. We're held back from progressing as a society by the dinosaurs at the top of the political system who refuse to cede power and continue to cling to their way of doing things, for their own benefit at the cost of everyone else. People like Biden and McConnell. We won't be able to move forward until they and others like them die. Progress occurs one funeral at a time. I remind myself of that whenever I get frustrated with the out of touch ruling class making decisions with consequences they won't live to see.
ad astra
wen moon
Homo sapiens non urinat in ventum. (seen in the porch of a building in amsterdam)