Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition: 127. Gratitude can bring on generosity
William Safire's rules for writing as seen in the New York Times Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Never, ever use repetitive redundancies. Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration. Last, but not least, avoid cliche's like the plague.
We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. ~ Albert Claude
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. ~ Michele de Montaigne
"Down where it was tangled and dark. Down where the spirits feasted on carrion. Down. Down. Down. It was there, yes, the High Hatted ones forever screamed, 'Eureka.'" -Youn's Narrows of Decline, CY 1015
Directed Acyclic Graph An arrangement of nodes connected by one-way links (think boxes connected by arrows) so arranged that it is not possible to follow the links around in a circle. ~ From the glossary of 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson
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You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations. ~ Bruno Latour
Remember, if you try to ESCAPE, many APARTMENT HOPPING ALCOHOLICS will SIMONIZE your HALLWAYS!! This is your LAST WARNING!!
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it; what is happening in America is that those parades are getting smaller and smaller -- and there are many more of them. -- John Naisbitt, "Megatrends"
I will not yell "She's dead" during roll call.
variation on a theme by shiomi a metadrama look for the vanishing smile. ~ Dick Higgins [NYC, Sept-Oct, 1985]
I dont think we give that gift anymore (the gift of silence). Im very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder. In noise, rather than silencehow do we encourage reflection? Oh my, this is a noisy world. I get up every morning at least by 5AM. I have a couple hours of quiet time, reflect about what it is important. What can we do, to encourage people to have more quiet in their lives, more silence? Real revelation comes through silence. -- Fred Rogers
Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. -- Groucho Marx
I think a good way to get in a movie is to show up where they're making the movie, then stick a big cactus plant onto your buttocks and start yowling and running around. Everyone would think it was funny, and the head movie guy would say, "Hey, let's put him in the movie." -- Jack Handey
What if my brown birthmark is my real skin and I'm actually a black man covered in a white birthmark ―KuroMakura, Feb 2016
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
The Fifth Rule: You have taken yourself too seriously.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. -- Carl Jung