A few thoughts at the end of 2022

 "If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Neitzsche

Creepy Stuff!

 "Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living." - Mark Twain

Victorian era kerosene reflector lamp

 "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain

The Greatest Opponent Ever Faced by the ruling class: Reality

 "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain

Merry Christmas 2022

 "If you don't read the paper, you are uninformed.  If you do read the paper, you are misinformed." - Mark Twain

Thermodynamics!

 "What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?  For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, whatever years are behind us are in death's hands." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Heirloom Shotgun

 "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." - Epictetus