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Thursday, January 26, 2023

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Men at Work

 "I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me and yet assure myself and others that I feel sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible... except by getting off his back" - Leo Tolstoy

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Chickens!

 "Only an introvert can see the unfathomable stupidity of man." - Carl Jung

Into the deep end of the pool

 "Remember two things:

1. That everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period.

2. That the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing.  

The present is all that you can give up, since that is all that you have.  And what you do not have, you cannot lose." - Marcus Aurelius

Friday, January 20, 2023

Passings

 "Death is beautiful when seen to be a law and not an accident.  It is as common as life." - Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Net Positive Suction Head

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always always certain of themselves, while wiser people are filled with doubt." - Bertrand Russell

Saturday, January 14, 2023

A bit of everything

 "The wisest are most annoyed at the loss of time." - Dante Alighieri

Sociology - A perspective on Anomie and Strain Theory

 "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.  It is up to you to give life meaning." - Jean Paul Sartre

Friday, January 13, 2023

RIP Jeff Beck 1944-2023

 Gonna miss ya dude...  

The Jazz/Fusion era was incredible and amazing.





Sagging

 "Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than its capital." - Murray Gell-Mann

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Fanning

 "Beware of false knowledge.  It is more dangerous than ignorance." - George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

New Year 2023 Post

 "For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?" - Epictetus