I rarely post things that are not quotes I find inspirational. However, I feel compelled to remind anyone looking that this exists, and has existed since the 90s.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels upon the levers upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop!

Shout out to the music folks at the World Series game 3. It has been pretty great!

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” -David Mitchell

Thomas Paine: "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one;

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Often attributed to Edmund Burke who didn’t say it. Its earliest form was by John Stuart Mill, who said in 1867: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

*You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."

"Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who cloak themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged. Waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness" -Jean-Luc Picard

“The reason why the world lacks unity and lies broken and in heaps is because man is disunited with himself.” — Emerson

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -Emma Lazarus

Happy #Caturday

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. -Tennyson

Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life living true to that lie. - Robert Brault

The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Hitchen's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus

Today I'm grateful for family, friends & loved ones. Also: pie 🙏

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit; because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure - Tacitus

The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardi

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius

Four-score and two years ago, the US faced a similar crisis of conscience, and made the wrong call. Pertinent reading...

What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. - Epictetus

Tis not too late to seek a newer world. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The mind is its own place and, in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven. - John Milton - Paradise Lost

TIL finding joy in other people’s happiness is called “confelicity”. Thank you @gshutler.com

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains. - Lao Tzu

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one;

Choices made in anger cannot be undone. - Anonymous

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. - Mark Twain

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. - Nikos Kazantzakis