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Forgiveness is a necessity in a civilised society. - Bagehot (The Economist) #fortunecookie

A man has to set limits on his magic and on himself. Setting limits is part of being a man. - Tom Badgerlock (Robin Hobb, Fool´s Errand) #fortunecookie

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example but by experience of it. — FROM THE SCROLL “VERSAAY’S USES OF PAIN” (Fools Errand, by Robin Hobb) #fortunecookie

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day. - Emmanuel Macron #fortunecookie

Part of the point of practice is making your mind a pleasant ally by deescalating the internal conflicts that your personality is currently based around as miserable-but-stable fixed points. - @RomeoStevens76/twitter #fortunecookie

The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. - "Art of the Deal" #fortunecookie

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoléon #fortunecookie

And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray on the street corners, that they may be seen by others. - Matthew 6:5 #fortunecookie

Why do I have the feeling that I just picked the most vanilla options available. Has a better ring than agnostic mystic, at least. mystic.millermanschool.com

Nuga on väga individuaalne asi. Sa saadki aru siis, kui sa selle noa kätte võtad ja temaga tööd teed, kas see on sinu jaoks hea nuga. A knife is a very personal thing. You´ll understand whether a knife is good for you if you take the knife and work with it. - Margus Tapupere #fortunecookie

Half of any trade is understanding the vocabulary and idiom that the practitioners use. - Chade (Fools Errand by Robin Hobb) #fortunecookie

Good luck, have fun, don´t die. #fortunecookie

If that ain't the perfect day for the Apocalypse...

No help is coming. So you better start saving yourself. #fortunecookie

Kогда человек паникует, им легко управлять. / People are easy to control when they panic. - A young woman in Narva #fortunecookie

One assessment does not mean the assessment is plausible. - Sean Parnell #fortunecookie

Sõber ei pea olema, aga sõbralik peab olema. / You don´t need to be a friend, but you need to be friendly. - A 3-year-old, citing kindergarten rules #fortunecookie

You can tear your hair out, but it's better to acknowledge the enemy's strengths and do just as well. - Alexander Kharchenko #fortunecookie

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it. - Jonathan Swift #fortunecookie

We are things of this world, and for this world only. Don´t let´s magnify our importance; we´re not the whole universe. - Grant Allen #fortunecookie

The central limit theorem is a mathematical truth so powerful that it often strikes newcomers as impossible, like a magic trick of nature. Through it, the most random chaos can lead to striking predictability.

A Bronze Age mound in Ukraine held a 2,000-year sequence of burials — and the Yamna people who reused it may have known exactly what they were standing on. New research from Antiquity explores what that means. @antiquity.ac.uk #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Yamna www.anthropology.net/p/a-mound-bu...

Knowledge is the enemy of faith and sometimes when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back into you. #fortunecookie

Ära mine tööle, kui oled maganud vaid tunni. / Don´t go to work with only an hour of sleep. - T, a colleague #fortunecookie

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Dwight Eisenhower

Walk any path in Destiny´s garden, and you will be forced to choose. #fortunecookie

The cylinder -- with a diameter of around 3.5 metres -- rose 13 metres into the air, but had sunk to a height of around 1.6 metres by Friday morning after workers rushed to pour water inside to help submerge it. #mystery #osaka #cylinder #japan23 #weirdnews

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. - John Ray #fortunecookie

Ask and ye shall receive. - Matthew 7:8 #fortunecookie

Some wounds can never be healed Some words can't be taken back #fortunecookie

It frustrates me that people who are so reluctant to accept that there are other species capable of complex cognition or sentience, yet so quick to assign it to their fancy autocorrect.

If it is a sin to think that rules matter, the world could do with a few more sinners. - Stanley Pignal #fortunecookie

Gallimore argues that whatever is happening to the brain during a DMT trip, it’s not mere “hallucination”. He makes the case that DMT unlocks a realm ordinarily cut off to our senses and populated by unfathomably advanced nonhuman entities. #dmt #eleusis #SETIforthemind #Nonautics #elfmachines

"Sometimes we want to live in a fake world. But that harms people.” - Malorie Mackey #fortunecookie

You know what’s better than books? Meeting and talking with people in real life. - @SmaragdinaVisio #fortunecookie

Don’t be evil. - Google of the 00´s #fortunecookie

Никто войны не минует. Ни народ, ни человек. Nobody avoids war. Not a nation, not a human. - Kапитан („Ветер / The Wind”) #fortunecookie

To be free, one must be feared. - Emmanuel Macron #fortunecookie

#fortunecookie "When you think about it every child performs a distillation attack on their parents" - @tomieinlove

"History is written by the winners." #fortunecookie