Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
-- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

He that does a Memorable Action, and those that Report it, are all but short-liv’d Things.
 
[Πᾶν ἐφήμερον, καὶ τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 35 (4.35) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier (1701)]

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"So I'll keep dancin' along to the rhythm
This stage is a prison, a beautiful nightmare
A war of attrition, I'll take what I'm given
The deepest incisions, I thought I got better
But maybe I didn't" ....

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers." ― James Baldwin #quotes

"𝙸𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚍, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎."

─ 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘯

A quotation from Banksy

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

Banksy (b. 1974) England-based pseudonymous street artist, political activist, film director
Wall and Piece, “Art,” “Making an Exhibition of Yourself” (2005)

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A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

’T were a dull old world, methinks, my friend,
   If we all just went one way;
Yet our paths will meet no doubt at the end,
   Though they lead apart today.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1879), “Advice,” st. 4, Maurine and Other Poems (1882 ed.)

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There are several ways to look at knowledge, either for its own sake or to entertain or for truth.

Mary Rose Oakar

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

I do not myself think that there is any superior rationality in being unhappy. The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 2 “Byronic Unhappiness” (1930)

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"Come," said Slartibartfast, "you are to meet the mice."

A quotation from Thomas Fuller

Neither hate the Man for his Vice: nor love the Vice for the Man’s sake.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 1841 (1727)

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dos cosas me admiran: la inteligencia de las bestias y la bestialidad de los hombres

---Flora Tristán

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
-- Joseph Joubert

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“Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”
― C.G. Jung

“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” ― Hannah Arendt #quotes

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