Inventions
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Quotes That Caught My EyeEric Hoffer
- The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
- We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
- It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
Ambrose Bierce
- Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
- To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
H.L. Mencken
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
- Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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- Make Magazine’s gift guide is pretty cool.
- Sexomnia? A bit ridiculous if you ask me. If it’s “often brought on by alcohol” how it different than intoxication?
- And from the same paper “Man Pleads Guilty In Horse-Sex Case“. The guy in question was videotaping the magic event, when evidently the horse kicked it’s human lover to death (or that was what I drew from the description). There are very strange people in the world, and they seem to find each other with great ease.