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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any — Alice Walker
Lady Penelope Quotes
Parker: “Looks pretty dark in there, m’lady. Better go easy.”
Lady P: “Don’t worry, Parker…I have no intention of even laddering my stockings!”
"Let us not hold ourselves above others. To see how we are all of one family is compassion" - Ming-Dao Deng
"𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝟷𝟶,𝟶𝟶𝟶 𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚗𝚘 𝚟𝚊𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝚒𝚏 𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝."
─ 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘈𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘴 (attribution uncertain)
For a moment the rank felt as though they had just returned from single-handedly conquering a distant province. They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.
(Guards Guards)
"Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin.
"And what happened?" pressed Ford.
"It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
-- Laurie Anderson
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
A great August Spies quote to go with the Albert Parsons one on the anniversary of the haymarket affair.
"But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out."
--- August Spies
“Your slavery is their liberty, your poverty is their prosperity...Peace is their ruin,...by war they are enriched...Peace is their war, peace is their poverty”
― Christopher Hill
One of my favorite Albert Parsons quote for the anniversary of the haymarket affair
"Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law."
--- Albert Parsons
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
― Albert Einstein
What do you think of this quote?
Maybe the block and mute functions are stronger then we imagine.
I can be upset that roses have thorns or I can celebrate that thorns have roses.
-- Anonymous
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Sub-editors. Bastards. What about all that copy of his they'd cut? Fifteen years of research he'd filed from one planet alone and they'd cut it to two words. "Mostly harmless." The finger to them as well.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
-- Thomas Szasz
At the center of an uncertain and possibly illusionary universe there would always be tea.