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"Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. That’s the only advice you can give anybody. And it’s not advice, it’s an observation."
James Baldwin
if you assume you make an ass of u and me
Education is experience and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
-- T H White
"Why did I follow him...? I don't know. Why do things happen as they do in dreams? All I know is that, when he beckoned... I had to follow him. From that moment, we traveled together, East. Always... into the East."
"To infinity and beyond"
-- Buzz
“Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you, cry.. and I’ll give you something to cry about you little bastard.” -Jeff Goldblum - The Great White Hype
Some mountains are scaled, others are slain.
"these problems are the good ones to have." from an atmosphere song, where they got it form idk. but whenever im feeling like shits going south i remember this and it reminds me that its not all so bad.
We were shown an A&E biography episode on Ray Crock my freshman year of high school for career class and they quoted the dude as saying
If my competitors were drowning in a sea of gasoline, I would throw in a lit match.
Milkshake man was ice fuckin' cold!
As one door closes, another opens on the shit-chute to hell
Don't be a dick
-Ismo Leikola, stand-up comedian
@zinklog "History loves repeat itself" With Covid , Wars and even daily life you see this so so many times. On big or little scales but this is a almost mantra to me " History is spiral it always comes back to point x" Sometimes it's scary because you know exactly what happened and what happening now can happen again...
Im not wild about this because to often I see folks use something like it to imply something we face now is no big deal due to a false analogy. Like covid with spanish flu. I.E. - I don't need to mask or vaccinate because we got through the spanish flu. Not taking into account its not as bad because of vaccines but without them it is actually a worse disease and that pictures clearly show folks used masks for the spanish flu. Its not just that but with climate change implying it just seems like the end like the cold war but they are completely different issues with different possibilities for solutions.
If you get down, you can always get up again.
A joke calender in the 80s told me that "Ich habe mein stammwappen verloren" means "I have lost my totem pole"