Tolstoy

“The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Devil

Across the Frontiers

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers

Tis the season

"Tis the season, fer Friut-Kake, egg-snog, & Nut-Sack-krackin---- Holiday-FUN!"~

PETE Best~Beatles drummer

Hunter

“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

 

 

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Candide

“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.” ― Voltaire, Candide

Alexis de Tocqueville

“Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”― Alexis de Tocqueville

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”― Thomas Jefferson

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of people towards one another.” ― Sigmund Freud

Totalitarianism

“Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us al

l and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way. and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while folks who know much........ say little.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alfred de Vigny

“I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance” ― Alfred de Vigny, Stello

"It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

impressed by how unimpressive

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

ARTist-ism

“Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and uberman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

AI Outsmarts IQ

“Sentences that begin with 'You' are probably not true. For instance, when I write: "You are a pet human named Morlock being disciplined by your master, a Beowulf cluster of FreeBSD 22.0 servers in the year 2052. Last week you tried to escape by digging a hole under the perimeter, which means this week you may be put to sleep for being a renegade human.">>>That's not true, at least not yet.”
― Richard Dooling, Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ

Statue of Bigotry

Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I'll piss on 'em
that's what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to deathand get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard ~ Lou Reed

Icewine

Icewine should not be paired with desserts that are sweeter than the wine itself as it may detract from taste and experience. Cheese pairs brilliantly with Icewine as the opposing flavors balance each other nicely.

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say, 'I don't take any shit!' and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him.” ― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men ” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha_Dick

“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” ― Fidel Castro

Dylan Thomas

“Do not go gentle into that good night,>Old age should burn and rave at close of day;>Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ― Dylan Thomas

I, Claudius

“I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate”― Robert Graves, I, Claudius

FEET-shoes?

“When the immense drugged universe explodes
In a cascade of unendurable colour
And leaves us gasping naked,
This is no more than the ectasy of chaos:
Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love
Which alone, as we know certainly, restores
Fragmentation into true being.

Ecstasy of Chaos”
― Robert Graves, Poems 1965-1968

 

Dylan Thomas

“Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.” ― Dylan Thomas

Jeremiah- hits 10,080

“Life is ours to be spent, not to--------be saved.” ― D.H. Lawrence

'Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth, it shall fall upon the head of the wicked' (Jeremiah 30:23) * hits-10,080

Paul Éluard

“There is another world and it is in this one. ” ― Paul Éluard

FALL-2012

“[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.” ― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

Roy Cross-artist

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”― Yukio Mishima

B-58 Hustler-artist Roy Cross

Crusader

“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”― William Blake

Did you know that "Nose" is a winetaster's term for both aroma and bouquet. To "Nose" a wine is to smell it.

“You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.” ― W.H. Auden

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“Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Foolish people always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.” ― J. P. Vinluca, Aiko and the Dragon

“If you say that you never lie in life,-you honestly insult my intelligence.” ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

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“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.” ― Voltaire

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“If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. ” ― Alvin Toffler

Vegan

“A verb is something Good to eat.”~V.Vegan

Chomsky

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.” ― Noam Chomsky

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“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.” ― William Faulkner, Mosquitoes

Hitchens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqITwSOXX2g&feature=related

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian