Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn
from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their
apparent disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams
Definition of Stress: The confusion created when one's mind
overrides the body's desire to beat or choke the living shit out
of some asshole who desperately needs it.
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more
importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other
people's values.
--Gerald Brenan
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there;
lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot
stove-lid again---and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
-- Mark Twain
"I'm convinced that, if you could decode the 'unused' bits of our DNA,
they'd read:
This is a test, please ignore
or perhaps:
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