Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks.
James Clear

#JamesClear #quote #quotes #AtomicHabits #nonfiction #book #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #selfimprovement #amreading #booktok

#movies #quotes

🤗🩵🐺🩶🤍💮🐶🐺🩶🤍💮🐶🩵🐺🩶🤍💮🐺🩶🤍💮🐶🩵🩶🤍🩵🤗*"When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you!"🤗🩵🐺🩶🤍💮🐺🩶🤍💮🐶🩵🐺🩶🤍💮🐶🐺🩶🤍💮🐶🩵🐺🩶🤍💮🐺🩶🤍💮🐶🩵🤗

~ Dr. Seuss

#Quotes #about #wisdom #and #Whimsy

🤗💛🧡🩶💛🧡🩶💛🧡🩶💛🤗"When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you!"🤗💛🧡🩶💛🧡🩶💛🧡🩶💛🤗

~ Dr. Seuss

#Quotes #about #wisdom #and #Whimsy

🤗🍥🌀🍥🌀🍥🌀🤗"When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you!"🤗🍥🌀🍥🌀🍥🌀🍥🌀🤗

~ Dr. Seuss

#Quotes #about #wisdom #and #Whimsy

“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
― Philip K. Dick

#quotes

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

#InternationalWorkersDay #LabourDay #MayDay #quotes

#movies #racing #ford #ferrari #quotes

#^https://utmost.org/modern-classic/have-i-slandered-god

#quotes #truth

“Women who carry water for the patriarchy just so they can have a slightly longer leash and stand a few rungs up in oppression from other women, particularly marginalized women, make me a special kind of angry. Being master's favorite dog is still having a master and being a dog.“
—Allison Floyd

#feminism #quotes #women #patriarchy #resistance

#movies #quotes #johnwick

#movies #quotes #war

#movies #quotes #matrix

Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
[...]
Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,

For you only, and not for him and her?

~ Walt Whitman, "I Sing the Body Electric," 1855

#quote #quotes #poetry #humility #waltwhitman

"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous....

"With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck."

Thomas Jefferson, 1822

#skepticism #faith #science #criticalthinking #absurdity #ushistory #thomasjefferson #quote #quotes #quotation

"That squirrel's doing parkour"

- 9 year old genius that I just overheard

#quote #quotes #nature #squirrelsofmastodon

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Gray squirrel looking alert

“‘Cause me and her go way back like spinal cords and car seats.”

#tv #30rock #quotes

#parenting #teachers #roalddahl #movies #quote #quotes #dialogue #kids

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Trunchbull: My school is a model of discipline. "Use the rod, beat the child". That's my motto. Harry: Terrific motto. Trunchbull: Do you have any brats for yourself? Harry: Yeah, I got a boy, Mikey, and one mistake, Matilda. Trunchbull: They're all mistakes, children. Filthy and nasty things. I'm glad I never was one. Matilda (the movie)

"Poetry must be read to be poetry. It may be that one reader is all that I deserve. If this is so, I want that reader to be you."

William Saroyan
1939

#poetry #read #1930s #quote #quotes #quotation

P.G. Wodehouse disproves the theory that if *every* page is a highlight, then the book has *no* highlights.

He didn't care how unimportant a given scene was, in terms of the big plot or themes; why not make it shine anyway?

#books #pgwodehouse #englishliterature #quotes #dialogue #read

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an excerpt from a PG Wodehouse novel that I can't copy and paste right now

#nokings #protest #boston #massachusetts #quote #quotes #quotation

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Justice is love on legs, spilling over into the public sphere Cornel West

These sentences made my day. And it's still morning!

The last phrase is murky even in context – does it mean justice has entirely run out? or that justice hasn't grown to compensate for the loss of magic & beauty? The ambiguity works better.

(from a collection of scifi and fantasy stories, https://openlibrary.org/books/OL36884216M/Africa_Risen )

#nigerianwriter #nigeria #afrofuturism #scifi #FantasyFiction #quote #quotes #quotation #books

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Papa must have known then what Edim now knew, that his would be a life apart. For the world had grown too hard for magic, too rough for beauty, and there was no more justice in it. Chinelo Onwualu, 2022

"Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do."

~ Hercule Poirot
(Agatha Christie, 1935)

#quote #quotes #quotation #psychology #necessity #agathachristie

#^My jar of goodies— Observe, reflect, engage

NOTHING STAYS THE SAME ...

#blogging #writing #quotes

I really like this #quote about trusting younger people even when you think they're off track. Voltairine de Cleyre was 41, and a veteran organizer, when she wrote:

"Progress has to do with all mankind, not alone with the calm, the wise, and the patient. There is youth in the world, and youth is generally neither calm nor patient; it does not like to sit in the rear rows and listen to mature considerations rendered in the tone of a stock-market quotation concerning questions that are burning up its heart ….

"There is feeling in the world, and a very great quantity of it; and those who do the suffering and the sympathizing may be expected to say and to do many things not within the limits of logic."

Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist and feminist, 1907

#genz #youth #activism #quotes #Anarchism #genalpha #ushistory

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Sepia portrait of a young white woman c.1900 with curly hair and an expression of serene determination

Beauty is all around us. I just encountered this quote today

#quote #quotes #popculture #beauty #JukeboxFridayNight #brunomars #poetry #inspiration #weekend #dance #gratitude

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Inspirational poster style image of a calm ocean at dusk. Superimposed in the sky is the quote: first, may I just say that your face got me so intrigued? I'm so intrigued But what good is beauty if your booty can't find the beat? Bruno Mars, 2026

#quote #quotes #nostalgia #history #quotation

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It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of it coming back. Bill Vaughn

#carriefisher #quote #quotes #quotation #starwars #jokes #oneliner

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Things are getting worse faster than I can lower my standards. Carrie Fisher

#5 might be disproved by the social media age: we keep right on "speaking," despite the collapse of privacy and context.

BUT it doesn't matter if 5 is false, because 2 is true

#philosophy #artoflivingwell #wisdom #skeptic #humility #courage #dontworry #equanimity #quote #quotes #quotation #France

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“A few precepts to repeat whenever you are in need of comfort,” by Gabriel Hanotaux, French minister of foreign affairs from 1894 to 1895: Anything can happen. Everything is forgotten. Every difficulty can be overcome. No one understands anything. If everyone knew what everyone said about everyone, no one would speak to anyone. “Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.” (Via André Maurois’ The Art of Living, 1939.)

Rich conservatives in the US used to be more honest about their beliefs. 200 years ago this month, Sen. John Randolph of Virginia opposed sending a delegate to the first meeting of newly-independent Latin American nations. His specific reason was racial:

"[Shall an American sit] beside the native African ... the mixed breeds, the Indians, and the half breeds, without any offense or scandal?"

"These principles – that all men are born free and equal – I can never assent to, for the best of all reasons, because it is not true .... A most pernicious falsehood, even though I find it in the Declaration of Independence."
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#ushistory #conservative #quote #quotes #quotation #latinamerica #whitesupremacy

When evil forces seize power, you can expect tyranny, brutality , and disaster.

Mouloud Benzadi

#quote #quotes #rightwing

White-collar professionals also use prescription #drugs such as Provigil, Ritalin, and Adderall to boost their intelligence and attentiveness.

Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

#quote #quotes

It can be funny when a sentence is translated and becomes much longer or shorter. Sometimes it's just a quirk of grammar, but sometimes the translator is using poetic license.

This is from "A Handbook of Kannada Proverbs, with English Equivalents" (1912) by Narasinga Rao. The other entries seem to be about equal length in Kannada and English, but here are two full sentences in the original boiled down to only five words. I wish the author had included a transliteration too, not just an "equivalent." What was culturally analogous to "Fame is a magnifying glass" in southern India a century ago?

#india #translation #kanneda #dravidian #proverbs #OldBooks #quote #quotes #quotation

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screenshot of an old book with three lines of dravidian text, including periods and commas, followed by "Fame is a magnifying glass" in English

You'll have the right to be angry about Vault 7 only after you boycott dragnet #surveillance data providers like Google, Microsoft, Skype, Facebook and LinkedIn. The true threat is coming from the private sector surveillance profiteers.

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

#quote #quotes

In the era of #surveillance of the masses, I like to use phrases like terrorists, assassinate, bomb, explosions, attack, weapons of mass destruction, and so on in my on-line activities to screw up the automated government surveillance software.

Steven Magee

#quote #quotes

In a world where digital shadows loom larger than ever, Bronva emerged as a sanctuary against the encroachment of #surveillance. Inspired by the revelations of Edward Snowden, I felt compelled to create a haven where online privacy isn't a luxury but a fundamental right.

James William Steven Parker

#quote #quotes

@ceoln Few #quotes from your link: https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/a-little-information-archaeology/

➡️ “I used to think of the world as layers of power, layers of power stacked above me. The town, the county, the crown, the bankers and brokers and multinationals, the shadowy organizations behind and above them.”

➡️ “And I felt smothered by them, smothered! Unable to move, or breathe, resenting all that piled above me, weighing me down.”

hashtags: #power #state #country #crown #bankers #brokers #organizations #FreeSchool

#AltText picture = Onion Layers representing power - a half cut onion showing the rings in rings inside or layers inside layers.

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Onion Layers representing power - a half cut onion showing the rings in rings inside or layers inside layers.

🐢 a nice little poem about turtles 🐢

"The Terrapin", by Wendell Berry

The terrapin and his house are one.
Though he may go, he’s never gone.

He’s housed within, from nose to toe:
A door, a floor, and no window.

There’s little room; the light is dim;
His furniture is only him.

He doesn’t speak what he thinks about;
Where no guest comes, a thought’s a shout.

He pokes along; he’s in no haste:
He has no map and no suitcase;

He has no worries and no woes,
For where he is is where he goes.

Ponder this wonder under his dome
Who, wandering, is always home.

#wendellberry #turtles #turtle #poem #poetry #quotes #quotation #nature #mindfulness

What is Monnett? Everything to know about the European social media app going viral amid alleged censorship on TikTok in the US

“Right now, we have algorithms manipulating what we see. We have bot farms manipulating what we see through bad actors and there's a consortium of oligarchs that seems determined to undo our democracy and get to shape what we think is uh is the opinion of others around us.”

Christos Floros, Monnett

https://www.soapcentral.com/pop-culture/news-what-monnett-everything-know-european-social-media-app-going-viral-amid-alleged-censorship-tiktok-us

#SocialMedia
#Europe
#Monnett
#quotes

I think it's true - the reaction most of us feel against a Bad Other is stronger than our impulse to pursue any Good; at least when it comes to cooperating with other people.

It's significant, too, that he wrote this in the middle of Cold War polarization and not long after the Second World War.

#psychology #demonization #demonisation #religion #atheism #politicalphilosophy #erichoffer #quote #quotes #quotation

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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Eric Hoffer, 1951

You have to stop worrying about whether people like you. Some people don't even like themselves.

Andrena Sawyer

#quote #quotes

#grief #philosophy #mystic #Switzerland #quote #quotes #quotation #depression #genius

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Without grief – which is the string of this venturesome kite – man would soar too quickly and too high, and the chosen souls would be lost for the [human] race, like balloons which, save for gravitation, would never return…. Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1852