#ai

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain ↗

— Tony-Paul de Vissage

#knowledge #learning #life #mark-twain #life

I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#life #trust #unfair #unfairness #unfairness-of-life

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all. ↗

— David Carradine

#bound #death #get #i #inconvenience

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#cannot #change #current #entertainment #escape

Failure is the sourness that makes success All the more sweeter. ↗

— Joshua Wisenbaker

#life #success #life

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind. ↗

— Al Green

#camera #could #everything #film #i

Life is a condition filled with ups and downs. There will be always 'if', in a life. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #life

Know this: I, Mercurius, have here set down a full, true and infallible account of the Great Work. But I give you fair warning that unless you seek the true philosophical gold and not the gold of the vulgar, unless you heart is fixed with unbending intent on the true Stone of the Philosophers, unless you are steadfast in your quest, abiding by God’s laws in all faith and humility and eschewing all vanity, conceit, falsehood, intemperance, pride, lust and faint-heartedness, read no farther lest I prove fatal to you. For I am the watery venomous serpent who lies buried at the earth’s centre; I am the fiery dragon who flies through the air. I am the one thing necessary for the whole Opus. I am the spirit of metals, the fire which does not burn, the water which does not wet the hands. If you find the way to slay me you will find the philosophical mercury of the wise, even the White Stone beloved of the Philosophers. If you find the way to raise me up again, you will find the philosophical sulphur, that is, the Red Stone and Elixir of Life. Obey me and I will be your servant; free me and I will be your friend. Enslave me and I am a dangerous enemy; command me and I will make you mad; give me life and you will die. ↗

— Patrick Harpur

#elixir-of-life #hermeticism #mercurius #mercury #philosopher-s-stone

If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom, then God cannot in any sense intend that all shall be saved, as 1 Timothy 4:10 declares. The promise of glory is conditional on grace being received by faith active in love. ↗

— Thomas C. Oden

#calvinism #election #god-s-love #jesus #salvation

You must live a very free life." "Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!" "Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a lot, but...I lived in a room at a university, and my whole world was in that little room. There was this world inside my head." De la Fitte studied his head as if she could see through his skull to a little globe inside it somewhere. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#america #engineer #fire #london #pirates