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IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue of any sort: This withered bud, failed In art and love. With no time left To change my course. But time enough for infinite remorse. ↗

— John Tottenham

#poetry #change

If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the story seldom did. Certainly not the action. ↗

— Charles Martin

#actors #bad-choices #bad-scenes #life-story #movie

There are 3 types of automobile drivers in this world. Chess, Checker and Solitaire players. 1. The Chess player: this person watches and anticipates other drivers moves. 2. The Checker player: this person will change lane first, then looks ahead and goes back into the lane they came from. 3. The Solitaire player: this person drives below the speed limit in the passing lane (far left lane) clueless of what is going on around them. ↗

— Peggy Janovick

#driver #factual #humor #inspirational #news

Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read many dozens of articles and books and interviewed scientists here and abroad, my thinking on the issue has changed. Planting trees may be the single most important ecotechnology that we have to put the broken pieces of our planet back together. ↗

— Jim Robbins

#the-future #trees #change

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them. ↗

— Paul Collier

#development #social-change #change

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#careers #jobs #vocation #change

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ↗

— Robert Heinlein Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land

#love #robert-heinlein #stranger-in-a-strange-land #inspirational

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold! ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#on-fiction #strange #truth #men

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Thought, experienced primarily as language, is permeated by the linguistic and perceptual values developed expressly to subordinate women. Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. No transcendence of the male system is possible as long as men have the power of naming... As Prometheus stole fire from the gods, so feminists will have to steal the power of naming from men, hopefully to better effect. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#language #men

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. ↗

— Anonymous

#nephilim #men