#cia

Playing an instrument is its own reward. Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. ↗

— Peter James West

#humour #music #musician #music

Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice". ↗

— David Stewart

#health #medicine #physician #science #nature

...God was like the best musician in the world, because he put together all the sounds of nature and gave people like Jimi Hendrix his fingers and John Lennon his brain. ↗

— John Corey Whaley

#music #musicians #music

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England. ↗

— George Orwell

#leftists #socialism #nature

By bringing together people who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, social media has the potential to transform the workplace into an environment where learning is as natural as it is powerful. ↗

— Marcia Conner

#learning #organizational-culture #social-media #workplace-wisdom #nature

I'm 100% natural. No silicon, no synthetic hormones or steroids, no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives. ↗

— Jayde Scott

#natural #nature

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial." From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths ↗

— Kirk D. Sinclair

#human-nature #nature

The darkness that exists online is not a property that lurks inside our servers and our cyberdildonics; it is inside the people who have found an outlet that exists to express themselves---for both good and evil (and sexy stuff in between). To say that the Internet is an entity that threatens human society, morality, and nature is naive at best and an expression of displaced blame at worst. ↗

— Audacia Ray

#nature

White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions ↗

— David Porush

#magic #natural #real #nature

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#ends-and-means #social-living #nature