#co

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth. - Shinichi Kudo ↗

— Gosho Aoyama

#detective-conan #mystery-suspense #suspense

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#economics

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#politics #witty #alcohol

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#self-esteem #survival #self-esteem

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

#narcotics #self-esteem #self-pity #self-esteem

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#church #escape #accomplishments

‎"I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing. ↗

— Billy Graham

#victory #faith

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#drugs #ecstasy #empathy

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#drinking #alcohol

Holly is alive,' thought Foaly 'My princess lives,'exulted Orion. 'And we're chasing a dragon ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#atlantis-complex #foaly-the-centaur #orion #dragons