#course

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#conceited #course #go #mistakes #next

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing. ↗

— Neil Postman

#elections #irrelevance #media #nate-silver #news

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse? ↗

— Gary R. Ryan

#aa #art #art-work #creativity #punishment

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse. ↗

— Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

#beauty #discourse #the-beautiful #beauty

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discourse #interpersonal-communication #love #philosophy #wisdom

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#discourse #fruit #life #where #wise

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them. ↗

— Rousseau Jean-Jacques

#freedom #liberty #weak #food

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#before #books #course #court #dukes

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful. ↗

— Charles Vest

#balanced budget #been #being #budget #close

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment. ↗

— Arvid Carlsson

#any #awkward #course #effect #local