#dom

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? ↗

— Norman Douglas

#platitudes #save #wisdom

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ↗

— Zhuang Zi

#generous #great #impassioned #petty #small

A brick could be used as a dream stimulator. Just tap it gently against your forehead. And if the mechanism gets stuck, just slam it down on your skull to jar everything loose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

A brick could be used to assuage your sense that life isn't real. Hold it in your hands and say, This is not a dream.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill. ↗

— Howard Finster

#building #chapel #could #dome #done

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#country #far #heaven #kingdom #last

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#being #courageous #domestically #go #government

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#born #culture #democracy #exist #forget

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#citizen #consumption #democratic #equality #fraternity

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

#domination #fall #false #manliness #mastery