#kin

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN ↗

— Frank I. Luntz

#art

My dad said to me a few years ago: "There's no harm in thinking." We were talking about Crazy Uncle Albert and whether it was right to use your brain to build weapons. He said, "You can't expect people not to think. Not to know things just because they COULD be bad." I said, "Yeah, but then they built it and a hundred thousand people died." My dad laughed and said there were a lot of steps between the thinking and the doing. Which I know, duh. All I was saying is that when you think of doing something, you don't always know the consequences. For a while people THOUGHT about building the bomb, but nothing happened. In the end it was a lot of different people doing a lot of different things, most of which had nothing to do with the bomb, that did make it happen. I think about that sometimes. Who was the person who had the first thought, the one that started it all? And after they had the thought, what was the first thing they did? I know my uncle never thought, Hey, all this great science- one day I'll use it to kill a whole bunch of people. You just look at his picture; he's not that kind of person. And yet, I guess in a way he sort of is. ↗

— Mariah Fredericks

#head-games #judith-ellis #mariah-fredericks #thinking #science

Today, I look forward and I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness. ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#design

You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#mockingjay #peeta #smile

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. ↗

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#talking #relationships

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#liquor #poetry #sadness #sad

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#advice #either #else #give #kind

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#deeds #kindness #acting

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#strategy #thinking #action

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#kinky #suggestive #different