#ox

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#box #crime #great #hands #his

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#been #bunch #cnn #dumb #exception

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#i #oxford #parents #prove #succeed

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#any #box #encouraging #enthusiastic #evidence

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#found #hurt #hurts #i #more

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? ↗

— George Carlin

#humour #paradox #humor

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#escape #freedom #intoxication #reality #freedom

Demon pox, oh demon pox Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town Until one is very tired. Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all along— Not the pox, you foolish blocks, I mean this very song— For I was right, and you were wrong!" "Will!" Charlotte shouted over the noise, "Have you LOST YOUR MIND? CEASE THAT INFERNAL RACKET! Jem—" Jem, rising to his feet, clapped his hands over Will's mouth. "Do you promise to be quiet?" he hissed into his friend's ear. Will nodded, blue eyes blazing. Tessa was staring at him in amazement; they all were. She had seen Will many things—amused, bitter, condescending, angry, pitying—but never giddy before. Jem let him go. "All right, then." Will slid to the floor, his back against the armchair, and threw up his arms. "A demon pox on all your houses!" he announced, and yawned. "Oh, God, weeks of pox jokes," said Jem. "We're in for it now. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#pox #will #right

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#black #boxing #each #lot #men

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#criticism #endures #even #even worse #fox