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As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write. ↗


— Natalie Goldberg


#compassion #cow #detail #examination #experience

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗


— Henry Louis Gates


#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way. ↗


— Kevin Garnett


#actually #basketball #coach #dealing #experienced

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ↗


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#awakes #bitter #consciousness #during #prosperity

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves. ↗


— Jesse James Garrett


#amount #appreciation #book #bookstores #changed

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. ↗


— Jim Garrison


#america #based #come #experience #fascism

This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whatever may be really “out there” cannot project itself as an affective experience. It is all a vacuous affair with only a chemical prestige. Nothing is either good or bad, desirable or undesirable, or anything else except that it is made so by laboratories inside us producing the emotions on which we live. And to live on our emotions is to live arbitrarily, inaccurately—imparting meaning to what has none of its own. Yet what other way is there to live? Without the ever-clanking machinery of emotion, everything would come to a standstill. There would be nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to be, and no one to know. The alternatives are clear: to live falsely as pawns of affect, or to live factually as depressives, or as individuals who know what is known to the depressive. How advantageous that we are not coerced into choosing one or the other, neither choice being excellent. One look at human existence is proof enough that our species will not be released from the stranglehold of emotionalism that anchors it to hallucinations. That may be no way to live, but to opt for depression would be to opt out of existence as we consciously know it. ↗


— Thomas Ligotti


#emotion #the-horror #experience

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature. ↗


— Martin Fleischmann


#been #disintegration #experiment #fact #found

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing. ↗


— Martin Fleischmann


#cheap #doing #expensive #experiments #necessarily

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose. ↗


— John T. Flynn


#itself #lies #lose #military #peril






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