#ran

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#another #anything #been #cannot #conceive

I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#accepted #appearance #bad #certain #certain way

I mean, I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#accepted #appearance #bad #certain #certain way

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#arms #awakening #corpse #danced #doubt

Goals transform a random walk into a chase. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#goals #into #random #transform #walk

BLOODY LIPS The bloody wound Of the gladiator Gurgles out life's end. The cries of acclimations from the stands Fill the sky with raging tigers. Waving their arms about to incite the masses The aging notables add an air of dignity to the arena. Making their separate entries they K N E E L over the still-warm corpses Of the young. Their withered lips they pose Upon the fresh flowing wounds And, to prolong their lives – so they believe, Suck, ravenously suck out the blood, blood, blood. Fresh blood from the sun Flowing into filthy veins As into sewage pipes, And thus the Heart of the Nation is abandoned. ↗

— Visar Zhiti

#bloodsport #gladiators #oppression #tyranny #vampire

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. ↗

— Anthony Hope

#cramps #i #i wish #ignorance #little

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. ↗

— William Dampier

#august #clean #fathom #half #into

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#away #basic #basic things #being #duped

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age. ↗

— Howard Fast

#the-immigrants #age