#ss

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

#govern #governed #grant #legitimate #only

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#doing #enjoy #had #little #little time

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something. ↗

— Owen Hart

#back to school #become #classroom #get #go

David Park is a physicist and philosopher at Williams College in Massachusetts with a lifelong interest in a time which he too thinks doesn't pass. For Park, the passage of time is not so much an illusion as a myth, "because it involves no deception of the senses.... One cannot perform any experiment to tell unambiguously whether time passes or not." This is certainly a telling argument. After all, what reality can be attached to a phenomenon that can never be demonstrated experimentally? In fact, it is not even clear how to think about demonstrating the flow of time experimentally. As the apparatus, laboratory, experimenter, technicians, humanity generally and the universe as a whole are apparently caught up in the same inescapable flow, how can any bit of the universe be "stopped in time" in order to register the flow going on in the rest of it? It is analogous to claiming that the whole universe is moving through space at the same speed—or, to make the analogy closer, that space is moving through space. How can such a claim ever be tested? ↗

— Paul Davies

#reality #scientific-method #spacetime #time #time-passing

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career. ↗

— Stacy Keach

#did #hurt #objective #possible #probably

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon; it is what consciousness is _about_ that is complex. It is presumably this fact that is the reason many scientists over the decades have tended to perceive information as something involving order and organization. Because consciousness is about an experience of order and organization. Because consciousness is a state that does not process much information - consciously. Consciousness consists of information no more than a person who consumes large amounts of food can be said to consist of food. Consciousness is nourished by information the same way the body is nourished by food. But human beings do not consist of hot dogs; they consist of hot dogs that have been eaten. Consciousness does not consist of hots dogs but consists of hot dogs that have been apprehended. That is far less complex. ↗

— Tor Nørretranders

#psychology #science #experience

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#business #companies #defend #doors #down

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#class #class family #decadent #excess #family

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. ↗

— Will Harvey

#been #better #buried #ever #every

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#crime #going #happy #lawyer #progress