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Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos. ↗


— R.J. Leahy


#noir #science-fiction #freedom

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. ↗


— Mandy Hale


#friends #friendship #knowing-your-worth #love #not-settling

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you. ↗


— Joe Vigil


#born-to-run #christopher-mcdougall #folly #greed #running

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others ↗


— Iain Banks


#dystopia #greed #indictment #morality #nihilistic

But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine. ↗


— E.M. Forster


#nature

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice. ↗


— Dan Wells


#science-fiction #young-adult #science

The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does. ↗


— Bernard Beckett


#you-ve-been-warned #media

Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people in headphones sat at a bank of machines: the blind and the illiterate force-fed with ‘opportunities’ by soothing machine voices. On the far wall, in large print, a poster declared: BEGGARS CANNOT BE CHOOSERS. ↗


— Mark Cantrell


#science-fiction #social-justice #totalitarian-system-mechanisms #unemployment #welfare

I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here? ↗


— Tom Sizemore


#before #break #children #go #going

When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky. ↗


— Michael Welch


#anywhere #go #great #i #just






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