The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting. Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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Quote:- the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
Author:- Charles Bukowski
Category:- time
Quote:- The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".
Author:- Stefan Molyneux
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The top is ever lonely when you value the relationships that you’ve built on the climb.
Author:- Noel DeJesus
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The top of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain!
Author:- Ankit Jamwal
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The torment of not building friendships in families can last for a lifetime.
Author:- John Arthur
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
Author:- Richard Dawkins
Category:- science
Quote:- The totalitarian regimes of the 20th century give us the starkest examples of such insanity. Stalin persecuted genetics researchers in the 1930s and ostentatiously praised the scientist Trofim Lysenko when he claimed that genetics was a bourgeois perversion and geneticists were saboteurs. The resulting crop failures killed millions. For an encore, Stalin ordered the killing of the statistician in charge of the 1937 census, Olimpiy Kvitkin. Kvitkin’s crime was that his census revealed a fall in population as a result of that famine. Telling that truth could not be forgiven.In May, the great crop scientist Yuan Longping died at the age of 90. He led the research effort to develop the hybrid rice crops that now feed billions of people. Yet in 1966, he too came very close to being killed as a counter-revolutionary during China’s cultural revolution.In western democracies we do things differently. Governments do not execute scientists; they sideline them. Late last year, Undark magazine interviewed eight former US government scientists who had left their posts in frustration or protest at the obstacles placed in their way under the presidency of Donald Trump.Then there are the random acts of hostility on the street and the death threats on social media. I have seen Twitter posts demanding that certain statisticians be silenced or hunted down and destroyed, sometimes for doing no more than publishing graphs of Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations. Even when this remains at the level of ugly intimidation, it is horrible to hear about and must be far worse to experience. It is not something we should expect a civil servant, a vaccine researcher or a journalist to have to endure. And it would be complacent to believe that the threats are always empty.
Author:- Tim Harford
Category:- science
Quote:- The touch of your fingersgrazing minedelicate asa single drop of winein a crystal goblet.Rolling it round,I savor it on my tongue,try tomake it lastforever.The words Iloveyouform in the airand melt. Your palm againstmy cheek,light asa snowflake.
Author:- Eve Merriam "Love Letters Unmailed"
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The toughest war of life is-When someone combats between his brain and heart.
Author:- Ahmod Nusaiba Nawar
Category:- best
Quote:- The townspeople took the prince for deadWhen he never returned with the dragon’s headWhen with her, he stayedShe thought he’d be too afraidBut he loved her too much instead.
Piety, Dragon Poems
Author:- Jess C. Scott
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.—
Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
Author:- P.A. Speers
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The traditional American war movie treats war as episodic and unusual, but here the voice-overs by Train elevate such violence and destruction to permanent metaphysical status. This is another reason why the narrative framework of the genre is invoked only to be refused.
Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form
Author:- Robert B. Pippin
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
Author:- Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The tragedy of life is - that everything falls for it.
Author:- Laura Chouette
Category:- Life
Quote:- The tragedy of my life, and curse, is that I have all this love to give and no one to give it to.
Author:- H.L. Sudler
Category:- best
Quote:- The tragedy of not building friendships in families can be generational.
Author:- John Arthur
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The tragedy of some relationships was realizing how much healthier you are without them.
Author:- Jeffrey Fry
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The Transhumanist Party aims to motivate and mobilize both female and male scientists and engineers to take on additional responsibilities as rational politicians. It does not mean replacing democracy with technocracy. It means that our government needs help in making the right policies and investing in science, health, and technology for the improvement of the human condition and the long-term survival of the human race.
The Transhumanism Handbook
Author:- Newton Lee
Category:- science
Quote:- The Transhumanist Party offers the most inclusive ideology for all ethnicities and races, the religious and the atheists, conservatives and liberals, the young and the old regardless of socioeconomic status, gender identity, or any other individual qualities.
The Transhumanism Handbook
Author:- Newton Lee
Category:- science