Here stands the Great Machine! Its eyes are gold and silver, and its name is Urizen. Ever does it turn, marching forward into eternity, turning the blood of men into history. Caught in its terrible gears, the world wails. Turning, turning, ever turning: The end is marked by a wheel
Apparently my future self will think it's simply hilarious to send me cryptic text messages right before major life events.
"Common Sense" is one of the great oxymorons, like "Happily Married" or "Military Intelligence".
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
-John F. Kennedy
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
-George Bernard Shaw
The only thing that applies to every physical phenomenon in the universe is the "Your Mom" joke.
Warning this is not a drill, it just feels like one because the truth is deep. Digging for gold and all we find is this damn oil and suddenly we realize we have forgotten our ladder and the hole is too deep to climb out of, we greedy basterds
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
-François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Liberty was that thing you lost when you relished being a dumb American rather than an informed world inhabitant.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Hypocrisy has saved us from many bad ideas that might otherwise have been practiced as well as preached.
MONEY DOESN'T BUY HAPPINESS. IT JUST BRIBES MISERY TO GO AWAY AND BOTHER SOMEONE ELSE FOR A WHILE.
If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe.
-Church Sign in Northern Ireland
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