Wisdom in SpaceNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
-- Anais Nin
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Beings ought not to be multiplied except out of necessity. (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.)
-- William of Occam (14th Century CE)
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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷The warm glow of pre-sunrise illuminates jagged sandstone needles, reflected in a slickrock pothole. #Canyonlands National Park, #Utah.
For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are view few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life...that were worth the postage.
-- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
All differences between groups have not disappeared; this is obvious. Yet they may progressively decline. Exactly for this reason, they assume increasing importance for individuals. It is the rootless, not the rooted, who fetishize their roots.
-- Russell Jacoby
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey
Travolax | Always TravelingStep into the wild desert of Moab, Utah.
If you are calculating your own creativity, then you can't create history.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel
