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CALVIN: Hobbes, do you think our morality is defined by our actions, or by what’s in our hearts?
HOBBES: I think our actions show what’s in our hearts.
CALVIN: (after consideration) I resent that!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1990-10-18)

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Boldly.Blue 6d ago

Why the Best Dystopias Start with Good Intentions
https://boldly.blue/why-the-best-dystopias-start-with-good-intentions/
The most credible dystopias are not built by monsters — they are built by people who believed they were solving problems. This pillar post examines how safety, order, efficiency, and protection become the vocabulary of oppression.
#DystopianFiction #GoodIntentions #WorldBuilding #ScienceFiction #NarrativeCraft

Why the Best Dystopias Start with Good Intentions - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

The most dangerous dystopias in fiction do not begin with villains. They begin with doctors, mayors, and engineers who promised safety. Five case studies — from Woodbury to the Village, from the Silo to the Joining — and three pillars of social psychology reveal why paradise so often becomes a prison built by hands that believed they were building a home.

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Dave Muth Jan 8

RE: https://mas.to/@kissane/115771219606234540

Thank you so much, Erin! You are a writer and poster supreme! I love your websites too. They are fascinating and engaging:
https://www.wrecka.ge/
and
https://erinkissane.com

#Reporting #GoodWriting #GoodIntentions #Earthquakes #Tsunamis #Salvage #Networks #PublicHealth #Politics and MUCH else besides.

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 18

A quotation from Ben Franklin

’Tis easy to frame a good bold resolution;
But hard is the Task that concerns execution.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1743 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/80…

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Poor Richard (1743 ed.) - Franklin, Benjamin | WIST Quotations

’Tis easy to frame a good bold resolution; But hard is the Task that concerns execution.

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Prism & Pen Oct 15

Earlier this summer, I wore a black hat to my city’s Dyke March.
Across the front, in bold rainbow letters, it said MAGA. Below it, the punchline read Make America Gay Again.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/why-i-wore-a-maga-hat-to-pride-and-won-t-do-it-again-75851f78ce4b?sk=f796095d44c514669f2a7410f2166af1

#LGBTQ #Pride #MAGA #GoodIntentions #Division

Why I Wore a ‘MAGA’ Hat to Pride — and Won’t Do It Again

Good intentions meet a climate of division — what happened when my Pride joke backfired

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Tracey S Sep 6, 2025

In an attempt to actually play all the boardgames I own rather than keep replaying sporadically the couple we know how to play I treated myself to the Boardgame Stats app. I was pleasently surprised by how easy it was to catalogue all of the games I own and I love the random game button if I'm struggling to think of something to play. We are aiming to make Saturday nights Boardgame and PC co-op game night

#GoodIntentions #BGStats #Boardgames

Bobber Brothers Jul 5, 2025

We all have that corner of the garage where good intentions go to rest. The projects that seemed brilliant at 2 AM but somehow never quite came together in daylight.

Tag someone whose parts collection tells stories of abandoned dreams. We've all been there.

What's your longest-running unfinished project? Some builds take decades to find their moment.

#projectgraveyard #goodintentions #bobberculture #somedaymaybe

🎥 👉 @lnspltblvd

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 14, 2025

A quotation from Will Rogers

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do — well, that’s Memoirs.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Essay (1932-03-12), “Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to Senator Borah,” Saturday Evening Post

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76180/

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Essay (1932-03-12), "Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to Senator Borah," Saturday Evening Post - Rogers, Will | WIST Quotations

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- well, that's Memoirs. William Borah (1885-1940) was a progressive Republican, but isolationist, US Senator from Idaho (1907-1940). Collected in Donald Day (ed.), The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949),…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Feb 18, 2025

A quotation from Joubert

In political institutions, almost everything we call an abuse was once a remedy.

[Presque tout ce que nous appelons un abus fut un remède dans les institutions politiques.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 18 “Du Siècle [On the Age],” ¶ 21 (1850 ed.) [tr. Auster (1983), 1813 entry]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Feb 14, 2025

A quotation from Molière

TARTUFFE: Some joys, it’s true, are wrong in Heaven’s eyes;
Yet Heaven is not averse to compromise;
There is a science, lately formulated.
Whereby one’s conscience may be liberated,
And any wrongful act you care to mention
May be redeemed by purity of intention.
I’ll teach you. Madam, the secrets of that science;
Meanwhile, just place on me your full reliance.
Assuage my keen desires, and feel no dread:
The sin, if any, shall be on my head.

[Le ciel défend, de vrai, certains contentements;
Mais on trouve avec lui des accommodements.
Selon divers besoins, il est une science
D’étendre les liens de notre conscience,
Et de rectifier le mal de l’action
Avec la pureté de notre intention.
De ces secrets, madame, on saura vous instruire ;
Vous n’avez seulement qu’à vous laisser conduire.
Contentez mon désir, et n’ayez point d’effroi ;
Je vous réponds de tout, et prends le mal sur moi.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, Act 4, sc. 5 (1664) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/65413/

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