#Timely Quotes
“We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?”
“If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.”
“You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.”
“Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.”
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“To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No farfetched or obscure statement will stop them. You have got to hit them where they live in the heart or in the head. You have got to catch their eyes or ears with something simple, something direct, something they want.”
“When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.”
“Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.”
“The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.”
Jack Kirby Artist
Melissa Joan Hart Actress
Milt Gross Cartoonist
Stan Lee Comic Book Writer
Wally Wood Writer
Walt Kelly Animator
