"I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley."

-- Little Richard

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“I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.”
“Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.”
“Dealing with ads is depressing. You donâ€™t make anyoneâ€™s life better by making advertisements work better.”

Source : "Exclusive: The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby" by Parmy Olson, www.forbes.com. February 19, 2014.
“The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.”

Source : Thomas Watson (1692). “A Body of Practical Divinity: Consisting of Above 176 Sermons on the Lesser Catechism”, p.568
“Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds ...”
“I think we all try to figure out ways to ignore the fact that life is about suffering. In the modern world, that's what we're surrounded with. We have all these little tools, such as phones and the Internet, to help us forget about suffering. Whenever you are tired, you don't have to really sit in the abyss of what it means to be alive. We always find ways to avoid it. When a ship sinks, you are sitting in it. There is no way to avoid.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.”

Source : John Zerzan (1994). “Future primitive: and other essays”
“Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.”

Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1944). “The Poisoned Crown”

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