"Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?"

-- Charles Bukowski

“We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.”
“Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.”
“All medicine comes down to this: Find out what's bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.”
“The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.”

Source : "Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind". Book by John Searle, 1983.
“I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.”
“You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.”
“...remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you.”
“Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.”

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