On productivity (Odell)

Why is it that the modern idea of productivity is so often a frame for what is actually the destruction of the natural productivity of an ecosystem?

Jenny Odell, How To Do Nothing

Injustice

Meet injustice with justice,
never with injustice.

Precarious

The precocious is precarious.

Claim

A preposterous claim is fine,
so long as it's true.

Always

The particular is always peculiar.

The evil in the world (Montgomery)

Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.

L. M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

A mind

A mind that can accept simplistic, puerile fantasies in place of reality barely deserves the name.

On ignorance

Ignorance is malevolent without intent.

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Infinity

Infinity is not infinite so long as it contains the finite.

Cool

Much of what once seemed cool becomes foolish with the passage of time.

The dividing line (Grant)

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

Ulysses S. Grant

Solution

The fact that no solution is perfect does not justify the abandonment of all solution.

The great artist (Stein)

They talk about the sorrows of great artists, the tragic unhappiness of great artists but after all they are great artists. A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

The role of life

The role of life is to react
to change with pain.

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On creativity

Creativity is born of desperation.

The cost

We can't calculate the cost of diversity loss,
so it remains ephemeral, unthreatening.

We, The People

A lover of his country (Douglass)

He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

Frederick Douglass