Forgive but do not forget, be generous but not cowardly, punish but do not take revenge, disagree but avoid hate.
An unjust system judges people merely by the work they did; a just system should also consider what they could and didn’t.
Suffering at human scale is just another process in nature’s scale.
If the soothsayers of the yore were prophets because they prophesied correctly, then what are today’s astronomers and other scientists?
One who has yet to fail has yet to take a worthy challenge.
It doesn’t take rocket science to find why sumo wrestlers are fat and racing drivers and riders slim. But it takes high science for the reverse to happen and yet to win.
A society where successes – in politics, business, religion – come with fundamental compromises is a decayed society. Its “successfuls” are the scum of the earth.
Scarcely a day passes when something doesn’t pinch me with this realization: What a goddamn idiot I must have been to make this mistake so far, or to not have known this, or that, until now. My, my, we don’t ever cease to learn.
ISIS came, ISIS wreaked & now ISIS is on the verge of extinction. Recall one benefit that accrued to Muslims because of ISIS.
Me, who? Wish I knew!