Two tigers cannot live on one mountaintop
~ Chinese saying
Published in 1997...
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
~ Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
I, too, feel old...
The father: "Really, can't you see that we are in a loveless marriage?"
Logan: "Everyone can see that you're in a loveless marriage! But you are OLD - that is just marriage at this point!"
~ Our Little Secret (a Hallmark Christmas-type show on Netflix)
Generally a one-way trip
Best Russian aphorism to sum up the challenge that regional and global powers now face in fixing Syria:
“It is easier to turn an aquarium into fish soup, than to turn fish soup into an aquarium.”
~ Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times Opinion Columnist
Dec 2024
Ugh! I need to remind myself this every day
Don't ever say that you don't have time to train. I’d rather you just tell me that you don't want to train, that you don't care about getting stronger, that you are satisfied at being inadequate as a human.
If you say that to me, what can I say? It’s so much easier that way: just say it and I will respect you more than saying that you don’t have time to train.
~ Jim Steele, from the Starting Strength website
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