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"Trust no one - not even yourself"
My dad told me this while going through a divorce. He was also going through a criminal trial due to his deviance.
Its one thing that stuck with me and I wish it didn't.
Another one is from Lenin: " 'There Are Decades Where Nothing Happens' and 'Weeks Where Decades Happen' "
The Lenin one has been on my mind for like a year now. We're coming up on the anniversary of the February revolution and I'm hoping that as things get worse we'll see the point where we have had enough.
Plenty of big flash points at current. I think we are seeing capitalism in disrepair, similar to 1920 Europe, world powers are rebalancing and competing for the now very limited resources. The working class are taking the brunt of the hardship and seek real change, and when trump can't make good on those promises we will see a real struggle.
Good luck out there comrade.
Dad told me when I was young to "learn to drink your coffee black and cold and you'll never be disappointed."
I don't think he was just talking about coffee.
No matter how many books , videos you see , you cannot learn how to swim without entering the pool.
Life's tough for everyone
-Grandpa
A evergreen quote:
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
"Don't follow people - follow ideas" which seems more relevant today than ever before it seems.
"Nobody will take care of you if you don't take care of yourself"
Apply this to pushing back on contracts, double checking what you're asked to do, and putting yourself first, and you'll get a lot more respect in my experience. If you primarily put others first, your self will feel neglected. It doesn't mean you should not care for others, but that your highest priority should be yourself, and then others.
Hitchens on the death of Jerry Falwell: "If they gave his corpse an enema, they could bury him in a matchbox."
“It only ever ends once, everything before that is just progress” -Jacob from lost lol
Perhaps today is a good day to die. Prepare for ramming speed!
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
"Like they should have stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they was just asking for bad trouble." Peter Clemenza, The Godfather
Rewatched that recently. I was really surprised how dark it sometimes gets for a kids' show. It still holds up really well!
"be someones angel"
quote from this little video that really stuck with me, as silly as it might sound
"Someone once said that love is the best medicine. He was wrong, though; its crack." Source Unknown
"republicans are pussies" - me. thanks
We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it
Wen in dbt breath deep
The worst decisions make the best stories. - Unknown
It’s always darkest before the dawn.
How I interpret it is that when things get bad, and reach a new level of bad, that could be just what is needed for the pendulum to swing the other way, and swing extra hard.
Kind of like a Great Depression giving labour laws kind of a thing.
Gives me hope.
You can't leave the party if you can't find the door. Randall Jacobs, aka Uncle Bunky
"Everything you want in life has teeth", by the writer Jonathan Carroll. I believe it means that everything you pursue will hurt you in some way.
It’s a poem by Stephen Crane, but so short I’m often reminded of it in full:
A man said to the universe:
”Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
It sounds nihilistic, but it’s somehow calming whenever I start to feel like I’ve been wronged or I’m owed a break of some sort.