Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[WT Sharpe]

..... Now much time and leisure doth he gain, who is not curious to know what his neighbour hath said, or hath done, or hath attempted, but only what he doth himself, that it may be just and holy? or to express it in Agathos' words, Not to look about upon the evil conditions of others, but to run on straight in the line, without any loose and extravagant agitation.
..........— Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180 C.E.), Roman Emperor, Stoic philosopher. Meditations, IV, 15.

[Stitchawl]

"The journey of one thousand miles begins with a cash advance."


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[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

"The journey of one thousand miles begins with a cash advance."


Stitchawl

Definitely true in my case.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

..... Now much time and leisure doth he gain, who is not curious to know what his neighbour hath said, or hath done, or hath attempted, but only what he doth himself, that it may be just and holy? or to express it in Agathos' words, Not to look about upon the evil conditions of others, but to run on straight in the line, without any loose and extravagant agitation.
..........— Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180 C.E.), Roman Emperor, Stoic philosopher. Meditations, IV, 15.

George Seldes and David Laskin presented a more succinct translation of that thought:

.....How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
..........— Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180 C.E.), Roman Emperor, Stoic philosopher. Meditations. Quoted in The Great Thoughts (1985, Introduction and a new compilation © 1996 by David Laskin) by George Seldes.

[WT Sharpe]

.....In his book The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics (1999), [English physicist Julian] Barbour argues that time — along with motion and change — is nothing more than an illusion.
..........— Dan Falk (1966 - ), Canadian science journalist, broadcaster, and author. In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension (2008).

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....In his book The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics (1999), [English physicist Julian] Barbour argues that time — along with motion and change — is nothing more than an illusion.

I prove that every time I have a deadline to meet.


Stitchawl

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I prove that every time I have a deadline to meet.


Stitchawl

....."Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
....."Very deep," said Arthur, "you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you."
..........—The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, chapter 2 (the speaker of the first line was Ford Prefect).

[kennyc]

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

-- Woody Allen (?)

[BenG]

"The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship"
— Kinky Friedman

[kennyc]

Great one Ben!

[Stitchawl]

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes


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[Gudy]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

-- Woody Allen (?)

And space is so it doesn't all happen to you?

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes


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[WT Sharpe]

.....In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
..........— (Heinrich) Karl Marx (1818-1893), German journalist, founder of Communism. Das Kapital (Buch I, 1867) Volume I, Chapter 10, Section 7, pg.329.

[Stitchawl]

" Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do
the children of man as a whole ever experience it. Avoiding danger is no
safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring
adventure, or nothing." Helen Keller - 1957

I want this one on my tombstone... but not yet.

Stitchawl