"It is important to be comfortable with uncertainty."
~~ Chinese-British novelist Xiaolu Guo
"Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality, no democracy, and it becomes impossible to deal with the existential problems of our times: climate, coronavirus, now, the battle for truth."
~~ Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech delivered in December 2021
"Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise."
~~ cinema master Ingmar Bergman [1918-2007]
"Kindness is a folding chair / We carry with us everywhere."
~~ Ian Frazier, in The New Yorker Magazine, January 2022
"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntary, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
~~ Joyce Carol Oates
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
~~ painter Edgar Degas [1834-1917]
for back of t-shirt: WYSIWYG ~~ (which nerd types will understand is the acronym for 'what you see is what you get')
"The dumbest thing in the universe is a Republican making excuses for being a racist and a fascist and a traitor."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"We must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as ‘right to work’. It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of every-one . . . Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped."
~~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]
"Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands."
~~ Roy T. Bennett
"Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise."
~~ Dr. Maya Angelou [1928-2014]
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
"The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human."
~~ Adolf Hitler [1889-1945]
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."
~~ Isaac Asimov [1920-92]
"Reservation-based casinos are the red man's revenge on the white man."
~~ G.E. Nordell
somebody should write a book about "Cooking In Space"
for back of t-shirt: "pre-order now!"
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
~~ visionary R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]
"So please, oh please,
we beg, we pray,
go throw your TV set away,
and in its place you can install,
a lovely bookcase on the wall."
~~ author Roald Dahl [1916-90]
"I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows. This – the supremacy of reason – was, is, and will be the primary concern of my work, and the essence of Objectivism."
~~ philosopher Ayn Rand [1905-82], in "The Objectivist" newsletter of September 1971
"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
~~ author John Steinbeck [1902-68]
"So what does it all mean? . . . If a song moves you, that's all that's important. I don't have to know what a song means."
~~ Bob Dylan, in his Nobel Prize response speech, June 2017
"Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story."
~~ ancient Greek author/epic poet Homer [VIIIth Century BCE]
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door [that] you did not know was open."
~~ actor John Barrymore [1882-1942]
"Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library."
~~ independent filmmaker John Waters
"When we remember [that] we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"April. Month of dust and lies."
~~ Nobel-laureate Naguib Mahfouz [1911-2006]
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
~~ author Margaret Atwood
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
~~ George Orwell [1903-50], in his 1949 novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
"I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen."
~~ author Anne Lamott
"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
~~ gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005]
"There must be no tolerance of intolerance. There must be no freedom to destroy freedom."
~~ German-Swiss existential philosopher Karl Jaspers [1883-1969]
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance."
~~ James A. Madison [1751-1836]
"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."
~~ salesman & speaker Zig Ziglar [1926-2012]
"No longer satisfied with simply twisting the truth to convince you of their point of view, O.A.N. has become a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda determined to convince everyone [that] there is no truth."
~~ Rick Weiland, founder of TakeItBack.org
"My mother and all the women who fought alongside her gave my generation Roe v. Wade. They gave us the bodily autonomy we should have already had . . . It was an essential gift, and an irreversible one. Or so we thought."
~~ Molly Jong-Fast, contributing writer at The Atlantic Monthly
"Of this I am certain, that we are not here in order to have a good time."
~~ philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein [1889-1951]
"All men with power must be distrusted to a degree."
~~ James A. Madison [1751-1836]
"I believe in doing something every day to pay for the day."
~~ musician Willie Nelson
"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men [that] he knows to be idiots."
~~ H.L. Mencken [1880-1956]
"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it."
~~ Medieval philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol [1021-70 C.E.], possibly a shortened version of "Wisdom of Solomon" 6:17.
"In a society that has you counting money, pounds, calories, and steps, be a rebel and count your blessings instead."
~~ Lisa Heckman
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
"There are more old drunks than there are old doctors."
~~ musician Willie Nelson
"Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story."
~~ author Ashleigh Brilliant
"Every man is guilty of all the good [that] he didn't do."
~~ French philosopher Voltaire [1694-1778]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> theme for the month: BEER <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
"He was a wise man who invented beer."
~~ Greek philosopher Plato [427-347 BCE]
"Beer, if drank {sic} with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health."
~~ Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer."
~~ Henry Lawson [1867-1922]
"On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it."
~~ Napoleon Bonaparte [1769-1821]
"Without beer, life would be a mistake."
~~ philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]
"Never trust a person who doesn't drink beer."
~~ Andrew Jackson [1767-1845]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
