Enduring philosophies and favorite quotes

“Wait a minute, Juanita. ...is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”
Juanita shrugs. “What’s the difference?”

Playlist pieces

the rotted love manipulates me
and I, I, you, we’re not thinking my stromata

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a rabbit gives up somewhere and a dozen hawks descend; every moment leads toward its own sad end

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Excuse me, are you lost? Perhaps you would care to visit the site map

“To be alive is a responsibility, as well as a right.”

Jean-Luc Picard - Picard 1.10 14Feb26 #link quotes, responsibility

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

Henry D. Thoreau 22Feb25 #link quotes

Possibility is the basis of everything

Matt Haig - The Midnight Library 19Feb25 #link quotes

‘Why me?’ is not something the universe ever answers.

James S.A. Corey - The Mercy of Gods 27Oct24 #link quotes

“Anywhere is too many places to be!”

Jordan Peterson 2Oct24 #link quotes

“The present is made possible by the past”

Sight 24May24 #link quotes

“Would apocalypse with.”

“I hope you’re having a good day. If you’re having a bad day, change your mind and have a good day.”

Nate Zinsser's bus driver 12Jan24 #link quotes

Our thoughts form the universe; they always matter.

Babylon 5, s4 e1 26Jun23 #link quotes

You drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.

Extraction, (2020 film) 20Jun23 #link quotes

See yourself for what you are, not what others try to make you.

Babylon 5, s1e15 11Jun23 #link quotes

History repeats itself, doesn’t really mean we learn. …
We belong on top of the world.

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Liontide - We Belong 17May22 #link lyrics

Fantastic, thank you. Only thing better than a cow is a human! — Unless you need milk, then you really need a cow.

Walter Bishop - Fringe, s1e1 26Jan22 #link quotes

“Emotions are data, not directive.”

Susan David 9Jul20 #link quotes, from film

“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.”

H.Landry paraphrasing W.Churchill 9Jul20 #link quotes, from film

“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”

J.R.R. Tolkien - Bilbo Baggins, in The Hobbit 25Oct19 #link quotes

You stood beneath a burning tree
and hoped to rescue leaves

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The Ballroom Thieves - Archers 22Jun19 #link lyrics

“There’s…a difference between getting your hands dirty, and being dirty.”

DS Ripley - Luther 9Jun19 #link quotes, from film

“Be nice to other people. At the universal level, they are you.”

Matt Haig - The Humans 7Jun19 #link quotes

“‘Surely they will have cured baldness by the twenty-fourth century!’
Roddenberry replied, ‘By the twenty-fourth century, no one will care.’”

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Gene Roddenberry 7Jun19 #link quotes
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