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last updated: November 28, 2023

History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set in regulatory concrete, reconsideration of the basic underlying assumptions is very difficult. While it will be an uphill fight to re-examine the basic underlying assumptions of any law or administrative rule, it is clearly not impossible. It will just take longer than if not so well institutionalized.
-- Paul Baran

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“The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”
“A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.”
“Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?”

Source : John Connolly (2011). “The Infernals: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, Simon and Schuster
“While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.”
“I think youâ€™re possessed.â€ â€œOld news.â€ â€œHuh. Anyone I know?â€ â€œMy dad. Itâ€™s a family issue Iâ€™m working on.”
“The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when it sits in the dish too long.”
“I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.”
“People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.”
“I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind natural phenomena, and that the universe as we have it is, at least generally, an evidence of a plan designed by this mind. I have also pointed out that the only datum for such a conclusion is the universe we know. We must take that as a starting point. We can get neither behind it nor beyond it. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.”
“The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.”