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last updated: November 28, 2023

Understand the now. Don't even worry about five seconds later, worry about now.
-- Eric Roberson

Source : "Eric Roberson Interview – 'Tigallerro' Album with Phonte, Sol Village Show, Next Project". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. August 23, 2016.

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They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.
-- Greg Fitzsimmons

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[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.
-- Luis von Ahn

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“[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.”
“They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where it comes from. It comes from pain, damnation and impossibility. The blow to the soul of the gut. It comes from getting burned and seared and slugged. It comes from...new and awful places and the same old places.”
“If one looks at the history of India after independence in 1947, for the first 30 to 40 years I think we were effectively given up as a basket case because we made various attempts through socialism to effectively alleviate poverty and keep growing but that model didn't work. So even when the pre-90s when we spoke to foreign corporation of foreign businessmen who wanted to do business with us, we were always a land of opportunity but an opportunity whose time have not yet come.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.”
“Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you're hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you're doing.”
“Often what I need is even a darker darkness.”

Source : Valzhyna Mort (2014). “Collected Body”, p.5, Copper Canyon Press
“When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade”
“I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.”
“To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.”

Source : BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”
“It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.”