Andrew Mossberg > Andrew's Quotes

“Not always a big difference between goons and cops in Russia,” Mitya says. “The likes of Alex can hire cops just as easily as they can hire goons, and it’s worth having a few on the payroll.”
― Dima Zales, Human++

“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labour passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.” – Musonius Rufus”
― Philip Ghezelbash, The Stoic Body: An Ancient Twist To Modern Health

“Be here now.”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
― Ram Dass

“Speech is aggression Every utterance has a winner and a loser Curiosity is feigned Lying is performative Stupidity is power”
― Neal Stephenson, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

“Life will find a way.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)”
― Ezra Pound, Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

“Why, they're the dirtiest guys in any town. They're the same ones that burned the houses of old German people during the war. They're the same ones that lynch Negroes. They like to be cruel. They like to hurt people, and they always give it a nice name, patriotism or protecting the constitution.”
― John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle