“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.”
― Deadeye Dick
― Deadeye Dick
“I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall—I will do such things—
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth!”
― King Lear
That all the world shall—I will do such things—
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth!”
― King Lear
“My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.”
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“-Put on the lights there, now. Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos...”
― J R
― J R
“In every age everybody knows that up to his own time, progressive improvement has been taking place; nobody seems to reckon on any improvement in the next generation. We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who say society has reached a turning point – that we have seen our best days. But so said all who came before us and with just as much apparent reason. ... On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?”
― Critical, historical and miscellaneous essays Volume 1
― Critical, historical and miscellaneous essays Volume 1
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