“Dear @elonmusk, when someone tries to steal the wheels of your Tesla, it doesn’t make them legal owner of the car or of the wheels. Even though they claim both voted in favour of it. Just saying,” Gitanas Nausėda
"don't get me wrong, I love sheep but occasionally you'll witness a sheep lead a flock across a motorway - you didn't see it coming, and nor did the driver" Retired Farmer
The old bluesman R.L. Burnside to his trial judge "I ain't mean to kill him; I just meant to shoot the somebitch in the head. Him dyin' was between him and the Lord."
“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand - Ethics in Our Time -------------- “Somewhere in her brain a wall formed, a wall that kept out further consideration about what was happening here.” Ann Brashares - Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
That's rather an ironic quote, as Ayn Rand spent her professional life ranting about the "evils" of the State providing care and support for its most vulnerable citizens, only for reality to bite the bug-eyed benzedrine fiend on her bum when after decades of heavy smoking she got cancer and fell on hard times herself, at which point she ponced off welfare for six years before her death.
Now I deny most energetically that anything is, or can be, uninteresting. G.K.Chesterton - what I found in my pocket ----- "War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other." Paul Valery ----- A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on. William.S.Burroughs II
You can VOTE your way into Communism. But eventually your Grandchildren will have to SHOOT their way out....
“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain (there’s some dispute over whether Twain actually said this and the quote is also similar to one by Abe Lincoln although arguably there is a similar ditty in the Bible although not written quite so humorously)
a "police spokesperson" in the last 3 years:- “This episode is an important reminder that people must not take the law into their own hands. The best thing to do when a crime is happening is to call 999.” https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co...e-news/dad-held-herts-prison-appeared-7892880
“People don’t value their obscurity. They don’t know what it’s like to have it taken away…” ― Bob Dylan
“That guy plays three positions on the field,” he said. “I could never get Joanne to go for more than two.” Frank Carson on Frank Gifford, soon after learning of his second wife's adultery.
what was allegedly said, just for the record:- Lady SH: “Where are you from?” Ms Fulani: “Sistah Space.” SH: “No where do you come from? Ms Fulani: “We’re based in Hackney.” SH: “No, what part of Africa are YOU from?” Ms Fulani: “I don’t know, they didn’t leave any records.” SH: “Well, you must know where you’re from, I spent time in France. Where are you from?” Ms Fulani: “Here, UK” SH: “No, but what Nationality are you?”
Quote from the National Library of Medicine re:- smallpox. "The development of vaccination as a public health tool is attributed to Edward Jenner and his experiments with coxpox in 1796 (figure 1), although the practice of variolation using ‘wild’ smallpox virus had been practiced in some countries for much longer [1]. Variolation worked but carried a significant risk of severe disease or even death in the recipient. This risk was reduced dramatically by substituting smallpox material by fluid from a cowpox lesion. The cowpox virus causes only mild infections in humans but induces an immune response which provides cross-protection against smallpox infection, the principle that has underpinned the development of all subsequent vaccines based on an attenuated organism. Vaccination was adopted as a public health tool relatively rapidly in Europe and the USA, although not without fierce opposition from some sections of the community, especially when vaccination was made compulsory as was the case in the UK following the introduction of the Vaccination Act in 1871 [2]. The anti-vaccination campaign, which continues today in both industrialized and developing countries, had some surprising supporters including Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of evolution [3]." ringing any bells? Does make me wonder how much resistance, (and so how much hindered progress) this would have met with if they'd had internet and the the massive media cross-patching network that we have today. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar...enormous,and rinderpest, have been eradicated.
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
