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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“But man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assured—
His glassy essence—like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep.”

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Physics of Karma Transcends the Perfidy of Billionaires

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

When I was in second grade, my class took a field trip whereby we walked through a cemetery and the county fairgrounds.  We were strongly advised not to throw rocks by our gym instructor who was assisting our teacher on the trip.  He was a large muscular man and had a Swedish-sounding name.  He said to us kids:  “Don’t even THINK about throwing any rocks!  If any of you do, you will be in big, big, BIG trouble!”

Well, he should have never given me the idea. Because while walking through the fairgrounds, there were so many metal roofs on the buildings.  So I picked up a round heavy stone and lobbed it as high as I could before it landed on what sounded like a giant cymbal.

“Who did that?!” screamed the teachers as over 20 tiny fingers pointed my way.  The big gym teacher suddenly loomed over me, blocking out the sun.  “Why did you do that?!” he asked me in a loud voice.

Of course, I had no answer for him other than “I don’t know” which I stated simply while squinting up at him.  But I remember the feeling very well.  Today, it would be summarized as:  “Because, F*CK you, that’s why”.

Thus began my life of crime.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Russiagate was a diversion and a distraction from the real work that needs to be done— that of reforming the political and financial systems and putting an end to this predatory economy and its damaging bubbles. No one in the public was a winner in this. This was a set piece from the realm of staged spectacles. It is a diversion by and for the elite— bread and circuses. It engages the passions and numbs the minds to the systemic looting for the benefit of a few.”

Jesse 25 March 2019

“None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Charles Spurgeon

“God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Why do you pass judgement on your brothers and sisters? Why do you seek to despise them? For some day we will all stand before the judgement seat of God.”

Romans 14:10

“In judging others a man labors in vain, is often wrong, and easily sins; but in judging and examining himself, he always labors fruitfully.”

Thomas à Kempis

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

C.S. Lewis

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest…A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“There’s a reason narcissists don’t learn from mistakes and that’s because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one. It’s always an assistant’s fault, an adviser’s fault, a lawyer’s fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they’ll say, ‘what mistake?’

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.”

Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only enduring crime is pride.”

Sophocles, Antigone

“Pride goes before destruction, and arrogance before a fall.”

Proverbs 16:18

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