cafen8d
not even remotely amusing
2025/07/18
Todays Word
with Anu Garg
writing on the wall
The moral of the story: At a party, read the room. Also, read the doom.
Liora Moriel; The New Revisioning; The Jerusalem Report (Israel); Jun 26, 2023.
Todays Thought
There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.
-Hannah Senesh, poet, playwright, and paratrooper (17 Jul 1921-1944)
2025/07/10
Todays Thought
We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.
-Marcel Proust, novelist (10 Jul 1871-1922)
2025/07/07
Todays Thought
I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
-Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (7 Jul 1907-1988)
2025/07/01
Todays Thought
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1 Jul 1742-1799)
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