[extropy-chat] Resist perishing

[The Avantguardian]

Very good advice. A very eclectic collection of quotes
too. Thanks, Max. :)


--- Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:

> A few recently-gathered quotes I liked:
> 
> The existentially determined:
> 
> “Man is perishable. That may be; but let us 
> perish resisting, and, if nothingness is what 
> awaits us, let us not act in such a way that it
> would be a just fate.”
> -- Étienne Pivert de Senancour
> 
> The simply pithy:
> 
> “Luck is probability taken personally.”
> Penn Jillette.
> 
> The perspective-shifting:
> 
> “She made me feel like a human being. That’s not 
> the kind of thing you forgive.”
> Angel (in demon form), on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer,
> season two.
> 
> The downright nasty:
> 
> “I just want to find a woman who I can stand once 
> her mouth’s free of obstruction.”
> Christian Troy, Nip/Tuck, season 2.
> 
> The practical:
> 
> As one Chinese proverb reminds us: The person who 
> says it cannot be done should not interrupt the
> person doing it.
> 
> The long-term:
> 
> When Konosuke Matsushita started the Matsushita 
> Institute of Government and Management -- his 
> graduate school for people who want to go into 
> public service -- he explained that his vision 
> was to help Japanese politics become less corrupt 
> and more visionary. When a skeptical reporter 
> asked how long that would take, he said, “In my 
> judgment, about 400 years -- which is why it’s so 
> important that we start today.”
> 
> And the heretical (so I'm told):
> 
> If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks 
> to you, you have schizophrenia.
> Thomas Szasz
> 
> 
> Onward!
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
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Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Phillip K. Dick


 
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