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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Age, growing old, is like a war between wisdom and bitterness.

Stephen Baxter, Manifold Time

Selected Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

- Thomas Jefferson

Charles Bukowski, channeling Yoda

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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"There is no 'try'...there is only do, or do not." ~ Yoda

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