The officer standing in the center of this group of Union soldiers after the battle of Antietam is Lt. Alonzo Cushing, who died less than a year after this group portrait while fighting in Gettysburg during Pickett’s Charge.
Sitting at left is Evan Thomas, who was killed in ambush by the Modoc Indians a decade later in California.
Resolve to be a ball of fire tomorrow, rather than, metaphorically, a damp clammy dishrag. It all depends on one’s incentive to do the right thing at the right time.
Psuedo-religious attitudes and entertainment to sooth outrage; nationalism & militarism unrestricted by constitution; intolerance to differences; use of force to centralize control; decisions made in secret.
So, So Proud
We’re not changing the damn world. Have you seen the world? I promise you, if you think that I’m on some kind of agenda, then I’m really shitty at it because nothing has gone in the direction that I had hoped. I mean, nothing for 25 years. And if people think that there is some other agenda going on, all the more reason to stick to that first principle that we started with, which is: What’s funny about this?
Stephen Colbert
Civil and Political Rights:
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights:
Collective Rights:
Feeling tired? Run down? Worn out by a facial and shampoo? Consider yourself better off than the model at center (above), who seems to have dreamed she was an astronaut in a vibro-massage bra. She will presumably arise like some assembly-line Aphrodite, renewed in spirit if mildly mortified in the flesh.
This menacing array of instruments for self-enhancement was put together to show the variety of space-age beauty equipment now available, but it almost seems better calculated to prove the French maxim: il faut souffrir pour etre belle.
Sending satellites to Venus, or aspiring to Venus-like charm, one is getting to be as complicated as the other. Over this photograph the London magazine Queen put the simple heading “All Systems Go!”
As they say, you must suffer to be beautiful.
Great achievements once considered impossible are being accomplished with the help of other people (and today, with other forms of intelligence).
I, myself, have killed 6 people. All random, no way to trace them to me. Let me tell you, there’s nothin’ like it. It’s a great feeling. Yeah, I know, you’re thinking, Aw, he’s a comedian. He’s just sayin’ that stuff. Good. That’s exactly what I want you to think.
George Carlin
There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
Aubrey Menen
Life Is an Experiment
We’re all testing hypotheses, learning from outcomes, and iterating as we go.
Every choice is a variable, every experience a data point.
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