Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

    The ceremony of innocence is drowned . . .

And what rough best, its hour come round at last,

    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

 

—WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
“The Second Coming”

 

Ciri: "You'll not try to stop me? Take me to the Blue Mountains by force?"

 

Geralt:

 

"Traveled half the world to find you.

 

But I never intended to force anything on you"

 

W3

 

"Many shall be restored that now are fallen

Many shall fall that are now in honor."

 

Horace

“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”
― Horace

 

We are only shadows and dust.

 

Horace

 

 

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
― Horace

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

 

Oscar Wilde

… suppose our senses sharpened to such a degree that we could trace the motions of molecules as easily as we now trace those of large bodies, … the distinction between work and heat would vanish . . . .

 

Maxwell 1878

 

James Clerk Maxwell - Wikipedia

“I’m old. I read stuff...

 

I want to tell stories,

and there’s no more time.

 

Kurosawa, when he got his Oscar… he said,

"I’m only now beginning to see the possibility of what cinema could be,

and it’s too late…"

Now I know what he means."

 

Martin Scorsese

 

 

 

 

On 5/15/2023 at 5:53 PM, Tania8222 said:

 

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5 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

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The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good.

 

Greed is right.

 

Greed works.

 

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

 

Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.

 

Gordon Gekko

 

A philosopher from the people