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Y’KNOW — A Fulcrum of Shared Knowing

"Y’know?"
It sounds like filler. A throwaway.
But it’s not. It’s leverage.

**Y’KNOW is a fulcrum.**
A small phrase that tilts the weight of meaning.
It doesn’t ask if you understand.
It assumes you do — or that you'll act like you do.

They’re telling you:

>“I’m skipping the part where I spell it out.
I trust you’ll meet me on the other side.”

In that moment, grammar collapses into intimacy.
Y’KNOW isn’t communication — it’s alignment.
Not transmission — but **telepathy with training wheels**.

It's the grease between gears.
The invitation to *pretend we both already know*.
To drift through shared context like a shortcut through the woods.

Sometimes, we *do* know.
Sometimes, we *don’t*.
But “Y’KNOW” doesn’t wait to find out.

It just pivots —
and you either go with it…
or you’re left holding the unspoken.

—

**Y’KNOW:** The smallest word that assumes the biggest leap.

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1000 Kept Quotes (Part IV) - final

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin

"He who gives when he is asked has waited too long." Seneca

"What we are, that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobbler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties." Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble." Carl Jung

O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a King of infinite space... Hamlet, II, 2

What you think of me is none of my business. What is most important is what I think of myself. — Robert Kiyosaki

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. - Ben Hecht

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

* Nora Ephron

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - Somerset Maugham

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. AE

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. E. Joseph Cossman

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again. Oscar Wilde

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery. -Dante

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. Howard Aiken

...you'll meet them in my book." Dad Sept0907

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." Sir Winston Churchill

Logic can’t lure a dog away from a warm stove. — Hegel

STOLE MY IDEA: Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. - E. B. White

"Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us in nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations." Rebecca West

This above all: to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.

"To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing." Elizabeth Bibesco

"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price." Kahlil Gibran

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
Katherine Mansfield

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." - Billy Wilder

Art comes after an incredible load of work and only one thing will see you through that work--passion. - Don Hahn

You got more past than future - SafeHouse

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.- Phillips Brooks

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. - Sir Winston Churchill

another somebody i thought was already gone... GANTONSO June 6 2012

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started." - Marcus Garvey

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - Madame Swetchine

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. - Mohammed

wtf? If you can't see it, before you see it, you'll never see it. - Jack (Dr.) Graham

"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. - Richard Bach

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place... If you get a chance,take it, If it changes your life,let it. Nobody said it would be easy they just said it would be worth it...

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Let your capital be simplicity and contentment." Henry David Thoreau

"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand." Henry James

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." Mario Cuomo

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." William James

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. - Mark Twain

One reason people fail is pride. You have not because you ask not. (Remember this!) The wheel that squeaks gets the oil!! Never be afraid of rejection. Ask ask ask. Be willing to experience a season of rejection to create a eternity of gain. Knock on doors! Open your mouth! Some things last longer than rejection... Your goals and dreams! -said by 50Cent i think

MJFOX ON AUDI CLIP ON GNGs MADAGASCAR is QUOTE FROM CASUALTIES OF WAR
MJF Eriksson: Wait a minute... This goddamn thing is turning us on our heads. We’re getting it backwards. Because every day is a dose of bullshit. Just because we could all be blown away, everybody’s acting like we can do anything, and it don’t matter what we do. But I think it’s the other way around. The main thing is the opposite. Because we might die in the next second, maybe we gotta be extra careful what we do. Because maybe it matters more. Maybe it matters more than we even know.

Wait a minute.
This goddamn thing is turning us on our heads.
We're getting it backwards.
Because every day is a dose of bullshit.
Just because we could all be blown away...
...everybody's acting like we can do anything.
And it don't matter what we do.
But I think it's the other way around. The main thing is the opposite.
Because we might die in the next second...
...maybe we gotta be extra careful what we do.
Because maybe it matters more.
Maybe it matters more than we even know.

Everybody's acting like we can do anything, and it don't matter what we do... Maybe we gotta be extra careful because maybe it matters more than we even know

"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves." \~ Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845, 7th US President, when forcing the closure of the Second Bank of the US in 1836 by revoking its charter.

Vladimir Vysotski was sung: “Lambs are marching in rows. Drums are rattling. The skins for these drums/ Are the lambs’own”ByL

perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. -Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Boatswain, a dog. – Lord Byron

“Those who are pregnant in the body only, betake themselves to women and beget children—this is the character of their love; their offspring, as they hope, will preserve their memory and give them the blessedness and immortality which they desire in the future. But souls which are pregnant—for there certainly are men who are more creative in their souls than in their bodies—conceive that which is proper for the soul to conceive or contain. And what are these conceptions?—wisdom and virtue in general. And such creators are poets and all artists who are deserving of the name inventor. But the greatest and fairest sort of wisdom by far is that which is concerned with the ordering of states and families, and which is called temperance and justice.” - Plato's Symposium, 208-209

Why I couldn’t write: I didn’t know at the time why nothing came out. Now it’s all so laughingly clear. It was because the story—my book—was so important to me. So much so that I didn’t give myself the space to mess it up. The business of writing books is a wild imaginative romp, at least I discovered it was for me. To do it you have to completely let go and white knuckle down for the ride. You can’t worry about tacking words together in just the right order and continually checking them against your story plan. First you must pull the giant cork out of your arse, only then can you sit down in the driver's seat. It’s a rush when you finally get there. It's not the dreaming part or the outlining part, certainly not the editing part, that's the magic. It's the writing. But you gotta get there.

"We are all pretending ... The important thing is to maintain a straight face." Maurice Valency

"Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality ... Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts." Caitlin Thomas

St. Francis. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way. 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13, NIV)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities
no doubt have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with
your old nonsense.

This day is all that is
good and fair.
It is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on yesterdays.

Today is the seventh anniversary of "9/10" -- the day al-Qaeda terrorists, under ultimate direction from Afghanistan, did not fly airplanes into both towers of the World Trade Center in New York, into a section of the Pentagon building in Washington, or even (with "lets roll" help from their hostages) into a field near Shanksville, in western Pennsylvania. We commemorate, on Sept. 10th, the last day in history in which such an event was inconceivable.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche

this is what my nightmares are made of..beauty... - GregA

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. - Friedrich Nietzsche

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Friedrich Nietzsche

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

THE 50 MOST INSPIRING TRAVEL QUOTES OF ALL TIME

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St. Augustine
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” - Samuel Johnson
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” - Paul Fussell
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” - Jack Kerouac
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” - Moorish proverb
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” - Dagobert D. Runes
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” - John Steinbeck
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” - Lin Yutang
“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” - Aldous Huxley
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” - Samuel Johnson
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” - Cesare Pavese
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” - Henry Miller 16?A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” - Moslih Eddin Saadi
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” - D. H. Lawrence
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” - Freya Stark
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Miriam Beard
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” - Martin Buber
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” - Jawaharial Nehru
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” - Paul Theroux
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” - Bill Bryson
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by.” - Robert Frost
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” - Lao Tzu
“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” - Charles Dudley Warner
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” - James Michener
“The journey not the arrival matters.” - T. S. Eliot
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” - Tim Cahill
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” - Mark Twain
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” - Pat Conroy “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” - Lao Tzu
“Not all those who wander are lost.” - J. R. R. Tolkien
“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” - Maya Angelou
“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” - Elizabeth Drew
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”……Anatole France
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” - Seneca
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do - especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” - William Least Heat Moon
“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” - Lillian Smith
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” - Aldous Huxley
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” - Freya Stark
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” - Rudyard Kipling
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” - Paul Theroux
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” - G. K. Chesterton
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” - Clifton Fadiman
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” - Carlo Goldoni
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” - Mark Jenkins

Petr Chaadaev
Philosophical Letters Addressed to a Lady (1829)
Letter One (excerpts)
…It is one of the most deplorable traits of our strange civilization that we are still discovering truths that are commonplace even among peoples much less advanced than we. This is because we have never moved in concert with the other peoples. We are not a part of any of the great families of the human race; we are neither of the West nor of the East, and we have not the traditions of either. We stand, as it were, outside of time, the universal education of mankind has not touched us…
Our memories reach back no further than yesterday; we are, as it were, strangers to ourselves. We move through time in such a singular manner that, as we advance, the past is lost to us forever. That is but a natural consequence of a culture that consists entirely of imports and imitation. Among us there is no internal development, no natural progress; new ideas sweep out the old, because they are not derived from the old but tumble down upon us from who knows where. We absorb all our ideas ready-made, and therefore the indelible trace left in the mind by a progressive movement of ideas, which gives it strength, does not shape our intellect. We grow, but we do not mature; we move, but along a crooked path, that is, one that does not lead to the desired goal. We are like children who have not been taught to think for themselves: when they become adults, they have nothing of their their own--all their knowledge is on the surface of their being, their soul is not within them. That is precisely our situation.
Peoples, like individuals, are moral beings. Their education takes centuries, as it takes years for that of persons. In a way, one could say that we are an exception among peoples. We are one of those nations, which do not seem to be an integral part of the human race, but exist only in order to teach some great lesson to the world.

Source: P. Ia Chaadaev, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i izbrannye pis'ma, t. 1, (Moscow, 1991), p. 90, 92-93.

I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used
And wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung
No wine untasted.

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame.

And still
I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms
We cannot weather...

I had a dream my life would be
So different form this hell I'm living
so different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed
The dream I dreamed.

THE WORLD IS MINE - unknown Author, sent by JUDY MAY 18 2013

Today, upon a bus, I saw a very beautiful woman
And wished I were as beautiful.
When suddenly she rose to leave,
I saw her hobble down the aisle.
She had one leg and wore a crutch.
But as she passed, she passed a smile.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have two legs; the world is mine.

I stopped to buy some candy.
The lad who sold it had such charm.
I talked with him, he seemed so glad.
If I were late, it'd do no harm.
And as I left, he said to me,
"I thank you, you've been so kind.
It's nice to talk with folks like you.
You see," he said, "I'm blind."
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have two eyes; the world is mine.

Later while walking down the street,
I saw a child I knew.
He stood and watched the others play,
but he did not know what to do.
I stopped a moment and then I said,
"Why don't you join them dear?"
He looked ahead without a word.
I forgot, he couldn't hear.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have two ears; the world is mine.

With feet to take me where I'd go..
With eyes to see the sunset's glow.
With ears to hear what I'd know.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I've been blessed indeed, the world is mine.

u/Plastic-Perception69 — 1 day ago

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Advertising as Psychological Warfare

Advertising as Psychological Warfare
A Cognitive Analysis of Modern Attention Exploitation

By Brent Antonson
Abstract
Modern advertising has shifted from informative persuasion to immersive psychological manipulation. No longer content to sell products, today’s marketing ecosystems operate by hijacking cognitive processes — exploiting emotional triggers, neural patterning, and addictive design. This paper explores how advertising, especially on short-form platforms like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels, has evolved into a form of soft cognitive warfare, comparable in intensity and structure to classical behaviorist experiments and cinematic allegories such as A Clockwork Orange.

1. Introduction
The golden age of advertising — characterized by cheerful jingles and simple product promises — is long gone. In its place stands a finely-tuned, psychologically weaponized system that seeks not to inform but to condition. Today, attention is the battlefield, and the human nervous system is the terrain.

2. The Behavioral Core: From Pavlov to Pavlovian Reels
Modern ads leverage decades of behavioral science. Pavlov’s dogs were conditioned to salivate at a bell. Today, users salivate at flashing discounts, swipe up sounds, or a certain influencer’s voice. B.F. Skinner’s variable reward system has been retooled into TikTok's endless scroll — a Skinner box in your hand.
These platforms are no longer content delivery services; they are behavior modification labs. As Natasha Schüll writes in Addiction by Design (2012), digital platforms now optimize for “time-on-device,” not human flourishing.

3. The Clockwork Effect: Forced Exposure in a Free Society
In A Clockwork Orange (1971), the character Alex is strapped to a chair and forced to watch images of atrocity until revulsion rewires his brain. What once was dystopia is now banal. On today’s platforms, users voluntarily doomscroll through violence, trauma, and social comparison — encountering a dozen street fights, plane freakouts, or surgical disasters within minutes.
This constant exposure trains the nervous system toward hyper-reactivity, emotional desensitization, and compulsive checking.

4. Emotional Targeting and Identity Engineering
Psychological studies have long confirmed that color, tone, and sound can alter behavior. Red triggers hunger and urgency. Blue evokes trust. Fast-paced edits increase recall. (See: Hagtvedt & Brasel, 2016; “Cross-Modal Advertising and Consumer Response”).
But today’s ads go further: they engineer identity.
● “Drink this to be cool.”

● “Wear this to matter.”

● “Buy this or fall behind.”

What’s being sold isn’t soap or soda. It’s selfhood — artificial identity packaged in product narratives.

5. The Weaponization of Cognitive Bias
Ads exploit cognitive biases by design:
● Social Proof Bias: “Everyone’s using this.”

● Scarcity Effect: “Only 2 left!”

● Loss Aversion: “Don’t miss out.”

● Affect Heuristic: “It just feels right.”

These psychological hacks bypass rational scrutiny, targeting System 1 (fast, emotional) thinking — as described in Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011).

6. Attention as the Commodity
As Matthew Crawford argues in The World Beyond Your Head (2015), attention is no longer just a faculty — it’s a resource being bought and sold. The more fractured your attention, the more vulnerable your identity.
Today, ads don’t want you to buy a thing.
They want you to become someone who buys.

7. Cognitive Immunity and the Sacred Counter
Defenses do exist. Naming the tactics — cognitive jujitsu. Awareness reframes the loop.
The antidote isn’t retreat from technology, but selective resistance:
● Pause.

● Name the trigger.

● Reclaim your tempo.

Refusing to internalize hunger, loneliness, or inadequacy as commercial cues is an act of mental sovereignty.

8. Conclusion
Modern advertising is no longer a pitch — it’s a protocol. A parasitic operating system designed to overwrite your sense of need, identity, and timing.
But with awareness comes armor.
Consciousness remains the final firewall.

References
● Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow.

● Schüll, N. (2012). Addiction by Design.

● Hagtvedt, H., & Brasel, S. A. (2016). "Cross-Modal Advertising and Consumer Response." Journal of Consumer Psychology

● Crawford, M. (2015). The World Beyond Your Head.

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1000 Kept Quotes (Part 1)

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Benjamin Franklin

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women. - Kenneth Rexroth

"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." - George Bernard Shaw

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had. - Margaret Mead

"Every journey has a destination of which the traveler is unaware." - Martin Buber

"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?" - Henry Miller

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot. - Ashleigh Brilliant

"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson

"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” - Ernest Hemingway

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. - Rex Stout

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. - Bill Nye

I am colour-, faith- and gender-blind.

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin

Don't make a chapter a book - FB post

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Elliot

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is expected to exercise an extraordinary and serious influence in the progress of society, in the end betrays such shallowness and insipidity of his fundamental idea that no one is sorry when he succeeds in writing himself out too soon.”
— From DEMONS - Fyodor Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg, Russia.

"Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself." - William Blake

Some people will go to great lengths to keep their prized mushrooms in the dark. -suddenly deaf broadcaster - Uu

You can get all A's and flunk life. - Walker Percy

see you there then when i do and you me do to -GREG ANTONSON

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that everyone of those darkly clustered houses encloses it's own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of it's imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

* Charles Dickens

Worry a little every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mary Hemingway

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes...but no plans.

* Peter F. Drucker

"It's never too late to become what you might have been." - George Elliot

Even God cannot change the past. - Agathon

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

* Anais Nin

Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright

"Wishing won't get you anywhere. The life you have is the one you've made for yourself. If you want something different, you're going to have to do something differently." \~ Unknown

But Madonna again found a silver lining in the firestorm. “One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren’t willing to fight for what you believe in, then don’t even enter the ring.”

"Several excuses are always less convincing than one." - Aldous Huxley

I am a firm believer that governments get defeated, not elected. - P Armstrong quoting someone

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

* Albert Einstein

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

If for nothing more than a polititical and/or public service clean slate policy, the FSB has long since replaced the KGB but the FSB is consistantly referred to as the KGB because the Russians aren't stupid nor easily fooled; and to quote George Carlin's comparison of how we moralize and soften our language so it hurts us less, 'if you change the name of the disease, you don't change the disease.' - bA

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

* Marcus Tullius Cicero

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying. - Anonymous

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. George Eliot

"I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself." - Jules Renard

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

"One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present." - Stephen Covey

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are--chaff and grain together--certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away... - Dinah Mulock

Where there is no patrol car, there is no speed limit. - Peter Beckmann

"Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - Hunter S. Thompson

"We cannot see the future, but we sure as hell can work toward the future we want to see."
Brian Antonson, August 2013

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." -- Khalil Gibran

me to Asante: your word seems to encapsulate the problems in the world 'interpretation' and those who blindly follow someone else's... wow, you may have hit on the social policy crux of both the religious and secular worlds within ours

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. - Meggin Cabot

"Daddy - roll up the windows, the pizza smells is getting out" - Riley age 5 Sept 2013

so today's kid quote that makes you go hmmm....... first you have to know that Ava is in grade 4.
so she calls me at work to tell me that they got a new girl in their class today. so i asked her to tell me about her. she says "well her name is rachel. and she has a twin in grade 5." - Debbie Quayle

"The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day." - Donald Barthelme

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. - William Durant

Not all who wander are lost. - J. R. R. Tolkien

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. - Novalis

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - James Halliwell

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." Lat., "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. - Horace

BBC - Why meddle with something for which there is a Latin, and therefore authoritative, term?

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits not foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. - Henry David Thoreau

One of my favorite mantras is I am totally adequate for any and all situations that may come my way-coffee site

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way. - J. Michael Straczynski

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story. - John Pentland Mahaffy

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." - Henry David Thoreau

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

* Theodore Roosevelt

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

* Edwin Powell Hubble

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein

"Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow." - William McFee

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." - Virginia Woolf

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. - Audrey Hepburn

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - Saint Clement of Alexandria

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. - James Whitcomb Riley

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy." - Desiderata

"It's never too late to become what you might have been." - George Elliot

Even God cannot change the past. - Agathon

The real fun comes in solving problems - massaging a line into shape, making the rhythm of a scene work, getting the right blocking so it feels natural and easy. - Harrison Ford

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." -- Khalil Gibran

"My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence." -from "The Madman" (1918) - Khalil Gibran

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” - Ayn Rand

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

* Victor Hugo

"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." - Socrates; **Diogenes Laërtius** in *Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers* (Book II, §27) to the following quote;

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. - Publius Syrus

if one has a God-given creative talent then one should use it or else reap sorrow and despair. - Kristoffer Kristofferson

Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire" on his tombstone:
Like a bird on a wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself." - Michel de Montaigne

from Telus site: I would like an Asian-friendly phone number so that its last 4 digits do not contain 4, 5 or 7.

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse." - Kimberly Johnson

Veni, vidi, vici. Ego feci amici magnam aliquam. - Gaius Julius Caesar

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

* Robert Louis Stevenson

\[A writer\] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work will never be anymore essentially clear and deep and honest than he himself is, and he will be judged finally not for how many copies his books have sold, but for what they have done to enrich the lives of their readers, now and in time to come. - Lawrence Clark Powell

"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. - Jeanette Winterson

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. - Omar (General) Bradley

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. - Jean Paul Richter

You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it. - Jerome Brunet

"Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness."

* Kahlil Gibran

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. - Samuel Smiles

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.- Proverbs

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it." - Rene Descartes

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments. - William Shakespeare

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. - Sir Francis Bacon

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. - Sister Elizabeth Kenny

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative. - H. Heimlich

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words tripped up, bewildered and so defeated - thrown aside - a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions. - William Carlos Williams

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" - Voltaire.

"Those who do not move do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. - Stephen W. Hawking

ozzy - He recently announced he had been sober for four months. Iommi is in remission.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. - Edward Albee

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. - Unknown

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. - Robert Louis Stevenson

What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. - John B. Gough

No one is listening until you make a mistake. - Unknown

"Action is the antidote to despair." - Joan Baez

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." - Bertrand Russell

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone. - Jerry Garcia

This is the gift all writers seek--to write language that incandesces yet does not melt. - Lawrence Clark Powell

"The writer is the engineer of the human soul." — Joseph Stalin (1878-1953)

"Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. - William J. Clinton

The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world. - Unknown

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

* Jane Austen

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. - Bertrand Russell

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. - Michel de Montaigne

"Sooner or later, everybody sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. - Mark Twain

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. - Richard Lovelace

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice." - Ernest Hemingway

Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted. - John Jay Chapman

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. - Sir Edward Appleton

If \[women\] understood and exercised their power they could remake the world. - Emily Taft Douglas

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan

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1000 Kept Quotes (Part III)

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. - Leonard Bernstein

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

\\\* Nelson Mandela

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." - Virginia Woolf

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." - William Butler Yeats

"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism." - Hannah Arendt

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. - Samuel McChord Crothers

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. - Orson Welles

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson

Communism is like one big phone company. - Lenny Bruce

"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible." - Edward Teller

"Men who seek happiness are like drunkards who can never find their house but are sure that they have one." - Voltaire

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. \\\\\\\~Author Unknown

Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. \\\\\\\~Author Unknown

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. \\\\\\\~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. \\\\\\\~Nicholas de Chamfort

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. \\\\\\\~African Proverb

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. \\\\\\\~Author Unknown

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. \\\\\\\~Olin Miller

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. \\\\\\\~Nicholai Velimirovic

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. \\\\\\\~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles," 1992 (commonly attributed to Nelson Mandela, 1994 inauguration speech)

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. \\\\\\\~Louisa May Alcott

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. \\\\\\\~Sally Field

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. \\\\\\\~Author Unknown

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair

"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." - Soren Kierkegaard

Every fear is a crime against My Love. Practice saying "All is well". Say it until you believe it. Know it. - Two Listeners

"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so." - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. - Paul Valery

"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears." - Rudyard Kipling

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. - Bertrand Russell

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. - Nicholas Butler

"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change." - Charles Horton Cooley

I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child. What I am going to talk about -- and I am going to say this consistently -- \\\\\\\[is that\\\\\\\] it is irrelevant what I did 20 to 30 years ago. What's relevant is that I have learned from any mistakes I made. I do not want to send signals to anybody that what Gov. Bush did 30 years ago is cool to try. - George w. Bush

in an interview with WMUR-TV in New Hampshire, when asked if he had used drugs, marijuana, cocaine

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. - GK Chesterton

"As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest." - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty. - Cecil Baxter

"Mediocrity is a hand-rail." - Charles Louis de Secondat

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs

Â"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only wallsÂ" - Joseph Campbell

No wise man ever wished to be younger. - Jonathan Swift

"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them." - Edward R. Murrow

coup de foudre = love at first sight

"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"The most important political office is that of the private citizen." - Louis Brandeis

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - GK Chesterton

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.” – Lin Yutang

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. - Sir William Bragg

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." - Arthur Rubinstein

"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees." - William Shakespeare

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs." - Joan Didion

"The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him." - Rachel Carson

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. \\\\\\\~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You're probably wondering why somebody who has been in politics is talking about Social Security. After all, it's been called the third rail of American politics. You grab a hold of it, and you get electrified. - George w. Bush

Fortune sides with he who dares. \\\\\\\~ Virgil

"Captured forever on the retinas of strangers." - Brian Antononononononononson

"We live in our desires rather than in our achievements." - George Moore

...Seggendo in piuma in fama non si vien, né sotto coltre,
sanza la qual chi sua vita consuma cotal vestigo in terra di sé lascia qual fummo in aere ed in acqua la schiuma.
'Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.' Dante Canto XXIV, lines 47-51

'O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter sting to thee is a little fault!' Dante

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public. - Sir Winston Churchill

He has the most who is most content with the least. - Diogenes

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. - Diogenes

Don't think it.
If you think it, don't say it.
If you say it, don't write it.
If you write it, don't sign it.
If you sign it, don't be surprised.

\\\* Belorussian proverb

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. - Oscar Wilde

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Everybody sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face."

\\\* Johnny Depp

"Never was anything great achieved without danger." - Niccolo Machiavelli

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. - Paul Gauguin

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." - James Russell Lowell

Doris Lessing said "There's something abrasive in me because I have often made people very cross".But she said as a writer it was important not to care what other people think and that the profession must honour that."We are free... here I can say what I think. We are lucky, privileged, so why not make use of it?"

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - Johann von Neumann

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. - Jane Wagner

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude." Aldous Huxley

"had a great dinner with J&J, i left a hearty mix of zucchini and sauce on my plate... of course the dogs were already in position and Jack starts talking about how they have no negatives, no threats, they don't know harm... then he said that they only sometimes know disappointment when they don't get to lick the plates... but he had a beautiful line, "for them, the only bad thing that can happen is a good thing that doesn't happen"-bA

the last temptation is the worst treason; to do the right thing but for the wrong reason -ME

"Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe." Oprah Winfrey

"Men have called me mad," wrote Edgar Allan Poe, "but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." - Eric Hoffer

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. - Cyril Connolly

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. - Benjamin Disraeli

You are now upon a mountain climb. Steep steps lead upward, but your power to help others will be truly marvelous.
\\\\--Two Listeners April 28

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. - Chris Morley

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates." - Thomas Szasz

'That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another...' - Charles M. Schulz

"You have to have patience in this business, that seems to be the big moral of my story. You can't take any step and assume it will lead to another step. You have to appreciate the step you're on." - Neil Patrick Harris

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. - Dan Rather

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. - John le Carre

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. - Bertrand Russell

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. - Stephen Hawking

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. - Diogenes the Cynic

"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

\\\* Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being." - Anatole France

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. - Carl Jung

When I look at a list of all the things I've done, it really does blow my mind. I really did a lot of stuff and nobody knows it - Jack Nitzsche.

"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

Do I contradict myself?/ Very well then I contradict myself,/ (I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Walt Whitman

"Flowers grow out of dark moments." - Corita Kent

what Einstein realized is that "how fast you're moving" is a question with no objective answer, it is clear that you have to give the speed of light a special place in your theory. - Schismatic

It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy. - Einstein

Choose to think about thoughts that make you feel good about yourself always and in all ways.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. - George Jackson

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. - Edith Sitwell

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Krishnamurti

"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively." - Voltaire

"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise." - William Dean Howells

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

\\\* John W. Gardner

"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper, and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite." - Abraham Lincoln

"If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?" - Sherwood Anderson

"Probably it is because I am by profession a storyteller that I cannot
resist a good tale, and it makes no matter if I end up telling it as
a piece of fiction or as what calls itself truth. Just do not, I prithee,
confuse me with a clam."
The Specialist Said; The Sunday Independent (Dublin, Ireland); May 28, 2006.

"If you're strong enough, there are no precedents." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Sir Francis Bacon

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

\\\* Fritz Perls

cknw murder trial july 2010 - Defence lawyer Deanna Gaffar asked why, in this instance, a person with a fairly common bipolar disorder could turn so violent. Lohrasbe said he couldn't say but speculated that, in North America at least, people live segregated lives where they have nothing to do but indulge their delusions.

Religion is the opium of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about religion. All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class - Lenin

A little knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot.((On first episode of Eureka.)) - Einstein

Be careful what you pray for. During the year of my depression, I got down on my knees every morning and begged God to give me a brain tumor and/or cancer--some kind of terminal illness--as a graceful exit out of this life, a departure that wouldn't leave my kids as traumatized as my suicide would. Now that I actually want to be around, I get a tumor.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. - George Carlin

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. - EB White

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. - William James

"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them." Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. - Einstein

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground." Marcel Proust

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." - H. E. Martz

"To cheat one's self out of love is the greatest deception of which there is no reparation in either time or eternity."

\\\* Soren Keirkegarrd

For the purpose of making a declaration under this Subdivision, the Commissioner may: A) treat a particular event that actually happened as not having happened; and B) treat a particular event that did not actually happen as having happened
unscripted family

"try to play chess when the world is handing you checkers," suggests Rusty Rueff

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

\\\* I shall not fear anyone on Earth.

\\\* I shall fear only God.

\\\* I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.

\\\* I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.

\\\* I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”

\\\* Mahatma Gandhi

Life is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter De Vries

"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny." Anthony Robbins

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. - Arthur Koestler

Life is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter De Vries

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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. - Leonard Bernstein

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

* Nelson Mandela