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Posted: 9th December 2023 4:11am
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Silence is a source of great strength-Lao Tzu

Posted: 9th December 2023 4:32am
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“I was sleeping like a baby - waking up every three hours screaming and crapping my pants.” - John Swartzwelder

Posted: 9th December 2023 4:43am
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.-Voltaire

Posted: 9th December 2023 5:10am
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That is nice.

Posted: 10th December 2023 2:02am
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“In comparison with the Genesis myth, the modern myth in which humanity is marching to a better future is mere superstition. As the Genesis story teaches, knowledge cannot save us from ourselves. If we know more than before, it means only that we have greater scope to enact our madness. But – as the Genesis myth also teaches – there is no way we can rid ourselves of what we know . . . The message of Genesis is that in the most vital areas of human life there can be no progress, only an unending struggle with our nature.”
― John N. Gray, The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths


Posted: 10th December 2023 2:27am
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Posted: 10th December 2023 3:02am
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Posted: 10th December 2023 4:20am
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.-Lao Tzu

Posted: 10th December 2023 6:10am
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Posted: 10th December 2023 6:44am
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Thank you. I like it too

Posted: 10th December 2023 6:44am
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart-Mencius

Posted: 10th December 2023 7:56am
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Posted: 10th December 2023 9:04am
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Posted: 10th December 2023 10:22am
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Grace said:Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.-Lao Tzu

I've always found the first of these quotes a 'so-true' guiding principle (not that I always follow it)

Regarding the second quote, as someone who builds things with nuts, bolts, metal & wood, when starting a new project I say to myself "The journey of a thousand bolts starts with a single nut" ... Here's one of the journeys:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/speakeasy/read/11128/615/
(6th posting down on page 42)

Posted: 10th December 2023 10:29am
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Josh said:

I've always found the first of these quotes a 'so-true' guiding principle (not that I always follow it)

Regarding the second quote, as someone who builds things with nuts, bolts, metal & wood, when starting a new project I say to myself "The journey of a thousand bolts starts with a single nut" ... Here's one of the journeys:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/speakeasy/read/11128/615/
(6th posting down on page 42)

I saw that. It is so impressive.

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