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running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution. the easiest way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - rishika jain

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

- Martin Luther King, 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'

“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time” — Willem de Kooning

We have met the enemy and it is us. (Pogo)

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

"Sometimes I don't know where this dirty road is takin' me, sometimes I don't even know the reason why... but I guess I'll keep a-gamblin', lots of booze and lots of ramblin'.. well, it's easier than just a-waitin' 'round to die."

- Townes Van Zandt, 'Waiting 'Round To Die'

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." [Mark Twain]

We're in nut country, now.

-JFK, after his arrival in Dallas, Texas, November 1963.

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” -Mark Twain

"Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal."

- Voltairine de Cleyre

We are all bozos on this bus.

Firesign Theater

Sub Commandante Marcos-

"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the
freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost
all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product
doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a
living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."

I ain't got no strings on me.
Puppet decides to go on his win about 4:33 into video.



Pinocchio as seen through Paul Daniels.

To quote the great H. L. Mencken, "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

Where does he get all those toys? ..The Joker

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Spinoza