Quote From a Book

Henry Ford {the founder of Ford Motor Company}, in March 1931, said the crisis {caused by the 1929 U.S. stock market crash and the Great Depression} was here because “the average man won’t really do a day’s work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.” A few weeks later he laid off 75,000 workers.

~~from A People’s History of the United States 1492 - Present, Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Howard Zinn
 

I have accumulated these over decades...Not a copy/paste
  1. I could live without success, but I couldn’t live without trying.
  2. At a point in your career, you realize your time is not for sale.
  3. True wealth is not owning a lot of things, it’s about owning your time.
  4. The best weight you will ever lose will be the weight of other people's opinions.
  5. The idea is to die young as late as possible
  6. Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one.
  7. Friendship that insists upon all things isn’t worth the name
  8. Coincidence is Gods way of remaining anonymous
  9. She was a movie played out of focus
  10. The guy that gets you lost in the woods isn’t the right guy to find your way out.
  11. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like. It's all about freedom.
  12. I can explain it to you but I can’t understand it for you.
  13. when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
  14. You can’t do normal things and expect exceptional results
  15. Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
  16. Money spends once. Knowledge monetizes forever.
  17. I’m living different because I want different. Old keys don’t unlock new doors.
  18. If your absence doesn’t bother them....your presence never meant anything to them.
  19. You will never see a UHaul behind a hearse
  20. Avoiding unhappiness doesn’t lead to happiness
  21. When you die you don’t know you’re dead. It’s only difficult for everyone else. It’s the same way when you’re stupid.
  22. Live your life like someone left the gate open.
  23. Its too late for regrets when your life is only one stair step down to the basement
  24. Don’t make a permanent decision based on temporary circumstances
  25. Sometimes uncertainty spreads faster than understanding.
  26. Education cures poverty
  27. We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves
  28. A harsh life lesson doesn’t mean you regret the event that taught you it
  29. Money is the lubricant of life
  30. The best optimist is the one with the worst memory
  31. Faith, is when you think things will not be better again.
  32. I’ve never allowed schooling to get in the way of my education
  33. The saddest thing about betrayal is it never comes from your enemy
  34. In the words of a great man, "The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day." - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
  35. Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
  36. It's harder to be kind than clever.
  37. Never assume loud is strong and quiet is weak.
  38. What is right, is not always the same as legal
  39. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing
  40. People don't fear the truth if they don't fear the punishment.
  41. Nothing good ever comes from the absence of trust
  42. Don ’t let your struggle become your identity
  43. Its not what you preach, its what you tolerate
  44. Sunshine is a powerful disinfectant
  45. Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it...he who don't, pays it ...Albert Einstein
  46. If you want to know someone's heart, you have to know what breaks it
  47. Don’t trust everything you see, even salt looks like sugar.
  48. There's very little traffic on the high road
  49. Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say…
  50. Sometimes the right path is the tourtured one.
  51. Two most important days in a life. When you are born and when you realize why.
  52. Success is equal parts giving and receiving. It reconciles the soul.
 
“There is beauty in the migration of birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for spring. There's healing in the repeated refrains of nature...the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” Rachel Carson..."Silent Spring"
 
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As much as it pains me to say it (my personal urge toward salvationism is as strong as anybody else’s), nobody is coming to save us.

~~from "Something or Someone is Not Going to Save Us from Tyranny" by Thom Hartmann, hartmannreport.com, 10/9/23
 
To understand the gap between climate scientists and climate economists, one must first understand that most economists — the folks we call mainstream or neoclassical economists — have little knowledge of or interest in how things really work on planet Earth.
~~from "When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics: How an Elite Clique of Math-Addled Economists Hijacked Climate Policy" by Christopher Ketcham, truthdig.com, 11/17/23
 
Oh, do plays count? Because this is my absolute favorite (it's a big long)... From Tony Kushner's incredible Angels In America
I want more life.
I can't help myself. I do.
I've lived through such terrible times
And there are people who have lived through much, much worse
But you see them living anyway
When they are more spirit than body
More sores than skin
When they are burned and in agony
When flies lay eggs in the corners of the eyes of their children
They live!
Death usually has to take life away
I don't know if that's just the animal
I don't know if it's not braver to die
But I recognize the habit
The addiction to being alive
We live past hope
If I can find hope anywhere
That's it.
That's the best I can do
It's so much not enough
It's so inadequate
But still
Bless me, anyway.
I want more life.
 
officerripley said:
“Neurotypical syndrome [i.e., NOT on the autism/Aspergers spectrum] is a neurobiological disorder characterized by preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity. There is no known cure.”
~~from The Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical website, launched by Laura Tisoncik, as quoted in NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman
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Oh, I love that. NeuroTribes is an amazing work. I recommend it to everyone.
 
"What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for."
Joseph Heller Catch 22 (life changing novel for me).
 
"...{P}eople will always yearn for a simple solution to their complicated problems. It's a lot easier to have faith in something you can't see, can't touch, can't explain, and can't change, rather than to have faith in something you actually can{:}...{O}ne's self."
~~from Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
 
"Men and woman are both human beings. And as humans, we're by-products of our upbringings, victims of our lackluster educational systems, and choosers of our behaviors. In short, the reduction of women to something less than men, and the elevation of men to something more than women, is not biological: it's cultural."

and

"Discrimination based on skin color is not only scientifically ludicrous, it's also a sign of profound ignorance...One would think the ignorant would die off sooner. But Darwin overlooked the fact that the ignorant rarely forget to eat."

~~both from Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
 
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein
 
Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies

"I am not a hero. I stand at the end of a very long, long line, of good Dutch people, who did what I did, or more, much more, during those dark and terrible times, years ago, but always like yesterday in the hearts of those of us who bear witness. Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then."

"My story is a story of very ordinary people, during extraordinarily terrible times. Times the like of which I hope with all my heart will never come again. It is for all of us ordinary people, all over the world, to see to it, that they do not."
 
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Paladin1950 said:
Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies

"I am not a hero. I stand at the end of a very long, long line, of good Dutch people, who did what I did, or more, much more, during those dark and terrible times, years ago, but always like yesterday in the hearts of those of us who bear witness. Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then."

"My story is a story of very ordinary people, during extraordinarily terrible times. Times the like of which I hope with all my heart will never come again. It is for all of us ordinary people, all over the world, to see to it, that they do not."
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The limited series about Ms. Gies, A Small Light, which I think was based on her book was excellent. It even got a 100/95 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. I can't remember how I watched it (Amazon Prime Video maybe?), but it looks like it can be watched through Vudu, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and AppleTV.
 

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