Sunday, 26 July
Two thoughts from Lenny Bruce
“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they’ll take you away, man. You can’t.”
“I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.”
Monday, 27 July
Two thoughts from Bill Hicks
“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.”
“Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.”
Tuesday, 28 July
Two thoughts from Mae West
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
Wednesday, 29 July
Two thoughts from Mort Sahl
“That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.”
“One thing about being narrow-minded: you’ll never be lonely.”
Thursday, 30 July
Two thoughts from Friedrich Hayek
“‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.”
“From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.”
Friday, 31 July
Two thoughts from Itzhak Bentov
“The more you know, the more ignorant you become, because ignorance grows exponentially—the more answers you get, the more new questions arise.”
“The Soul is repository of information that we gather during a lifetime.”
Saturday, 1 August
Two thoughts from Vernor Vinge
“Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”
“He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.”
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Dear Jim,
Thank you for sharing these! Some of my favorite quotes this week:
Mae West:
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
Mort Sahl:
“That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.”
“One thing about being narrow-minded: you’ll never be lonely.”
Lenny Bruce:
“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they’ll take you away, man. You can’t.”
“I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.”
Friedrich Hayek:
“‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.”
Itzhak Bentov:
“The more you know, the more ignorant you become, because ignorance grows exponentially—the more answers you get, the more new questions arise.”
Vernor Vinge:
“He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.”
Thank you for sharing as always!
Love
Myq