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"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment." -Buckminster Fuller

Enrico Fossati

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” - Viktor Frankl

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I think the extra suffering that is happening now is born out of a sense of disconnection. You know, there’s the other, and they don’t count.” – Sharon Salzberg

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Anger is a double-edged sword. It can be alienating, upsetting and exclusionary. And yet, anger spurs and sustains us to take action for justice. It rallies people together, transforming public, societal causes into intimate, personal reasons that we care about. So how should we weigh up the usefulness and appropriateness of anger, against its potentially deleterious effects? 

Brian Wong

in the fruits of anger  

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"In the UK, the whole society is standing by as the most basic tenets of int'l law & human rights are being disregarded in order to extradite Assange for Espionage, which is how we've come to describe publishing true & correct information for the public in modern era." -
@Snowden

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"The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity." - J. R. R. #Tolkien

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'O teu poder vem do meu medo, como já não tenho medo, já não tens poder'. (Séneca, para Nero)

Damn right!

" Le monde appartient aux optimistes, les pessimistes ne sont que des spectateurs." ~ François Guizot.

Diário da quarentena 32º dia - começar o dia

A Única Coisa Necessária

Uma só coisa é necessária ter: um espírito leve por natureza ou um espírito tornado leve pela arte e pela ciência.

— NIETZSCHE, Friedrich Wilhelm. Humano, Demasiado Humano.

by Quint Buchholz

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“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
  —Dogen

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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full of the overcoming of it.”

 ― Helen Keller

another earth movie

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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. (Thierry Gautier)

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Photo by Rukie Jumah

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“Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.”

Anne Applebaum

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"Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology."
-- Adrian Desmond on Huxley

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"You are not working from home; you are at your home during a crisis trying to work." 

I've heard this twice today. I think it's an important distinction worth emphasising.

~Neil Webb

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"If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything."

-- Fred Menger

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" Existe uma pretensão ciência económica? Não tenho a certeza. Existe uma montanha de livros de economistas, que reduziram o homem a automa, um autóma que se supostamente capaz de prever o futuro, maximizar a sua utilidade ou o seu lucro. Existe uma concepção mecânica da sociedade, em que todos os agentes económicos operam sem erros e sem arrependimentos. Existe a abstração de um mercado de concorrência perfeita, que conduz inevitavelmente a um "equilíbrio" excelente (talvez de pleno emprego). Existem ou existiram economistas pseudo-liberais que acreditaram nesses contos de fadas. O que é isso?

Friedrich A. Von Hayek, "A Sociedade Livre"