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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
In that strange island Iceland, — burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea; a wild land of barrenness and lava; swallowed many months of every year in black tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summertime; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire; — where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things was written down.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-05), “The Hero as Divinity,” Home House, Portman Square, London
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
In that strange island Iceland, — burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea; a wild land of barrenness and lava; swallowed many months of every year in black tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summertime; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire; — where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things was written down.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-05), “The Hero as Divinity,” Home House, Portman Square, London
More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/81268…
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A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
-- Lysander Spooner
"They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage."
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"Nos difaman, esos sinvergüenzas, cuando solo hay una diferencia: ellos roban a los pobres al amparo de la ley, y nosotros saqueamos a los ricos bajo la protección de nuestro propio valor."
~ Samuel Bellamy
I invented God—and don’t believe in Him. It’s as if I had written a poem about the nothing and then suddenly found myself face-to-face with the nothing itself. Is God a word?
📖 A Breath of Life
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God was not made for us. We are the ones who were made for Him. What we must do, though He doesn’t care for us, is adore Him and in the worst circumstances fill our hearts with the pleasure of praising Him.
📖 A Breath of Life
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"And quite a few books.
I always think that the quickest way to understand someone is to look at what's on their bookshelves. Especially if they are honest bookshelves, not the fancy ornamental kind. And there was nothing fancy or ornamental about this place."
- Grace Winters, The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
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"And quite a few books.
I always think that the quickest way to understand someone is to look at what's on their bookshelves. Especially if they are honest bookshelves, not the fancy ornamental kind. And there was nothing fancy or ornamental about this place."
- Grace Winters, The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
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"The chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied ... Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway."
Apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all.
Apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all.
Remembering Aron Eisenberg who was born on this date in 1969. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Aron_Eisenberg #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #StarTrekVOY #IDIC #Quote
I'm not going to sit here like a spare lemon waiting for the squeezer.
— The Brigadier, in “The Daemons”
I'm not going to sit here like a spare lemon waiting for the squeezer.
— The Brigadier, in “The Daemons”
"Ha!" snapped Marvin. "Ha!" he repeated. "What do you know of always? You say 'always' to me, who, because of the silly little errands your organic lifeforms keep on sending me through time on, am now thirty-seven times older than the Universe itself? Pick your words with a little more care," he coughed, "and tact."
"Ha!" snapped Marvin. "Ha!" he repeated. "What do you know of always? You say 'always' to me, who, because of the silly little errands your organic lifeforms keep on sending me through time on, am now thirty-seven times older than the Universe itself? Pick your words with a little more care," he coughed, "and tact."